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Haga returns to Yamaha for 2005

10/1/2005

Yamaha has signed popular Japanese rider Noriyuki Haga to complete its line-up

for the 2005 Superbike World Championship season.

Haga will race a YZF-R1 for the Milan-based Yamaha Motor Italia team, reuniting

him with the brand on which he made his name in the late Nineties. The Japanese

ace was a Yamaha rider between 1994 and 2001 and during this period he won 11

world superbike races, taking a best championship finish of second in the 2000

season, Yamaha's last year of official participation in the series.

Last year Noriyuki rode a privately-entered Ducati to six wins and third in the

series, a result bettered only by the Italian manufacturer's factory entered

riders.

Haga will have his first experience of the R1 when he joins team-mate Andrew

Pitt in a three day test at the Phillip Island circuit in Australia later this

month. Pitt has already completed two tests with the R1, both at Valencia in

Spain, which Haga was unable to attend for contractual reasons.

In addition to Yamaha Motor Europe's officially-supported Italian squad, a

number of other long-standing Yamaha teams have announced their intention to

independently enter the 2005 Superbike World Championship using race-kitted

YZF-R1 machinery. Among the teams due to line-up on the grid this year are:

Yamaha Motor France, who will enter former Grand Prix riders Norifumi Abe and

Sebastien Gimbert; European Superstock Champions Lorenzini by Leoni, who are

running Italian rider Gianluca Vizziello; and reigning Endurance World Champions

Yamaha GMT94, who are intending to enter selected rounds with Spanish rider

David Checa.

Noriyuki Haga

"I'm looking forward to returning to Yamaha and turning the R1 into a winner! I

am on holiday with my family just now so I should be feeling good when I meet up

with the team for my first ride on the bike, at Phillip Island later this month.

I'm very happy to be staying in superbikes and joining this good team. As

everyone knows, I love this championship and I've also worked with many of my

mechanics before, and also the people at Yamaha Europe, so it will not feel all

new to me. It should be fun!"

Claudio Consonni - Racing Manager, Yamaha Motor Italia

"We're all very excited about Noriyuki joining us for this year. He is one of

the all-time greats of world superbike and a very popular rider. Already there

is a great spirit within the team after Andrew's valuable feedback and

performances in our early tests and now we're looking forward to getting out to

Australia for our first test with both riders."

Laurens Klein Koerkamp (Racing Manager, Yamaha Motor Europe) "We're looking

forward to working with Nori-chan again. His performances last year showed that

his is as fast as ever and he is also such a popular rider - that is good for

us, the championship and our fans.

The Samuri of Slide is Back! B):thumb:

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World Superbikes should be great this year. I personally think that it was better to watch than Motogp last season.

yeah i cant see it been the ducati cup anymore, should be really interesting :D

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World Superbikes should be great this year. I personally think that it was better to watch than Motogp last season.

Disagree with you there M8. WSB was (as always) a Ducati benefit. Apart from a few freak results if you hadn't got a Duke you weren't going to do owt. With the influx of works teams coming back to WSB then hopefully there should be some closer racing and then it should be on a par with Moto GP.

I still think that Silverstone is a shite place for bike racing - bring WSB back to Donington Park. Some m8s of mine went last year and they complained about how distant the bikes were at most parts of the circuit. For my own part I was part of the scrutineering team last year and unlike most circuits you can't actually see any of the bikes along the whole length of the start finish straight from pit lane. Lots of noise but no bikes!

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