More than 500 students from St. Mary’s College School in Seville enjoy the presence of Repsol riders after winning a contest.
The Repsol Honda Team riders from MotoGP, Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez, were joined by Trials riders Toni Bou, Takahisa Fujinami and Jaime Busto on a visit to St. Mary’s School in Seville, as a prize for the institute winning a nationwide competition in Spain. The contest marked the occasion of the first anniversary of the Repsol Racing Tour, an exhibition that looks back over 45 years of history for the company in motorsport competition.
In an event attended by more than five hundred students at the school, the riders were posed questions by the children. “What should you study in order be a rider?” they quizzed Dani Pedrosa, who responded by saying: “You have to study everything, because we have to be well prepared in order to understand everything that happens around you. You need to gather all of your desire in order to give your full effort.”
Marc Marquez emphasised teamwork as one of the essential values in motorcycling. “Behind you there is always a team, without which you cannot win,” he explained to the pupils.
Students at the school earned the visit from the riders after recording a video of themselves overcoming a challenge with intelligence, teamwork and effort. Today they had the opportunity to stage this challenge for the Repsol Honda Team riders, who left them signed shirts as a souvenir of the day.
Coinciding with this visit, until Sunday the citizens of Seville will be able to visit the Repsol Racing Tour on the terrace of the Plaza de Armas shopping centre. In the exhibition, visitors will see the bike with which Marquez won his first MotoGP title, Pedrosa’s leathers and many other mementos of riders who have been part of the history of the Repsol team.
The show transmits to society the values that Repsol both displays through its sponsorship of motorsport, including improvement, nobility, courage, enthusiasm and determination, and promotes in its support of sport-based projects such as the FIM CEV Repsol and Monlau Repsol school for engineers and riders. The MotoGP World Championship represents the best available testing ground for Repsol, as the company develops fuels and lubricants which are then made available to customers at its service stations.
