‘Win on Sunday and sell on Monday’ seems like Yamaha’s motto since it showed up at the Grand Prix of France in the summer of 1961 for the first time. After clinching its first GP win in 1963, the folks at Iwata went on to win their first rider championship and constructor title in ’64. And the rest is history.
So, as a toast to its diamond jubilee in the world of racing, Yamaha unveiled the World GP 60th Anniversary Editions of its big guns- the R1, R7 and R3 last year. But how could they leave out the R15 that brings in a significant chunk of its sales?
Well, that’s what you see here- the Yamaha R15 V4 World GP 60th Anniversary Edition. Even though we have ridden the standard and M variants of the R15 previously, we felt this special edition needed a section of its own.