Aleix Espargaro will return to the MotoGP grid for a second Honda wild-card look on the upcoming British Grand Prix.
The 34-year-old former Aprilia race-winner made his first race look for Honda through the current Spanish spherical, the place he regarded to have secured 14th – and what would have been his first Honda factors – earlier than being penalised for low tyre strain.
Espargaro’s prototype RC213V was handed to Joan Mir for the post-race check, with fellow ex-racer turned check rider Takaaki Nakagami then making his wild-card debut for HRC at Le Mans this weekend.
Honda has confirmed that Espargaro will make it three HRC wild-cards in a row with an look on the following Silverstone spherical, the place he took his first Aprilia podium in 2021 and received in 2023.
Espargaro retired from full-time competitors on the finish of final yr and instantly switched to Honda testing duties.
Feelgood issue round Honda
Honda remarkably received the latest grand prix, by LCR satellite tv for pc rider Johann Zarco in France.
It was a outcome which proved Honda’s improvement has taken a significant step ahead in 2025, because the arrival of check rider Espargaro and technical director Romano Albesiano.
It was the primary non-Ducati grand prix victory since a yr in the past when Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales received in Texas.
It was Honda’s first win since Alex Rins, additionally at COTA, for the LCR workforce.
Importantly for Honda, it prevented Ducati from claiming the all-time document for consecutive grand prix wins.
Ducati and Honda now share that document with 22 apiece.
