August 6, 2021—Nine-time World Champion and Grand Prix racing legend Valentino Rossi has announced his retirement as a MotoGP rider after the end of the 2021 season. Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and Yamaha Motor Racing want to thank Rossi for the – still ongoing – 16 fantastic years of partnership. They plan to maintain a close working relationship with the Italian after 2021 through various collabor
Making factories smarter by using digital data to transform the work processes at manufacturing sites, improve quality, and enhance productivity is a movement underway at manufacturing and production facilities across a wide range of industries.
Yamaha Motor is no exception and is moving forward with its own smart factory initiatives by incorporating proprietary technologies. In this issue, w
July 29, 2021—PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team welcomes Cal Crutchlow to the Malaysian squad as stand-in for Franco Morbidelli while the Italian rider continues his recovery from left knee surgery.
Crutchlow will take part in the two Grands Prix in Austria, held at Spielberg, and the BritishGP at Silverstone – his home race.
Crutchlow is no stranger to Yamaha MotoGP machinery, having start
July 19, 2021—On July 18, 2021, Round 5 of the 2021 All Japan Road Race Championship was held at Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture, Japan, as the 53rd Motorcycle Federation of Japan Grand Prix (MFJGP). The Yamaha Factory Racing Team’s Katsuyuki Nakasuga took the win in Race 2 in dominating style with his YZF-R1, thereby clinching the tenth JSB1000 premier-class title of his career.
Since Nakasug
The SuperJet is Yamaha’s brand-new stand-up personal watercraft (PWC), and while these watercraft retain a strong core following for the fun they provide once mastered, stand-up PWCs in general do not comprise a large proportion of the market’s overall demand. Driven by the firm belief that such a uniquely Yamaha model should never disappear from the WaveRunner lineup, the SuperJet was redesigne
July 2, 2021—Yamaha Motor Europe is delighted to announce a new two-year contract extension for FIM Superbike World Championship title contender and multiple race-winner Toprak Razgatlıoğlu.
After a strong first season aboard the Yamaha R1 in 2020, where Razgatlıoğlu won on his first outing at Phillip Island and scored two further victories on his way to fourth in the series standings, the Turk
June 28, 2021—Yamaha and Maverick Viñales have mutually decided to terminate their current 2021-2022 agreement at the close of this season.
Following Maverick Viñales’ request, Yamaha have agreed to put an early end to their current two-year contract. Currently in their fifth season together, they mutually decided to go their separate ways after this year.
Both parties have committed to put
Yamaha Motor developed and released the world’s first electrically power-assisted bicycle (e-Bike) in 1993. At the time, it was the elderly that recognized the value and appeal of this revolutionary new product and purchased it, becoming early adopters. In Japan today, the number of seniors voluntarily relinquishing their driver’s licenses is on the rise, and e-Bikes are drawing greater attentio
Yamaha Motor has developed the "YRFS (Yamaha Riding Feedback System)" that visualizes skills and provides feedback for the purpose of helping riders improve their riding ability, with the operation beginning at the safe riding awareness initiative, the YRA (Yamaha Riding Academy).
Starting with Japan, we plan to gradually introduce the program to riding instruction sites in countries such
May 10, 2021—The 2021 AMA Supercross Championship closed out the season in the 250SX class with the Dave Coombs Sr. 250SX East/West Showdown in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Monster Energy Star Yamaha Racing 250 Team riders Colt Nichols in the East division and Justin Cooper in the West division were both able to secure their first-ever championship wins on the YZ250F.
This is the first time
Within Yamaha Motor’s R&D departments exists an in-house initiative called “Evolving R&D,” commonly referred to internally as the “5% Rule.” Aimed at encouraging our engineers to think more independently toward our
Monozukuri, this initiative allows engineers to spend 5% of their working hours on their own research projects.
By applying themselves to their own R&D endeavors
March 11, 2021 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. joined the premier series of motorcycle road racing in 1961, making 2021 our 60th anniversary in the Grand Prix World Championship. To mark the occasion, we revealed to the world a special YZR-M1 in commemorative 60th anniversary colours at MotoGP’s pre-season Official Test in Qatar ridden by Yamaha test rider Cal Crutchlow.
The livery adorning this YZ
