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2023 Valencian Community Motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2023 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix (officially known as the Gran Premio Motul de la Comunitat Valenciana) was the twentieth and final round of the 2023 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Cheste on 26 November 2023. In the MotoGP class, Francesco Bagnaia successfully defended his Riders' Championship by winning the Grand Prix and with closest title contender Jorge Martín crashing out. In the Moto3 class, Intact GP won their first Teams' Championship. Practice session MotoGP Combined Free Practice 1-2 Free Practice sessions on Friday and Saturday do not determine riders to qualify for Q2. Practice The top ten riders (written in bold) qualified for Q2. Moto2 Combined Practice 1-2-3 The top fourteen riders (written in bold) qualified for Q2. Moto3 Combined Practice 1-2-3 The top fourteen riders (written in bold) qualified for Q2. Qualifying MotoGP Moto2 Moto3 Collin Veijer set the pole posi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motul (company)
Motul S.A. is a global French company which manufactures, develops and distributes lubricants and other specialized products for engines (motorcycles, cars and other vehicles) and for industry. History Founded in 1853 in New York, the Swan & Finch company started its activity in the sector of high quality lubricants. As of 1920, it turned to the international markets by exporting some of its portfolio brands like Aerul, Textul, Motul. In 1932, Ernst Zaug negotiated the distribution in France of products of the Motul brand with Swan & Finch via his company Supra Penn. In 1953, the Swan & Finch centenary was celebrated with the worldwide launch of Motul Century, which became the first multigrade oil on the European market. However, Swan & Finch suspended its activities in 1957. Supra Penn bought back all title deeds and patents pertaining to the Motul brand, which was renamed for the company's chief product, becoming Motul S.A. Sports competition As a specialist in synthetic oils ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husqvarna Motorcycles
Husqvarna Motorcycles GmbH (; marketed as Husqvarna) is an Austrian motorcycle company with Swedish origins. It is co-owned by Indian Motorcycle manufacturer Bajaj Group and Pierer Industrie AG, Pierer Mobility AG. The company began producing motorcycles in 1903 at Huskvarna, Sweden, as a subsidiary of the Husqvarna Vapenfabrik, Husqvarna armament firm. History Prior to 1987 Husqvarna was founded near the town of Huskvarna in Sweden in 1689. The company started out as a maker of muskets, and the Husqvarna logo still depicts a gun sight viewed from the end of the barrel. As with many motorcycle manufacturers, Husqvarna first began producing bicycles in the late 19th century. In 1903, they made the jump to motorcycle manufacturing. The first "Husky" motorcycles used imported engines, and it was not until 1916 that Husqvarna began producing machines built entirely in-house. Around that time they secured a contract with the Swedish Army, and also began entering cross-country an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabio Quartararo
Fabio Alain Quartararo (; born 20 April 1999), nicknamed El Diablo, is a French Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Grand Prix motorcycle rider racing in MotoGP for Yamaha Motor Racing, Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team. Having won the 2021 MotoGP World Championship, he is the first French World Champion in the premier class' history. Prior to his Grand Prix career, Quartararo won six Spanish junior championship titles, including successive CEV Moto3 titles in 2013 CEV Moto3 season, 2013 and 2014 FIM CEV Moto3 International Championship, 2014. Due to his successes at a young age, he has been tipped for "big things", even being compared to multiple time world champion Marc Márquez, and set various age records during his progress up to World Championship level. He failed to meet the high expectations in the Moto3 and Moto2 World Championships, but made the move up to MotoGP with Petronas Yamaha SRT, and finished as rookie of the year in 2019 MotoGP World Championship, 2019 with seven po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honda
commonly known as just Honda, is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate automotive manufacturer headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in October 1946 by Soichiro Honda, Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a production of 500 million . It is also the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by number of units, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year. Honda became the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer in 2001. In 2015, Honda was the eighth largest automobile manufacturer in the world. The company has also built and sold the most produced motor vehicle in history, the Honda Super Cub. Honda was the first Japanese automobile manufacturer to release a dedicated luxury brand, Acura, on 27 March 1986. Aside from their core automobile and motorcycle businesses, Honda also manufactures garden equipment, marine eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Márquez
Marc Márquez Alentà (born 17 February 1993) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer who races for the Ducati Lenovo Team. He previously raced for the Ducati satellite team Gresini in 2024 and Honda's factory team from his MotoGP debut in 2013 until 2023. Born in Cervera, Catalonia, Spain, he is nicknamed the 'Ant of Cervera' worldwide (due to his height of ), and 'el tro de Cervera' in his hometown, meaning the 'Thunder of Cervera'. He is one of four riders to have won world championship titles in three different categories, after Mike Hailwood, Phil Read and Valentino Rossi, and is one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time, with eight Grand Prix World Championships to his name, six of which are in the premier class. Márquez became the third Spaniard after Àlex Crivillé and Jorge Lorenzo to win the premier class title, and is the most successful Spanish rider in MotoGP to date with 66 wins, most recently the 2025 Aragon Grand Prix. In 2013 he b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álex Márquez
