Pata Maxus Yamaha’s riders Andrea Locatelli and Jonathan Rea both made a valiant effort in face of difficult track conditions to bring home valuable points, in Race 1 of Round 10 of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship in Spain today. Arid Aragon’s abrasive asphalt surface and challenging mountain circuit layout lived up to its reputation. Qualifying alongside each other, Rea P8 and Locatelli P9 in the rapid Superpole session, gave the pair a solid opportunity to get goo

Andrea Locatelli finished fourth overall on Friday in a close fight for the top three positions, with Jonathan Rea just a couple of tenths back during Free Practice at MotorLand Aragon in Spain for Round 10 of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship. The Pata Maxus Yamaha riders built a solid base on which to tackle the weekend ahead, utilising Friday’s two 45-minute sessions to log data in preparation for the main points-paying races on Saturday and Sunday. Further refinem

Andrea Locatelli and Jonathan Rea are ready to take on one of the more challenging and technical circuits on the calendar, MotorLand Aragon, this weekend for Round 10 of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship from 26-28 September.   The highest point of the Spanish circuit lies 50m above the start-finish straight, a climb that steeply drops down the “Corkscrew” of Turns 8 and 9, a 7.2% gradient descent. Yamaha Rider Coach Eugene Laverty offers keen insight into Aragon’s 5.

Jonathan Rea led the charge at Magny-Cours for Pata Maxus Yamaha today with a fight for the podium in Race 2, while teammate Andrea Locatelli dug deep to recover strongly from the back of the grid and bank valuable points for the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship in France. From P13 on the grid, the team’s Northern Irishman fought through to seventh in the Superpole Race this morning to earn himself a well-deserved opportunity to take the bull by the horns in the final fe

Starting from the last row of the grid was “sans problème” for Pata Maxus Yamaha’s Andrea Locatelli, after a crash on his first timed lap of qualifying saw him severely disadvantaged for Race 1 at Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, for Round 9 of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship in France today. The high-speed crash in this morning’s Superpole meant the 28-year-old Italian lost the opportunity to start on the front row, as his pace on Friday and in Free Practice 3 had po

Starting strong on Friday, Andrea Locatelli finished third-fastest and Jonathan Rea seventh overall during Free Practice at Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours for Round 9 of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship. After torrential rain yesterday, the weather brightened for the first day on track following the summer break, with two 45-minute Free Practice sessions to dial in the Yamaha R1 WorldSBK to the 4.411km French venue. Locatelli quickly built his pace today, with a clear

Andrea Locatelli and Jonathan Rea return from summer break to start the final four rounds of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship for Pata Maxus Yamaha, with Magny-Cours from 5-7 September this weekend in France. “The weather has historically played havoc at Magny-Cours, but the asphalt surface has been updated in recent years which has improved the grip level dramatically,” Yamaha’s Rider Coach Eugene Laverty explains. “There are quite a few fast changes of direction, t

Following the announcement yesterday of six-time World Champion – and most successful WorldSBK rider of all time – Jonathan Rea’s retirement from full-time racing, Pata Maxus Yamaha Team Principal Paul Denning shares a statement on “JR’s” long-lasting legacy. Rea’s two years as an Official Yamaha WorldSBK rider bookend a monumental career which transcends the sport and stands as an inspiration for many. As Denning describes, Rea’s contribution to Pata Maxus Yamaha and its val

Six-time FIM Superbike World Champion Jonathan Rea has announced that he will retire from full-time competition when his agreement with Yamaha Motor Europe comes to an end at the close of the 2025 season. Rea’s history speaks for itself; since making his debut in the Superbike class as a wildcard in 2008, the Northern Irishman has lined up for an astonishing 459 races over his 17 years racing at the highest level. 119 victories, 264 podium places, 44 pole positions, 104 faste

Andrea Locatelli’s strong run of form continued with two more encouraging performances, pushing his race package for Pata Maxus Yamaha to the limits at Balaton Park Circuit, as Round 8 of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship concluded in Hungary today. Mirroring recent results from Misano and Donington, the 28-year-old has not finished outside of the top five in nine successive races. During the Superpole Race this morning, a damp but drying circuit offered a chance at t

