Yamaha Motor Europe Confirm Line-Up for 2025 FIM Supersport World Championship

Yamaha Motor Europe (YME) is entirely contented to jabber its line-up for the 2025 FIM Supersport World Championship, featuring three supported groups campaigning the all-new R9 WorldSSP machine.

Stefano Manzi will spearhead Yamaha’s assault on the 2025 FIM Supersport World Championship, racing over all all over again for the Pata Yamaha Ten Kate workforce with whom he has twice done as vice-champion within the instant class. The Italian may per chance be joined by Japan’s Yuki Okamoto, who steps up to the enviornment championship after a formidable season within the All Japan Street Racing Championship saw him bag the JSB1000 title.

5-time WorldSBK spin winner Michael Ruben Rinaldi will spin with Christophe Guyot’s GMT94 Yamaha as he makes his debut within the Supersport class. He’ll be half of former FIM Supersport World Champion Lucas Mahias in GMT94’s 2025 line-up.

Twice world champions for Yamaha, the Evan Bros workforce will rob on a brand new-look for 2025, turning into half of Yamaha’s bLU cRU program to introduce young riders to WorldSSP. 21-twelve months-outdated-usual Can Öncü, a former Red Bull Novices Cup champion, joins the brand new workforce as he appears to fabricate on a WorldSSP occupation that’s seen him originate a spin victory and 14 extra podiums.

Öncü may per chance be joined within the Evan Bros workforce by reigning FIM Supersport 300 World Champion, 18-twelve months-outdated-usual Aldi Satya Mahendra. This is a clear example of Yamaha’s step-up philosophy, which has seen Mahendra development from the R3 bLU cRU World Cup, to WorldSSP300 and now to WorldSSP, and Okamoto promoted onto the enviornment stage after winning the JSB1000 title this season.

Launched by Yamaha Motor earlier this twelve months, the R9 represents a brand new technology of Supersport bike powered by Yamaha’s award-winning 890cc three-cylinder engine. Engineers at Yamaha Motor Racing Europe (YMRE) had been working on increasing the R9 for Subsequent Technology WorldSSP principles for over a twelve months with the mission unveiled on the final spherical of the 2024 season at Jerez.

The R9 will originate its spin debut within the WorldSSP Championship, while Yamaha Motor Europe works alongside its groups and riders to originate the package before releasing a spin equipment for national championships before the 2026 season.

The new WorldSSP line-up will bag their first real style of the R9 WorldSSP in a shakedown test at Cremona between 7-8 November, before the groups then embark on their bask in winter attempting out time table before the outlet spherical of 2025, utter to rob region at Phillip Island, Australia between 21-23 February.

Andrea Dosoli, Division Manager, Motorsport Division, Yamaha Motor Europe

“We are entirely contented to jabber our new line-up for the 2025 Supersport World Championship, which marks a brand new formula for us within the Supersport class. The R9 is a in point of fact crucial new mannequin, so that you simply may bask in the kind of mighty line-up in our first twelve months is excessive. We predict about right here’s the excellent approach for us to open this new technology of Supersport for Yamaha. No longer simplest does having a various line-up, comprising a combination of journey and formative years, give us the finest likelihood of reaching the excellent results that you simply may well maybe presumably keep in mind for the R9 in its first twelve months of opponents, however it indubitably moreover formula we bask in fundamental enter for the event of this fresh mannequin, which is excessive as we prepare to roll out the spin equipment for national championships before the 2026 season. The realm role of our WorldSBK programme is moreover emphasised by the increase from YMC within the signing of Aldi Mahendra and Yuki Okamoto, two promising young riders who bask in risen by technique of the ranks with Yamaha.”

Niccolò Canepa, Street Racing Sporting Manager, Motorsport Division, Yamaha Motor Europe

“Bringing a tag-new bike to the racetrack is a spacious task and we wanted a rider line-up to replicate the efforts establish in by the engineers in our R&D division over the final twelve months. In our 2025 riders we keep in mind we bask in a line-up that now not simplest puts us within the excellent region to maximise the R9’s doable in its first twelve months of racing, however moreover exemplifies Yamaha’s racing philosophy. In Manzi, we bask in a rider who is a proven Supersport contender having done runner-up on this planet for Yamaha in 2023 and 2024. The R9 is a fully varied bike to the R6 and can bask in to will bask in to be ridden in a undeniable formula, from our assessments we know the machine’s torque will require extra of a ‘spacious bike’ utilizing style, it’s for this motive we bask in incorporated Michael Ruben Rinaldi, a rider with spin-winning WorldSBK journey in our line-up. Can Öncü is a young rider with a form of doable, so we’re entirely contented to bask in brought him to Yamaha for 2025 as he appears to originate the ‘next step’ as a WorldSSP contender within the brand new bLU cRU Evan Bros workforce.

“The promotion of Aldi Satya Mahendra and Yuki Okamoto reflects Yamaha’s step-up philosophy, with Aldi progressing from the R3 World Cup to WorldSSP300 and now WorldSSP, and Yuki making the transfer after winning JSB1000 this season.

“All three of our supported groups for 2025 are proven WorldSSP contenders. The Ten Kate name speaks for itself within the WorldSSP historical past books and workforce’s achievements with Manzi within the final two seasons, and Dominique Aegerter before that, jabber their stage. Evan Bros Racing bask in moreover brought Yamaha two WorldSSP championships in their time on the enviornment stage, while GMT94 are one amongst the most skilled Supersport groups on the grid.

“We are assured that with this rider and workforce line-up, we can look to free up the R9’s doable in WorldSSP while the R&D workforce continue work to originate the package even extra.”