Reference vehicle / Commemorative model
This is Yamaha’s race machine that competes in MotoGP, the pinnacle class of world championship motorcycle road racing. The “M” in the YZR-M1 name stands for the “Mission” to feed back technology born in MotoGP into production vehicles and also the “Mission” to win the championship. Since its debut in 2002,the YZR-M1 has won Yamaha a total of seven MotoGP rider championship titles with Valentino Rossi (Italian) and Jorge Lorenzo (Spanish).