Shuhei nakamoto Archives

Yuki Takahashi Axed from Scot Racing

20 April, 2020

Scot Racing could throw up as many smoke screens as they wanted, announcing its intention to keep both Yuki Takahashi and Gabor Talmacsi. They could tell us that they were trying to get a couple of extra RC212Vs, that they…

Honda presents RC212V to Simoncelli family

12 April, 2020

It was a very emotional ceremony at the Mugello in front of the Honda Gresini hospitality earlier today, the parents of late Marco Simoncelli were presented with one of his son’s factory RC212V MotoGP machines and a ‘Super Sic’ special…

Casey Stoner and WSBK?

10 April, 2020

HRC Executive Vice President Shuhei Nakamoto was at Phillip Island last weekend for the MSMA - Dorna meeting to talk about how to reduce costs in World Superbikes for the not to distant future.Officially Honda is not in World Superbikes…

Honda offered more to Jorge Lorenzo than to keep Casey Stoner

3 April, 2020

Marcos Hirsch, Jorge Lorenzo’sformer manager - the split occured during the Assen GP and it was confirmed to be very amicable by both parties - was interviewed by Spanish radio station Onda Cera. The former manager detailed some of the…

Repsol Honda studio pics, quotes and video from team presentation

2 April, 2020

This morning the Repsol Honda officially unveiled their new team livery and line-up for the upcoming season and here are some much better studio images of the 2013 RC213V, along with what HRC boss Shuhei Nakamoto had to say about…

Moto3: Ambrogio switches to Mahindra as Honda threatens to pullout

28 March, 2020

Moto3 squad Ambrogio Racing will be switching to Mahindra machinery starting from Misano. The team was fielding German rider, Luca Amato, and South African team-mate Brad Binder on Honda/Suter machiney, but team owner Fiorenzo Caponera decided to switch to the…

MotoGP: HRC ready to provide Valentino Rossi with a RC213V for 2013

22 March, 2020

The grid of the MotoGP class for 2013 is yet to be defined, and this is the part of the year when rumors regarding the future of the riders whose fate has not yet been defined usually intensify. Valentino Rossi…

Casey Stoner rules out wild-card appearances after completing first Honda test (w/video)

20 March, 2020

After yesterday’s washout at Motegi due to rain, the second and final day of HRC testing, saw ‘test rider extraordinaire’, Casey Stoner able to complete 47 laps between the RC213V 2013 version and the 2014 version. that Dani Pedrosa and…

Repsol Honda 2013 team launch

17 March, 2020

Dani Pedrosa and 2012 Moto2 World champion and MotoGP rookie Marc Marquez officially unveiled their Repsol Honda’s 2013 RC213V machines today at the Campus Respol in Madrid.Besides the two riders, also present were HRC boss Shuhei Nakamoto, Livio Suppo, who…

Shuhei Nakamoto reveals more of the 2012 season and talks about Stoner, Marquez and Pedrosa

15 March, 2020

HRC has generated a highly interesting and candid interview with their Vice President Shuhei Nakamoto who goes out of his way to review Honda’s 2012 season from the weight increase decided during the 2011 off season that threw them into…