Yamaha MotoGP riders Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo have played down rumours that they could race as team-mates against the likes of Casey Stoner and Michael van der Mark in this year's Suzuka 8 Hour endurance race. “I hear this. First of all I would like so much to race together with Jorge. It would be very interesting and funny. Also to bring the new R1 to the race,” said Rossi, winner of round one of the new MotoGP season. “But sincerely - I don't know exactly the date of this year's 8 Hours, but I did it in the past, 2000 and 2001, and it was a great, great effort. You have to fly to Japan two or three times [for testing] and also the race is very hard. So I think for this...
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