100 – Sergio Gadea at the Australian GP will be making his 100th Grand Prix beginning, all have been in the 125cc session.

50 – Hiroshi Aoyama will claim the 250cc world title if he gains fifty points in the last three events of the season, irrespective of the points made from other competitors.

25 – Julian Simon requires 25 points from the last three events to claim the 125cc world title, even if nearest rival Bradley Smith wins all three events.

24 – Casey Stoner celebrates his 24th birthday on the initial day of testing at Phillip Island.

23 seconds – At the Portuguese Grand Prix Valentino Rossi placed 23 seconds behind victor Jorge Lorenzo. This is the longest margin Rossi has ever placed after a colleague in MotoGP in an event where he has not smashed and re-mounted.

21 – The 21st Australian Grand Prix held every season since the initial race in 1989. The first two Aussie GP's were held at Phillip Island prior to visiting the Eastern Creek track for six successive seasons, before returning to Phillip Island in 1997 where it has stayed.

11 – Jorge Lorenzo claimed the eleventh pole of the season for Yamaha in Portugal. This is the biggest number of premier class pole positions in a single year for Yamaha.

7 – The fourth placing for Valentino Rossi at Portugal was only the seventh occassions that he ended one place off the stage in his 164 beginnings in the premier class of Grand Prix racing. The last time he came fourth was at Laguna Seca in 2007.

7 – Aussie competitors have taken seven premier class wins in the home Grand Prix; Wayne Gardner at Phillip Island in 1989 and 1990, Mick Doohan at Eastern Creek in 1992 & 1995 and Phillip Island in 1998, Casey Stoner for the past two seasons at Phillip Island.

4 – Yamaha racers have been victorious in the last four MotoGP events. A win for any of the Yamaha competitors in Australia will equal the biggest ever sequence of successes for Yamaha in the premier class.

4th – Valentino Rossi’s fourth place in Portugal was the sole time that he was unable to finish on the stage in his ten appearances at the Estoril track for a MotoGP event.