Yamaha Classic Racing Team Parade Lap for TT2011

This year’s Isle of Man TT will celebrate Yamaha’s 50th anniversary, as well as the 100th anniversary of the racing on the Mountain course. through a parade lap by the Yamaha Classic Racing Team. The parade is set to take place on June 10, but the team will also participate in the Douglas Promenade on June 8 as part of the night-time entertainment.

The line up includes multiple world champion Phil Read, who also won 8 TT's and will ride the Yamaha RD05A 250cc that he rode to the '68 world championship. Read will be making his first appearance on a Yamaha since the 1972 TT.

Dieter Braun, world champion in 1970 and 1973, as well as a TT winner in 1970, will be riding the Yamaha YZ634 350cc that 7 time TT winner and fellow world champion Chas Mortimer raced on the Island in 1972, while Chas will parade on a Yamaha TZ750.

Kel Carruthers, who won the 1970 Lightweight 250cc TT, will be on a 1972 YZ635 250cc machine that he and Barry Sheene both raced in the World Championship. Tommy Robb will be riding the YZ623cc machine that he won the 1973 125cc Ultra-Lightweight TT race on.

Other famous riders in the line-up include Pentti Korhonen who will be riding a 350 4 cylinder RR08A and Jos Schurgers who will be on the four cylinder RA31A 125. American 750cc World Champion Steve Baker, who was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1989, will also participate.

In addition to that, the machines that will be on show will include Phil Read's RD56 from 1964 and Bill Ivy's 1960 TT winning RA97.