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 b
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 Japa
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
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.
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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
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 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
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
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
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
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 sessi
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
