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Brands Beckons for HM Plant Honda
09 May 2008
The HM Plant Honda team return to Brands Hatch this weekend for the re-scheduled opening round of the Bennetts British Superbike season. Superbike riders Cal Crutchlow and Leon Haslam should experience better weather than the snow, which forced the cancellation of the opening round and both will be hoping for better luck at the glorious 2.3-mile GP circuit than they experienced in the previous round at Oulton Park. Cal has been declared fit for the race after dislocating his right ankle in his race two fall, while Leon hopes to put more points on the board after being excluded from the race two results. Meanwhile, Steve Brogan will be out to make it three wins from three starts in the Metzeler National Superstock race, and return to the podium in the Fuchs-Silkolene British Supersport Championship.
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Honda - Results MotoCross World Championship - Valkenswaard
06 April 2008
Billy MacKenzie's CAS Honda MX1 grand prix debut saw the Scotsman - who will celebrate his 24th birthday tomorrow - just miss out on a podium position as he finished in fourth place overall at the opening race of the MX1 season after two grueling 35 minute plus two lap motos at the Valkenswaard circuit situated 10 kilometers from the Dutch city of Eindhoven.
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Honda Season Preview - Valkenswaard
06 April 2008
All is ready at the sandy Valkenswaard Eurocircuit, in the Southern part of The Netherlands, for the first MX1 World Championship round of the 2008 season, which will be full of surprises.
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Dani Fit & Ready To Give It Everything At Home
27 March 2008
After a forceful ride in Qatar earlier this month Spanish star Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda RC212V) is set to make the first of three races in Spain his signal that he is more than ready for the challenge of the 2008 World Championship. But the way the World Championship is shaping up so far, he won’t be the only frontline Spanish rider to be gunning for the big prize on Sunday. Dani will relish the rivalry with Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) this weekend. And now he is nearing full fitness again, after injuring his throttle hand in a crash while testing in Malaysia, he is itching for action. Pedrosa won here on a 250cc machine here in 2005 and he has also finished on the podium here for the last three years. His team-mate Nicky Hayden (Repsol Honda RC212V) also scored a podium finish here in 2006 and the Repsol duo are sure to put up a determined display here for one of Honda’s long-term sponsors.
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Honda's Quarter Century Of Engineering Excellence
03 September 2007
Racing has always been at the heart of Honda, indeed racing is Honda’s very DNA. From the very beginning company founder Soichiro Honda insisted that his engineers prove the company’s engineering capabilities and accelerate development by testing their creations in the white heat of competition. It has always been thus, from Honda’s very first Model A to the current RC212V MotoGP weapon. As current HRC president Masumi Hamane says: “A racing motorcycle is a rolling laboratory that provides us with live information and the racetrack is the stage where our dreams come true.”
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Repsol & Honda Agree New 2 Year Partnership
31 July 2007
REPSOL YPF will continue its title sponsorship of the Honda factory MotoGP team after an agreement was reached for a new two-year partnership for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. The highly successful 13-year partnership between the Honda Racing Corporation (HRC) and the Repsol YPF brand has brought nine 500cc and MotoGP World Championship titles, 96 race victories in the premier class and 163 podium finishes to date.
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2nd For Andrea Dovizioso, Humangest Honda
16 May 2006
Hector Barbera (Aprilia) won a thrilling 250cc race by a mere quarter of a second from Andrea Dovizioso (Humangest Racing Honda RS250RW) as both riders fought tooth and nail for their first wins in this class after graduating from 125cc racing. Hiroshi Aoyama (KTM) was third.
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4th For Gabor Talmacsi, Humangest Honda
16 May 2006
Mika Kallio (KTM) triumphed in a tight 125cc race winning by one tenth of a second from Mattia Pasini in second and Alvaro Bautista third (both Aprilia). This is Kallio’s first win of the 2006 season and it elevates the Finnish rider to second in the overall standings after four races.
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Lulu’ 23rd At Misano In The Honda Rs 125 GP Trophy
28 April 2006
There have been constant improvements for Phaedra. The weather finally was warm this weekend at the Circuit of Santamonica in Misano Adriatico, for the first race of the Honda RS 125 GP Trophy. There originally were 39 riders from which 36 qualified for the Sunday race, and Phaedra Theffo, rider of the Lucky Racing Team, finished the race in 23rd position.She had a quite good start, did a race constantly progressing, overtaking some adversaries and improving her best time more than one second from the Saturday.
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Round 03 Portugal - Honda's De Dycker Continues Improvement With 4th In Portuguese Heat
24 April 2006
The Grand Prix of Portugal at the Agueda circuit, over 100km south of the city of Porto, was won by Stefan Everts in sunny conditions and in front of 15,500 fans. CAS Honda rider Ken De Dycker was able to post results of third and fifth in the two motos for an overall placing of 4th in the third round of fifteen in the 2006 FIM MX1 World Championship.
