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232 - The three riders standing on the podium in Aragon (Marquez, Lorenzo, Rossi) had a record accumulated total of 232 grand prix wins across all classes. The previous record was 230 GP wins for the three riders standing on the podium, set two weeks earlier at Misano (Pedrosa, Rossi, Lorenzo).
200 - Sandro Cortese is scheduled to make his 200th GP start at the Japanese Grand Prix. Cortese made his grand prix debut at the age of fifteen at Jerez in 2005. Since making his GP debut he has only failed to start on one occasions, which was at Le Mans earlier this year when he withdrew due to knee injury, ending a sequence of 190 successive GP starts. Cortese is the first German rider to reach the milestone of 200 grand prix starts, and at the age of 26 years 284 days, he will be the youngest rider ever to reach this milestone, taking the record from Jorge Lorenzo who made his 200th GP starts on his 27th birthday at the Spanish GP in 2014.
100 - At the Japanese Grand Maverick Vinales is scheduled to make his 100th grand prix start, including 17 in the 125cc class, 32 in Moto3 and 18 in Moto2.
49 - With a 52 points lead at the head of the world championship, Marc Marquez needs to take just 49 points at the four remaining races to clinch the world title even if closest challenger Valentino Rossi wins all four races. For example, 1 x second place finish + 1 x 3rd + 1 x 4th would give Marquez the title.
41 - Italy and Spain have had exactly the same number of podium finishes across the three grand prix classes in the first fourteen events of the year, both countries having had 41 top three finishes.
39 - This is the 39th occasion that a grand prix event has been held in Japan. The very first Japanese Grand Prix was held back in 1963 at the Suzuka circuit. The three circuits that have hosted grand prix events in Japan (together with number of GP events held) are: Suzuka (19 times), Motegi (17) and Fisco (2).
23.071 seconds - At the Aragon Grand Prix Alvaro Bautista finished just 23.071 seconds behind race winner Marc Marquez. In a full- length MotoGP race this is the smallest margin separating an Aprilia rider from the race winner.
11th - The first Ducati rider across the line in Aragon was Andrea Dovizioso in 11th place. This is the first time since the French GP in 2008 that Ducati have not had a top ten finisher in the MotoGP class.
3 - On three occasions the Motegi circuit has been the venue for the deciding race in the MotoGP World Championship: 2007 in the favour of Casey Stoner, 2008 for Valentino Rossi and in 2014 when Marc Marquez took the title.
2 - Motegi and the Red Bull Ring are the only two circuits on the current schedule where Marquez has not had a win in the MotoGP class.
