Yamaha Motor Australia will have an increased presence at motocross tracks around Australia with multiple teams and riders contesting this year’s ProMX championship.
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In 2025, Yamaha revamped their motocross effort by uniting the teams with a range of partners and sponsors that raised the level of all involved. Monster Energy, FOX, Dunlop, Yamalube and GYTR all combined to present a striking and united front in 2025 that was well received by the riders and the industry.
2026 will see the continuation of our four major motocross teams, as well as the introduction of another Yamaha mounted team, more riders support plus international riders contesting the ProMX championship.
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The 2026 team of Jed Beaton and Aaron Tanti has already been announced, and with the stability of the rider lineup, it allows the team to focus on bike development and infrastructure for the upcoming year.
The team had a head start using the significantly upgraded 2026 YZ450F in last year’s Supercross championship and already gained a valuable insight into the latest generation 450. The lessons learnt during supercross were immediately put into place and once Jed Beaton returned to action late last year, they were able to instantly provide him with a race ready weapon for his pre-season.
On top of that, Beaton was able to spend a few days testing prior to the Christmas break and feels he is in a strong position as we work towards round one of the ProMX Championship in March.
“I basically had three months off the bike with my leg injury, but I was surprised at how I felt when I got back on the bike and how well the bike was working,” Beaton comments. “It didn’t take long at all to get back up to a good speed and there were a lot of positives to take from the bike even though they had only raced supercross on it.
“After a few days with the team to get things personalised for me, I felt great and now we are just in the process of the pre-season grind and getting my fitness base back to where it needs to be. The results of the last two seasons have only driven my motivation to be better, and I will be ready to go when the gates drop at round one,” he ends
Aaron Tanti also enters the new season full of positivity. The 2022 ProMX champ has had a wretched run with injury in recent times but believes that is all behind him now and a good block of racing through supercross, that saw him improve at every round, has him buoyant about the season ahead.
“The last few seasons, it seems like I have taken a step forward, only to take two steps back with injury and the lack of continuity in my riding and training has had an effect. So, this year the focus has shifted slightly with the goal to be not just faster, but make better decisions on the track, put blocks of riding together so I can improve and be there at the end of every championship.
I’m a bit older and hopefully wiser now, so that experience needs to benefit me in the way I approach my riding and training.
It’s also good to have the same team again behind me. No more swapping bikes in the off season or getting used to a different group of people, now I can just get down to business and prepare myself for the ProMX championship ahead,” Tanti confirmed.
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At certain rounds this year, it will be like the United Nations under the Yamalube Yamaha awning as riders from three different nationalities will contest the ProMX championship in 2026.
Noah Ferguson will headline the MX2 line up for 2026. After finishing on the podium in 2025, Ferguson has made the switch from KTM to Yamaha for 2026 and believes that with the new bike and team, he can make another step forward in his riding and compete for this year’s ProMX Championship.
Joining him on the MX2 grid will be two-time IA2 Japanese champion, Soya Nakajima. The relationship between Yamaha Japan and Yamaha Motor Australia is a tight one and both have worked together again to provide Soya the platform for the next level of racing in his career as a reward for his success at home.
Soya is no stranger to racing internationally having competed in the 2025 Motocross of Nations in the US and was even in Australia for the World Junior Motocross Championships in Horsham back in 2018.
Soya will contest the ProMX championship and line up at the MXGP of Darwin later in the year as part of his 2026 program.
Lachlan Turner to WMX AUS PRO MX
And in a real coup, not just for Yamaha but also Women’s racing, Yamaha Motor Australia and Yamaha Motor USA have been able to work together to have two-time AMA Women’s Motocross Champion, Lachlan Turner, down under to contest the four-round WMX championship at the ProMX as well as the WMX division at the Darwin MXGP. And not just for 2026, she is on a two-year deal across both continents, so the Australian fans can get to know her.
Lala, as she is known, visited Australia last year for the Women’s Oceania Motocross Challenge and enjoyed her time here. So much so, that she wanted to come back and when the dates allowed her to contest both the AMA and the ProMX championships, both countries got to work and put an arrangement together that will see Lala cross the Pacific Ocean multiple times this year as her passion for racing knows no limit.
