On the occasion of the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the firm of the fingerboard, this has officially announced the return of the Yamaha Rank Team Las Emblematic 8 hours of Suzuka, proof that will be held From August 1 to 3 In the well -known Japanese layout. All this after a 5 -year break in which the brand managed to win the second place in the drawer in the 2019 season.
A year earlier, in 2018, he stood with what was his last victory in the legendary resistance test. With a total of 8 victories throughout the 45 editions held to date, the Yamaha Racing Team will seek to rise again to the top of the podium and thus close the circle seven decades of history. It was in 1955 when Yamaha participated and won the third ascent race to Mount Fuji in 1955 with the Ya-1 of 125 cc, his first production motorcycle, just ten days later.
The announcement of the return of the Yamaha Racing Team was held on the occasion of the Yamaha Motor Sports Press Conference, held yesterday in the Meiji Yasuda Seimei building in Marunouchi, Tokyo. The objective of the Yamaha racing team in the 8 hours of Suzuka is “Offering Kando, a Japanese word that designates simultaneous feelings of deep satisfaction and intense emotion we experience when we find some exceptional value, raising a challenge to win this historical career and provide emotion to fans who look around the world”as they themselves have declared.
The Yamaha Racing Team and Nakasuga for the 9th Victoria
Yamaha for the last time in the 8 hours of Suzuka in 2019 and has achieved a total of eight victories, the last in 2018, when the team completed a streak of four consecutive wins.
Heading the team’s offensive will be a key pilot in those four consecutive victories, Katsuyuki Nakasugatwelve times champion of the All Japan Road Race JSB1000. The rest of the team will consist of two selected pilots among the current generation of Yamaha pilots in MotoGP and Worldsbk, whose announcement will be made soon.
The Yamaha Racing Team will compete with an R1 with a special decoration, adorned with the traditional #21 and with a striking scheme of red and white colors, first used by Yamaha in the World FIM road racing championship of 1964 and inspired by the exclusive YZF-R7 of 1999 that ran in Suzuka that year.
The Yamaha Racing Team logo will also reflect this topic and is based on the fact used by the factory equipment at the end of the 1990s, while the equipment that the team will use will also be inspired by the designs of that time.
The team will be led by Wataru Yoshikawa, who piloted the YZF-R7 in the 1999 Suzuka hours of Suzuka and was one of Yamaha’s main pilots in the 1990s, winning two All Japan Road Racing JSB1000 championships, while also competing in Worldsbk and MotoGP.
The Yamaha Racing Team will officially return to action on Friday, August 1, when practices and classification begin, before the traditional test of the ten best on Saturday and the race on Sunday.
