YAMAHA MOTORSPORTS
Yamaha Motor Company Limited is a Japanese manufacturer of motorcycles, marine products such as boats and outboard motors, and other motorized products. The company was established in 1955 upon separation from Yamaha Corporation (however Yamaha Corporation is still the largest shareholder with 12.21%, as of June 30, 2014), and is headquartered in Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. The company conducts development, production and marketing operations through 109 consolidated subsidiaries as of 2012.
Three-time Grand Championship winner Kenny Roberts at the 1981 German Grand Prix.
By
1980 the combination of consumer preference and environmental
regulation made four strokes increasingly popular. Suzuki ended
production of their GT two stroke series,
including the flagship water-cooled two-stroke 750cc GT-750 in 1977.
Kawasaki, who had considerable success throughout the 1970s with their two-stroke triples of
250cc, 350cc, 500cc and 750cc ended production of road-going two
strokes in 1980. Yamaha bucked this trend and continued to refine and
sell two-strokes for the street into the 1980s. These bikes were
performance oriented, water-cooled twin cylinder machines, designed to
achieve excellent performance taking advantage of the lower weight of
two strokes. The RZ-250 of 1980 was the progenitor of this series. The RZ-350,
the largest displacement model, was a popular hot-rod bike of the 1980s
and continued to be sold in some countries into the early 1990s.
MOTOGP
YAMAHA FACTORY RACING
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Rider 1 : VALENTINO ROSSI (THE DOCTOR)
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Rider no. : 46
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Team : Movistar Yamaha MotoGP
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Birth : 16/Feb/1979 ( Italy )
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Height: 182 cm
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Weight : 65 kg171 cm
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Rider 2 : MAVERICK VINALES
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Rider no. : 25
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Team : Movistar Yamaha MotoGP
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Birth : 19/Feb/1995 ( Chile )
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Height : 171 cm
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Weight : 64 kg