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Saturday evening at the historic Maggiora circuit for the Italian Grand Prix saw the brand new 2014 YZ450F and 250F unveiled to the international press and many local fans with the factory Monster Energy team given the honours of uncovering the progressive new technology for the first time in Europe.

A rugged new multi-purpose Recreational Off-highway Vehicle (ROV)

Monster Energy Yamaha will welcome former Grand Prix winner and current Australian MX1 Motocross Championship contender Billy Mackenzie back to the throes of the FIM series this weekend. The 29 year old Scot will substitute the injured Steven Frossard and steer the factory YZ450FM at Maggiora for the Grand Prix of Italy and round nine of seventeen in the 2013 competition.

Sam Lowes delivered his fourth consecutive World Supersport victory yesterday on his Yakhnich Yamaha Motorsport YZF-R6 at the Portimao Circuit in Portugal for round six of the 2013 Championship. Lowes had again made his intentions clear early in the weekend, flying to his fifth pole position start of the season in qualifying, his tenth career pole. Only two other riders were able to get within a second of the Yamaha's qualifying time and even then second placed rider Kenan Sofuoglu was...

The Yamaha YZF-R1 and YZF-R6 continues to be the machine to beat in road racing competitions the world over. Last week saw victory for Yamaha in both the USA in the AMA class and in Japan in the All Japan Superbike Championship.

Five-time Dakar Rally Champion and double Sardegna Rally winner Cyril Despres successfully completed his first competition with Yamaha yesterday, wrapping up the sixth edition of the Sardegna Rally Race in fourth overall with impressive performances over the special stages. Alessandro Botturi, who also switched to Yamaha this year, was on similar form; a consistent presence with Despres in the top four, the Italian won two individual special stages and took fifth in the overall standin...

The FIM Motocross World Championship cranks back into life this weekend with the Grand Prix of France at the Ernee circuit representing round eight of seventeen in the series. The Steve Dixon-led faction of the Monster Energy Yamaha team used the two-week break after returning from Beto Carrero in Brazil to capture a superb new selection of photographs where Dean Ferris, Mel Pocock and Maxime Desprey threw their factory YZ250F machinery around the jumps of Pocock's private track in sou...

Monster Energy Yamaha's Steven Frossard will learn the extent of an injury to his right knee after an accident while training yesterday. The luckless 26 year old fell while negotiating a corner after a mini-whoops section at a private track in southern France and it was only upon resuming his training session in preparation for his home Grand Prix next weekend that Frossard felt discomfort in his right leg.

Yamaha Motor France has today announced the signing of 2013 Dakar Rally Champion Cyril Despres. Despres will spearhead Yamaha's quest for victory in the 2014 Dakar Rally on the Yamaha YZ450F based machine with Frenchman Michael Metge as support rider. Despres is the most successful Dakar rider of the last decade, winning in 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012 and 2013. His record in the world's toughest endurance race is only beaten b...

Yakhnich Yamaha Motorsport rider Sam Lowes delivered a perfect performance at Donington last weekend to take his third consecutive World Supersport victory aboard the Yamaha YZF-R6. The young British rider made his intentions clear for his home race from the start of the weekend, taking his third consecutive pole of the season, his ninth career pole, with a new record - 1'30.276s - Best Lap of the Donington Park circuit.