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| 2025 name | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team |
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| Base | Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan Lesmo, Italy |
| Principal | Massimo Meregalli |
| Rider(s) | MotoGP: 20.Fabio Quartararo 42.Álex Rins 4.Andrea Dovizioso (test rider) 7.Augusto Fernández (test rider) 35.Cal Crutchlow (test rider) |
| Motorcycle | Yamaha YZR-M1 Yamaha YZR500 (to 2002) |
| Tyres | Michelin |
| Riders' Championships | 16 1975 -Giacomo Agostini 1980 -Kenny Roberts 1984,1986,1988 -Eddie Lawson 1990,1991,1992 -Wayne Rainey 2004,2005,2008,2009 -Valentino Rossi 2010,2012,2015 -Jorge Lorenzo 2021 -Fabio Quartararo |
| Teams' Championships | 7 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016 |
Yamaha MotoGP Racing orYamaha Factory Racing is the official Italian-Japanese factory team ofYamaha inMotoGP, currently competing asMonster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team.[1]
The team was founded in1999 following the retirement ofWayne Rainey, who had run a factory-supported team in the 500 cc class for the previous two years, withKenny Roberts andGiacomo Agostini having run their own works supported teams before him.[2]
The team was originally based in theNetherlands but was relocated inItaly in 2002.[3]
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Max Biaggi andCarlos Checa raced for the team from 1999 to2002.
Biaggi achieved a total of 8 race wins in that period, first riding theYamaha YZR500 and later theYamaha YZR-M1 in 2002.[4]
In2003, Checa was joined byMarco Melandri. The team had an average season with no podium finishes.
For2004,Valentino Rossi joined Checa at the team. Rossi got 9 wins and won the championship.
Colin Edwards joined the team for2005, when Rossi once again won the championship, collecting 11 wins.
Rossi and Edwards stayed with the team for2006. Rossi earned 5 wins and finished 2nd in the championship.
For the2007 season, both riders remained with the team riding the new 800ccYamaha YZR-M1. Rossi had 4 wins and finished the season 3rd overall.
For2008, Yamaha had a unique line-up with Rossi being joined in the team byJorge Lorenzo. Although the pair were fighting for the title from different pit boxes (as Rossi chose to useBridgestone tyres and as Lorenzo continued withMichelin), Yamaha operated as one team and not two separate entities.
The title was won dominantly by Rossi who won 9 of the 18 races and finished on the podium in every race except for two.
Even though this was the learning year for Lorenzo, he was able to cruise to victory at Estoril and finished 4th in the championship.
In2009, Yamaha dominated MotoGP with Rossi winning the title and Lorenzo finishing second.
The pair won 12 out of the 17 races, and Yamaha won the Constructors' Championship.
After seven years with Yamaha, Rossi left the team to compete with Ducati for the 2011 and 2012 seasons.[5]
He rejoined Yamaha again for the 2013 MotoGP season.[6]
They won the 2015 Championship withJorge Lorenzo[7] before going on a 6 year wait for their next world championship title withFabio Quartararo.[8]
Yamaha fielded a total of 5 bikes in the private test inBrno Circuit and one of them was the V4 engine tested byAndrea Dovizioso. This was the first time the Italian test rider had tested the new engine and underwent a fairly closed test on the circuit that had just been resurfaced on 1 and 2 July 2025. Dovi was not allowed to comment on his experience. In addition, it is not certain from the time records which bike the 39-year-old rider tested because all of them were recorded asYamaha test bikes.[9]
The V4 will make its full debut in2026 with all 4 (Factory andPramac Racing) Yamaha bikes set to use the V4 Spec.[10]
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Bike | Team | No. | Riders | Race | Riders' standings | Manufacturers' standings | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Pts | Pos | Pts | Pos | |||||
| 1999 | Yamaha YZR500 | Marlboro Yamaha Team | MAL | JPN | ESP | FRA | ITA | CAT | NED | GBR | GER | CZE | IMO | VAL | AUS | RSA | RIO | AUS | ||||||
| 2 |  Max Biaggi | Ret | 9 | 2 | Ret | 2 | Ret | 5 | 4 | Ret | 4 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 194 | 4th | 280 | 2nd | |||
| 4 |  Carlos Checa | 2 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 7 | Ret | Ret | 4 | Ret | Ret | 5 | 4 | 6 | Ret | 4 | 125 | 7th | |||||
| 2000 | RSA | MAL | JPN | ESP | FRA | ITA | CAT | NED | GBR | GER | CZE | POR | VAL | RIO | PAC | AUS | ||||||||
| 4 | Max Biaggi | Ret | 4 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 9 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 170 | 3rd | 318 | 1st | |||
| 7 | Carlos Checa | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 | Ret | 5 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 4 | Ret | 155 | 6th | |||||
| 2001 | JPN | RSA | ESP | FRA | ITA | CAT | NED | GBR | GER | CZE | POR | VAL | PAC | AUS | MAL | RIO | ||||||||
| 3 | Max Biaggi | 3 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 10 | Ret | 2 | Ret | 3 | 219 | 2nd | 295 | 2nd | |||
| 7 | Carlos Checa | 10 | 14 | 2 | Ret | 8 | Ret | 5 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 137 | 6th | ||||||
| Year | Class | Team name | Bike | No. | Riders | Races | Wins | Podiums | Poles | F. laps | Points | Pos. |
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| 2022 | MotoGP | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha YZR-M1 | 20 |  Fabio Quartararo | 20 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 248 | 2nd |
| 21 | Franco Morbidelli | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 19th | ||||
| 2023 | 20 | Fabio Quartararo | 20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 172 | 10th | |||
| 21 | Franco Morbidelli | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 13th | ||||
| 2024 | 20 | Fabio Quartararo | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 113 | 13th | |||
| 42 | Álex Rins | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 18th | ||||
| 87 |  Remy Gardner | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26th | ||||
| 2025 | 20 | Fabio Quartararo | 22 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 201 | 9th | |||
| 42 | Álex Rins | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 19th |
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)
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