American PJ Jacobsen was expected to team with Ryo Mizuno and Dominique Aegerter on the CBR1000RR of three-time 8-Hours winners MuSASHI RT HARC-Pro Racing, but the 24-year-old New Yorker was promoted to the factory Red Bull HRC squad with Takumi Takahashi and Takaaki Nakagami when Leon Camier crashed during testing and fractured his C5 vertebra.
