Yamaha Motor Europe is delighted to thunder that Jason O’Halloran shall be half of the Yamalube YART Yamaha EWC Legit Workforce lineup for the 2025 FIM Persistence World Championship alongside Karel Hanika, Marvin Fritz, and reserve rider Robin Mulhauser.
Yamaha Motor Europe is delighted to thunder that Jason O’Halloran shall be half of the Yamalube YART Yamaha EWC Legit Workforce lineup for the 2025 FIM Persistence World Championship alongside Karel Hanika, Marvin Fritz, and reserve rider Robin Mulhauser.O’Halloran, basically the most successful Yamaha rider by system of victories within the British Superbike Championship, joins the YART team to exchange Niccolò Canepa, who retired on the cease of the 2024 season to change into Yamaha Motor Europe’s Motorway Racing Sporting Manager.
The Australian joins a YART Yamaha team that enjoyed a sexy 2024 FIM Persistence World Championship (EWC). The double Persistence World Champions (2009 and 2023) came so shut to defending their EWC crown after finishing on the podium at every hump in 2024, along side winning the 8 Hours of Spa Motos and securing a dream 2d on the legendary Suzuka 8 Hours in Japan to total the season in 2d general after an legend title battle.
Finding a replacement for Canepa, basically the most successful Italian EWC rider of all time, would never be straightforward, nonetheless O’Halloran brings a wealth of expertise. After starting racing in his native nation, he went on to be topped the 2007 Australian Supersport Champion. Transferring to the UK, he has been plying his commerce within the British Superbike Championship since 2008 and taking half in wildcard rides in Moto2, WorldSBK, and WorldSSP.
The “O Veil”, as O’Halloran is affectionately known, raced within the Superbike class for Yamaha in BSB from 2019-2023, winning 26 races and recording a handiest-placed manufacture of 2d general in 2020, as he established himself as a traditional title contender on his R1.
O’Halloran is no stranger to patience racing after riding as an hurt replacement for the length of the 2012 season and securing a podium on the Doha 8 Hours, a top ten at Suzuka, and fourth on the 8 Hours of Oschersleben.
The 36-yr-former additionally continues the YART team’s long affiliation with Australian riders, which has viewed Damian Cudlin, Steve Martin, Josh Brookes, Broc Parkes, Wayne Maxwell, and Ricky Olson all hump for them within the previous.
With the rider lineup secured, the team now turns its focal level to the outlet spherical of the 2025 FIM Persistence World Championship, the 24 Heures Motos at Le Mans, which is in a web page online to happen from April 17th to 20th.
Jason O’Halloran
Yamalube YART Yamaha EWC Legit Workforce
“I’m extraordinarily angry to be half of the YART team and change into a fleshy-time EWC rider. I be pleased spent many years in British Superbikes, nonetheless after I started talking to the team, it correct gave the affect devour the excellent circulate. I wish to thank everyone who made this happen. I will’t wait to meet up with the team, and what a team! Persistence World Champions in 2009 and 2023, plus Marvin and Karel, are wonderful riders, and the team’s achievements speak for themselves. I had a quantity of success in BSB with Yamaha, so I’m angry to gain succor onto the R1. It has continuously been the bike I gelled with basically the most helpful; it fits my riding kind, and I devour riding it. I had a taste of riding within the EWC within the previous, and it has continuously been a championship I wanted to hump in. With Niccolò retiring, the timing was supreme, and I will’t wait for the predicament ahead.”
Mandy Kainz
Yamalube YART Yamaha EWC Legit Workforce – Workforce Manager
“I’m delighted to welcome Jason to YART. As soon as Niccolò announced his retirement, my phone was ringing off the hook with riders seeking to be half of the team, nonetheless for me, the particular person I continuously wished to signal was Jason. No longer handiest has he shown how just he is on the R1 as basically the most successful Yamaha rider in BSB by system of victories, nonetheless he additionally has a quantity of expertise from completely different lessons and is an true team player. It helps that he has additionally ridden within the EWC before, and we feel he is the excellent addition to the team. He’ll bring one thing completely different nonetheless will additionally slot just into the YART family, and we are succesful of’t wait to kick off the unusual season!”
Niccolò Canepa
Yamaha Motor Europe – Motorway Racing Sporting Manager
“We are genuinely happy to be pleased Jason becoming a member of the YART team, and we are angry to peek what he can manufacture on the bike. He has a quantity of expertise with the R1 and has shown his skill and skill within the British Superbike Championship with 26 wins, so I mediate he’ll bring lots to the team. I additionally mediate he has the excellent personality to be triumphant in EWC, as you wish no longer handiest to be speedy nonetheless additionally to be a team player and be in a web page online to work with your teammates. I got to know Jason in BSB last yr. I was his teammate for a pair of hump weekends, and he helped me lots for the length of this time, which made me realise that he had the just attitude for EWC. He already has some patience expertise, nonetheless he’ll be pleased to adapt rather rapid, and we feel that along with his addition to the team, we are succesful of be pleased the excellent equipment to wrestle for the title subsequent season.”
