LEGENDARY MACHINES
Honda Racing Corporation and Honda France have granted the SRC 2026 an absolutely unprecedented privilege. For the first time, two unique machines are leaving the Honda Collection Hall Museum in Japan to ride at Circuit Paul Ricard. At the controls of both: Freddie Spencer, their rider from that era.
The first is the 1985 NSR 500 V4 — the bike with which Spencer achieved the impossible: a double 250 and 500 title in the same year, with seven victories in the premier class. A two-stroke V4, 140 horsepower, 130 kg. A machine entirely reimagined by HRC with a single purpose: invincibility.
The second is the 1982 CB750F AMA Superbike, a weapon of war on American circuits ridden by a generation that would go on to dominate World Grand Prix racing.
It had never left the Honda museum. Until SRC 2026.
NSR 500 V4 1985
The Honda that changed everything.
In 1985, HRC completely redesigned the NSR 500 V4 with a single goal: give Freddie Spencer the weapons to achieve the impossible. V4 two-stroke, 140 horsepower, 130 kg. This NV0B version is the mother of the entire NSR 500 V4 family, 7 victories in 500cc and the 250 & 500 double title in the same year.
V4 two-stroke · 499.3 cc · 130 kg · approx. 140 hp Twin-spar aluminium frame · Showa forks · Nissin brakes
This machine has never left the Honda Collection Hall Museum in Japan.
At SRC 2026, it will race at Circuit Paul Ricard with Freddie Spencer in the saddle.
Some moments only happen once.
CB750F Superbike AMA 1982
The machine that forged legends.
In the 1980s in the USA, the Superbike formula was one of the greatest racing series in the world, highly prepared machines, brutal power, constantly sliding and wheelying.
This is where Freddie Spencer, Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey and Kevin Schwantz made their names, before going on to dominate the 500cc Grand Prix.
This factory CB750F is Freddie SPENCER's own race bike. It has never left the Honda Collection Hall Museum in Japan.
At SRC 2026, it will race at Circuit Paul Ricard for the first time since leaving Japan.
An extraordinary privilege.
Freddie Spencer
The rider who dared everything.
Freddie Spencer is no ordinary rider. "Fast Freddie" embodies an era when Grand Prix racing was won on pure talent, instinct and courage.
In 1985, he achieved the impossible: the double 250 and 500 title in the same year a feat no one had accomplished before him, and no one has managed since.
At SRC 2026, Freddie Spencer returns to Circuit Paul Ricard. At the controls of his two factory machines, the 1985 NSR 500 V4 and the 1982 CB750F AMA Superbike, extracted especially from the Honda Collection Hall Museum for the occasion.
Some moments only happen once.
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