R1M OWNERS JOINED ON TRACK BY VALENTINO ROSSI AS THE YAMAHA RACING EXPERIENCE REACHES NEW HEIGHTS IN 2024
2024 noticed the Yamaha Racing Expertise (YRE) scale new heights as R1M homeowners had been joined on observe on the two-day occasion by Yamaha Racing royalty, together with nine-times Grand Prix World Champion Valentino Rossi.
Held on the iconic Circuito de Jerez Angel Nieto, Spain, the 2024 YRE proved to be a purely unforgettable expertise for over 100 R1M, R1 GYTR PRO twenty fifth Anniversary homeowners and choose clients of our GYTR PRO Outlets with high-specification R1s, who had been in a position to share the observe with ‘The Physician’ and different Yamaha Racing stars.
Yamaha’s brace of WorldSBK riders had been additionally current, together with six-time World Champion Jonathan Rea and Pata Prometeon Yamaha team-mate Andrea Locatelli, plus Dominique Aegerter, Bradley Ray and Philipp Oettl, and reigning Endurance World Champions Niccolò Canepa, Marvin Fritz and Karel Hanika and Robin Mulhauser.
The Yamaha homeowners, who travelled to Jerez from throughout Europe, loved a complete observe programme, taking to the circuit to take pleasure in their CP4-powered machine within the blistering Andalusian sunshine.
The occasion noticed a number of historic moments, together with the primary R1 GYTR PRO twenty fifth Anniversary clients taking their new, WorldSBK-inspired machines on observe for the very first time. The exact same Yamaha Motor Europe Motorsport Analysis & Growth engineers who designed and constructed the bike had been additionally available for technical recommendation and help.
Freed from cost to 2024 R1M and R1 GYTR PRO twenty fifth Anniversary homeowners, this immersive racing expertise introduced clients into the guts of Yamaha’s Racing exercise, with riders, together with Rossi, available for selfies and autographs all through the occasion, together with at an unique Buyer Dinner occasion on the Wednesday night on the gorgeous Tio Pepe Vineyard.
Rossi rode his placing and distinctive R1 GYTR PRO, which was introduced to him by Yamaha Motor Europe when he retired from MotoGP in 2021, whereas the WorldSBK stars accomplished demonstration laps on their full WorldSBK-spec R1s with stand-up wheelies and high-speed thrills.
The presence of the Yamaha Racing Heritage Membership exemplified Yamaha’s racing DNA, with these current handled to a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle as among the star-studded line-up took to the observe on among the most iconic race machines of Yamaha’s previous.
This included Valentino Rossi, who jumped on the probability to experience Eddie Lawson’s 1986 championship-winning YZR500 – the primary time he had ridden a 500cc GP bike since MotoGP switched to the four-stroke period in 2002.
Three-time Grand Prix World Champion Luca Cadalora joined Rossi on observe on his 1990 YZR250. Different machines on show included three TZ750s, and two gorgeous replicas of the 2001 YZR500 0WL9 – the final of the 500cc period which had been taken to the observe by Jonathan Rea, Andrea Locatelli and Niccolò Canepa in addition to the homeowners of the machines.
“I’ve by no means been to an occasion like this in my entire life,” commented Pata Prometeon Yamaha rider Jonathan Rea. “The entire occasion, from begin to end, affords superior alternatives for everybody right here. Even for me as a racer, being on observe with Valentino was an unbelievable expertise! The R1M homeowners have been unbelievable, and I hope all of them had as a lot of time as I did!”
“That is simply the perfect Yamaha Racing Expertise I’ve been to,” Rea’s team-mate Locatelli added. “The place else are you able to get an expertise like this? It isn’t doable, from being on observe with everybody to the dinner to the meet and greet classes, the entire occasion affords folks an ideal expertise from begin to end.”
The YRE is exclusive in that. It brings collectively R1M homeowners and Yamaha’s skilled racers who, in parallel with chasing world championship success, play a big position within the growth of an increasing vary of GYTR efficiency components for the R1. By means of an in depth community of GYTR PRO Outlets, Yamaha stays dedicated to supporting clients who race Yamaha’s flagship Supersport mannequin or utilise it as the final word observe instrument.
