MotoGP 2017 will enter the final race this week, as well as determine the end of competition Marc Marquez with Andrea Dovizioso. Here's the race's stats.
After 17 series passed, it was time to enter the 18th race series at the Ricardo Tormo circuit, Valencia. The main focus in the race is how the end of the struggle for the primary world title between Marquez and Dovizioso.
Related to this, these statistics that will accompany the course of the race as summarized MotoGP.com:
This will be the 16th consecutive time Valencia have held the season closing race, making it the most circuit that became the last race. This series has become the ultimate race during the MotoGP era.
Valencia circuit named after Spanish rider Ricardo Tormo, who became world champion 50cc with Bultaco in 1978 and 1981. In addition to 15 races in 50cc series, he also has four wins in the 125cc class. His career ended in 1984 due to a leg injury after a fall in a test rider. Tormo died of leukemia in 1998.
Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) is the most successful rider on the Valencia circuit with six wins: three in MotoGP, two in 250cc, and one in 125cc. The next most successful rider here is Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati) with four wins entirely in MotoGP.
Primary class races in Valencia have nine times won by Spanish riders: Sete Gibernau in the 500cc race with Suzuki in 2001; Dani Pedrosa in the MotoGP race in 2007, 2009, and 2012; Jorge Lorenzo wins in 2010, 2013, 2015, and 2016; Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda) won three years ago.
Casey Stoner is the last non-Spanish winner to win Valencia MotoGP. The Australian rider did so in 2011.
Since the era of four strokes in 2002 MotoGP, Honda has become the most successful manufacturer with eight wins in the Valencia circuit. His last win was with Marc Marquez in 2014.
Yamaha has five MotoGP wins on the Valencia circuit, including the last two years with Jorge Lorenzo.
Ducati had two wins in Valencia: with Troy Bayliss in 2006 and Casey Stoner in 2008.
Ever since Stoner finished second in Valencia in 2010, the new Ducati rider could climb the podium again on the circuit through Andrea Iannone's third-place finish last year.
Suzuki's sole Podium in Valencia in the MotoGP era was the third finish by John Hopkins in 2007.
Only one MotoGP race in Valencia raises a winner who does not start from the front row; Marc Marquez in 2014 when starting from fifth.
In the last eight years of the grand prix in Valencia, there was at least one Spanish rider who won one of three racing classes.