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Stobart Honda Rack Up Points At Thruxton
17 April 2006
Stobart Motorsport riders Michael Rutter and Michael Laverty emerged from round three of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship with some more solid points following on the first dry meeting of the 2006 season at Thruxton in Hampshire. In front of a record crowd and just prior to celebrating his 32nd birthday, Leicestershire rider Rutter scored a sixth and seventh place finish in both 22 lap races following on from problems encountered during qualifying and as a result goes into the next round at Oulton Park in joint seventh position in the Championship.
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Bad Day For Honda
10 April 2006
Alvaro Bautista (Aprilia) won the 125cc race by 6.7 seconds from Mika Kallio (KTM) who just managed to overhaul third-placed Sergio Gadea (Aprilia) as the pair broached the finish line. Bautista has now posted back-to-back wins in the first two races of the season. It was Gadea who made the early running in this 18-lap race until Bautista upped the pace by lap five, stealing the lead and then setting a fastest lap of 2m 8.591 seconds as he stretched away from the rest of the field.
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Second for Honda's Dovizioso
10 April 2006
Jorge Lorenzo (Aprilia) won a thrilling 250cc race from Andrea Dovizioso (Humangest Racing Honda RS250RW) after the pair pulled well clear of the field by mid-race distance. Roberto Locatelli (Aprilia) was a fine third after running off track in the early laps and fighting back into contention.
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Gritty Hayden Grinds Out Sixth Successive Podium
10 April 2006
Nicky Hayden (Repsol Honda RC211V) came a narrow second to Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) in a tense MotoGP race here in windy Qatar. Loris Capirossi (Ducati) was third. This is Hayden’s sixth consecutive rostrum finish as he bids for his first win of the 2006 season. With a 33km/h wind, erratic in direction, blowing throughout the day, turns two and nine seemed to be the worst affected. There was also a 44 degree track temperature to contend with, although the elevated ambient temperature that is so often a debilitating factor here was ‘only’ 25-degrees now that this is an April race instead of an October fixture.
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Red Bull Rea Fastest In Practice
07 April 2006
Jonathan Rea topped the free practice leaderboard ahead of Sunday’s double race second round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Donington Park. The Red Bull Honda rider lapped consistently quickly throughout both sessions, eclipsed in the closing stages of the morning by the defending champion Gregorio Lavilla but powering back to head the action during the afternoon.
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Jason Dougan Fired Up For World MX Season Opener
31 March 2006
The British and World Motocross (MX) Championships’ rising star, Jason “Dougie” Dougan, is fired up for this weekend’s opening round of the 2006 World MX Championship at the Grand Prix of Flanders (Zolder circuit) in Belgium. The nineteen year old from Portsmouth, riding in the MX2 class on a 250cc 4-stroke for the Bury St Edmunds based RWJ Honda Racing team, is no stranger to the motocross scene having ridden motocross bikes since he was three and working his way up through the competitive racing ranks since the age of nine.
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Honda Racing Line Up For '06' Bennetts BSB Championship
29 March 2006
This year Honda Racing fields a formidable line up of riders as it competes in three of the most competitive championships in the world: the Bennetts British Superbike Championship, The British Supersport Championship and the Metzeler National Superstock Championship. For the third successive year, Honda Racing is delighted to continue its alliance with HM Plant, the principal sponsor of its Superbike team, with riders Ryuichi Kiyonari and Karl Harris forming one of the strongest partnerships of the superbike championship.
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Heading Full Speed into the Opening Round
15 March 2006
The course at Spain’s Jerez de la Frontera Circuit, home to the season premiere GP race, was in near perfect condition for all three days of the last official IRTA test session, held in preparation for the opening of the 2006 MotoGP World Championship on March 26. The Konica Minolta Honda team tested the bike thoroughly, making final tune-ups to the machine setting, which had been delayed by bad weather in the previous test session, and looking for the optimal setting to match the tires. At long last, Makoto and the rest of the Konica Minolta Honda team are headed at full throttle into the opening round of the 2006 season.
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Pedrosa And Hayden End Final Test
13 March 2006
MotoGP pre-season testing came to a close when the teams and riders ended their three-day IRTA test at Jerez today. The next time they fire up their 990cc four-stroke grand prix machines it will mark the start of the 17-round world championship which opens on the same 4.423 km Jerez circuit on March 26. Honda fields its youngest ever senior class line up for a championship campaign this year. The six RCV riders have a good balance between youth and experience averaging 23 years of age, with Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner the youngest at 20, Makoto Tamada the elder statesman at 29. Nicky Hayden 24, Marco Melandri 23, and Toni Elias, a 24 year old complete the line up.
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