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Max Biaggi won his first race on a 500, and 13 in total, five on Hondas.

Max Biaggi won his first race on a 500, and 13 in total, five on Hondas.
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Image 1 of 45 from Honda wins MotoGP Constructors World Championship and reveals the secrets of its RC211V Freddie Spencer on the three-cylinder NS500 two-stroke Valentino Rossi's RC211V Eddie Lawson won 31 500cc races
Eddie Lawson won four 500cc races on a Honda the three-cylinder NS500 the three-cylinder NS500 the three-cylinder NS500
the three-cylinder NS500 Mick Doohan has won more top level races on a Honda than any other rider in history and with Rossi now with Yamaha, that's unlikely to change Doohan The famous RC181 of Mike Hailwood
Hailwood Doohan won five titles in a row on a Honda Hailwood at the Isle of Man - yes, that's a stone wall next to the racetrack Rossi's NS500
Jim Redman won two races on the RC181 The four cylinder NS500 Wayne Gardner won 18 Grands Prix, perhaps unluckily winning just one title Hailwood
Sete Gibernau won eight MotoGP races on a Honda Alex Barros has won six top level races on a Honda, three on the 500 and three on the RC211V Max Biaggi won his first race on a 500, and 13 in total, five on Hondas. Makoto Tamada has won two races on the MotoGP RC211V
The five cylinder engine HRC's Mr Yoshii briefs the assembled media Yoshii explaining the RC211V RC211V gizzards
RC211V internals RC211V internals RC211V engines RC211V internals
RC211V conrods RC211V cases RC211V cases RC211V cases
RC211V crank RC211V cylinder head RC211V cylinder head RC211V cylinder head
RC211V engine A gaggle of the 5 cylinder machines A gaggle of the 5 cylinder machines RC211V gearbox
a close look at the frames
Article Summary
October 3, 2006 With five riders on three different brands of machinery still capable of winning the World MotoGP riders championship, it has gone almost unnoticed that Honda has taken its 17th Constructors’ Championship and eclipsed MV Agusta’s 16 Constructors’ titles. With 203 premier class victories since it first competed at the highest level in 1966, Honda now dominates the history of MotoGP by almost any measure. Astoundingly, at the Japanese GP, it called a press conference and in an unprecedented move it revealed the complete engine internals of its RC211V, the bike which had won 47 (58.75%) of the 80 races since the 1000cc formula was introduced. Our image gallery for this story contains imagery of many of the famous riders who have tasted World Championship success with Honda such as Hailwood, Spencer, Rossi, Lawson, Gardner and Doohan, plus the bikes they rode from the RC181 of the sixties to the NSR500 V4 and high res imagery of the internals of the RC211V – clearly Honda feels that the internals of the V4 800 of next year with its hydraulically operated valves are so far removed from the V5 1000 that it has nothing to fear. But if you’re a lover of fine engineering, feast your eyeballs on the Honda’s internals.

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