Yamaha officially launch 2025 WorldSBK campaign wi...

WorldSBK 2025

Yamaha marketing campaign launch

An unchanged rider line-up for each the contemporary look Pata Maxus Yamaha WorldSBK Official Crew and GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Crew once more sees 4 world champions set to tackle WorldSBK 2025 aboard the Yamaha YZF-R1M.

2025 marks the tenth yr of collaboration between Pata Snack, Yamaha Motor Europe and the Crescent Yamaha workforce on the WorldSBK undertaking, which has seen a large number of success over the previous decade together with victory within the 2021 rider, workforce and producer championships.

Six-time world champion Jonathan Rea returns for a second season with the official Yamaha workforce. with a yr of studying underneath his belt with the R1 and the broader workforce, 37-year-old Rea is decided to make a step ahead in 2025, seeking to return to the sharp finish and add to a sterling document that has already secured his place within the document books as probably the most profitable rider in WorldSBK historical past.

The Northern Irishman is as soon as once more joined within the workforce by 2020 Supersport world champion Andrea Locatelli, who might be seeking to consolidate progress made in 2024 to seek for additional podium success. The 28-year-old secured 5 podium finishes in 2024, together with coming tantalisingly near a maiden WorldSBK victory within the season opener at Phillip Island.

Lining up with GYTR GRT Yamaha for the third consecutive yr, Remy Gardner and Dominique Aegerter are fired up and raring to go as the brand new marketing campaign will get underway.

Gardner, who gained the Moto2 World Championship in 2021, achieved his maiden WorldSBK podium in 2024 and might be seeking to struggle for rostrums extra persistently in 2025. After a 2024 season blighted by sickness and harm, two-times Supersport World Champion Aegerter might be eager to return to the shape that noticed him combating repeatedly within the high six in 2023.

Forward of the ultimate European take a look at in Portimão, the covers have come off the R1 machines Rea, Locatelli, Gardner and Aegerter will marketing campaign in 2025.

Pata Snack returns because the title sponsor of Yamaha’s official WorldSBK squad for a tenth consecutive season, with their distinctive emblem not solely that includes prominently on the bikes of the official workforce, but additionally the R1s campaigned by the GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Crew. Pata’s valued partnership with Yamaha extends all through the lessons because the title sponsor of the Pata Yamaha Ten Kate WorldSSP Supported Crew.

Harris MAXUS, a model of the main industrial automobile distribution firm within the UK and Eire, the Harris Group, joins the Official Yamaha WorldSBK Crew as co-title companion for the 2025 and 2026 seasons.

Elsewhere on the grid, a fifth world champion joins Yamaha’s ranks in WorldSBK for 2025 because the Yamaha MotoXRacing Crew increase to a two-rider effort for the upcoming season, fielding 2014 Moto2 World Champion Esteve ‘Tito’ Rabat alongside Turkish younger gun and former Yamaha BLU CRU Rider, Bahattin Sofuoğlu, who is about to make his WorldSBK debut within the coming season.

Pata Maxus Yamaha are joined on observe on the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve by GYTR GRT Yamaha and Yamaha MotoxRacing for a ultimate European pre-season take a look at (27-29 January) earlier than flying to Australia subsequent month. As soon as ‘down underneath’, groups will endure one ultimate pre-season take a look at on the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit (17-18 February) earlier than the season’s first races get underway between 21-23 February.

Andrea Dosoli – Yamaha Motor Europe, Motorsport, Division Supervisor

“2025 marks a major milestone for Yamaha as we have a good time ten years since our return to the FIM Superbike World Championship in 2016, alongside a decade of invaluable partnership with Pata Snack. Whereas our ends in 2024 fell in need of expectations, the dedication and collaborative effort from our engineers, the broader YME administration workforce, our riders and our groups has been unwavering. Over the winter, everybody has been working laborious to make a step ahead for 2025 and inspiring progress in winter testing fuels our confidence as we put together for one more yr of racing. The competitors in WorldSBK is at a extremely excessive degree, so we’re excited for one more yr of shut, thrilling battles on observe.”

Niccolò Canepa – Yamaha Motor Europe, Motorsport, Highway Racing Sporting Supervisor

“It’s a formidable statistic to have 5 world champions on the R1 as we head into WorldSBK 2025. Jonathan’s profession achievements converse for themselves as he’s probably the most profitable rider in WorldSBK historical past. Whereas final season introduced challenges for him, his dedication and resilience are second to none and a yr of expertise with the R1 will undoubtedly show essential. Andrea enters his fifth season with Yamaha in WorldSBK, having already demonstrated his means to compete on the entrance. We’re assured he’ll proceed to construct on his spectacular performances.

“Consistency is vastly essential in racing, and with Remy Gardner and Dominique Aegerter persevering with with the GYTR GRT Yamaha Crew for a 3rd consecutive season, the workforce is well-positioned to hit the bottom operating. Each riders have proven nice promise within the final two years

“We’re additionally excited to see the Yamaha MotoxRacing Crew increase to 2 bikes on the 2025 WorldSBK grid, that includes the skilled 2014 Moto2 World Champion Tito Rabat and the dynamic Turkish expertise Bahattin Sofuoğlu.”

The opening spherical of the 2025 Motul FIM Superbike World Championship will get underway at Phillip Island on February 21. Organisers have confirmed that the season opener will feature mandatory pit stops due to tyre wear issues on the notoriously abrasive Phillip Island track surface.

2025 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship Calendar