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Honda NSF250R

Motorcycle model

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ9004634 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Honda NSF250R is a four-stroke race motorcycle from HRC (Honda Racing Corporation) developed in 2011 to replace the Honda RS125R, a two-stroke. Honda's NSF250R joined the newly created Moto3 World Championship in 2012. An updated model, the NSF250RW was introduced in 2014, and won the constructors' title for the first time in 2015. The motorcycle is one of the most successful machines of the Moto3 era to date, having taken five constructors' championships and five different riders' to their respective championships.

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Grand Prix Racing Results

Constructors' Championship Results

Rider's Champions

Álex Márquez, 2014, 278 pts.

Danny Kent, 2015, 260 pts.

Joan Mir, 2017, 341 pts.

Jorge Martín, 2018, 260 pts.

Lorenzo Dalla Porta, 2019, 279 pts.

Jaume Masià, 2023, 274 pts.

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The public source identifies “Honda NSF250R” as motorcycle model. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Honda, NSF250R and Motorcycle.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2012, 2014, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Honda, NSF250R and Motorcycle providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Honda NSF250R” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.