8am Suzuka 2015: HRC apologizes to Stoner

The Australian driver Casey Stoner had mentioned a blocked accelerator to explain his violent fall in his first stint at the 8 hours of Suzuka 2015. Honda has just confirmed his thesis, apologizes to his champion and draws a lesson from it…

Only a few hours after his exit from the track and his impressive caper above the protective wall of the tiny pin of the Suzuka circuit (see the), “ Broken ” Stoner reassured his fans by posting a message on his official Twitter account…

"Well, my Suzuka 8H ended in a spectacular way!", Tweeted the two-time MotoGP champion as best he could: "blocked gas grip = broken shoulder blade + broken shin and a few more scratches. Sucks!".

For its part, the HRC testified the same evening "thanks to the recorded data that the accelerator was blocked and open at 26 ° just before the fall", but preferred to wait to have recovered and thoroughly inspected the official CBR1000RRW to publish its conclusions. .. What has just been done !

"Following the heavy fall suffered by Casey Stoner last weekend at the Suzuka 8 Hours, Honda Racing Corporation carried out an analysis in order to discover the causes of the incident and was able to confirm a failure of the accelerator cable, designed specifically for endurance events and different from those used on the production CBR1000RR ", specify the Japanese.

"This problem has never happened before," adds the racing department of the world number one, "but the HRC will stop using this cable and will design a new one for endurance racing" … in the meantime that the Fireblade finally gets a ride-by-wire and a potentiometer ?!

"The HRC would like to apologize to Casey Stoner and thank him for his efforts to participate in the Suzuka 8 Hours", concludes the Tokyo giant, owner of the Japanese circuit, in his little shoes. beautiful … and dangerous !

The fault of the cable … and the circuit ?!

We remember that it was under conditions similar to the Stoner accident that Honda had lost one of its greatest champions: … The commission of inquiry had then ruled out any technical or mechanical failure and. Certain zones of clearance of the final chicane and of the hairpin would indeed need to be reviewed.

Since 2003 and the disappearance of "Dai Chan", Suzuka no longer welcomes MotoGP. The famous 8 Hours race, on the other hand, still takes place every summer on the Japanese circuit. Is the life of endurance pilots less important than that of Grand Prix pilots? Site does not think so…

Matthieu BRETILLE – Photo Casey STONER

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