The last motorcycles that remained to reveal their decorations on the MotoGP grid were those of CSF, with their two sponsors, Castrol and Idemitsu. The Honda de Zarco and Chantra, as usual in the Cecchinello team, will not share the colors or the main sponsors. But the technicians and secondary sponsors share, although not all either. A peculiar Cambalache that we have been able to know the same weekend that the MotoGP 2025 World Cup in Thailand has presented.
But of the two decorations, there is no doubt that the most anticipated is that of Castrol. The manufacturer of lubricants of British origin has a link, beyond doubt, with the world of competition in general and motorcycles in particular, which have given us mythical decorations.
Castrol decoration, as we are seeing it, would not have been possible at another time
There is no doubt that the Honda Castrol of Johann Zarco is directly inspired by those motorcycles of the late twentieth and early twenty -first century that we remember so much. Actually, it is a motorcycle aesthetically similar to that of 2024, although this time green and red gain prominence in a motorcycle in which, last year, we also saw black areas. For the rest, it maintains that representative style that, as a curiosity, at another time it could not have been so.
And it is that the number of the number reminds of the funds that by regulations had to take decades ago the motorcycles of the World Cup, something that still happens in championships such as the juniorgp or the slender, and is green. In the times when the dorsals had to be put in the world championship, the Green Fund was destined in the last time of that regulation to the motorcycles of 250 and those of 500, the queen category, were yellow in that moment.
As for the design of the honda of chantra, it also changes with respect to that of Nakagami, losing the degraded and the gold almost completely, minimizing the black spaces and gaining white and red space. A much simpler design that your detractors and their supporters will have.
Of course, thanks to that choice of colors, the motorcycle with the decoration of idemitsu seems less bulky than that of Castrol, even if it is a simple optical effect.
