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Yamaha teams will celebrate the brand’s 60th Anniversary with a special retro yellow livery at this weekend’s Bol d’Or 24 Hours final round of the FIM Endurance World Championship (EWC).

After recently parting ways with the Milwaukee Yamaha team in the British Superbike Championship, Broc Parkes will be on track with the Monster Energy Yamaha Austria Racing Team (YART) alongside Iván Silva, Sheridan Morais and Max Neukirchner.

“I’m looking forward to Bol d’Or,” Parkes said. “The test went quite well and all the riders for our team were really fast. We were the only team that didn’t test there previously, while pretty much all the other teams had done a two-day test there, so we started on the back foot.

“To see what we did, all four of us were right on the pace which was similar to what we did at Oschersleben and I think for the race we are in a really good position. I’ve been doing a lot more training to be ready for the 24-hour long distance. In these endurance races you never know what will happen and this circuit is very hard on the engines, because the straight is so long.

“The engine is going to be under a lot of stress, so I think this is going to play part as an important factor in order to finish the race. Of course we want to be on the podium, but our goal is to win. During the test we tried to work on the bike’s fuel consumption to be able to ride longer stints.

“Last time out we had some problems, but there is no reason why we can’t win and we definitely had the pace during practice and qualifying. The tyres are quite close so I don’t think that will be a big issue.”

Current world champion GMT94 Yamaha’s David Checa, Kenny Foray and Mathieu Gines will also contest the weekend in Yamaha’s 60th Anniversary retro yellow colourway.