Yamaha Motor Racing

Yamaha Motor Racing

Infobox Grand Prix motorcycle team
Short_name=Yamaha Motor Racing
Logo=
Last_season=2008
Long_name=FIAT Yamaha Team
Base=flagicon|Italy Gerno di Lesmo, Italy
Principal=Davide Brivio
Riders=46 Valentino Rossi
48 Jorge Lorenzo
Motorcycle=Yamaha YZR-M1
Tyres=Bridgestone
Michelin
Riders_champ= 3
2004 Valentino Rossi
2005 Valentino Rossi
2008 Valentino Rossi

Yamaha Motor Racing is the official factory team of Yamaha in MotoGP. The team currently compete under the name of Fiat Yamaha. It founded in 1999 following the retirement of Wayne Rainey, who had run a Factory supported team in the 500 cc class for the previous two years. [cite web|url=http://www.yamaha-racing.com/Racing/motogp/rider_team/fyt.jsp|title=www.yamaha-racing.com/Racing/motogp/rider_team/fyt.jsp ] The team was originally based in the Netherlands but was relocated in Italy in 2002.

Max Biaggi and Carlos Checa raced for the team from 1999 to 2002. Max Biaggi achieved a total of 9 race wins in that period, first riding the Yamaha YZR500 and later the Yamaha YZR-M1 in 2002.

In 2003, Checa was joined by Marco Melandri, the team had an average season with no wins or podiums.

For 2004 Valentino Rossi joined Carlos Checa in the team. Rossi got 9 wins and won the championship.

Colin Edwards joined the team for 2005. Rossi once again won the championship and got 11 wins.

Both riders stayed with the team for 2006. Rossi got 5 wins and finished 2nd in the championship.

For the 2007 season both riders remained with the team riding the new 800cc Yamaha YZR-M1. Rossi got 4 wins and finished the season 3rd overall.

For 2008, multi Moto GP world champion Valentino Rossi is joined by double 250cc champion Jorge Lorenzo. Valentino Rossi will be fighting for the 2008 title with Bridgestone tyres while Jorge Lorenzo will be using Michelin. Yamaha have also confirmed that they will be using different pit boxes in order to secure the use of both tyre manufactures in the same garage, although the team will be operating as one. This is the first time Yamaha team will be operating from different pit boxes

MotoGP results (2005 onwards)

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References

External links

* [http://www.yamaha-racing.com/motogp yamaha-racing.com/motogp] Official website


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