Yamaha Hosts Three Times World MotoGP Champion Jorge Lorenzo

Yamaha Motor India Sales Pvt. Ltd, hosted the three time World MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo in India for the second time for promoting motorsports. Indian biking and motorsport lovers welcomed him to ride Yamaha's flagship 300cc bike in India YZF - R3 on the race track at Buddh International Circuit.         

        

The purpose of the Champion's visit to India is to cheer- up and encourage the motorsports enthusiasts, to initiate the interest among the young generation towards this field and also in bracing the Motorsports fan community. At the Buddh International Circuit, Lorenzo met 30 lucky winners of R3 owners and they have gotten an opportunity to  share the track with this MotoGP champion in a riding session. 

On this remarkable occasion, Managing Director of Yamaha Motor India Sales Pvt. Ltd, Mr. Masaki Asano says, " We are delighted to bring Lorenzo for the second time in India and present him to the Indian Motorsport fans.'' He added that Lorenzo has helped Yamaha to win another championship. He also adds that motorsports has been an integral part of Yamaha's corporate system and this visit of Lorenzo shows the Yamaha's commitment towards the promotion of motorsports in India.

Yamaha also hosted the MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi during the 2010 Auto Expo. For this time, Lorenzo rode the R3 and was all praise for the bike. Since from the launch, R3 has received rave reviews from the critics as well as customers and that results in huge surge of sales in last couple of months.

Jorge Lorenzo, the current world MotoGP champion expressed his happiness in coming back to India, thanked all the fans in India and all over the world for their continued support and also thanked Yamaha for organizing this visit. He added that, BIC is the international track of international standards and riding R3 with Indian enthusiasts was a great experience and he expected India to be as major force in motorsports in times to come.

Lorenz joined the MotoGP Yamaha Racing team in 2008  and he has not looked back from then, won many titles and races. By 2012, Lorenzo became the first Spanish rider to win multiple premier class titles. And By 2015 , he became the Spanish rider with the most wins in MotoGP.