{"id":5825,"date":"2026-08-10T04:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/?p=5825"},"modified":"2026-08-10T04:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:13:09","slug":"third-national-grand-prix-win-drought-ends-in-2026-with-salac-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/third-national-grand-prix-win-drought-ends-in-2026-with-salac-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Third national Grand Prix win drought ends in 2026 with Salac triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filip Salac&#8217;s maiden Moto2 victory at the British Grand Prix ended an almost 16-year wait for the Czech Republic on Sunday, continuing an unusual trend of long-standing national Grand Prix win droughts coming to an end in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old became the first Czech rider to win a motorcycle Grand Prix since Karel Abraham triumphed in the Moto2 race at Valencia in November 2010.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I2OK_O2ykvQ?si=Vo32ujtJG8XyXK-j\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Salac&#8217;s breakthrough means riders from three countries have now ended waits of at least a decade for Grand Prix success this season, following Malaysia&#8217;s Hakim Danish in Moto3 and Japan&#8217;s Ai Ogura in MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p>Hakim was the first to break through when he claimed his maiden Moto3 victory at the Czech Grand Prix in Brno in June, becoming Malaysia&#8217;s first Grand Prix winner in almost 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The rookie ended a drought stretching back to Khairul Idham Pawi, who won the 2016 German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring during his memorable Moto3 campaign.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QDGE6KLA-Wg?si=86J1230HTsBkKvjk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just one week later, Ogura ended an even longer wait by winning the Dutch Grand Prix at Assen.<\/p>\n<p>The Trackhouse rider became the first Japanese rider to win in the premier class since Makoto Tamada&#8217;s home victory at Motegi in 2004, bringing an end to a 22-year drought.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WKX7IuauNUM?si=Ku6utLCY8af-JG-g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filip Salac&#8217;s maiden Moto2 victory at the British Grand Prix ended an almost 16-year wait for the Czech Republic on Sunday, continuing an unusual trend of long-standing national Grand Prix win droughts coming to an end in 2026. The 24-year-old became the first Czech rider to win a motorcycle Grand Prix since Karel Abraham triumphed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/third-national-grand-prix-win-drought-ends-in-2026-with-salac-triumph\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Third national Grand Prix win drought ends in 2026 with Salac triumph<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[634,94,171],"class_list":["post-5825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-popular","category-top-stories","tag-moto2","tag-motogp","tag-motorsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5828,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions\/5828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}