UK Motorcycle News & Stories — MotoGP
On This Day 2002 - Alex Barros Won on His Honda RC211V Debut
Mike Bowden Honda MotoGP motorcycle racing On This Day
Barros won the Pacific Grand Prix at Motegi on 6 October, finishing 1.641 seconds ahead of Rossi and recording the fastest lap on the final tour. It was his first race on Honda’s V5 MotoGP machine after spending the opening 12 rounds aboard the increasingly outclassed NSR500 two-stroke.