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april 19, 2023 - Yamaha Racing

Ténéré World Raid Team Ready to Kickstart Expanded 2023 Season in Morocco

After a successful inaugural year, the #yamahatenereworldraidteam, in partnership with Riders for Health, returns for its second season with an expanded rally program in 2023, including the launch of the all-new Ténéré Spirit Experience, which begins with the Morocco Desert Challenge from the 23rd to the 30th of April.

The Ténéré World Raid Team was set up not only to continue Yamaha’s rich and storied history of #racing in Africa, which started in 1979 with victory for Cyril Neveu in the first-ever running of the Paris Dakar Rally, but also to focus on reconnecting Yamaha's Rally program with the genuine spirit of adventure using machines that customers can also enjoy.

It is this rich history in the Paris Dakar that is commemorated with the livery that will adorn the bikes of the Ténéré World Raid Team this season. Based on the iconic colourway raced to victory in 1993 by Dakar legend Stéphane Peterhansel, the distinctive retro styling also celebrates a significant milestone for the Yamaha Ténéré family, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.

Riders #AlessandroBotturi and Pol Tarrés return for the 2023 season on board their GYTR-kitted Yamaha Ténéré 700 World Raid bikes as they look to build on the impressive results they achieved during their first year. 
The Ténéré World Raid Team project continues to grow from strength to strength, and in 2023 it will expand its schedule to compete in five rallies. After beginning their season at the Morocco Desert Challenge, the team will also take part in the Hellas Rally (22nd-28th May), the TransAnatolia (2nd-9th September), and the Tunisia Desert Challenge (October – Date TBC), before ending the year by re-tracing the original Paris-Dakar route at the Africa Eco Race (30th December – 14th January).

The new season also brings new management, with Marc Bourgeois taking over the running of the team through his company MBSM on behalf of Yamaha. The former official Yamaha Dakar and #enduro World Championship team manager brings a wealth of experience to the project and will spearhead an exciting new Yamaha Motor Europe program for 2023, the Ténéré Spirit Experience.
Over 40,000 riders across Europe are already enjoying the high torque engine, agile handling, and serious off-road capabilities that make the Ténéré 700 one of the most versatile motorcycles ever produced by Yamaha. Living up to the bike’s heritage and offering a unique way for #people to embrace their longing for adventure, for 2023, Yamaha Motor Europe is offering Ténéré owners the chance to fulfil a dream by joining the Ténéré World Raid Team at each of the rallies they are competing in.

At each #Event, up to 20 Ténéré Spirit Experience customers will be transported with their bikes to the rally, where they will get to ride parts of each stage while following a route parallel to the main race competitors. The participants will travel with and live alongside the Ténéré World Raid Team and riders in the bivouac, creating a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience that will give them a taste of what it is like to compete in Rally Raid and perhaps fuel their own #racing ambitions.

Throughout the year, several special guests will also participate in the Ténéré Spirit Experience, riding alongside the customers while sharing with them their unique knowledge and passion for #racing. Fittingly, at the Morocco Desert Challenge, the first guest to join the program is also the man that inspired the commemorative livery on the race bikes of Tarres and Botturi, Stéphane Peterhansel. The Frenchman is the most successful Dakar competitor of all time, with six victories for Yamaha in the bike category and a further eight victories on four wheels. Peterhansel will accompany the Ténéré Spirit Experience riders in Morocco for the last four days of the rally, returning on two wheels to the continent on which he wrote his name large in the record books for the first time.

The 2023 season also sees the extension of the project’s partnership with Riders for Health to raise awareness of the charity's tremendous work supplying, managing and maintaining motorcycles for health-focused operations in Africa. During 2022 Yamaha Motor Europe helped raise over €30,000 for the charity, with Botturi and Tarrés taking their race bikes to visit Riders for Health in The Gambia after the Africa Eco Race to see for themselves the fantastic work they do first-hand.
Due to a conflict with the second round of the Italian national rally championship, the Campionato Italiano Motorally, Botturi will be replaced at the Morocco Desert Challenge by former Yamaha Dakar rider and off-road #racing legend Rodney Fagotter. It will be the Australian’s first Rally Raid #Event on the Ténéré 700 World Raid, and he is looking forward to reuniting with his former Yamaha Dakar team manager Bourgeois ahead of #racing in his first competitive rally since 2020.
The Ténéré World Raid Team begin their season at the Morocco Desert Challenge, which starts in Agadir on the 23rd of April with the Prologue and traverses over 2,000 km across eight stages before finishing in Merzouga on the 30th.

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