During a presentation in Italy on Monday, Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd announced that it has reached a two-year agreement with Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. to become title sponsor of the Yamaha Factory Racing Team in the MotoGP World Championship.
The Team’s Official Launch took place in Milan on Monday afternoon and the Team will be known from now on as the “Fiat Yamaha Team”. Yamaha’s two Factory riders, Italian Valentino Rossi and American Colin Edwards were present at the event, as well as Yamaha Motor Company’s Masao Furusawa, General Manager for Engineering Operations, Lin Jarvis, Managing Director of Yamaha Motor Racing and Davide Brivio, the Fiat Yamaha Team Director.
The MotoGP season starts this weekend at Qatar. With all the technical changes this season may turn out to be the best yet!
