For its first race in the Endurance World Championship, the team BMP-ELF-99 shone for a long time at the Le Mans track. Unfortunatly, an electric problem made lose of invaluable minutes to the team consisted of the trio Lagrive, Cudlin and Daemen while it fought for a place on the podium. The victory returned to the official Kawasaki riden by Da Costa, Four and Leblanc.

After having qualified in third position on the starting grid of the Le Mans 24 Hours, the BMP-ELF-99 team seemed to be gone to reach the podium of the first round of the 2010 World Endurance Championship. Cruising between the third et the fourth position, despite two minutes lost at the beginning of the race during a fuel stop. Matthieu Lagrive, Damien Cudlin and Werner Daemen assured a solid rhythm when an electric problem forced them to a very long pit stop. The race was launched for seven hours. « We switched off the lights on the bike to refuel and, when we went to switch them back on again the lighting system failed, explained Team Principal, Michael Bartholemy. It took us some time to identify exactly where the fault was, and then even more time to rectify the problem. » Restarted 90 minutes later, in 43rd position, the crew of Honda 99 then dashed into a magnificent comeback which led it to the fifteenth place, in the points. Matthieu Lagrive offered himself a new lap record. « I can't say I'm happy to have finished in 15th position, even if we did pick up a point, because we had the potential to be aiming for the podium, says Michael Bartholemy. We made some mistakes as a team and we also suffered our fair share of bad luck but, by continuing, we also learned a lot that will stand us in good stead in future races. All three riders did a great job this weekend. I know they are as disappointed with the result as I am, but they didn't once lose motivation and fought their way back with some excellent riding. »

At the front, Kawasaki of the French riders Julien Da Costa, Olivier Four and Grégory Leblanc took a magnificent victory with ten laps beforehand on the reigning world champion Yamaha. It had been 11 years since Kawasaki had more won the Le Mans 24 Hours.