Assen, The Netherlands, Saturday, 30th June 2007
Yamaha's win with Valentino Rossi in the Dutch TT at Assen today
is cause for a double celebration for the Factory, as it is also its
150th win in the premier-class of World Championship motorcycle
racing. Yamaha Motor Company is only the second manufacturer
in the history of the sport to pass the milestone of 150 wins,
which it has achieved in 46 years since it began racing on the
international stage in 1961.
Yamaha's very first premier-class victory came with British rider
Chas Mortimer, in Barcelona at the final race of the 1972 series
aboard a 353cc twin-cylinder two-stroke Yamaha. Since then,
Yamaha has won premier-class Grands Prix in every season bar
two and has taken a total of eleven manufacturers' and twelve
riders' titles during the process.