Friends off the track, rivals on it. Max Enderlein and Jan-Ole Jähnig are teammates on the M32 Racing Team. Both started the current IDM Supersport season with their sights set on the title. But right now, the two Yamaha riders are worlds apart. Jähnig needs to turn things around.
Max Enderlein has won every race so far—four in total. He leads the overall standings with 100 points, ahead of Austria’s Andreas Kofler, who trails by 40 points. Jan-Ole Jähnig is fourth overall. Right ahead of him is Luca de Vleeschauwer, an absolute rookie in the class. “Yes, basically I had imagined things differently,” the 21-year-old from Altenburg in Thuringia replies when asked, looking back: “My preseason preparation didn’t go well. After the crash in Aragon, I couldn’t continue racing. The previous crash at the end of last year hadn’t exactly been helpful for me either. That’s why I was still far off the fastest times at the Lausitzring, but in Oschersleben I wasn’t far off.”
The fact that he’s only scored 42 championship points so far, while his teammate has already racked up 100, really bothers him. “Of course I don’t like that, but toward the end of the season there are tracks that I really enjoy and where I perform well.”
Jähnig will spend his Pentecost holiday with the Supermoto riders at the Erzgebirgsring. When the next round of the IDM takes place in Most from June 24 to 26, 2022, he should have already completed a few practice laps there as well. Who will he be doing that with? Max Enderlein, of course.