Jake Gagne will make the trip across the pond to wildcard at the Portimao round of the 2022 WorldSBK Championship; Is a 2023 WorldSBK deal on the cards?
WorldSSP Champion Dominique Aegerter believes Yamaha overlooked him for a WorldSBK ride in 2022 because of his 31-years of age and Swiss nationality
Kohta Nozane will get a second season with on a factory-assisted Yamaha R1 after a solid rookie campaign for the 2020 JSB1000 All-Japan Superbike champion
Garrett Gerloff remains with the GRT Yamaha Junior squad for the 2021 WorldSBK season but will ride a factory R1; He is joined by Japanese Kohta Nozane
Yamaha WorldSBK boss Andrea Dosoli admits he wasn't expecting Marco Melandri's retirement revelation but respects his decision to take control of his future.
"I feel like I still can't use the strongest points of my riding to my advantage at the moment, because I don't have the best feeling with the bike..."
With GRT stepping up to World Superbikes alognside the Pata Yamaha squad, Andrea Dosoli says “we need to fight at the front rather than fight with each other.”