You don’t often see the top brass of the biggest motorcyle company of the world don leathers, a helmet and hit a race track to personally compete in a race, but HRC Vice President Shuhei Nakamoto did just that yesterday at Motegi.

Nakamoto, HRC directors Seiki Ishii and Tomoaki Nagayama suited up alongside former GP riders Tady Okada and Shinichi Ito for the final and special four hour endurance race of the NSF100 HRC Trophy mini bike series.

86 teams and 420 riders took part in this one-off race, all on Honda mini-bikes and the HRC team completed 105 laps and finished as the press release says a ‘respectably’ 57th out of 80 finishers. We think that the HRC team got their butts kicked by younger and lighter kids. Anyone ever notice how heavy these guys are, including Okada, the official MotoGP RC212V test rider?

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