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Yamaha Motor New Zealand Media Statement13.06.22   Although muddy conditions saw the performances of the PWR Yamaha team’s three riders slip slightly at the final New Zealand Endurance Championship round yesterday, they still finished amongst the top seven overall.   The team’s youngest member Wil Yeoman (17) finished the highest up the pack in 3rd outright for the series after the Martinborough-based tests and won his E2 class.   Taupo’s Yeoman says he started off strongly, placing 2nd and 1st in yesterday’s opening terrain tests.   “After an error in the third test, my time was way off, then test...

The team at Bayride watched and cheered for Aleix and Aprilia on the momentous win at Argentina's MotoGP race on Termas de Río Hondo track. This is the bulletin released by Aprilia Racing:  The Aprilia Racing technicians leaning out over the wall, the tears of Aleix, the long embraces between the rider and Massimo Rivola, Maverick running to congratulate and start off the celebrations. An irrepressible joy that urges us to search for the face of someone that confirms it’s really happening… If it’s a dream, please don’t wake us up! Let us tell you: it’s all true! Finally this victory, a true victory, has arrived! Aprilia triumphed in Argentina thanks to Aleix Espargaró,...

Yamaha Motor New Zealand Race Report  28.02.22   The PWR Yamaha team had a strong start to the four-round 2022 New Zealand Cross Country Championship with Tommy Watts (featured Image) , Wil Yeoman and satellite rider Charlotte Russ winning their classes yesterday.   Napier-based, former Wairoa rider Watts has a target on his back as the defending champion and although he gave it everything he had on his YZ250FX, he couldn’t catch overall winner James Scott by the three-hour race’s end. The two frontrunners just increased their pace every 30-minute lap at Holly Farm near Marton, with Scott holding onto...

  Altherm JCR Yamaha Media Statement 22.02.22 The newest and youngest Altherm JCR Yamaha motocross team recruit Waitoki's Cole Davies (feature photo) made a stunning debut at the Waikato Motocross Championships, winning the MX125 class, aged only 14-years-old.   Although his team manager Josh Coppins was unable to attend the twice-postponed event hosted by the North King Country Motorcycle Club on Saturday due to prior commitments, he was most impressed with Davies’ results.   “Although this is Cole’s first race meeting for the team, he has been riding for us for about eight months. This is his first actual event...

Altherm JCR Yamaha Media Statement 14.02.22 The inaugural Yamaha Motor New Zealand (YMNZ) Sprint Races were the ultimate expression of Kiwi support for Altherm JCR Yamaha rider Cormac Buchanan. Feature photo : Altherm JCR Yamaha’s up-coming star Cormac Buchanan #1 aced the weekend, winning all eight races and setting a new lap record at Teretonga Park over the Yamaha Motor New Zealand Sprint Races  Held at his home track of Teretonga Park, in Invercargill, as a fundraiser for Buchanan’s up-coming dual European campaigns, the Yamaha-sponsored event was the perfect send-off for the young Southlander, who is set to take on the...