Gardner To Make Wild-Card Entry at the Grand Prix of Japan with the Yamaha Factory Racing Team
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is delighted to announce that Remy Gardner will spearhead the Yamaha Factory Racing Team as a wild-card rider at Round 16 of the 2024 FIM MotoGP World Championship, held at the Mobility Resort Motegi.
Iwata (Japan), 28th September 2024
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce that Remy
Gardner will be a wild-card entry in the Motul
Grand Prix of Japan, Round 16 of the 2024 FIM MotoGP World Championship. He will be riding the Yamaha Factory Racing Team YZR-M1 (with Monster Energy
Yamaha MotoGP livery) at the Mobility Resort Motegi circuit
in the race weekend of 4 - 6 Oct.
Gardner already rode the 2024 Yamaha YZR-M1 in the German GP and the
British GP, making him the ideal choice for the Yamaha Factory Racing
Team for their home GP. The former Moto2 World Champion's
participation in the 2024 Japanese GP will be his first time riding at the
Motegi track on a premier-class bike since 2022.
Kazutoshi Seki
Yamaha Factory Racing Test Team Leader
Remy Gardner
Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Test Team Replacement Rider
I
am really excited to race in Japan, it's a country I always enjoyed visiting in
Grand Prix racing, but to go to Japan and race for a Japanese manufacturer in
MotoGP in front of the Japanese fans will be something special. It is nice that,
after Sachsenring and Silverstone, Yamaha have asked me to come back. They
clearly feel that I bring something to the development programme, so hopefully
we can have a productive weekend in Motegi too. It will be a busy period for me
with five races in five weeks, but I ride bikes almost every weekend anyway, so
it's nothing new for me!
Bike development is at the heart of Yamaha's every move this year. The engineers are working very hard, and I am fully convinced that this wild-card entry will accelerate Yamaha's endeavours to develop prototype parts and increase bike performance. Remy Gardner has already successfully tested protype items for the M1 on two occasions earlier this year, so his prior experience makes him a logical choice in Cal Crutchlow's absence due to injury.