The World Superbike Championship is competed by some of the most esteemed motorcycle brands in the world. Aprilia is the current champion, but it has no shortage of competitors coming from the likes of BMW, Ducati, Honda, Kawasaki, and Suzuki.
Conspicuous by its absence is Yamaha, which isn’t all that surprising considering that Yamaha hasn’t competed in the World Superbike series in quite some time. But alas, all that is about to change now that the company has announced that it’s planning to make a triumphant return to the series in 2016.
Granted, Yamaha isn’t coming back to the WSBK with its own team. Instead, the company is likely to find a privately-owned racing team that it can partner with, or in this case, support for WSBK. Such a framework is actually common place in the series, quite different from the top-class MotoGP where full-factory teams are the name of the game.
But because of financial constraints, the game is played a little differently in WSBK. Private racing teams enter the series with the motorcycle brands serving as partners instead of owning the actual teams. In this case, Yamaha already has the YZF-R1 machines at its disposal. These new superbikes have proven themselves to be quite the contenders on the race track.
It would be fitting, really, if we see these bikes head to the World Superbike series. That alone would make the competition that much more intriguing. Now about that private racing team. It’s still unclear who that is or where Yamaha’s going to find it, but rest assured, if the Japanese firm wants to compete in the series and mitigate the costs of doing so, it’s going to need to find a partner that can split the costs of racing with it.
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Yamaha Set To Return To World Superbike Championship originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 5 March 2015 13:00 EST.
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