Honda supplies Roberts

Honda has announced its 2006 motorcycle road race plans – confirming the supply of engines to Team Roberts in MotoGP.

The intention is to take titles in each category and win with ‘next-generation teams’ featuring young riders’ in MotoGP.

The firm will race six RC211Vs in MotoGP plus supply engines for Kenny Roberts Jr in his dad’s team.

MotoGP:

Repsol Honda: 26 Daniel Pedrosa (Age 20, Spain), 69 Nicky Hayden (Age 24, USA)

Fortuna Honda: 24 Toni Elias (Age 22, Spain), 33 Marco Melandri (Age 23, Italy)

Konica Minolta Honda Team: 6 Makoto Tamada (Age 29, Japan)

Honda LCR: 27 Casey Stoner (Age 20, Australia)

Team Roberts: 10 Kenny Roberts Jr. (Age 32, USA) engine supply

250cc Class

Repsol Honda Team 250: 19 Sebastian Porto (Age 27, Argentina), 73 Shuhei Aoyama (Age 21, Japan)

Team Scot: 34 Andrea Dovizioso (Age 19, Italy), 55 Yuki Takahashi (Age 21, Japan)

British Superbike Championship

HM Plant Honda Racing: 2 Ryuichi Kiyonari (Age 23, Japan), 9 Karl Harris (Age 26, UK)

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