YAMAHA AND COLIN EDWARDS TO RACE TOGETHER FOR ANOTHER YEAR
Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd is delighted to announce that it has
signed a new one-year deal with current Tech 3 Yamaha team
rider Colin Edwards. Edwards will continue to race with the
Tech 3 Team alongside Briton James Toseland in 2009.
The Texan has agreed the new one-year contract for the 2009
MotoGP World Championship after enjoying the best spell of
his premier class career with Herve Poncharal’s Tech
3 Yamaha squad. The 34-year-old has already scored two podium
finishes, four top five finishes and one pole position in
2008. He has been on the front row a further four times and
is currently challenging for a top four position in the overall
world championship standings.
Next year will be Edwards’ fifth season with Yamaha
in MotoGP, during which time he has been one of the most consistent
performers in the championship, scoring points in all but
ten of his 94 MotoGP races. Eight out of ten of Edwards’
MotoGP career podium finishes have been with Yamaha.
Lin Jarvis, Managing Director of Yamaha Motor Racing commented
“We are very happy to have been able to secure Colin
as a Yamaha rider for 2009. We have been working to improve
the quality of the total Yamaha package in the MotoGP class
and in 2008 we have achieved the best combined results to
date for many years. This comes down to the fact that in the
Yamaha Factory Team and the Tech 3 Yamaha Team we currently
have two excellent squads, with first-class technical partners,
a great bike and four top class riders. Colin’s contribution
to the improvement of results in the Tech 3 Team has been
very important for the team and for the overall factory results.
Colin has also played a very important role in the pre-season
bike development for 2008 and we are very happy to have retained
his skills and experience for the 2009 campaign. I hope Colin
can celebrate this new contract this weekend with a top result
here in front of his home fans at Laguna Seca!”
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