Yamaha Announces 2025 WorldSSP Riders
Cycle News Staff | November 12, 2024
Yamaha used the EICMA Show in Milan to unveil its riders for the 2025 WorldSSP Championship. All of them will compete on the new Yamaha YZF-R9.
Stefano Manzi will spearhead Yamaha’s assault, racing once again for the Pata Yamaha Ten Kate team with whom he has twice finished in second for the title.
Stefano Manzi will be hoping third time’s a charm on the new R9 for 2025.
The Italian will be joined by Japan’s Yuki Okamoto, who steps up to the World Championship after winning the All Japan Road Racing Championship JSB1000 title.
Five-time WorldSBK race winner Michael Ruben Rinaldi will race with Christophe Guyot’s GMT94 Yamaha as he makes his debut in the Supersport class. He’ll join former Supersport World Champion Lucas Mahias.
The Evan Bros team, two-time WorldSSP Champions for Yamaha, will take on a new look for 2025, becoming part of Yamaha’s bLU cRU program to introduce young riders to WorldSSP. The 21-year-old Can Oncu, a former Red Bull Rookies Cup champion and the youngest Moto3 race winner, joins the new team. Oncu will be joined in the Evan Bros team by reigning FIM Supersport 300 World Champion, 18-year-old Aldi Satya Mahendra. CN
