September 23, 2019—The penultimate round of the 2019 season of the Asia Road Racing Championship (ARRC) took place from September 19 to 22 at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia, where Peerapong Boonlert of the Yamaha Thailand Racing Team rode his YZF-R6 to 3rd place in Race 1 of the SuperSports600 (SS600) class, giving him his 11th podium finish of the season—including 7 race wins—to
September 17, 2019 ― Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is proud to announce that Yusuke Watanabe, who contested his second season in the AMA 250cc Motocross Championship in the United States this year, will race in the All Japan Motocross Championship for the CycleTrader/Rock River/Yamaha team aboard a YZ250F in the IA2 class at Round 7 (October 12–13) in Kumamoto Prefecture and Round 8 (October 26–27), t
September 11, 2019—The first-ever 8 Hours of Sepang is set to be held on December 14, 2019 at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia as Round 2 of the 2019-2020 Endurance World Championship (EWC). Competing in the eight-hour endurance event aboard the YZF-R1 and sporting Yamaha’s iconic #21 will be the Yamaha Sepang Racing Team, fielding MotoGP riders Franco Morbidelli and Hafizh Syahrin
In late August, the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was held in Japan. Nearly 50 years ago, Yamaha Motor saw the potential of African markets and has been working diligently at the grassroots level to develop businesses there ever since. Going forward, Yamaha will formulate new business strategies for a wide range of product categories in accordance with our mi
August 9, 2019—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is proud to announce that the Yamaha VR46 Master Camp, a training programme to develop young riding talent run in cooperation with Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Riders Academy, will be held in Italy over the five days of September 4 to 8. The programme will build on the participating riders’ experience to up their skills, knowled
July 30, 2019―At the 42nd “Coca-Cola” Suzuka 8 Hours, Katsuyuki Nakasuga, Alex Lowes and Michael van der Mark of the Yamaha Factory Racing Team took the #21 YZF-R1 to 2nd place, securing the fifth consecutive podium finish at Suzuka for Yamaha since the return of the factory team in 2015.
With 2019 marking the 21st year since the YZF-R1 was launched, the Yamaha Factory Racing Team entered
At the Tokyo Motor Show in the autumn of 2017, there were three Yamaha concept models in particular that drew significant attention.
One was the MOTOROiD, a self-balancing motorcycle with the ability to stand up on its own and slowly come to its owner autonomously when beckoned, and another was MOTOBOT Ver. 2, an advancement of Yamaha’s robot capable of autonomously riding an unmodified YZ
July 1, 2019 – The final round of the FIM Trial-E Cup took place from June 29 to 30 alongside the TrialGP Belgium, Round 4 of the FIM Trial World Championship in Comblain-au-Pont, Belgium. The Yamaha Factory Racing Team’s Kenichi Kuroyama rode the TY-E electric trials bike to 2nd place as he had in the first round in the Netherlands to finish the Cup as vice-champion for the second consecutive
June 24, 2019 – Round 1 of the FIM Trial-E Cup was held from June 22 to 23 in Zelhem in the Netherlands alongside Round 3 of the FIM Trial World Championship. The Yamaha Factory Racing Team’s Kenichi Kuroyama guided the TY-E electric trials bike through two laps of 15 sections each and finished with 4 marks and 27 cleans in all, resulting in a narrow miss for the win but a strong 2nd place podi
Since our founding, Yamaha Motor has placed high priority on design with its Monozukuri (creating products with an emphasis on craftsmanship and excellence), passed down engineering ideals to create motorcycles in tune with the rider and praised as having “Yamaha Handling,” and created several distinct worlds for its product brands.
Yamaha believes that motorcycles are more than simple
June 7, 2019—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. has finalised its entry in the 2019 FIM Trial-E Cup with the TY-E electric trials bike for the second successive year. Kenichi Kuroyama will once again ride for the Yamaha Factory Racing Team as he aims to clinch the title win that he narrowly missed last year, finishing 2nd overall by just three points.
The Trial-E Cup began in 2017 with just a single r
May 23, 2019—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. held a press conference yesterday at the AXIS Gallery in Tokyo, Japan to kick off its Suzuka 8 Hours campaign and announce its team line-ups for this year’s race. Unveiling the factory YZF-R1 for the first time in colours from the Yamaha TECH21 Team that contested the race in 1985, the Yamaha Factory Racing Team will be aiming for a fifth consecutive victory
