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Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and Yamaha Motor Racing are happy to welcome Augusto Fernández into the Yamaha household.
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and Yamaha Motor Racing are happy to welcome Augusto Fernández into the Yamaha household. The skilled MotoGP rider will join the Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Take a look at Crew programme taking on the characteristic of Legit MotoGP Take a look at Rider for the 2025 season.
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and Yamaha Motor Racing are happy to reveal that skilled MotoGP rider Augusto Fernández will be reinforcing the Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Take a look at Crew for the 2025 season.
Fernández has two years of expertise in MotoGP (2023-2024) and 6 years in Moto2 (2017-2022), including a Moto2 World Championship title accomplished in 2022, making him a successfully-established title amongst motorsports followers and anyone very conversant in the MotoGP paddock.
Starting from the upcoming MotoGP shakedown test (scheduled in Sepang, Malaysia from 31 January – 2 February), Fernández will begin his unique testing job, riding the YZR-M1.
In the direction of 2025, he’s going to take hold of phase in Legit IRTA Tests and non-public Yamaha checks as successfully as assorted wildcard events with the target of helping Yamaha’s engineers with their MotoGP bike pattern programme.
LIN JARVIS
Managing Director, Yamaha Motor Racing
I am happy to substantiate that Augusto Fernández is formally joining Yamaha for the 2025 season as a Yamaha Factory MotoGP Take a look at Rider. Bike pattern is a priority for Yamaha as we arena to return to winning suggestions at the earliest opportunity.
Now we occupy signed Augusto to be our second Yamaha Take a look at Rider alongside Cal Crutchlow. Cal was sadly unable to fulfil all his testing responsibilities in 2024 and it changed into obtrusive that we wished to recruit a second rider to assist us with completing all very indispensable actions for 2025.
We accept as true with Augusto will be a appropriate fit for each the Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Take a look at Crew and the YZR-M1 bike. Augusto is young and is fast, and he can test alongside Cal and learn the particular methodology required from a full-time test rider.
Our fresh efficiency ranking permits us to take hold of full merit of basically the most restrict for the testing programme. In addition to the checks, now we occupy the assumption to participate at up to six wild-card rides, and Augusto will furthermore be the plod-to substitute rider in case someone of the Monster Vitality Yamaha MotoGP Crew riders or Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP riders are unable to hasten at any time in 2025. The many riding opportunities must serene enable Augusto to maintain his racing hasten whereas he proceeds with the intensive testing responsibilities.
Augusto has already started to work with us astray and his first right test participation will be at the shakedown test in Sepang at the finish of January 2025.
In the interim, we are following carefully Cal’s improving bodily situation after his arm complications this 300 and sixty five days, and we hope he’s going to be in a position to return as soon as doable to renew his testing responsibilities.
AUGUSTO FERNÁNDEZ
Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Take a look at Rider
I’m very snug and vast aroused to join Yamaha as a test rider for 2025. It’s a mountainous honour to be phase of the Yamaha household, and I are looking to thank all americans who made it happen.
In this amazing unique undertaking, I will finish my only to wait on Yamaha to be relieve where they deserve to be.
Can’t wait to begin our lumber collectively!
ABOUT AUGUSTO FERNÁNDEZ
Date of Beginning: 23-09-1997
Space of Beginning: Madrid, Spain
Peak: 181 cm
Weight: 73 kg
Moto2 Debut GP: 2017 ITA
First Moto2 Win: 2019 NED
Moto2 World Championship Title: 2022
MotoGP Debut GP: 2023 POR
Born in Madrid however based in Mallorca since childhood, Augusto Fernández started racing when he was factual eight years primitive. He first got here to consideration when he gained regional championships in the 65cc and then the 85cc class.
Fernández moved up to the 500cc class in 2013 as he competed in the European Junior Cup International Championship. He finished second in his first season sooner than earning the title in 2014.
After being named Rookie of the 300 and sixty five days in WorldSBK’s Superstock 600 class in 2015 and scoring fifth in the FIM CEV Repsol Moto2 in 2016, the young Spaniard earned a attach in the Moto2 World Championship for the 2017 season. He made his debut at Mugello and finished in the points twice.
In 2018 the Pons HP 40 crew referred to as on him during the Catalunya GP to replace Hector Barbera. The Spaniard reached the tip 8 on up to 3 occasions, and even got here shut to the podium at the Eastern GP. A breakthrough 300 and sixty five days adopted in 2019. No matter an early injury that saw him fail to see Argentina and Austin, he gained three races and twice extra finished on the podium, ending the campaign in fifth attach general.
For 2020 he started as one in every of the favourites in the Moto2 title fight after inheriting Alex Márquez’ seat at EG 0,0 Marc VDS. Then again, injury derailed his plans, and he got here 13th general. Nonetheless Fernández bounced relieve in fashion in 2021. He was in a position to get better his only kind to excel in the last half of the season, taking six podiums in the last nine races, and ended the season in fifth attach general.
Fernández then made the transfer to Crimson Bull KTM Ajo for the 2022 season and enjoyed instant success, with four victories and so much of podium finishes seeing him crowned Moto2 World Champion at the final spherical in Valencia.
By then he had already secured his promotion to MotoGP in 2023 with Tech3 GASGAS Factory Racing, and his debut season in the premier class would finish up being worthwhile, with his fourth attach at the French GP standing out. He finished 10th or better on five occasions as he took 17th attach in the general championship standings.
Then again, the 2024 season proved challenging. His only rankings had been prime-10 finishes in the Jerez Sprint, Phillip Island Sprint, and the Malaysian GP Hasten. He wrapped up the season in twentieth attach in the rankings.
After the trying 300 and sixty five days, the Spaniard was ready for a alternate and determined to join the Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Take a look at Crew for 2025.
