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Remy Gardner left MotoGP for the Superbike World Championship. [77] He was replaced by 2022 Moto2 World Riders' Champion Augusto Fernández, who entered the MotoGP class with the rebranded GasGas Factory Racing team. [61] After being left without a place in the MotoGP grid, Darryn Binder went down to Moto2 to make his debut in that class. [78]
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. [1] There were five classes when the championship started in 1949; 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc and sidecar (600cc).
2023: Sprint races were introduced at all Grands Prix in the MotoGP class. 2023: MotoE class gained World Championship status. 2023: At the 2023 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix, Brad Binder reached 366.1 km/h on his KTM RC16, the new top speed record in the premier class. 2024: Pirelli became the official tyre supplier for Moto2 and Moto3 classes.
MotoE gained World Championship status in 2023. Giacomo Agostini, with 15 victories, has won the most world championships. Ángel Nieto is second with 13 world championships and Valentino Rossi, Mike Hailwood and Carlo Ubbiali are third with 9 world championships. [7] Agostini holds the record for the most victories in the 500cc/MotoGP and ...
Marc Márquez (left) won six MotoGP World Championships, while Giacomo Agostini won a record eight 500cc World Championships. 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 ...
It is awarded since 2002 in MotoGP, since 2018 in Moto2 and Moto3, and since 2023 in MotoE. All the riders for each team contribute points towards the Championship. The winner of the teams' world championship is not necessarily the team of the riders' world champion. For example, in 2016, Marc Márquez who rode for Repsol Honda Team won the ...
This is a list of circuits which have hosted a World Championship race from 1949 to 2024.. In total, 74 different circuits have hosted World Championship races. The first to do so was the Snaefell Mountain Course, home of the Isle of Man TT, which also has the distinction, at 60.718 km (37.728 mi) long, of being the longest track which hosted a World Championship race.
The 2020 FIM MotoGP World Championship was the premier class of the 72nd F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. The season was notably characterized by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the absence of perennial title favourite and defending champion Marc Márquez due to a serious arm injury, the high number of wins from different ...