It's not quite up to date yet, but the end of the MotoGP season is approaching and we suggest you keep this article in mind to spend an afternoon by the fire in the company of Hervé Poncharal and Guy Coulon, the two associated with the head of the Tech3 team lined up this year in MotoGP and Moto3.
Indeed, through these two videos totaling around five hours, you will be able to discover the two friends, polar opposites but perfectly complementary, who built the French success story of the Bormes-les-Mimosas team.
In common, they of course have a passion for motorcycle racing but also a breathtaking memory which allows us to discover many details and anecdotes from the four decades spent on circuits and tracks, tarmac or not, around the world.
If speaking at length is a common exercise for
Hervé Poncharal, Guy Coulon has long been more reluctant to share his knowledge, and it is only in recent years that he has taken pleasure in conversing with strangers to his familiar environment.
Today, when he is confident, he can talk to you for three quarters of an hour about an old factory brake drum (yes, yes!), explaining in detail all the subtleties of the foundry, of the alternative machining of the housings of each spoke, the copper plating of certain screws, the shape of certain links and the fascinating evening which allowed him to obtain the plans…
In confidence, Guy Coulon is visibly so in this video from the series “In the glove box”, and the man with the unique hair happily completes the remarks marked by hindsight fromHervé Poncharal.
Videos like this, Guy Coulon et
Hervé Poncharal are capable of supplying dozens, perhaps even hundreds, but the two existing episodes already have the enormous merit of making the general public discover who these two boys are that destiny made meet one day at Honda …
So, when the fire of MotoGP news has died down this winter to leave only embers in the hearth, pour yourself a cup of tea or coffee, and while tinkering, come and share an afternoon with Hervé Poncharal
et Guy Coulon.
