No Paris Supercross For The Lawrences
V
isa issues will prevent Jett
and Hunter Lawrence from
competing in the November 12-13
Paris Supercross, according to a
statement from the organizers.
According to the release, "The
two Australian pilots, who arrived
in the USA at the end of 2018
but never left the country since,
discovered an unexpected com-
plication in their status vis-à-vis the
American Immigration services,
a legal problem which does not
allow them to come to Europe
nowadays. The Lawrence brothers
were therefore forced to hastily
cancel their participation in Paris."
A statement from the Law-
rences, reads, "We are abso-
lutely sorry for this situation, both
vis-à-vis the organizer and the
French fans and Honda France,
to whom we ask to believe in
our absolute sincerity. We were
happy to run in Paris! We are of
course formally committed to do-
ing so next year, exclusively for
Paris, knowing that this cannot
lessen the disappointment of the
spectators, which we share from
the bottom of our hearts."
The organizers stated, "It is
sad for us, organizers, not to be
able to present the announced
program, whereas the Lawrence
brothers had confirmed their pres-
ence to us more than a year ago,"
declared Sophie Casasnovas,
President of Larivière Organisa-
tion. "We offer our most sincere
apologies to our loyal public. We
take note of those of Hunter and
Jett as well as their future commit-
ment to the Paris Supercross, but
our priority today is to compensate
for this heavy defection in the most
sincere way, transparent and bril-
liant as possible. We are working
hard on it and will communicate
about it very quickly."
Cooper Webb, Marvin Mus-
quin, Eli Tomac and Ken Roczen
are some of the headliners for
this year's race.
CN
Visa issues will
prevent the
Lawrence brothers
from competing
in this year's Paris
Supercross.
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