Honda launches all-new MotoGP livery, reveals Castrol as title sponsor

First season since 1994 that factory Honda team won’t be sponsored ♛by Repsol

Honda 2025 MotoGP livery
Honda 2025 MotoGP livery
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The factory Honda squad has unveiled an all-new livery for the 2025 MotoGP season🌳 as it moves on from its 30-year title partnership with Repsol, with Castrol replacing it.

Since 1995, every factory Honda has rac🦄ed in the premier class with a Repsol-influenced livery as 🔴the Spanish oil giant served as title sponsor.

However, that icoꦚnic relationship came to an end last year, with the works Honda squad unveiling factory HRC colours for the 2025 season at i🅠ts launch in Indonesia.

Honda also revealed that Castrol will become its title partneꦓr in 2025.

Honda endured a miserable 2024 campaign, with the ma💜rque finishing last in the constructors’ standings with just 75 points.

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Its factory ridဣers Joan Mir and Luca Mari🐷ni finished last in the riders’ standings, while the brand’s best grand prix result was an eighth from LCR’s Johann Zarco at a wet Thai GP.

Zarco was Honda’s top rider in the s🌄tandings in 17th.

Last year also marked its third in ܫfive where Honda didn’t win a race.

However,𓂃 Honda has made some significant personnel changes for the 2025 se💮ason in its bid to move itself back up the competitive order.

Most notably, it has 𝄹signed Romano Albesiano from Aprilia to take over as 🔯technical director, replacing Ken Kawauchi - who has been moved over to the test team.

Albesiano helped build Apri🌳lia up from the grid’s slowest factory bike when it returned to Moto🅷GP in 2015 to being multiple grand prix winners over his 10 premier class seasons at the Italian marque.

Also coming from Aprilia🌺 to prop up its test te꧑am is three-time grand prix winner Aleix Espargaro, who retired from full-time competition at the end of last season.

Honda was the final factory team to unveil its colours for the 2025 season, fol🅠lowing Yamaha and KTM over the previous two days.

Just one team has yet to reveal its livery for the coming campaign, which is𓄧 the LCR squad. Its launch will take place on 8 February a day before MotoGP’s official season lau💮nch event.

Honda has been on track already this week at the Sepang shakedown, with the marque able to test freely during the y🌠ear with its race riders due to concessions.

Testing begins officially on 5-7 February in Malaysia, before the championship moves to Thailand on 12-13 February for 𓆏the final two days of pre-season running ahead of the 2025 campaign getting under way on 28 February to 2 March at Buriram.

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