Repsol Honda

Repsol Honda is the official factory team

of Repsol S.A. and the Honda Racing
Corporation in the MotoGP World
Championship.
 Repsol Honda Team

2019 name Repsol Honda Team

Base Aalst, Belgium

Principal Alberto Puig

Rider(s) 93 Marc Márquez

73 Álex Márquez

Motorcycle Honda RC213V

Tyres Michelin

Riders' 16
Championships 1994, 1995, 1996,
1997, 1998 Mick
Doohan
1999 Àlex Crivillé
2001, 2002, 2003
Valentino Rossi
2006 Nicky Hayden
2011 Casey Stoner
2013, 2014, 2016,
2017, 2018, 2019
Marc Márquez

History
1990s …

In 1995 the team entered a 3 rider lineup

with Mick Doohan, Àlex Crivillé and
Shinichi Ito riding the Honda NSR500.
Doohan won the World Championship for
the second time in a row in Argentina, with
one race left for the end of the season with
seven race wins, Crivillé finished the
season fourth with one race win while Ito
finished fifth overall. The team expanded
to four riders in 1996; Doohan and Crivillé
rode the NSR500 while Tadayuki Okada
and Ito rode the Honda NSR500V. Doohan
won his third World Championship with
eight race wins and Crivillé finished runner-
up with two wins. Okada finished seventh
and Ito twelfth.

The four rider line-up continued in 1997

with Doohan, Crivillé and Okada on the
NSR500 and Takuma Aoki on the
NSR500V. Repsol Honda won all 15 races
of the season with Doohan winning twelve
races, and breaking Giacomo Agostini's
record for victories in one season, on his
way to his fourth World Championship.
Okada finished runner-up with a race win,
Crivillé finished fourth with two wins but
had to miss five races after a serious
crash at Assen while Aoki finished fifth
overall. Repsol Honda riders took all of the
podium positions at four events, in Japan,
Spain, Germany and Indonesia.

For 1998, Doohan, Crivillé and Okada

continued with the team riding the NSR500
and Sete Gibernau joined them riding the
NSR500V. Doohan continued to dominate
the championship with eight wins and was
crowned World Champion for the fifth time
in Australia, in front of his home fans and
with one race left in the season. Crivillé
finished third overall with two wins, while
Okada had to miss three races after
breaking his wrist during practice of the
Italian Grand Prix and finished eighth
overall. Gibernau finished eleventh.

The team line-up remained the same for

1999, with Doohan, Crivillé, Okada and
Gibernau all returning. During qualifying
for the Spanish Grand Prix, Doohan had a
serious crash and ultimately caused his
retirement from the sport. Crivillé went on
to win six races and clinch the World
Championship in Rio de Janeiro with one
race left in the season. Okada finished
third overall with three race wins.
Gibernau – who started the season on the
NSR500V before replacing Doohan on the
NSR500 – finished fifth overall. The team
managed an all Repsol Honda riders
podium at Catalunya with Crivillé first,
Okada second and Gibernau third.

2000s …

Crivillé, Okada and Gibernau remained with

the team for 2000 all on NSR500
motorcycles. 2000 was a difficult year for
the Repsol Honda Team, as Crivillé only
got one win and finished ninth overall,
Okada finished eleventh and Gibernau
fifteenth. In 2001, Crivillé was joined by
Tohru Ukawa. The season was not much
better than 2000 as Crivillé could only
manage two podiums and finished the
season eighth, while Ukawa finished tenth
with a single podium finish.

Valentino Rossi won two world titles with the team, in

2002 and 2003.
In 2002, the debut year of the new MotoGP
class, Valentino Rossi joined the team
alongside Ukawa riding the new Honda
RC211V, the only two riders to use the new
motorcycle until near the end of the
season when Alex Barros and Daijiro Kato
were also given the RC211V. Rossi
dominated the season and with eleven
race wins become World Champion with
four races left for the end of the season.
Ukawa with one victory and eight podium
finishes, finished third overall. 2002 AMA
Superbike Champion Nicky Hayden joined
Rossi in 2003. Rossi with nine wins and
finishing on the podium at all the races,
became World Champion for the third time
in a row with two races left in the season.
Hayden finished fifth overall with two
podium finishes.

