The manufacturing facility Yamaha MotoGP crew has introduced it is going to launch its 2026 season at an occasion in Jakarta, Indonesia, in mid-January forward of testing.
The Japanese producer enters a daring new period in 2026 because it will get set to race its first V4 bike within the fashionable period.
The brand new venture was introduced final 12 months, with Yamaha confirming in the course of the Valencia Grand Prix weekend that it was formally retiring its inline-four engine.
Subsequent 12 months is seen as a pivotal one for Yamaha’s future, because it hopes to place a motorcycle on observe in pre-season testing and the very early rounds adequate to persuade 2021 world champion Fabio Quartararo to decide to the model past 2026.
Quartararo scored a handful of podiums throughout a 2025 marketing campaign during which he was a reduce above the remainder of the Yamaha secure, with the Frenchman cracking the highest 10 within the standings.
He’ll be a part of team-mate Alex Rins on 21 January in Jakarta on the Yamaha Indonesia Motor Manufacturing Vendor Assembly to unveil the brand new V4 bike’s livery for the 2026 season.
The model will then seemingly be in motion on the finish of the month for the Sepang shakedown.
It’s the solely producer coming into the 2026 season in rank D of the concessions desk, which suggests it may possibly take a look at freely in the course of the 12 months and never be topic to an engine improvement freeze.
Yamaha’s satellite tv for pc squad, Pramac Racing, is ready to be the primary crew to launch its 2026 season, after asserting an occasion in Siena, Italy, on 13 January.
The VR46 Ducati crew will comply with subsequent on 14 January, because it teases a brand new livery reveal at an occasion in Rome.
Aprilia completes a hat-trick of crew launches on 15 January in Milan, the place Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi will unveil the colors of the 2026 RS-GP on the Sky studios.
Reigning champion Ducati will host its season launch occasion on 19 January in Italy’s Madonna di Campiglio with Marc Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia.
The one different crew with a confirmed launch date to this point is Gresini Racing, who will host an occasion on 31 January in Kuala Lumpur following the shakedown at Sepang.
MotoGP may even stage an official launch occasion for the 2026 season within the Malaysian capital on 6-7 February instantly after the primary official take a look at.
