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Goiania, in central Brazil, hosted MotoGP from 1987-89 before the championship moved to Sao Paulo in 1992, with Rio de Janeiro most recently hosting from 1995 to 2004.
The 2024 FIM MotoGP World Championship was the premier class of the 76th Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) Road Racing World Championship season, the highest level of competition in motorcycle road racing.
In 2002, 990cc bikes replaced the 500cc bikes and the class was renamed as MotoGP. [ 3 ] 600cc bikes replaced the 250cc bikes in the 2010 season , with the class re-branded as Moto2. [ 4 ] In 2012 , 250cc bikes replaced the 125cc bikes, with the class re-branded as Moto3, retiring the two-stroke bikes from Grand Prix motorcycle racing. [ 5 ]
2011: MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli is killed at Sepang. [18] 2011: Suzuki suspend their MotoGP participation at the end of the season. 2012: The new Moto3 250cc (15.2 cu in) four-stroke single-cylinder class replaces the 125cc two-stroke class. 2012: MotoGP raises the maximum engine capacity to 1,000cc [19] (61 cu in) and introduces claiming ...
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The 2022 FIM MotoGP World Championship was the premier class of the 74th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Fabio Quartararo came into the season as the defending World Champion. Ducati secured the constructors' championship, with the factory Ducati Lenovo Team securing the teams' championship and factory rider Francesco Bagnaia ...
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]