Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the signing of renowned Portuguese MotoGP™ rider Miguel Oliveira. He will be joining the Prima Pramac Yamaha Factory Team for the 2025 and 2026 seasons. Oliveira is currently in his sixth season in MotoGP™ and his fourteenth year in the paddock. The 29-year-old has earned an impressive 17 race wins and 41 podium finishes across all Moto classes.

In 2025-2026, fans can look forward to seeing Oliveira ride the Factory Yamaha YZR-M1, a completely new bike for him. As a rider, he will have Yamaha’s full support.

Lin Jarvis (Managing Director, Yamaha Motor Racing): "We are pleased to announce that a professional and experienced rider like Miguel Oliveira is joining the Yamaha line-up for 2025-26, and we bid him a warm welcome to the Yamaha MotoGP Project. Miguel is a rider who has the technical know-how, experience, speed, and precision needed to improve the performance of the Yamaha YZR-M1. We are really looking forward to working with him as a key member of the Yamaha MotoGP project, and he can count on our full support."

Miguel Oliveira: "It's a great privilege for me to represent such an iconic brand in our sport as Yamaha. