The Malaysian GP is the next challenge for Miguel Oliveira in the 2023 MotoGP season. Luck has not been on the side of the Portuguese rider lately, and now he arrives at a track where he has already stood on the highest step of the podium.
In his first season in the World Championships, in 2011 in the former 125cc class, #88 couldn’t compete in the Malaysian round due to injury, so his debut in Sepang was only a year later in Moto3… and straight away with a fifth place. A result that improved to the lowest step of the podium in 2013, then followed by the setback of retirement in 2014. In his last season in Moto3, Oliveira achieved victory in Malaysia, which was the second of a sequence of three consecutive wins.
Once again, an injury prevented the pilot from Almada from competing in Malaysia in 2016, the year he made his debut in Moto2. Like in 2015, in the 2017 season Oliveira had his second victory in a sequence of three in Sepang. His farewell from the intermediate category came in the subsequent season, with a second place in Malaysia.
Again due to injury, when Oliveira arrived at MotoGP in 2019, he was absent from the Malaysian GP, while the pandemic prevented the race from taking place in 2020 and 2021. Therefore, up to now the Portuguese has only competed in Sepang once in the premier category, when he achieved 13th place last year.
Miguel Oliveira’s History in Sepang
2012 (Moto3): 5th
2013 (Moto3): 3rd
2014 (Moto3): Retirement
2015 (Moto3): 1st
2017 (Moto2): 1st
2018 (Moto2): 2nd
2022 (MotoGP): 13th
