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Main Yamaha Teams for International Racing

racing (MotoGP and GP500 combined). This year, Yamaha will again be competing to win the MotoGP title with four riders from two teams. The Yamaha Factory Racing team will again field Jorge Lorenzo, who ranked 2nd last year with the most season wins at eight, and Valentino Rossi, who ranked 4th with one win and six podium finishes.
The Monster Yamaha Tech 3 satellite team will field Bradley Smith, in his second year with the team after ranking 10th in his first full season of MotoGP competition last year, and Pol Espargaro, who comes to the team as the reigning Moto2 World Champion. The machine for all four riders is the “YZR-M1,” winner of six MotoGP rider championship titles.
In the FIM Motocross World Championships, the Yamaha Factory Racing team will compete in the pinnacle MXGP class with rider Jeremy Van Horebeek, who ranked 7th last season in the MX1 class. In the MX2 class, Yamaha Factory Racing will enter last year’s 4th-ranked Christophe Charlier. The machine to be used in the MXGP class is the “YZ450FM” factory-tuned version of the “YZ450F” production motocrosser, while the “YZ250FM” factory-tuned version of the “YZ250F” production motocrosser will be used in the MX2 class.