Did you know Yamaha once made F1 engines? Discover the history behind their Formula 1 involvement and why they eventually ...

As for racing engines, things are a bit less rosy. Yamaha ran an F1 project from the tail end of the 1980s all the way into the mid 1990s, never with anything that you might call success.

and Yamaha didn't have a chance to refine the engine before Formula 1 regulations changed. Yamaha skipped out on the 1990 F1 season, developing its new OX99 3.5-liter V-12 for 1991. This wildly ...

Yamaha was an engine and parts supplier for Formula One ... According to Yamaha, it only weighed 1,000kg (2,204 pounds). The McLaren F1, another competing just-barely-road-legal racing car ...

Though the F1 used several Formula One-derived technologies ... However, instead of binning the engine, Yamaha decided to build a crazy supercar around it. Unveiled in 1992 and named OX99-11 ...

Another important feature of this project is the direct involvement of a certain professor Gordon Murray, the man behind many Formula One (F1 ... engine, as we start to ponder whether Yamaha ...

Yamaha can also count on its partnership with Marmotors, headed by ex-F1 designer Luca Marmorini, to aid in its V4 design. Marmorini previously contributed to Aprilia’s RS-GP V4 engine.