During the 1970s and 1980s, Chevallier designed and built road racing motorcycles using Yamaha engines and campaigned them in the Grand Prix world championships.
Thereafter, he was contracted by the Japanese firm Yamaha and participated in the creation of the first competition Trial bike for the brand in 1971, the TY 250cc.
Van Velthoven's best individual performance was a third place in the 500cc World Championship in 1973 with the Yamaha factory racing team.
WaveRunner is a trademarked name and type of personal water craft (PWC) produced by the Yamaha Motor Company.
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The first car, the BT60Y was powered by the Yamaha OX99 V12 engine and was driven by Martin Brundle, returning to Brabham and F1 again after driving for Jaguar in the World Sportscar Championship.
In 1979, Noyce claimed the F.I.M. 500cc motocross world championship by defeating a strong field of riders that included his Honda teammate, André Malherbe, as well as Roger De Coster and Gerrit Wolsink riding for Suzuki, Brad Lackey with Kawasaki and Heikki Mikkola with Yamaha.
He had his best year in 1968 when he rode for the MZ factory racing team to finish the 250cc season in third place behind Yamaha team-mates Phil Read and Bill Ivy.
But his pedigree could not be ignored and he was soon called up to stand in at Virgin Mobile Yamaha in the British Superbike series.
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