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Following reigning World Champion Jorge Lorenzo's stunning victory in Barcelona at the weekend the Yamaha Factory Racing Team have concluded two days of successful testing. The Monday test at the Catalunya circuit immediately following the race was followed by a move to Aragon by the Team and a further day of testing today. Riders Lorenzo and Rossi worked through a number of set up changes along with the testing of a new Bridgestone tyre.

Yamaha Motor Europe will continue as an 'Official Supplier of TOYOTA Racing' for the 2013 season in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The agreement will see Yamaha providing 16 Yamaha EC-03 electric (2-wheeler) vehicles for team mobility. Yamaha will also supply two ATV machines to the team. The announcement comes as TOYOTA Racing prepares for the biggest racing challenge of the season, the gruelling 24 Heures du Mans...

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.