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Learn more Hide this message. However, in the system was changed again with the first three finishers receiving 25, 20 and 16 points whilst fourth to 15 th remained the same. This method remains in use today. Bob McIntyre wins the longest ever Grand Prix race of Honda enters the Isle of Man TT for the first time. Honda withdraws in protest. This total remains unbeaten today. Imatra is subsequently removed from the GP calendar.
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Website Search Search the Devitt website for more information. A new era of international racing That first year of may have been a shadow of the World Championships of more recent times but it was a start with six races for the cc class, five for the s, four the s and just three for the s and sidecars.
Straight-line speed was reduced by 15kph, but riders were able to put the power down earlier and brake later. Tyre technology also improved, and traction-control systems from the c era were further refined.
As a result, overall lap times with cc bikes were not that different to those posted by the top cc runners. The season brought with it a single tyre supplier for the MotoGP series, making the roles of the machine and rider that much more important. This prompted more off-season development than ever before, with computers, data analysts and high-level simulations coming together to make high-precision bikes capable of fighting for race honours, and giving birth to technology that will duly find its way onto Honda production machines.
The reigning World Champion, Casey Stoner, had a good start to the year, winning three of the first seven races, but he experienced a tough mid-season, resulting in a horrific crash in Indianapolis that side-lined him for three races and ended his title hopes.
Teammate Dani Pedrosa had a slower start to the series but discovered his best form from the eighth round, at the Sachsenring. He won seven races in , six of which came in the last eight races, and narrowly lost the World Championship to Jorge Lorenzo by just 18 points. With World Champion Casey Stoner retiring at the end of , a bike was vacant for the season.
Marquez earned his first win in only his second race, in Austin, Texas, and the records began to roll in. Pedrosa had a slower start than anticipated, but with wins in Jerez and Le Mans, it seemed his season was finally getting on track until a crash in Germany ended his Championship hopes. Marquez went on to win four races in a row and then manage the gap to the end of the season, taking the Championship to a title decider at the final round, in Valencia.
The young Spaniard emerged victorious and became the youngest premier-class World Champion bettering Freddie Spencer and the first rookie to win the premier-class world title since Kenny Roberts in Marquez experienced a difficult start to , breaking his leg after the first Sepang test and arriving in Qatar for round one with just three days on the bike.
However, after slowly finding his rhythm, he took pole in qualifying and never looked back. The defending champ won the race, with Pedrosa taking third for a double Honda podium. In fact, a second-place finish in Motegi was enough to deliver his second successive MotoGP World Championship, and it made him the first Honda rider to clinch a World title in any class at the Motegi circuit.
In , Marquez and Pedrosa experienced a season of ups and downs and had to settle for third and fourth overall, respectively, in the final standings. The challenges started at the opening race in Qatar, where Marc ran wide in turn 1 and had to mount a great recovery to earn fifth place, while Dani struggled with serious arm pump on his way to a sixth-place finish. Immediately after the race, Pedrosa decided to undergo surgery and therefore missed the following three races.
After making it to the podium in Spain, Marquez only managed to finish fourth in France and then went on to post two more zeros in Italy and Catalunya. Pedrosa returned to racing in Le Mans only to crash and finish in 16th place, but at his home race in Catalunya, he earned his first podium result of the season. The Assen TT saw Marc once again battling for the lead with Rossi, and the two again touched briefly in the last chicane on the final lap, with the Italian able to ride through the gravel trap and beat Marquez to the finish line.
In Germany, Marc clinched his second win of the year, with Dani finishing second to make it a Honda Marquez won again in Indy, confirming his special feeling with the North American tracks, and he then managed a runner-up finish in Brno. An extraordinary final lap by Marquez at the Australian GP helped him earn his 50th career win and his first at Phillip Island in the MotoGP class, while Dani took fifth after a closely fought race. In Malaysia, Marquez was involved in a lap-five incident that saw Valentino Rossi slow suddenly, resulting in a crash by the Spaniard.
Meanwhile, Pedrosa took his second win of the season, sealing a hat trick of Repsol Honda Team victories at the flyaway races. Marc and Dani concluded the season with a double podium finish in the Valencia GP. The MotoGP World Championship was an impressive season for Honda and for Marc Marquez as the former celebrated a record-breaking 22nd Constructors World Championships in the premier class and the latter was crowned as the youngest rider to win three premier-class World Championships, bringing his tally to five titles over all classes in his Grand Prix career.
However, although Marc clinched the title at Honda home race in Japan with three rounds remaining in the season, it has not been an easy year for Honda and HRC. Important technical changes were made to the MotoGP Championship regulations with the introduction of unified electronics and a switch from Bridgestone to Michelin tyres and it took time to the HRC Engineers and the team to fully understand how to exploit the full potential of the RCV. They achieved it step by step and with everyone totally focused on the main goal.
Before the revision of regulations which brought about the move to cc four-stroke competition in the premier class - in line with modern engineering and production trends - a young Italian rider called Valentino Rossi took the last ever cc title in on Honda machinery, having won the edition of the cc championship and the quarter litre crown with Aprilia.
In , however, Rossi returned to the pinnacle, taking his sixth premier class title, with Stoner a distant runner-up in the standings. Lorenzo showed superb consistency and remarkable maturity to claim the premier class crown aged just 23 years old. Stoner clinched the title with a win at Phillip Island, his ninth but not his final victory of the season he also won the last round in Valencia. However Marquez would be unable to challenge in , the title being fought for by Movistar Yamaha teammates Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi.
It was a year full of excitement and drama, the battle going down to the final race with Jorge Lorenzo able to recover from a points deficit to clinch his third premier class title, Rossi forced to settle for second.
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