Some of the past and present riders of the Repsol Factory Honda MotoGP Racing Team were Alex Criville, Tohru Ukawa, Mick Doohan, Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi. Tohru Ukawa is no longer with team. In 2003 he raced for the Camel Pramac Honda Pons team with Max Biaggi racing a RC211V. Valentino Rossi's Teammate in 2003 was Nicky Hayden. Valentino Rossi has since left to race with Yamaha. Nicky Hayden's new teammate for 2004 is Alex Barros. Nicky Hayden is the 2003 MotoGP Rookie of the Year!!

Nicky Hayden is the newest rider to represent America is the elite MotoGP series. Nicky started riding when he was 3 years old. He was began racing dirt track with his Older brother Tommy and his younger brother Roger. He switched to roadracing in 1997. He won his first professional roadrace April 19th, 1998 at 16 years old. In his first full season roadracing he won 4 750 Supersport races and 1 race win in the highly competitive Pro Honda Oils 600 Supersport Championship. The stellar performance in 1998 earned him a ride with the Honda factory supported Erion Racing team run by owner Kevin Erion. Nicky took the Honda CBR600F4 and put it on the top step of the podium and unbelieveable 5 times. He won the Pro Honda Oils 600 SS Championship that year. He also contested the AMA Sunco Formula Extreme Series aboard a Honda CBR900RR and finished 2nd in the Championship to then teammate Kurtis Roberts. He also did some wildcard Superbike races, he got his first Superbike Podium with a 3rd place result at Pikes Peak. He also competed in the flat track racing. His awesome peformance that year earned him the 1999 AMA Speedvision Ahtlete of the year award and the Ricky Graham Rookie of the year award.

In 2000, he was promoted to the Factory American Honda Team. He dueled with Mat Mladin to the finish line to finsih 2nd in the Daytona 200. He won 3 races and got 5 podiums that year. Hefinished 2nd overall in the AMA Chevy Turcks Superbike Championship behind Mat Mladin. In 2001, Nicky finished 3rd in the Championship behind Eric Bostrom and Champion Mat Mladin. He also started a win streak by winning the last 4 races of the year. Nicky only raced the RC51 except for a couple of races at Daytona and Laguna Seca.

In 2002, Nicky won the Daytona 200 on a RC51 and finished 2nd in the 600 SS race at Daytona. He took 9 race wins that year and climbed to 3rd on the all-time Superbike win list with 17 wins. He became the 2002 AMA Superbike Champion. He raced as a wildcard in the World Superbike round at Laguna Seca in Monterey, CA. He just missed a podium int he first race by finishing 4th. He was only beat by Troy Bayliss(Infostrada Ducati), Ruben Xaus(Infostrada Ducati), and fellow American Colin Edwards(Castrol Honda). He beat other riders like: Neil Hodgsom(HM Plant Ducati), Eric Bostrom(Kawasaki), Ben Bostrom(L&M Ducati), Mat Mladin(Yoshimura Suzuki), James Toseland(HM Plant Duacti), Nori Haga(Playstation 2 Aprilia), Frankie Chili, Doug Chandler(HMC Ducati), and Aaron Yates(Yoshimura Suzuki). Anthony Gobert(Yamaha), Jamie Hacking(Yamaha) were unable to get wildcard rides that year. Miguel Duhamel(Honda) didn't race due to injury. He now races the RC211V with Repsol Honda in MotoGP against: Valentino Rossi(Fortuna Yamaha), Alex Barros(Repsol Honda), Sete Gibernau(Telefonica Honda), Colin Edwards(Telefonica Honda), Carlos Checa(Fortune Yamaha), Jeremy McWilliams(Alice Aprilia), and Max Biaggi(Pons Honda).

In 2002, his sponsors were: American Honda, Honda Rider's Club of America, HRC, Pro Honda Oils, VP Racing Fuel, Dunlop, Showa, Jardine Exhaust, DID Chains, Power Commander III, Joe Rocket, Dunlop, and Shoei. It would look great anywhere!

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