Alex Rins could match a record set by Valentino Rossi in Portimao at the Portuguese MotoGP
‘The Doctor’ is the most recent rider in the premier class to win two consecutive r🥀aces with different manufacturers.
Rins won the 2022 season-finale in Valencia with Suzuki and has now joined Honda, so victory at this weekend’s 2023 curtain-raising 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Portuguese MotoGP would put him in the history books.
Rossi achieved the feat at the first grand prix of 2004 in South Afric⭕a, on his 🅰first appearance with Yamaha.
He had previously won the final race of 2003, the Valencia MotoGP, with Honda - bringing to a🌳 close a relationship which earned him his first three championships in the premier class.
But his move to Yamaha, beginning in South Africa, became synonymous with his legendary career. An opening-weekend win set the tone 🦩for a title-winning year.
Jorge Lorenzo missed the opportunity❀ to match Rossi’s record - he won on the last day of 2015 with Yamaha, but fell short at the first race of 2016 🐷with Ducati.
Rins, then, haꦉs an extra incentive to start his journey with Honda in Portimao this weekend.
He delivered the perfect ♏conclusion to Suzuki’s final race in Valencia last year, before the manufacturer exited Moto🍌GP.
Now,🍌 with LCR Honda, he is vying to restore the fallen Japanese manufacturer back to the summit.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sporﷺts, to football, to F1.
