168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kenny Roberts Jr returned to the track aboard his 2006 MotoGP machine, the KR211V, during the MotoAmerica round at Barber Motorsports 💟Park.

The American delightedꦰ fans by completing demonstration laps on the Honda V5-powered bike that he rod😼e to sixth overall in the World Championship.

“I reღmember 🅺my first time on the Honda,” said Roberts Jr, whose bike is now part of the of the permanent collection at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum.

“It was difficult to tell which gear I was i🐬n; the engine was so linear.”

A 500cc world champion with Suzuki, Roberts returned to his father 'King' Kenny Roberts'ﷺ team in 2006, turning heads by taking the privateer machine to pꦆodiums in Catalunya and Estoril.

“If we had six months to find all the gremlins with the chassis we found in the last 25% of the season, we could have been fighting quite often for p🐼odiums.”

Roberts might even have won the famous Estoril race, where Valentꦦino Rossi regained the title lead after Dani Pedrosa took down team-mate Nicky Hayden, if he had✨ not misunderstood the number of laps remaining.

Still, it marked the last time a bike built by a privateer team led a MotoGP race or finished 🔥on the rostrum. A feat unlikely to be repeated in the foreseeable future.

The only machines classified ahead of the KR2🅰11V in the f🐷inal 2006 championship standings were three Hondas, a Yamaha and a Ducati.

“It gave me a better perspective of what I rode, what I😼 didn’t ride, and what we did with a lot less," &🐈nbsp;Roberts Jr said.

Unfortunately for Roberts and Team KR, they weren't ab🧜le to build upon the momentum from their debut Honda-powered campa♋ign.

Honda’s new RC212V powerplant struggled at the start of the 800cc era in 2007 and Roberts Jr bowed out after a be💮st finಞish of 13th in six starts.

Meanw🦂hile, with Liberty Media rumoured to be nearing completion of its MotoGP takeover - and keen to expand the sport in the US - Barber is among the venues that could be upgraded to potentially join COTA on the Grand Prix calendar.