Yamaha celebrates its seventieth anniversary and marks all 4 of its MotoGP riders with particular retro colouring impressed by the enduring 1999 YZF-R7. Fabio Qualtaralo, Alex Rins, Jack Miller, and Miguel Oliveira.
Famously raced on the World Superbike Championship, the purple and white colors will adorn each the Monster Vitality and the Prima Pramac M1 on the Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday, and might be displayed along with crew clothes, leather-based, gloves and helmets.
“As we speak, we marked a very iconic second as each Yamaha’s MotoGP groups united on the grid and launched 4 MotoGP bikes together with the enduring 1999 YZF-R7.”
“The robust imaginative and prescient of two groups that develop into one through the use of the identical colouring represents extra than simply the existence of shared tracks. As of this 12 months, it displays a brand new strategic considering.
Yamaha seventieth Anniversary Coloring, 2025 Netherlands Motogp
Yamaha was based on July 1, 1955. That is the date celebrated yearly as “Yamaha Day.” Assen was chosen because the venue for the official anniversary homage because the seventieth anniversary fell a day after this 12 months’s Dutch Grand Prix.
“All through the final 70 years, Yamaha has celebrated many achievements at races of all ranges,” Pavesio added. “Within the World Highway Race Championship alone, Yamaha has gained 39 rider titles, 37 constructor titles and 7 crew titles, marking the enduring competitiveness and innovation on the world stage.
“However past the trophies and titles, Yamaha’s most important attributes are its unwavering ardour for racing and its “spirit of problem.” ”
Quartararro, Rins, particular assen colouring
The manufacturing facility’s newest Assen victory was courtesy of Quartarraro in 2021.
“The particular color scheme is wonderful. I believe it’ll make this Grand Prix weekend much more memorable. It provides a bit of pleasure,” the Frenchman mentioned.
Teammate Alex Lyns added: “This GP is an important day for Yamaha, and it is all the time good to have recent colouring! We went out once more with leather-based, boots, gloves and helmets matching the colouring.
Jack Miller from Pramac mentioned he’s proud to put on retro colours.
“These colours are so particular to Yamaha and it is actually wonderful to see that they’re a part of this celebration,” Miller mentioned.
“The bikes all the time look nice, however given the historical past of Yamaha racing, these purple and white colours are iconic – from the 1975 In the past championship to the victory of Kenny Roberts and different legendary champions.
“Lace with these colours brings nice satisfaction and there is not any higher place to put on than Assen, who’s celebrating its a hundredth race. What’s extra, it is an ideal preview to race in purple and white for a 8-hour Suzuka in just some weeks.”
Miller, Oliveira Bikes, 2025 Dutch Motogp
Teammate Oliveira added:
“70 years has been an unbelievable milestone and contemplating the riders who competed and gained at Yamaha, it actually offers you goosebumps.
“The colouring of the bike is incredible. It displays a previous that continues to form this model as it’s now, and hopefully continues to have a fantastic future. Even a small a part of this epic story is actually particular to me.”
Excluding the 2020 pandemic hit calendar, Assen is the one circuit to seem in all MotoGP seasons because the World Championship started in 1949.
This weekend marks the a hundredth Dutch TT, making it an ideal setting for the Yamaha milestone celebration.
Haga led the R7 to a race victory within the Spanish spherical of the 1999 World SBK season.
Noriyuki Haga, 1999 WorldSBK championship.
