[Overseas Activities]
World championship series factory teams
- Road Race World Grand Prix:
Repsol Honda, Team HRC and Castrol Honda will compete in the Road Race Grand Prix 500cc & 250cc classes and Superbike Series with seven successful riders, including two Japanese riders. - Trial World Championship
Takahisa Fujinami will participate in the series with Team HRC. - Team organization:
Category | Team | Rider | Nationality | Machine | |
Road Racing |
GP500 | Repsol Honda | Michael Doohan | Australia | NSR500 |
Alex Criville | Spain | ||||
Tadayuki Okada | Japan | ||||
Sete Gibernau | Spain | NSR500V | |||
GP250 | Team HRC | Tohru Ukawa | Japan | NSR250 | |
Superbike | Castrol Honda | Aaron Slight | New Zealand | RVF/RC45 | |
Colin Edwards | USA | ||||
Trials | Team HRC | Takahisa Fujinami | Japan | RTL |
World championship series satellite teams
- Road Race World Grand Prix:
Seven distinguished riders will participate in the 500cc and 250cc classes of the World Grand Prix Series. Teams are still to be announced. - Motocross World Championship Series:
TEAM Honda Racing and RWJ Honda will participate in the 250cc class. - Trial World Championship Series:
In the trial championships, Montesa Honda S.A. will nominate two riders as its factory riders.
Team organization:
Category | Team | Rider | Nationality | Machine | |
Road Racing |
GP500 | (t.b.a.) | Alexandre Barros | Brazil | NSR500 |
(t.b.a.) | Juan Borja | Spain | |||
GP250 | Team Gresini | Loris Capirossi | Italy | NSR250 | |
(t.b.a.) | Stefano Perugini | Italy | |||
Motocross | 250 | Team Honda Racing |
Stefan Everts | Belgium | CR250M |
Frederic Bolley | France | ||||
RWJ Honda | Jeakim Karlson | Sweden | |||
Trials | Montesa Honda | Marc Colomer | Spain | COTA | |
Amos Bilbao | Spain |
[Domestic Activities]
Japanese championship series factory teams
- Japanese Road Race Championship Series
Two riders from Lucky Strike Honda will participate in Superbike and one from Castrol Honda in 250cc-class road racing. - Japanese Motocross Championship Series
TEAM HRC will enter the three riders in the 250cc class. - Japanese Trial Championship Series
Takahisa Fujinami from HRC Club Fujinami will be the only Honda representative in the championship.
Team organization:
Category | Team | Rider | Nationality | Machine | |
Road Racing |
Superbike | Lucky Strike Honda |
Shinichi Itoh | Japan | RVF/RC45 |
Yuichi Takeda | Japan | ||||
GP250 | Castrol Honda |
Daijiro Katoh | Japan | NSR250 | |
Motocross | 250 | Team HRC |
Kazuyoshi Odagiri | Japan | RC250M |
Ryuichiro Takahama | Japan | ||||
Yoshitaka Atsuta | Japan | ||||
Trials | HRC Club Fujinami | Takahisa Fujinami |
Japan |
RTL | |
Japanese championship series satellite teams
- Three riders, supported by Team Iwaki, Sakurai Honda and Team Kohtake, will participate in the Japan Superbike series.
Team organization:
Category | Team | Rider | Nationality | Machine | |
Road Racing |
Superbike | Team Iwaki | Takahiro Sohwa | Japan | RVF/RC45 |
Sakurai Honda | (t.b.a.) | Japan | |||
Team Kohtake & RSC | Makoto Tamada | Japan |
[US Activities]
American Honda factory teams
- AMA Road Race Series
Team Honda will simultaneously compete in both Superbike and SS600 classes. Two riders will make a double entry into the classes. - AMA Motocross Series
Team Honda organization has been upgraded, resulting in four rider entries to the 250cc Supercross and 250cc National Motocross championships.
American Honda satellite teams
FMF Team Honda will compete in 125cc Supercross and 125cc National Motocross events with four riders.
Team organization:
Category | Team | Rider | Nationality | Machine | |
Road Racing |
Superbike | Team Honda | Miguel DuHamel | Canada | RVF/RC45 |
Erick Bostrom | USA | ||||
SS600 | Team Honda | Miguel DuHamel | Canada | CBR600F | |
Erick Bostrom | USA | ||||
Motocros | 250 SX / 250 NATL |
Team Honda | Ezra Lusk | USA | CR250M |
Sebastien Tortelli | France | ||||
Mickael Pichon | France | ||||
Kevin Windham | USA | ||||
125 SX / W 125 National |
FMF Team Honda | Tallon Vohland | USA | CR125R | |
Cheris Gosselaar | USA | ||||
125 SX / E 125 National |
Brock Sellards | USA | |||
Danny Smith | USA |