Following Rossi's departure, Grand Prix

veteran Alex Barros joined Hayden in 2004.
Barros finished the season fourth with four
podiums and Hayden fifth with two
podiums. Both riders got podium finishes
but no race wins. For 2005 Max Biaggi
joined Hayden in the team's line-up.
Hayden got his first MotoGP win in his
home race, the United States Grand Prix,
he finished third overall. Biaggi was fifth
with four podiums.

For 2006, Hayden was joined by 250cc

World Champion Dani Pedrosa. Hayden
led the championship for most of the
season but at the Portuguese Grand Prix,
Pedrosa recklessly crashed into him. Both
riders were out of the race and Rossi took
the championship lead with one race left
to go. In the last race of the season, Rossi
fell off his motorcycle on lap 5 trying to
make up for a poor start. Hayden had a
conservative race finishing a safe 3rd and
thus became World Champion. He got two
race wins and eight other podium finishes.
Pedrosa finished fifth with two race wins
and five other podium finishes.

The same line-up remained for 2007. The

team used the new 800cc Honda RC212V.
The new motorcycle did not have the
expected success right away but later in
the season the motorcycle was improved.
Pedrosa got two race wins and finished
the season runner up, while Hayden could
only manage podium finishes and finished
the season eighth overall. For 2008,
Pedrosa and Hayden made up the rider
line-up, with Mike Leitner and Pete Benson
as Pedrosa and Hayden's chief mechanics,
respectively, and Kazuhiko Yamano as
team manager. During the season Pedrosa
switched to Bridgestone tyres and a wall
was placed between the garages of
Pedrosa and Hayden to prevent
observation of tyre data. A wall between
the same team's garages was first
instituted by Rossi at the beginning of the
season between himself and his
teammate on Michelins, Jorge Lorenzo.[1]

For 2009, Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso

were the team riders.

2010s …
For 2010, the HRC Team Director was
Kazuhiko Yamano, overseeing all
operations including the factory teams and
satellite teams. Toshiyuki Yamaji replaced
Yamano as Team Manager and directed
the entire Repsol Honda team. Alberto
Puig was the Pedrosa Team Manager and
Gianni Berti was the Dovizioso Team
Manager. Shinichi Kokubu was the Grand
Prix Technical Director, overseeing the six
RC212V machines in MotoGP.[2]
Casey Stoner racing for Repsol Honda at the 2011
Malaysian Grand Prix.

For 2011, Shuhei Nakamoto was HRC Vice

President and directed all Honda MotoGP
teams. Shinichi Kokubu was Technical
Director, and Livio Suppo was HRC
Communication and Marketing Director.
Pedrosa, Dovizioso and Casey Stoner were
the team riders.[3] The team also had
sponsorship from PT Astra Honda Motor,
through their One Heart. and Satu Hati.
brands. For 2012, Pedrosa and Stoner
were the team riders. For 2013, Pedrosa
continued to ride for the team while Marc
Márquez was his team-mate, with Suppo
as the Team Principal. The team lost their
One Heart. and Satu Hati. sponsorship.

In 2014, Márquez became the youngest

rider to win ten successive races in
MotoGP. The team's One Heart. and Satu
Hati. sponsorship returned. For 2015,
Pedrosa and Márquez remained with the
team. Red Bull, a long term sponsor that
was seen on the riders' helmets, became a
main sponsor for the team.

