• added to the range, the 350cc two stroke twin R-1. In 1968, Yamaha launched their first four-stroke motorcycle, the XS-1. The Yamaha XS-1 was a 650cc four-stroke...
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  • Jarno Saarinen (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    as the Yamaha factory contracted him to ride their 350cc factory YZ634 motorcycles for the 1972 season. Saarinen was also riding a 250cc Yamaha TD3 production...
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    Giacomo Agostini (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    33-year-old Italian. In 1976, he rode both Yamaha and MV bikes in the 500cc class, yet raced only once in the 350cc to win in Assen. For the challenging Nürburgring...
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    Johnny Cecotto (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    outside of South America, he finished 35th overall at the Daytona 200 on a Yamaha 350cc, and suffered a mechanical failure after only 5 laps at the Imola 200...
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    case of the 350cc and 500cc classes). This led to a mass walk-out of the sport by the previously highly successful Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha manufacturer...
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    is the oldest motorsport World Championship. The 350cc class existed from 1949 until 1982. The 350cc referred to the size of the engines of the motorcycles...
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    1907 Isle of Man TT, expanding in 1911 to two individual races for the 350cc Junior TT motor-cycles and the Blue Riband event the 500cc Senior TT race...
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    Barry Sheene (category English motorcycle racers)
    Prix, Sheene's factory-supported Yamaha YZ635 was given to Jarno Saarinen, already a Yamaha factory rider in the 350cc class, who went on to win four races...
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  • Tony Rutter (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    the 350cc class in 1971, on a Yamaha, and the 250cc class in 1973 again on a Yamaha. Rutter won seven Isle of Man TT races: the Junior TT in 1973 and...
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    Carlos Lavado (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    finishing second in the 250cc class. The following season, he won the 350cc class at the 1979 Venezuelan Grand Prix. In 1980, he began competing full-time...
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    Hideo Kanaya (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    the All Japan Road Race Championship. In 1972 Yamaha sent Kanaya to Europe to compete in the 250cc and 350cc classes of the Grand Prix road racing world...
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    Kork Ballington (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    Formula One championship. He followed this performance by winning the 1976 350cc Spanish Grand Prix held on the challenging Montjuïc circuit in Barcelona...
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    Kenny Roberts (category American motorcycle racers)
    1972 Daytona 200, Roberts continued to impress observers when he rode a 350cc Yamaha TD3 to qualify on the front row of the starting grid with the fifth fastest...
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    limited to two cylinders and the 350cc and 500cc bikes were limited to four cylinders. The 350cc class was discontinued in 1982, two years later the 50cc class...
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    Anton Mang (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    claimed his first victory. In 1975 he won the German Championship on 350cc Yamaha. Also in 1975 he competed in his first Grand Prix at the Austrian round...
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  • Víctor Palomo (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    helping Palomo prepare his privateer Yamaha for Grand Prix racing. Palomo scored his first podium in 1973 at the 350cc German Grand Prix where he finished...
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    Phil Read (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    Norton at record speed followed by the Junior (350cc) TT race in 1961. He placed second in the 350cc and 500cc races at the 1961 North West 200 in Northern...
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    Kent Andersson (motorcyclist) (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    Retrieved 2018-01-21. Yamaha YZ623C 125cc Racing Motorcycle Bonhams, Retrieved 20 November 2015 "Lot 355: Yamaha YSK3 Sankito 350cc Racing Motorcycle"....
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  • Gregg Hansford (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    championship by six points. Ballington also claimed the 350cc World Championship, while Yamaha's Takazumi Katayama finished in second by a narrow one point...
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    Franco Uncini (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    year in the Grand Prix World Championship was with Yamaha in 1976, in both the 250cc and the 350cc classes. The following year he continued to race in...
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    Bruno Kneubühler (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    Kneubühler career statistics". motogp.com. Retrieved 28 December 2010. "1973 350cc Spanish Grand Prix". motogp.com. Retrieved 29 December 2010. "1974 250cc...
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    List of 500cc/MotoGP World Riders' Champions (category Lists of Grand Prix motorcycle racers)
    125cc, 250cc and MotoGP. Former classes that have been discontinued include 350cc, 50cc/80cc and Sidecar. The premier class is MotoGP, which was formerly...
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    Éric Saul (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    in the 1982 350cc world championship. Saul won two Grand Prix races during his career at the 1981 250cc Nations Grand Prix and the 1982 350cc Austrian...
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    minute (average speed over 150 mph). Duhamel's pole position on the tiny 350cc Yamaha motorcycle against the larger 750cc four-strokes marked the beginning...
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    Walter Villa (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    on to win the 1975 and 1976 250cc world championship together with the 350cc title in 1976. In addition to the four World titles, he won eight Italian...
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    the 1955 season. That year, he gained his first podiums on a Norton in 350cc in Germany and Ulster. He also won the round in 250cc while riding the best...
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    August/September 2005. Since 1937, the only "deathless" Isle of Man TTs happened in 1982 and 2024. Competition Non competition Competition Non competition "The Quick...
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    Bill Ivy (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    cc class, the highest-placed of the Yamahas. In 1966, he won his first race as a regular rider for the works Yamaha team in the first race of the year...
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    Dieter Braun (category 350cc World Championship riders)
    won the 1970 FIM 125cc World Championship for Suzuki. In 1973, he rode a Yamaha TZ 250 to the 250 cc FIM world championship. Braun was born in Ulm, Bavaria...
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    List of 500cc/MotoGP race winners (category Lists of Grand Prix motorcycle racers)
    Moto2, Moto3, and MotoE. Former classes that are now discontinued include 350cc, 50cc and sidecars. The premier class is MotoGP, which was formerly known...
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