Movistar Yamaha riders Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo deny they have been approached by their factory to ride at the 2015 Suzuka Eight-Hours and say that it would be too risky to ride there in the middle of a season. Rossi was part of the development team that built the brand new R1 and said that it would be interesting to race it at Suzuka: “It would be difficult but maybe in the future,” said Rossi, speaking at Austin. Lorenzo added: “I speak with Vale about this race in the future, or maybe even a car race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans as we are big fans, but I think it is too risky to go over there in the summer. “With the risk of injury in this point of our careers. For the...
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