Luca Scassa took the opening round win at Phillip Island for the World Supersport class, but not by much. Scassa edged out Broc Parkes by the thinnest of margins, winning by .09 seconds. Scassa, riding for the ParkinGo Yamaha team, gave Yamaha a warm welcome back to the World Supersport series. Yamaha helped Cal Crutchlow [...]
The Yamaha World Superbike team has just unveiled the team livery for the 2011 season. Marco Melandri, Eugene Laverty, and the Yamaha R1 will be dressed in blue and white this year. The new design features a Yamaha blue corporate racing color, and was inspired “from both the famous Yamaha speed block design and also [...]
Yamaha’s FZ8 has just recently made the journey over the pond to the United States, but now Yamaha could be releasing an updated version of the FZ8. The FZ8R. Not much is known about the FZ8R, besides the fact that it exists. The FZ8R will be a sportier version of the FZ8, and probably won’t [...]
Yamaha Motor Company announced recently that their European operations will once again endure a factory closure, this time in Spain. The Japanese company has said that up to 80% of the jobs at the plant will be affected by the shuttering. In 2009, Yamaha closed their Italian plant as a direct result of the market [...]
Yamaha is about to begin its 50th year in GP racing, and with Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies racing around the track, it could be a celebratory year. Yamaha, which raced its first Grand Prix race in 1961 at the French GP, has a few special events planned for the 2011 season. Yamaha will be [...]
Yamaha is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, and they are bringing some legendary riders and some classic machinery to the Isle of Man. The Yamaha Classic Race Team will partake in the parade this year at the Isle of Man, which is also celebrating a big anniversary. The Isle of Man will be celebrating [...]
After a record breaking 2010 MotoGP season, Jorge Lorenzo earned the number 1 plate. Lorenzo confirmed today that he will be riding with the coveted number one plate, and revealed a logo which incorporates his initials J and L into the number 1 design. “Today I can reveal my No 1,” said Jorge Lorenzo. “I [...]
A Special version of the Yamaha R1 outfitted with: Ohlins Road and Track forks – Superbike suspension performance for your street or track machine. Bolt-on fork kits feature 43mm upside-down forks with inner steel legs and polished titanium nitride surfaces for minimal friction losses. Fully adjustable rebound, compression damping and spring preload; all adjustments can [...]
If you are not familiar with the Yamaha concept machine known as the Tesseract, take a quick second and run a search using your favorite Internet tool. Once located, you will see a four-wheeled motorcycle which looks as if it could transform into an arse-kicking robot or carry a comic book superhero to the rescue. [...]
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