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 Yamaha
Reveals 2006 Supersport Plans
Yamaha will compete in the 2006 Supersport World Championship
with Australian riders Kevin Curtain and Broc Parkes racing the
brand new Yamaha YZF-R6 for the Yamaha Motor Germany team.
The squad will again receive official support from Yamaha Motor
Europe and is already working on development of the new machine.
To ensure they are ready to compete for race wins from February's
opening round in Qatar, Yamaha has provided the team with early
production machines and a range of kit parts, allowing the team
to complete a private shakedown test several weeks ago. Yamaha
Motor Germany is now focusing on engine development at its Neuss
base and Curtain and Parkes are scheduled to get their first
full test of the race machine in December.
Yamaha Motor Germany won the Supersport World Championship in
2000 with rider Jörg Teuchert and has opted to retain the
services of both its 2005 riders following their impressive performances
this season. Curtain is currently second in the championship
with one race win, last time out at EuroSpeedway Lausitz, while
Parkes is sixth in the standings in his first year with the team.
Yamaha's all-new YZF-R6 was unveiled to the world's press in
Paris yesterday. The new machine is the company's most technologically
advanced production model to date and boasts an impressive specification
including an innovative electronically controlled throttle system,
new chassis, completely redesigned and more powerful engine and
a slipper clutch fitted as standard. Once again Yamaha is offering
a full range of racing kit parts for the YZF-R1 and YZF-R6 through
its YEC (Yamaha Engineering Corporation) company.
Kevin Curtain
"I'm really excited about next year and I'm honoured to
be one of the guys trusted with the development of the new R6
in world supersport. It's an amazing looking bike and everything
I've heard about it so far makes me believe we can make a challenge
for the title. I have a lot of faith in the Yamaha Germany team
and I am sure they are up to the challenge. I certainly can't
wait."
Broc Parkes
 "I'm really happy with this
team and the deciding factor in me staying for 2006 was seeing
the new bike that we'll have. It looks really, really good and
as things are just starting to come together for us now in terms
of results so it wouldn't make sense for me to switch teams and
have to start again. For now I want to end the season with two
good results so that we can start the development work of our
new toy on a high!"
Terrell Thien (Team Manager)
"Both Theo Hoffmann (Yamaha Motor Germany's motorsports
manager) and myself felt it was very important to keep Kevin
and Broc for next year. Everybody knows Kevin's ability while
Broc has shown us what he is capable of in the last three races
- he is one of the top riders in the championship and is still
young and full of potential. We are very happy with the support
Yamaha is giving us: all the technical data suggests to new R6
will be very competitive and already we have an engine running
on the dyno with good results. We'll start our testing programme
in December and I am quite confident we will be well prepared
for the start of the season."
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