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December 18, 2024—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and Yamaha Motor Racing are delighted to welcome Augusto Fernández into the Yamaha family. The experienced MotoGP rider will join the Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Test Team programme taking on the role of Official MotoGP Test Rider for the 2025 season.
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and Yamaha Motor Racing are delighted to announce that experienced MotoGP rider
November 21, 2024 - In 2025, the Pramac-Yamaha partnership will venture into the intermediate class with their new Pramac Yamaha Moto2 Team. Moto2 stars Tony Arbolino and Izan Guevara will be joining forces as key players at the start of an exciting era not only for them but for the new team and the two renowned MotoGP partners as well.
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is delighted to announce that besid
November 15, 2024—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and VR46 will part ways at the end of the 2024 Moto2 WorldChampionship, marking the close of their collaboration that began in 2016 with the Master Camp project.The two companies have always shared the goal of supporting talented young riders, which they initiallypursued through the bi-annual Yamaha VR46 Master Camp—a five-day training program in Tavullia.
November 6, 2024 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce that Yuki Okamoto, whowon his first All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000 title this season, will enter the FIMSupersport World Championship (WorldSSP) for the 2025 season, riding Yamaha’s new YZFR9supersport model. He will ride for the Pata Yamaha Ten Kate Racing WorldSSP SupportedTeam with teammate Stefano Manzi, who finished ru
October 28, 2024 – On Sunday, October 27, 2024, Round 8 of the All Japan Road Race Championship, the MFJ Grand Prix, was held at Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture. Yamaha Factory Racing Team rider Yuki Okamoto, competing in the JSB1000 class aboard a YZF-R1, finished 2nd in Race 1 and 3rd in Race 2, winning his first title in JSB1000, Japan’s premier class of road racing.
This was Yamaha’s seven
October 1, 2024—On Sunday, September 29, 2024, Yamaha Factory Innovation Team rider Jay Wilson competed in the IA1 class at Round 7 of the All Japan Motocross Championship, the TOKIO INKARAMI Super Motocross event, held at Off Road Village in Saitama Prefecture, where he took 2nd place in the second moto aboard his YZ450FM to secure the 2024 title.
Wilson has now won three titles in a row: IA2
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