Honda HRC Castrol

In 1995 the team entered a three rider lineup with Mick Doohan, Àlex Crivillé and Shinichi Ito riding the Honda NSR500.

Repsol Honda riders took all of the podium positions at four events, in Japan, Spain, Germany and Indonesia.

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.

During qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix, Doohan had a serious crash and ultimately caused his retirement from the sport.

The team managed an all Repsol Honda riders podium at Catalunya with Crivillé first, Okada second and Gibernau third.

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.

Following Rossi's departure, Grand Prix veteran Alex Barros joined Hayden in 2004.

Hayden got his first MotoGP win in his home race, the United States Grand Prix, he finished third overall.

Hayden led the championship for most of the season but at the Portuguese Grand Prix, Pedrosa recklessly crashed into him.

In the last race of the season, Rossi fell off his motorcycle on lap 5 trying to make up for a poor start.

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.

[2] For 2011, Shuhei Nakamoto was HRC Vice President and directed all Honda MotoGP teams.

[4] He replaced Dani Pedrosa, who retired following the 2018 MotoGP season and signed with KTM for a test rider role in the succeeding years.

Marc Márquez returned to Repsol Honda for 2021 after not competing in the 2020 season due to an injury.

Pol Espargaró also signed for the season after leaving Red Bull KTM Factory Racing at the end of 2020.

The relationship between the two parties has been strained as Honda’s worst run of results since the early 1980’s was a factor in Repsol’s apparent unhappiness with the partnership.

In a statement, “Repsol has decided not to renew its current sponsorship contract with Honda Racing Corporation (HRC) in the MotoGP World Championship, which ends on December 31 of this year.” (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Freddie Spencer, Takazumi Katayama, Randy Mamola, Wayne Gardner, Mick Doohan, Daryl Beattie, Àlex Crivillé, Tadayuki Okada Valentino Rossi, Tohru Ukawa, Nicky Hayden, Dani Pedrosa, Andrea Dovizioso, Casey Stoner, Marc Márquez