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Portuguese rider Miguel Oliveira (Yamaha) marks this weekend the 100th Grand Prix of his career in the MotoGP World Championship, in the race that takes place in Thailand and which marks the start of the 2025 season.

In the 99 races already contested, the Portuguese driver from Almada has achieved five victories (Styria, Algarve, Catalonia, Indonesia and Thailand) and two second places (Italy and Germany).

Oliveira made his MotoGP debut in 2019 at the Qatar Grand Prix. That year, he finished eighth in the Austrian GP, ​​his best result of a season marked by an injury sustained in training for the Australian GP, ​​which forced him to miss the last three races of the season.

In 2020, Oliveira won twice, in Styria and Algarve, in a year in which he also achieved four sixth and two fifth places, having finished the season with the best classification of his career, ninth place in the drivers' world championship.

The year 2021 was marked by some falls (five withdrawals) and one victory, in Catalonia, to which he added two second places (in Italy and Germany).

In 2022, two victories achieved in the rain, in Indonesia and Thailand, which this weekend is the venue for the opening race, were the culmination of the season.

That was his last year with KTM, with the Portuguese rider starting the 2023 season with a new Aprilia project, a brand he will continue to be linked to in 2024. For the record, fourth place in the British GP in 2023 is his best result with the Italian machine. Meanwhile, last year was marked by the fall he suffered in training for the Indonesian GP, ​​which resulted in a broken wrist and kept him off the track for the five races of the Asian round. The Portuguese rider returned to competition at the Solidarity GP in Barcelona, ​​with a 12th place.

This year, Miguel Oliveira is taking on a new challenge, moving to Prima Pramac, which swapped Ducati for Yamaha, and where he will have Australian Jake Miller at his side.

With 99 races already contested in the top category of the World Speed ​​Championship, Miguel Oliveira also has 50 in Moto2, 68 in Moto3 and 11 in the old 125cc class.