Jorge Lorenzo signed a two-year deal with

Repsol Honda to be a factory rider until the
end of 2020 season although he retired at
the end of 2019 to be replaced by Alex
Márquez.[4] He replaced Dani Pedrosa that
retired from 2018 MotoGP season, who
signed with KTM for a test rider role in the
succeeding years.[5][6]
MotoGP results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position;
races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year Bike Tyres No. Riders 1 2

JPN SA

Tohru
11 Ret 1
Honda Ukawa
2002 M
RC211V

46 Valentino 1 2
Rossi

2003 Honda M JPN SA

RC211V

46 Valentino 1 2
Rossi
 69 Nicky 7 7
Hayden

SAF ES

Alex
Honda 4 4 3
2004 M Barros
RC211V
Nicky
69 5 5
Hayden

ESP PO

Max
Honda 3 7 3
2005 M Biaggi
RC211V
Nicky
69 Ret 7
Hayden
 ESP QA

Dani
Honda 26 2 6
2006 M Pedrosa
RC211V
Nicky
69 3 2
Hayden

QAT ES

Nicky
Honda 1 8 7
2007 M Hayden
RC212V
Dani
26 3 2
Pedrosa

2008 Honda QAT ES

 RC212V B 2 Dani

2 Pedrosa 3 1

Nicky
69 10 4
Hayden
M

8 Tadayuki
Okada

QAT JP

Dani
Honda 3 11 3
2009 B Pedrosa
RC212V
Andrea
4 5 5
Dovizioso
 QAT ES

Andrea
Honda 4 3 6
2010 B Dovizioso
RC212V
Dani
26 7 2
Pedrosa

2011 Honda B QAT ES

RC212V Andrea
4 4 1
Dovizioso

Dani
26 3 2
Pedrosa

27 Casey 1 R
 Stoner

Hiroshi
7
Aoyama

72 Shinichi
Ito

2012 Honda B QAT ES

RC213V Casey
1 3 1
Stoner

Dani
26 2 3
Pedrosa

56
 Jonathan
Rea

QAT AM

Dani
Honda 26 4 2
2013 B Pedrosa
RC213V
Marc
93 3 1
Márquez

QAT AM

Dani
Honda 26 3 2
2014 B Pedrosa
RC213V
Marc
93 1 1
Márquez
 QAT AM

Dani
26 6
Pedrosa
Honda
2015 B Marc
RC213V 93 5 1
Márquez

Hiroshi
7 1
Aoyama

2016 Honda M QAT AR

RC213V Dani
26 5 3
Pedrosa

93 Marc 3 1
 Márquez

73 Hiroshi
7 Aoyama

Nicky
69
Hayden

QAT AR

Dani
Honda 26 5 R
2017 M Pedrosa
RC213V
Marc
93 4 R
Márquez

2018 Honda M QAT AR

 RC213V 26 Dani 7 R
Pedrosa

Marc
93 2 1
Márquez

QAT AR

Marc
93 2 1
Márquez
Honda
2019 M Jorge
RC213V 99 13 1
Lorenzo

Stefan
6
Bradl
References
1. "Brivio: Fiat Yamaha wall stays, but the
competitiveness is normal" .
MotoGP.com. 2008-11-27. Retrieved
2008-12-01.
2. "Honda 2010 Motorsports Overview" .
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 2010-02-19.
Archived from the original on 2010-
02-23. Retrieved 2010-02-19.
3. "Repsol Honda Team" . Honda Motor
Co., Ltd. 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
 4. "Jorge Lorenzo signed with Repsol
Honda" . MotoGP. 6 November 2018.
Retrieved 26 November 2018.
5. "Dani Pedrosa announces MotoGP
retirement" . BBC. 12 July 2018.
Retrieved 26 November 2018.
. Gruz, David (26 October 2018). "KTM
announces Pedrosa as 2019 test
rider" . Motorsport.com. Retrieved
26 November 2018.

External links
 http://world.honda.com/MotoGP
Official Honda website for motorcycle
grand prix teams
http://world.honda.com/HRC/repsolhon
dateam/index.html

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