clinching the championship in a tightly contested Race One at the 2011 season finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park. The lead changed hands several times before Hayes emerged with the win, his third of the season. The Monster Energy Graves Yamaha R1 rider was consistent all season, finishing wi...
The Yamaha R1 had arrived, and it set a new benchmark for the sport bike industry. It’s a bar that Yamaha continues to raise to this very day, with the introduction of muscular naked motorcycles such as the MT-series (formally the FZ-series in the USA), the introduction of Yamaha’...