159 – Sachsenring, Valentino Rossi is due for his 159th successful premier-class GP without losing a race. This will bring the record for successful premier-class begins from Alex Barros, who commenced 158 successful races.

61 – Holding a tenth placing at Laguna Seca, Marco Melandri has collected 61 points from the initial eight races this year. Four extra than Kawasaki rider John Hopkins who collected throughout the whole 2008 season.

18 – Dani Pedrosa’s victory at Laguna Seca concluded an 18 race succession with no win for Honda, from then Pedrosa also won in Catalonia the prior year, the longest line of races in the upper-class with no Honda win since they came back to Grand Prix racing in 1982.

16 – Rossi has been on the stage sixteen times during the seventeen races since placing second in Germany last year. The only time he has not ended on stage during this time frame was when he smashed at Le Mans and re-commenced to finish 16th.

15 – Spanish riders have commenced from pole fifteen times over the three classes in 2009. Neither of these competitors have gone on to victory after commencing from pole.

11 – Race event in Germany will be the 11th anniversary of the initial Grand Prix competition to be evented at the freshly built Sachsenring circuit in 1998.

3 – Sachsenring is only one of three circuits where Rossi has not commenced from pole in the high-class; the remainders are Laguna Seca and Misano.

3 – Only three competitors in the 250cc class who collected points at all seven races held so far in 2009; Hiroshi Aoyama, Hector Barbera and Raffaele de Rosa.