Yamaha Motor France Ipone YZF R1 (R.I.P Norick Abe)

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Yamaha Motor France Ipone team worked for WSBK since 2004 till 2006 signed riders Sebestien Gimbert since beginning till discontinuity of team where as Norick Abe joined for 2005 and 2006 season but Alessandro Gramigni raced in 11th round for 2005 season and, Shinichi Nakatomi as Yamaha France Ipone 2 participates for all rounds but Lorenzo Alfonsi raced in 3rd round for 2006 season as 2006 was the last WSBK season for Norifumi 'Norick' Abe as he died in 2007. The tram Discontinued in 2007 season with only Yamaha Motor Italia team left until 2007 as their decals and paintworks looked alike However, Italia has red where as France has blue body colours. Perhaps Sebestian Gimbert raced for 8th and 11th round for 2004 season and began Racing regularly alongside Norick Abe till 2006 and Shinichi Nakatomi also raced regularly only for 2006. Bike is designed by me by googling some pictures of bike, pictures taken of the angle that could made me to design easily, As I've used my original own designed Yamaha YZF R1 2005 road bike model for retexturing purpose for converting to Race version, numbers removed, tank caps removed, headlights removed but in actual WSBK Bikes headlight stickers like NASCAR are featured but I didn't feature here. can be used for any purpose either you put numbers on it by yourself. NORICK ABE: On October 7, 2007 while riding a 500 cc Yamaha T-Max scooter in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Abe was involved in a traffic accident with a truck, which made an illegal U-turn in front of him, at 6:20 p.m. local time. He was pronounced dead two and a half hours later, at 8:50 p.m., at the hospital where he was taken for treatment. THIS BIKE DEDICATES AND GOTS TRIBUTED TO NORIFUMI 'NORICK' ABE (1975-2007) #yamaha #rip #norick #abe