2013 – Dani Pedrosa’s ninth placing finish at Donington takes his career points total to 2013 allowing him to be the Spanish competitor who has taken the most points in his career, just one single point over Alex Criville.

159 – Valentino Rossi and Giacomo Agostini are the two competitors with the most stage placings across all sessions of Grand Prix racing, each having been on the stage on 159 seperate occasions.

149 – Loris Capirossi’s 11th at Donington was the 149th time he has placed in a point scoring role in the higher class. Only two other competitors have had more premier class points scoring placings – Carlos Checa with 150 and Alex Barros with 195.

99 – Loris Capirossi’s third placing last season at Brno was the 99th time he has been on the podium in Grand Prix competition. He is still waiting to be only the seventh competitor to score 100 Grand Prix stage ends.

57 years – Race day at Brno marks the 57th anniversary of the 1952 Ulster Grand Prix when Ken Kavanagh was victorious in the 350cc event to be the first Aussie to claim a Grand Prix.

28 – Even though Yamaha’s two factory competitors smashed out at Donington, Colin Edwards extended the lead of MotoGP stage finishes with at least one Yamaha competitor. Yamaha have always had at least one rider end up on the stage in the previous twenty-eight events, beginning at the first race of last season at Qatar. This is the longest ever sequence of successful stage ends for Yamaha since they have always had at least one competitor end up on the podium at 40 consecutive races throughout the 1989/90/91 years.

28 years – On race day this Sunday, it will be 28 years following the last premier class win by a British competitor which was Barry Sheene at the Swedish Grand Prix in 1981 at Anderstorp.

24 – Mattia Pasini enjoys his 24th birthday on the day before practice begins at Brno.

16 – The youngest competitor in the 125cc session, Jonas Folger, enjoys his 16th birthday on the day before practice begins for the Cardion AB Czech Republic Grand Prix.

15.004 seconds – Valentino Rossi’s victorious margin at the Czech Grand Prix last season was the largest ever in the four-stroke MotoGP era in a dry event.

11 – Colin Edwards’ second placing at Donington was the 11th time he has been on the stage since his Grand Prix debut at the Japanese GP in 2003. This allows him the award of having more stage ends in the premier class than any other competitor that has not been on the top step of the stage.

11 - Aprilia have been victorious in the last eleven events in the 125cc session, their longest ever sequence of successful victories.

2 – Honda have won two of the last three events at the British Grand Prix. The previous time that Honda had been victorious with two Grand Prix events on the same day was at the Portuguese GP in 2006, when Toni Elias claimed the MotoGP event and Andrea Dovizioso who won the 250cc event.