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  • Katsuyuki Nakasuga Wins 8th All Japan JSB1000 Title and Adds Greater Glory to the YZF-R1’s 20th Anniversary

    November 5, 2018—Round 9 of the All Japan Road Race Championship’s JSB1000 class was held at Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture on November 4, 2018. It was a special round, as it marked the 50th holding of the Motorcycle Federation of Japan Grand Prix (MFJGP). The Yamaha Factory Racing Team’s Katsuyuki Nakasuga, who contests the championship aboard a YZF-R1, took 2nd in Race 1 and in doing so sec

  • MXGP World Championship Star Jeremy Seewer to Contest Finale of 2018 All Japan Motocross Championship

    October 9, 2018 ― MXGP World Championship contender Jeremy Seewer will race the YZ450F for the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP Team in the premier IA1 class at Round 9 (MFJGP) of the All Japan Motocross Championship, set to be held at Sportsland SUGO in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on October 28, 2018. By supporting his entry in the final round of the season, Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. aims to bring

  • New documentary movie released! Challenge, Ascend, Overcome. Youthful Passion to the World.

    Inside Yamaha’s R&D departments there is a climate that encourages spontaneous, independent research. There, efforts are being made to expand engineers’ horizons so that they can facilitate innovation with Yamaha style.
    This is the story of how one amateur trials-riding engineer got his colleagues involved in his passion, and went on to form a team that took on the challenge to be the best

  • Yamaha Motor: First Grand Prize for MOTOROiD at Global Design Awards Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2018

    IWATA, Monday, October 1, 2018—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announced today that its MOTOROiD - which has attracted much attention when exhibited at various events including the 45th Tokyo Motor Show 2017 - has received the Luminary award, the ultimate honor at the Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2018. This selection represents a first-ever for a Japanese company to receive this award.
    The Luminary awa

  • Yamaha Factory Racing Team to Enter Round 9 of the 2018 All Japan Road Race Championship Series, the 50th MFJGP, with Special-Color YZF-R1 20th Anniversary Livery

    September 29, 2018—The Yamaha Factory Racing Team will enter Round 9 of the 2018 All Japan Road Race Championship, the 50th MFJGP at Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture on November 3–4 with riders Katsuyuki Nakasuga and Kohta Nozane riding machines sporting special red and white coloring commemorating the YZF-R1’s 20th anniversary. The Yamaha Factory Racing Team has competed the 2018 All Japan Ro

  • Katsuyuki Nakasuga to Make Wild Card Entry at the Grand Prix of Japan Aboard a Special Red and White YZR-M1

    September 20, 2018—Katsuyuki Nakasuga will make a wild card entry in the Motul Grand Prix of Japan, Round 16 of the 2018 FIM MotoGP World Championship. He will ride a YZR-M1 with the same special anniversary red and white colors that the YZF-R1 sported at the Suzuka 8 Hours this year. He will ride for the Yamalube Yamaha Factory Racing team in the race at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Tochigi

  • AMA Motocross Competitor Yusuke Watanabe to Return to All Japan Motocross Championship at MFJGP

    September 10, 2018—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is proud to announce that Yusuke Watanabe, who this season contested the AMA 250cc Motocross Championship in the United States, will race at Round 9 (MFJGP) of the All Japan Motocross Championship to be held at Sportsland SUGO in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on October 28, 2018. He will ride for the 3D Racing team aboard a YZ250F in the IA2 class.
    Watanab

  • Riders from Malaysia, Indonesia and Japan Selected for Sixth Yamaha VR46 Master Camp

    September 6, 2018—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is proud to announce that the Yamaha VR46 Master Camp, a training programme in cooperation with Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Riders Academy to discover and develop young riding talent, will be held between September 12 and 16 of this year.
    The sixth edition of the Camp will feature riders from Asia, with two from Malaysia and one each from Indonesia and J

  • Aaron Plessinger Makes it Two for 2018 with AMA Motocross 250MX Title Win

    August 21, 2018—On August 18, 2018, At Round 11 of the AMA Motocross Championship, held at Budds Creek, Maryland, U.S.A., the Monster Energy/Yamalube/Star/Yamaha Racing Team’s Aaron Plessinger, who competed in this season’s 250MX class on the YZ250F, clinched his first-ever AMA Motocross championship one round before the final round of the season. This win brings him up to two titles for 2018, a

  • Yamaha’s Flagship Superbike　Yamaha Motor Newsletter (August 10, 2018 No. 66)

    Yamaha’s YZF-R1 flagship motorcycle has continued to set trends in the 1,000cc supersport category through advanced ideas and cutting-edge technologies since its introduction in 1998. Although the bike has not been drastically changed in 2018, the now highly developed 8th-generation R1 continues to notch up wins at racetracks across the globe.
    In Japan and in the U.K., special events f

