In 2017 we were the first racing UTV to be invited to attend the famous Goodwood Festival of Speed event where we joined the other off road race cars in the Britpart off road arena. We had a great time and clearly Goodwood thought so too so for 2018 we were invited to...
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Britpart MSA British Cross Country Championship 2016 – Final
After the DNF at the last round at Bovington where we destroyed an engine through water ingress we knew that a championship class win was out of our hands, Neil in the other Yamaha YXZ1000R has driven too well all season for that to happen, but at least a Yamaha was...
British SxS Championship Final Round 2016
With the new that the British SxS Championship had been opened up to non Polaris models (previously the series was Polaris only) we decided that it would be good to show our support for the series at the final enduro round of the season. As befits our role as customer...
Britpart MSA British Cross Country Championship Round 5 Bovington 2016
Well it had to happen I guess - our first DNF (did not finish). In reality it was more of a DNS (did not start), we didnt even mange one run on the course before we flooded the engine with water and killed it. Round 5 of the Britpart MSA British Cross Country...
Britpart MSA British Cross Country Championship Rnd 4 – Ceri
Sometimes you go racing and sometimes you go testing and this weekend was very much the latter. With a seven week break after the last race we decided to implement a range of upgrades to the car ahead for this race with sadly some mixed results. A major part of our...
European ATV Trophy, Bastogne 2016
Well that was an interesting weekend. Its nice to have a bit of fun from racing and whilst our main series for this season is the British Cross Country Championship its important for us to develop the car for different kinds of racing and other championships so when...
Britpart MSA British Cross Country Championship Rnd 3 – Forest Estate, Scotland
Well we knew this round was going to be tough and it was, but the net result is that we are now leading the Championship for our class. Forest Estate in Scotland is a lovely place but with teeth, it has teeth in the form of a course that bites if you get it wrong and...
Yamaha Dealer Day 2016
As part of our role with Yamaha we are here to help promote the car both externally and internally to the Yamaha family so this month we got the chance to attend the annual Yamaha bike dealer days at Silverstone. Each year every Yamaha dealer gets the chance to come...
Yamaha Racing Media Day 2016
Some of the UK's finest motorcycle journalists got the chance to drive the Yamaha YXZ1000R round the Yamaha Experience, located at Thorney Motorsport, home of the YXZ1000R Race Team. Yamaha YXZ1000R Racing & Experience Media Day The video and pictures says it all....
SxS Endurance Championship, Round 3
A central part of our role with Yamaha is the support of all new owners and drivers of the new YXZ1000R. Our operation and indeed Yamaha's own ethos is that the relationship starts with the car purchase not ends so our role is to support all new drivers in all their...
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