Honda boss Shuhei Nakamoto has called for Andrea Dovizioso to improve his performances during the course of the 2010 FIM MotoGP World Championship. Dovizioso was outclassed by team-mate Dani Pedrosa in his maiden season with the Repsol Honda team this year, finishing 74 points behind the Spaniard. The Italian silenced his critics with a superb ride to victory in the rain at Donington Park, b... more.

Honda Europe has announced the launch of the Honda Racing Xtreme Academy – a
series of new 150cc big-wheel off-road racing championships being held across
several European countries in 2010. Young riders can register their details now at Honda Europeʼs racing website and
the programme is being seen as a potential first step on the ladder to becoming part
of Honda Racing’s World Cha... more.

Riders taking part in the final round of the NSF100 HRC Trophy mini-bike series were joined on track by HRC Vice President Shuhei Nakamoto, with ex-World Championship riders Tady Okada and Shinichi Ito also participating on Monday. The trio joined HRC Directors Seiki Ishii and Tomoaki Nagayama to make up a HRC team which competed in a special four-hour endurance race at the track, which hosts t... more.

Andrea Dovizioso’s second season in MotoGP brought both highs and lows, with a first premier class win at Donington accompanied by the disappointment of being beaten to fifth spot in the Championship in the final race at Valencia. An impressive rookie season in 2008 with the satellite Scot Honda team saw the 23 year-old brought in by Repsol Honda for the 2009 campaign, which ended with Dovizi... more.

Randy de Puniet’s post-season test at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit was a productive experience for the LCR Honda rider, who tested Ohlins suspension as well as dealing with the rear-grip trouble that caused problems in Sunday’s race. Along with several other MotoGP riders, De Puniet also rolled out the new rear tyre spec made available by Bridgestone, as he completed 76 laps on Tuesday, clocki... more.

It was a victory on home soil for Dani Pedrosa at the Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana, as the Repsol Honda man enjoyed a start-to-finish win in the final race of the 2009 season. The drama started before the race had even commenced, as pole position holder Casey Stoner’s high-side crash on the warm-up lap meant he was unable to take his place on the grid. That allowed Pedr... more.

With just one win to his name this season Dani Pedrosa wants to double that tally on home soil on Sunday at the Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana, and after starting the weekend third on the timesheets in Friday’s free practice he knows he needs to up the pace. The Spanish star, who has a good record at Valencia, was just under half a second off pace man Casey Stoner’s hot lap... more.

Second place at Sepang for the second year in a row – his fourth podium in as many MotoGP seasons at the track – was the result of some hard work from Dani Pedrosa in preparing for wet weather conditions. At the rain-soaked Malaysian circuit, Pedrosa overcame the kind of weather setting that has previously proven hard for him to deal with to finish second, behind Casey Stoner and in front o... more.

Andrea Dovizioso’s best lap of 2’03.142 put him fifth on the Friday practice timesheet at the Shell Advance Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix, behind MotoGP’s ‘big four’, with the Italian lapping just under a second off pace-setter Jorge Lorenzo. Last year at Sepang Dovizioso got his first premier class rostrum result – his brilliant win at Donington this season is his only MotoGP... more.

Progressive moves up the podium at Sepang have seen Dani Pedrosa edge closer to a victory at the Malaysian circuit in his three previous seasons in the premier class. Now the Repsol Honda rider is targeting his first MotoGP win at the track as he bids to increase the pressure on Casey Stoner in the World Championship. Pedrosa has tasted victory at the track in both the 125cc and 250cc classes, ... more.