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Season's Greetings from Yamaha

17 April, 2020
After last year’s Valentino Rossi decked out in Santa Claus garb, this year we’ve got world champs Ben Spies, Valentino Rossi, and James “Bubba” Stewart from the Yamaha ‘family’ sending us their seasons greetings. And yes, Rossi holding another cat,…

Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday Theory doesn't work for Yamaha

16 April, 2020
Yamaha took three world titles on Sunday, Ben Spies in WSBK, Valentino Rossi in MotoGP and Cal Crutchlow in Supersport and that’s not counting James Stewart’s World Supercross title or Leon Camier’s title in BSB, but Yamaha is still deeply…

Ben Spies reveals all his winning secrets

16 April, 2020
Here’s another awesome and funny video from Yamaha USA, starring WSBK sensation and points leader Ben Spies. ‘Elbowz’ spills the beans and lets everyone know his amazing and unbelievable secret of learning the layout of unknown tracks so fast, what…

Livio Suppo was right, Ben Spies to Wildcard at Valencia

16 April, 2020
Ducati’s Livio Suppo was right, when he anticipated on Griglia di Partenza last Thursday, Yamaha has officially confirmed that Ben Spies will be racing in the last MotoGP race of the season at Valencia.Yamaha will be sending a pair of…

SBK Portimao test results

15 April, 2020
The Ducati Sterilgarda Go Eleven Team set the fastest lap time with new comer in World Superbike Shane Byrne. The British champion rode the Ducati to a best lap time of 1 min 43.6 seconds on Wednesday at the Portimao…

Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden at 2013 Wrooom

15 April, 2020
The 23rd edition of Wrooom Press Ski Meeting officially opened today at Madonna di Campiglio and Ducati’s two factory riders, Nicky Hayden and Andrea Dovizioso arrived at the ski resort on an Audi to launch hopefully what will be more…

Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies talk about Motegi GP

14 April, 2020
While Jorge Lorenzo finished second ahead of Casey Stoner and reduced the standings distance to forty points at the Motegi GP, the reigning World Champion has conceded that keeping the title is ‘almost impossible’ now that there are only three…

Yamaha debuts new Race-Blue livery for Misano GP

14 April, 2020
The Yamaha Factory Racing Team will run a special ‘Race-Blu’ livery for the Misano and Aragon Grand Prix race weekends. The unique livery, designed by Italian designer Aldo Drudi, features a contrasting combination of Yamaha Blue and matt grey bodywork,…

Ben Spies 2011 season highlight video

14 April, 2020
Already missing MotoGP action? How about this highlight video that covers Ben Spies’ second year in the premier class riding the Yamaha factory M1.‘Elbowz’ finished 4th in the overall standings and climbed up on the podium four times in 2011,…

Ben Spies and Nicky Hayden at COTA for Ducati Panigale R launch

14 April, 2020
Ducati’s Nicky Hayden and Pramac’s Ben Spies were at the Circuit of the America’s for the manufacturer’s US launch of the 1199 Panigale R, the extreme racing version of the Italian company’s Superbike with its four levels of adjustable swingarm…

Ducati to field the GP12 at Sepang test

14 April, 2020
The 2013 Wrooom Formula 1 and MotoGP team presentation event will be kicking off next week (January 13th to the 20th) at Madonna del Campiglio and it will also officially launch the new ‘Ducaudi’ era with former BMW manager Bernhard…

WSBK – Tom Sykes confirmed in Kawasaki

14 April, 2020
Tom Sykes has confirmed that he’ll be riding for the Kawasaki World Superbike team next year and will partner Chris Vermeulen in the all new 2010 team line up.The British rider who’s currently 8th in the standings, has had a…

Ben Spies: "At least we’ve won a race now!"

13 April, 2020
After a very weak start to the season riding the factory Yamaha and loosing a lot confidence after several crashes, but Ben Spies finally broke his duck today at Assen, to give us one of his stellar performances that many…

Yamaha MotoGP team starts livery hype (w/video)

13 April, 2020
If Ducati is hyping the presentation of the Desmosedici GP12 next Monday, Yamaha is doing the same for the 2012 YZR-M1 livery, that will be officially presented during the last pre-season MotoGP tests at Jerez de la Frontera March 23-25,…

MotoGP Indianapolis: Warm-up sees Lorenzo on top

13 April, 2020
This morning’s twenty minute warm-up practice at Indianapolis saw Jorge Lorenzo regain the command of the time charts. The Spaniard put in best lap of 1′40″482 that propelled him ahead of the rest of the field.Lorenzo was followed by Dani…

As if We didn't Know It: Ben Spies to MotoGP in 2010

13 April, 2020
The Spies story if finally over. After a couple of weeks of speculation regarding in which Championship series Ben Spies would be really racing for in 2010. Yamaha has officially announced today that Ben Spies will be moving to MotoGP…

Yamaha World Superbike Replica 2009 clothing line

13 April, 2020
Yamaha Motor Europe has announced that the World Superbike Team Replica clothing line is available for 2009. The clothing is characterised by the blue and black livery of official sponsors.The Yamaha WSBK Team clothing line is the exact copy of…

Ben Spies leads in FP1 at Indianapolis

13 April, 2020
It was a warm and sunny morning for MotoGP’s first free practice on the newly resurfaced Indianapolis and since the track had to be rubbered, lap times were a little less than 4 seconds slower than last year and Ben…

Ducati's Paolo Ciabatti: Ben Spies is a very talented rider

13 April, 2020
Probably the biggest disappointment in the last pre-season test at Jerez was Ben Spies, with his 18th best time, two seconds off the pace and behind five CRT riders.The new Pramac Ducati rider seems to be still struggling with shoulder…

Suzuki rules out wildcard races in 2013

12 April, 2020
After leaving MotoGP at the end of 2011, Suzuki targeted their return in 2014 and when Cycle World published last May the first images of the brand new prototype machine (with a redesigned engine) testing at Sugo, hopes were raised…

Ben Spies and Jorge Lorenzo talk about day 2 at Sepang

12 April, 2020
Yamaha Factory riders Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies continued to show promising form today in the second day of the Sepang test, the first official 1000cc MotoGP test of 2012. Having spent yesterday getting back into the rhythm of riding,…

Ben Spies and Colin Edwards Want Upgrades from Yamaha

11 April, 2020
In OTT’s video the other day Ben Spies revealed that he is riding a Yamaha M1 2009 chassis spec and that the team hasn’t received and upgrades this year and now the two riders have decided to take the situation…