The Manufacturing unit Honda MotoGP Group has introduced that it’s going to reveal the colours of its 2026 bike at an official launch occasion in early February.
The Japanese producer is coming into its second yr with Castrol as title sponsor, ending its 30-year partnership with Repsol.
This implies Joan Mir and Luca Marini’s manufacturing unit RC213V can have a very new livery for the 2025 season, with Repsol orange changed by Castrol crimson and inexperienced.
The 2025 season proved to be a major enchancment for Honda in comparison with the earlier yr, ending a two-year French GP win drought for LCR’s Johann Zarco.
Honda’s manufacturing unit group scored a number of podiums within the second half of the season, with 2020 world champion Mir on the rostrum within the dry races in Japan and Malaysia.
All of this may assist carry Honda out of the D rating on the concession desk, that means it’s going to begin 2026 on an equal footing with C-ranked Aprilia and KTM.
This meant that Honda might not freely take a look at with race riders through the season, and was not in a position to develop the engine indefinitely.
Honda will announce the colours of its remaining 1000cc MotoGP bike at a web-based presentation on February 2nd, a number of days earlier than pre-season testing begins in Sepang.
HRC’s manufacturing unit group will proceed with an unchanged line-up in 2026, with Mirni remaining after his contract extension, whereas Mir is coming into the ultimate season of his two-year contract.
Marini, the second-best Honda rider in final yr’s rankings, confronted an unsure future with the group through the first half of the 2025 season.
The progress of Honda’s bikes has been so nice that in 2026 they’ve been linked with well-known athletes comparable to Pedro Acosta and Jorge Martin.
Aprilia chief govt Massimo Rivola revealed final yr that he had been informed by Martin’s administration that Honda had made a robust provide for the 2024 world champion to affix the model in 2026.
A contract dispute between Martin and Aprilia finally went in favor of the latter, with Acosta committing to KTM.
Marini, fashionable with Honda administration for his analytical method to improvement, has prolonged his contract by one other yr till the tip of 2026.
