Cycle News Staff | November 12, 2024
Long-time British Superbike Championship rider Jason O’Halloran will make his debut in the Endurance World Championship in 2025 as part of the YART Yamaha EWC Official Team.
Jason O’Halloran (center) joins YART after a 15-year British Superbike career.
Replacing the retiring Niccolo Canepa, who retired at the end of the 2024 season to become Yamaha Motor Europe’s Road Racing Sporting Manager, O’Halloran will compete alongside team riders Karel Hanika, Marvin Fritz and reserve rider Robin Mulhauser.
The 36-year-old O’Halloran continues the YART team’s long association with Australian riders, which has seen Damian Cudlin, Steve Martin, Josh Brookes, Broc Parkes, Wayne Maxwell, and Rick Olson all race for them in the past.
“I had a lot of success in BSB with Yamaha, so I am excited to get back onto the R1,” O’Halloran said. “It has always been the bike I gelled with the best; it suits my riding style, and I love riding it. I had a taste of riding in the EWC in the past, and it has always been a championship I wanted to race in. With Niccolo retiring, the timing was perfect.” CN
