#15: MXGP of Flanders

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rym 8/7/2025 2:43am
8/7/2025 2:43am Edited Date/Time 8/7/2025 2:44am

Isnt that more because he wants to support bervoets & de baets? And not specifically yamaha? 

 

Edit: in reply to cortami talking about corvers 

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Cortami79 8/7/2025 2:57am
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rym wrote:

Isnt that more because he wants to support bervoets & de baets? And not specifically yamaha? 

 

Edit: in reply to cortami talking about corvers 

Yeah I think so! Heard some rumours that Bervoets would head to De Baets next year for EMX250

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THE mx addict 8/7/2025 9:06am
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Snapper wrote:

I could see Gifting and Vlaanderen together at JK Yamaha next year.

I don't think JK team has enough budget to run a two riders effort for 2026 MXGP championship...

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mx691 8/7/2025 10:04am
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Snapper wrote:

I could see Gifting and Vlaanderen together at JK Yamaha next year.

THE mx addict wrote:

I don't think JK team has enough budget to run a two riders effort for 2026 MXGP championship...

How long is Giftings contract with JK?

THE mx addict 8/7/2025 10:22am
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mx691 wrote:

How long is Giftings contract with JK?

I don't know...

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Snapper 8/7/2025 10:31am
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Snapper wrote:

I could see Gifting and Vlaanderen together at JK Yamaha next year.

THE mx addict wrote:

I don't think JK team has enough budget to run a two riders effort for 2026 MXGP championship...

Maybe Yamaha will put some more cash into the team given that Vlaanderen has been putting the bike on the podium recently (and a few times last year).

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Elliot 8/7/2025 10:44am
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Snapper wrote:

I could see Gifting and Vlaanderen together at JK Yamaha next year.

THE mx addict wrote:

I don't think JK team has enough budget to run a two riders effort for 2026 MXGP championship...

mx691 wrote:

How long is Giftings contract with JK?

It ends this year.

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Brent 8/7/2025 11:03am
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Cortami79 wrote:
Interesting take Mattii, thanks for sharing. I remember De Reuver having issues with the Yamaha politics as well, back in his Rinaldi days. Also goes to...

Interesting take Mattii, thanks for sharing. I remember De Reuver having issues with the Yamaha politics as well, back in his Rinaldi days. Also goes to show how far team owners like Corvers & Hutten are going to make their riders happy (buying Star Racing engines, getting bikes tuned by Grolleman). Some may disagree with me on this, due to having more insight in their current atmosphere in the teams by knowing people personally, but if we don't have these team owners then the MXGP would be even less attractive for riders and we would have even less high paid riders. 

Seems like Corvers is really big into sponsoring multiple Yamaha teams, as I saw CorPallets on the MJC Yamaha team photo's, which is another company of him. 

Glad to see Benistant has a ride for Honda SR, now hopefully a team like JK Yamaha for example would be able to pick up Elzinga. Another hope for me is that Venrooy (KTM) adds a rider to their roster, next to Valk but then in the MXGP class.. I wouldn't be surprised if Vlaanderen gave him a call

Also, remember a few seasons back when Yamaha was running the 450 team in-house for the AMA series.

Race director Keith McCarty refused rider requests to change certain items on the bike, with some of their riders at the time hating the motorcycle, as Yamaha Japan was reluctant to approve what riders were asking for.

As we all know, in 2020 Yamaha 450 team management was given to Star Racing, who made improvements to the bike and immediately had success with Dylan Ferrandis winning the 450 outdoor title in 2021.

  Seems to me that Yamaha Corporate has a history of failing to work with riders to get the bike to work for each rider - even going back to Bob Hannah days -At the time, Yamaha management accused Hannah and Glover of being out of shape for the bikes poor performance after Hannah told Yamaha the bike was "an overweight, underpowered tub of shit"  

Hannah has said in many interviews that was one of the reasons he left Yamaha to go to Honda back in the day.

There is a lot more going on than what is being openly discussed lately, but for sure I hope they get their multiple issues worked out and start winning again.

 

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