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‘Barriers harder than they look’ - Stoner

Former MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner ended his challenge for the 2015 Suzuka Eight-Hours title after only 15 minutes of his first stint when his throttle stuck open and he was forced to jump off his Musashi Honda.

The crash resulted in a broken scapula and tibia for the Australian, who came out of retirement for the race, and disappointment for the team who have won the prestigious event for the last two years.

“I am really disappointed that the Suzuka Eight-Hours has ended like this. We have done a lot of work over the last few weeks to get accustomed to the bike and the track and work towards a setting that made all of us quite comfortable. We really felt that the race and everything had gone as we planned so far, we were very relaxed and comfortable and making sure we saved the tyres and the fuel to stretch the stint as long as we could,” said Stoner.

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“Unfortunately, we experienced some mechanical trouble as I was going through the corner leading up to the hairpin. I did not have enough time to engage the clutch and I came in with too much speed, I picked the bike up to try to slow down more but I was heading towards the wall so I decided to lay it over and hit the barrier but unfortunately, they were a lot harder than they looked and we came out of it with a broken bone in the ankle and broken scapular.

“I want to say thanks to my team mates Michael van der Mark and Takumi Takahashi, – they have done a fantastic job over these weeks and this weekend especially. And I would also like to thank the team for how much effort everybody has put in. Their professionalism was outstanding and I really enjoyed working with them. I am very sorry that we could not achieve the strong result I believe we could have.”

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