Yamaha to line up MotoGP and WorldSBK stars at Suzuka 8 Hours

2025 Suzuka 8 Hours

This 12 months marks the seventieth anniversary of the founding of Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd on the first of July, 1955, with the producer getting into and successful the third Mount Fuji ascent race in 1955 on the 125cc YA-1, their first-ever manufacturing bike, simply ten days later.

To commemorate this milestone, 2025 will witness the return of the Yamaha Racing Workforce, the official identify for the manufacturing unit workforce through the Nineteen Nineties, on the forty sixth version of the Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race, Spherical 3 of the 2025 FIM Endurance World Championship.

Yamaha Manufacturing facility Racing Workforce – 2018 Suzuka 8 Hour winners

A full official Yamaha Manufacturing facility Workforce final competed on the Suzuka 8 Hours in 2019 and has recorded a complete of eight victories, with the most recent being in 2018 when the workforce accomplished a run of 4 consecutive wins. Spearheading the workforce’s assault shall be a rider who performed an integral half in these 4 victories in a row, 12x All Japan Street Race JSB1000 Champion Katsuyuki Nakasuga.

The remainder of the workforce will include two riders chosen from Yamaha’s present crop of MotoGP and WorldSBK riders, with an announcement as to who these riders shall be anticipated to observe shortly.

*The YZF-R1 proven is for illustrative functions solely and was created primarily based on the bottom racebike.

The workforce will race a specifically liveried R1, adorned with the normal #21 and that includes a putting purple and white color scheme, first utilized by Yamaha within the 1964 FIM Street Racing World Championship and impressed by the 1999 YZF-R7 restricted version raced at Suzuka that 12 months.

The Yamaha Racing Workforce emblem can even replicate this theme and relies on the one utilized by the manufacturing unit workforce within the late Nineteen Nineties, whereas the clothes worn by the workforce can even function designs from that point.

Constructing on the connection to that period much more, the workforce shall be managed by Wataru Yoshikawa, who rode the YZF-R7 on the 1999 Suzuka 8 Hours and was one in all Yamaha’s main riders within the Nineteen Nineties, successful two All Japan Street Racing JSB1000 Championships whereas additionally competing in WorldSBK and MotoGP.

The Yamaha Racing Workforce will formally return to motion on the forty sixth Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race on Friday, the first of August, when observe and qualifying get underway, forward of the normal High Ten Trial on Saturday and the race on Sunday.