Álex Márquez Alentà (born 23 April 1996) is a Grand Prix motorcycle rider from Spain racing for Ducati satellite team BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP. He has competed in MotoGP since the 2020 season, having previously become World Champion in the 2019 Moto2 World Championship. He also won the 2014 Moto3 World Championship, and the 2012 CEV Moto3 season's title. Álex currently races alongside Fermín Aldeguer on the BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP team. His brother Marc Márquez also races in MotoGP and is currently on the Ducati team. In 2014, when Marc won the premier class, and Álex won Moto3, they became the first pair of brothers to win world titles in motorcycle racing in the same year, a feat they would also repeat in 2019, when Marc won the premier class, and Álex won Moto2. Career Early career He began the 2010 season in the CEV Buckler 125cc championship, competing with the Monlau Competición team, along with Álex Rins and Niklas Ajo. Márquez did not participate i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Bezzecchi
Marco Bezzecchi (born 12 November 1998) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer, competing for Aprilia Racing in the 2025 MotoGP World Championship. Career Junior career Bezzecchi won the Italian Moto3 championship in 2015, and also made his debut in the 2015 FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship that season. He ended the year 16th in the standings, with 29 points, finishing in the top-10 on three occasions. The 2016 FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship was very similar for him, finishing in the top-10 three times, this time scoring 31 points, enough for 18th in the standings. Moto3 World Championship Bezzecchi made his debut in the 2015 Moto3 World Championship, with two wild-card appearances, finishing 26th in Qatar, and retiring in his home Grand Prix of Italy. Mahindra Racing (2016) In the 2016 season, he again competed in two races, retiring in Austria and finishing 24th in Great Britain. CIP (2017) Bezzecchi competed full time in the 2017 Moto3 World Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing World Teams' Champions
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Martín
Jorge Martín Almoguera (born 29 January 1998), nicknamed the ''Martinator'', is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer, who rides for Aprilia Racing. He won the 2024 MotoGP World Championship with Prima Pramac Racing, becoming the first independent team rider to win the premier class title in the MotoGP era. After winning the 2014 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, Martin moved to the Moto3 class the following year, winning the title in 2018 with Gresini Racing. He spent two years in Moto2 before moving to the premier class with Prima Pramac Racing in 2021. Martin won the Styrian Grand Prix during his first season in MotoGP, ending his rookie year with four pole positions. He finished runner-up to Francesco Bagnaia in the World Riders' Championship in 2023, but won the MotoGP title the following year. Career Moto3 World Championship Mapfre Team Mahindra (2015) In 2015, Martín made his full-time Grand Prix debut in the Moto3 World Championship with Mapfre Team Mahindra, riding a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of 500cc/MotoGP World Riders' Champions
Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing, which has been divided into three classes since 1997: 125cc, 250cc and MotoGP. Former classes that have been discontinued include 350cc, 50cc/80cc and Sidecar. The premier class is MotoGP, which was formerly known as the 500Cubic centimetre, cc class. The Grand Prix Road-Racing World Championship was established in 1949 by the sport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), and is the oldest motorsport World Championship in existence. The motorcycles used in MotoGP are purpose-built for the sport, and are unavailable for purchase by the general public because they cannot be legally ridden on public roads. From the mid-1970s to 2002, the top class of GP racing allowed 500cc with a maximum of four cylinders, regardless of whether the engine was a two stroke engine, two-stroke or four stroke engine, four-stroke. Rule changes were introduced in 2002, to facilitate the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing Season
The 2023 FIM MotoGP World Championship was the premier class of the 75th Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) Road Racing World Championship season, the highest level of competition in motorcycle road racing. The season saw the introduction of sprints on Saturdays, a short-form race of approximately half the length of the main event, in addition to the traditional Grand Prix event on Sundays. Francesco Bagnaia successfully defended his Riders' Championship at the final race in Valencia, marking the first repeat Riders' Champion for Ducati since the manufacturer entered the series. Winning 17 of 20 Grands Prix and 16 of 19 sprints, Ducati secured their fifth (and fourth consecutive) Constructors' Championship. Ducati satellite team Pramac Racing won the Teams' Championship. The season was notable for having eight different Grand Prix winners and no back-to-back Grand Prix winners for the first time since the inaugural season in 1949. Manufacturer Yamaha failed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iván Ortolá
Iván Ortolá Díez (born 4 August 2004) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer due to compete in the 2025 Moto2 World Championship for MT Helmets – MSi. In 2024, Ortolá joined Formula 1 driver Lando Norris Lando Norris (; born 13 November 1999) is a British racing driver who competes in Formula One for McLaren. Norris was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in with McLaren, and has won Formula One Grands Prix, Grands Prix ...' Quadrant Athlete program alongside three others, including WMX racer Lotte van Drunen, Rally driver Oliver Solberg, and Olympic Gold medal winner Keegan Palmer. Career statistics European Talent Cup Races by year ( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup Races by year ( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship Races by year ( key) (Races in bold in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
