Upfront PLANET FAST BIKES – NEW METAL, NEWS & REVIEWS
Is it really 25 years since the Yamaha R1 rocked our world? It shurely is. And while Yamaha as a whole has been a little bit slack on the celebrations front, its GYTR (Genuine Yamaha Technology Racing) factory race tuning arm has been beavering away on this saucy piece of nonsense. The GYTR PRO 25th Anniversary R1 is apparently as close to a WSBK or WEC machine as you can get without running a world championship race team – and it has a price tag to match. It's built by the factory's own race technicians, with engine and chassis parts filched from the world race programme, and will set you back a stunning £138,000 including VAT. That's enough to get you five brand new R1M superbikes, with change left over for trackdays and tyres for the year…
The spec is pretty amazing: full WSBK built motor with more than 230bhp, Magnetimanagement, factory swingarm, Öhlins race FGR forks and TTX shock, Brembo GP4 brakes and full Akrapovic race pipe. Of course, it's a track only bike – though we'd love to see one banging along the A272 on a trade plate. The closest parallel we can think of is the BMW HP4 Race – also a barely disguised WSBK/WEC bike festooned in carbon, and also not road legal.
