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Honda Collection Hall Puts Honda and Yamaha's Rival WGP Machines Side by Side

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Honda Collection Hall at Mobility Resort Motegi is hosting "Two Passions, One Dream," an exhibition tracing Honda and Yamaha's world championship history, running from July 18. It features Honda's 1966 five-class-sweep machines including the RC181, alongside Yamaha's RA97, its first water-cooled racer, plus modern rivals Marc Marquez's RC213V and Valentino Rossi's YZR-M1 displayed together.

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In 1966, Honda swept all five World Grand Prix classes. The machines behind that feat, the RC181 and RC174, will stand alongside Yamaha's first water-cooled racer, the RA97. What that era demanded wasn't just speed, it was an obsession with the technology itself. Placing Marquez's and Rossi's machines beside them finally lets the whole lineage connect.