  • Anupab Sarmoon to Deputise for Keisuke Maeda at Rounds 7 and 8 of All Japan JSB1000 Championship

    August 9, 2018—Yamalube Racing Team rider Keisuke Maeda, who competes in the premier JSB1000 class of the All Japan Road Race Championship, will withdraw from Round 6 (August 18–19 at Twin Ring Motegi), Round 7 (September 1–2 at the Autopolis International Racing Course) and Round 8 (September 29–30 at Okayama International Circuit) of the series due to injury. In line with this, Thai rider Anu

  • Yamaha Factory Racing Write History with Incredible Suzuka 8 Hours Victory

    July 29, 2018 ― Rising above what has been one of the most challenging “Coca-Cola” Suzuka 8 Hours weeks of recent years, the Yamaha Factory Racing Team delivered a heroic effort today to secure an incredible fourth consecutive victory in the iconic Endurance World Championship (EWC) finale. Fellow Yamaha competitors GMT94 Yamaha Official EWC Team came tantalisingly close to securing the 2017-20

  • Kenichi Kuroyama Finishes FIM Trial-E Cup as Runner-up with TY-E Electric Trials Bike

    July 23, 2018 – The second and final round of the FIM Trial-E Cup took place from July 21 to 22 alongside the TrialGP Belgium, Round 6 of the FIM Trial World Championship in Comblain-au-Pont, Belgium. The Yamaha Factory Racing Team’s Kenichi Kuroyama rode the all-new TY-E electric trials bike to 2nd place in Belgium. Kuroyama, a regular competitor in the All Japan Trial Championship, was tip

  • Kenichi Kuroyama Wins First Round of FIM Trial-E Cup on TY-E Electric Trials Bike

    July 17, 2018 – The first of two rounds of the FIM Trial-E Cup took place from July 14 to 15 alongside the TrialGP France, Round 5 of the FIM Trial World Championship in Auron, France, where the Yamaha Factory Racing Team’s Kenichi Kuroyama rode the all-new TY-E electric trials bike to a brilliant win in the machine’s competition debut. Kuroyama and the TY-E finished the qualifying session o

  • The TY-E Electric Trials Bike Takes on the World　Yamaha Motor Newsletter (July 5, 2018 No.65)

    Amid the progress seen with hybrid and fully electric cars, Yamaha Motor was quick to blaze a new trail with the release of the Passol compact electric scooter in 2002. Yamaha also continues to sell the E-Vino electric scooter and promote its use while working on the next step in the evolution of electric vehicles.
    Some of the central issues in developing electric vehicles (EVs) ar

  • Yamaha Aiming for Record Fourth Straight Race Win and Second Consecutive EWC Title at 41st “Coca-Cola” Suzuka 8 Hours

    June 16, 2018—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announced the team line-up for this year’s 41st “Coca-Cola” Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Road Race, set to take place from July 26th - 29th at the legendary Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture, Japan. The Yamaha Factory Racing Team will return to challenge for a record-breaking fourth consecutive Suzuka victory. They will be contesting alongside the Endurance World

  • 2017 All Japan Champ Yusuke Watanabe to Enter　2018 AMA 250cc Motocross Championship

    May 18, 2018 – 2017 All Japan Motocross IA2 Champion and Yamaha rider Yusuke Watanabe will soon begin his challenge of racing in the United States in the AMA 250cc Motocross Championship that kicks off on May 19, 2018. The 22-year-old is set to race as a member of the 3D Racing team supported by group company Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. The AMA Motocross series is home to some of the w

  • Aaron Plessinger Wins His First Championship with AMA Supercross 250SX West Title

    May 15, 2018 – On May 5, 2018 at the finale of the 10-round AMA Supercross 250SX West Championship season held in Las Vegas, Nevada, Monster Energy/Yamalube/Star/Yamaha Racing’s Aaron Plessinger won his first-ever championship, clinching the title aboard the YZ250F.
    Plessinger made his AMA debut in the 250SX West class in 2015, taking an impressive 5th overall in his rookie season. In 2016

  • Riders from Around the Globe Selected as Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Enters Third Year

    April 27, 2018—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is proud to announce that the Yamaha VR46 Master Camp, a training programme run since 2016 in cooperation with Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Riders Academy to discover and develop young riding talent, will be held once again in July and September of this year.
    The fifth edition of the Camp in July will see the first Americans participate, with two riders racin

  • Yamaha and Rossi Confirm Two-Year Contract Extension

    March 15, 2018— Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is delighted to announce that it will continue its strong relationship with nine-time World Champion and living MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi, having signed a new two-year agreement with Yamaha’s factory team for the 2019 and 2020 MotoGP seasons aboard the Yamaha YZR-M1.
    The combination of the Doctor and the YZR-M1 has led to many milestones in the p

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