Pata Maxus Yamaha’s Andrea Locatelli kept a cool head in high temperature track conditions to bring home a strong result from Race 1 at Balaton Park Circuit, for Round 7 of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship in Hungary today. Qualifying on the front row of the grid in a frenetic Superpole this morning with the third-fastest lap time amid a red-flagged session, the #55 rider launched an attack for the race lead immediately – getting in front of Toprak Razgatlioglu until

Andrea Locatelli and Jonathan Rea had their first look at Balaton Park Circuit today in Friday Free Practice as they prepare for Round 8 of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship in Hungary. The Pata Maxus Yamaha pair tackled two trouble-free 45-minute sessions, learning the details of the short and technical 4.075km track at full WorldSBK speed in preparation for the main points-paying races. Even if the results sheet did not demonstrate it, for Rea it was a positive ‘Day

Andrea Locatelli and Jonathan Rea are ready to take on a new challenge this weekend, as the FIM Superbike World Championship visits Balaton Park for the first time from 25-27 July. Pata Maxus Yamaha heads to Hungary off the back of a strong weekend of racing at their UK home round at Donington Park, where Rea took his best qualifying result of the year in P4 followed up by two top six results – and Locatelli collected a significant points haul with fourth, fifth and fourth pl

Both Andrea Locatelli and Jonathan Rea represented Pata Maxus Yamaha super strongly at the team’s home round in the UK today, for Round 7 of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship. ­ The team could ask nothing more of 28-year-old Italian rider Locatelli, whose outstanding performance across the weekend of P4, P5 and P4 was rewarded as his best Donington Park results since joining WorldSBK in 2021, despite finishing just shy of a podium in both Race 1 and Race 2. Fans were

A season-best combined team qualifying set the stage for an epic battle for the podium for Pata Maxus Yamaha and its riders Jonathan Rea and Andrea Locatelli at Donington Park, for Round 7 of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship today.   Rea led the charge in the first few laps of Race 1, from a super strong fourth-place qualifying at his and the team’s home event. An incredible launch from the second row saw the Northern Irishman as high as second in the opening corners

Pata Maxus Yamaha’s Andrea Locatelli and Jonathan Rea got to work today in Friday’s Free Practice at the team’s home event at Donington Park, for Round 7 of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship. With air temperatures reaching 31 degrees Celsius, the park grounds of the East Midlands venue could easily be mistaken for a European holiday destination as cloudless skies and relentless sunshine greeted the WorldSBK field today. Locatelli’s 45 laps across both Free Practice 1

A team’s home race is a special event, with extra support and the boost of friends and partners, family and fans cheering – none more so than for Pata Maxus Yamaha than the UK Round of the FIM Superbike World Championship this weekend from 11-13 July. The site of Yamaha’s first victories since returning to WorldSBK competition in 2016 – a spectacular “double” achieved in 2018 – Donington is a strong circuit for the R1 and for local hero Jonathan Rea. Rea stormed to third plac

Andrea Locatelli celebrated a well-deserved podium in the Superpole Race this morning, followed by a fighting fourth place finish in Race 2 at Misano World Circuit as Round 6 of the FIM Superbike World Championship concluded today. Pata Maxus Yamaha’s Italian rider fully maximised his Yamaha R1 WorldSBK package with zero mistakes in front of an enthusiastic home crowd of more than 76,000 people with a trio of strong results across the weekend’s three races. Third place in the

Pata Maxus Yamaha’s Andrea Locatelli put in a fine effort to fight for the podium in Race 1 at Misano World Circuit, during Round 6 of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship in Italy today. The hottest track temperatures of the weekend so far made conditions exceptionally challenging for the WorldSBK premier class this afternoon on the Adriatic Coast, but Locatelli did everything he could to stay with the podium fight until the end of 21 scintillating laps. From a P7 grid

Summer arrived on the Adriatic Coast today as Andrea Locatelli and Jonathan Rea got to work for Pata Maxus Yamaha in Round 6 of the 2025 FIM Superbike World Championship at Misano World Circuit in Italy. Track temperatures approaching 50 degrees Celsius and an air temperature of 30 degrees signalled the first real hot conditions of the season, as the WorldSBK field started its race weekend preparation in earnest during Friday Free Practice. Italian home hopeful Locatelli is a