MXGP
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Gebben Van Venrooy Yamaha Supported MXGP Team Enters 2020 MXGP Season with Alessandro Lupino, Thomas Covington & Calvin Vlaanderen
07 November 2019 Yamaha Motor Europe is delighted to announce that a new partnership has been formed with the freshly named Gebben Van Venrooy Yamaha Supported MXGP Team where the outfit based in Rogat, The Netherlands, will operate as a Yamaha Motor Europe 'Supported' team inside the 2020 FIM Motocross World Championship. The team will field three YZ450F riders in the premier class. High profile MXGP veteran Alessandro Lupino will continue with the team for a third year and will be joined on the gate by two exciting young rookies, Thomas Covington and Calvin Vlaanderen.
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Geerts & Strijbos Put Belgium Back on the Box at MXoN
29 September 2019 In front of an enormous and highly animated crowd at the Monster Energy Motocross of Nations in Assen, The Netherlands, Monster Energy Kemea Yamaha MX2's Jago Geerts and fellow Yamaha rider Kevin Strijbos celebrated Team Belgium's highly anticipated return to the MXoN podium from the second step. Riding for Team Switzerland, the recently dubbed vice MXGP World Champion Jeremy Seewer finished third overall in the individual classification.
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Yamaha Armed with Podium Challengers at the Monster Energy Motocross of Nations in Assen
26 September 2019 Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP’s Jeremy Seewer and Monster Energy Wilvo Yamaha MXGP’s Gautier Paulin are set to line-up for the final event on the 2019 calendar. Both riders will proudly represent their nations at the biggest and most exciting event of the year, the Monster Energy Motocross of Nation which will take place at the iconic Dutch TT Circuit in Assen, The Netherlands, this weekend. Seewer will spearhead Team Switzerland’s efforts, while Paulin is determined to take Team France to a sixth consecutive MXoN crown with the support of fellow Frenchman SM Action M.C. Migliori Yamaha’s Maxime Renaux who will wear the French colours for the first time in his young career. YZ450F mounted Kevin Strijbos will represent Team Belgium alongside Monster Energy Kemea Yamaha MX2’s Belgian star Jago Geerts. Joining the five European riders, Monster Energy Star Racing Yamaha Yamalube’s Justin Cooper will make his MXoN debut as the MX2 rider for the most successful team in history, Team USA.
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Seewer Finishes Runner Up in 2019 MXGP Season
15 September 2019 Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP's Jeremy Seewer finished the 2019 MXGP season as the championship runner-up after celebrating the eighteenth and final round of the series in Shanghai, China, on the third step of the podium. Monster Energy Wilvo Yamaha MXGP's Gautier Paulin finished seventh in the Chinese Grand Prix classification and ended up fourth overall in the championship.
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Yamaha Stars Chasing Championship Medals at MXGP Season Finale
11 September 2019 The Monster Energy Yamaha Factory and Monster Energy Wilvo Yamaha MXGP teams are set to travel halfway across the world for the 18th and final round of the MXGP and MX2 World Championships. The season finale will take place for the first time in history in Shanghai, China, where all three of Yamaha's Factory and Official MXGP riders, Jeremy Seewer, Gautier Paulin and Arnaud Tonus, have a mathematical shot at claiming a silver or bronze medal. Monster Energy Kemea Yamaha MX2's Jago Geerts is also jetting out to China where he hopes to clinch the bronze medal in the MX2 Championship.
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Sixth & Seventh for Paulin & Seewer in Turkey
08 September 2019 Monster Energy Wilvo Yamaha MXGP's Gautier Paulin and Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP's Jeremy Seewer emerged from the penultimate round of the MXGP World Championship in Afyon, Turkey, in sixth and seventh overall, while Tonus finished twelfth.