Ducati nears Honda’s legendary 500cc/MotoGP win streak
D♋ucati targets 20th consecutive MotoGP victory, closing in on Honda’s all-time reco🌳rd.
This weekend’s Americas Grand Prix at COTA marks the one-year anniversary of Ducati’s last MotoGP defeat.
That came at the hands of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Maverick Vinales and Aprilia, with KTM’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pedro Acosta pushing Ducati to th❀ird on the podium with Enea Bastianini.
But Ducati has won all 19 grands prix since.
A victory this Sunday in Austin would see them match MV Agusta’s longest unbeaten streak of 20 consecutive wins (1968-1969), edging them even c♏loser to the all-time record of 22 in a row, set by Honda in the late 1990s.
Honda’s domi🃏nant run began at the season-opening 1997 Malaysian Grand Prix and continued up to and including the 1998ꦑ Dutch TT at Assen.
It took Simon Crafar, now head of the FIM MotoGP Steward panel, to finally break the streak, c🍒laiming victory for the Red Bull Yamaha WCM team at Donington Park in the 1998 British Grand Prix.
Crafar’🃏s triumph was the only non-Honda victory of the 14-round 1998 season, with Mick Doohan leading an NSR sweep of the championship top five.
Fast forward 27 years, and it could be another Honda legend - 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez - who plays a role in rewriting history.
Now a 𒈔factory Ducati rider, Marquez is undefeated so far in 2025, wꦍinning all four races (two Sprints and two grands prix).
If the Ducati riders can keep the win streak alive, the factory will reach 22 in a row in the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez, a home event for the Marquez brothers, who are currently first and second▨ in the world champi﷽onship.
Only GPs count towards the successive win record, with Ducati beaten in four Sprint races last 🌞season, again by Aprilia rid🎶ers.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Mar🥃quez’s injury issues.
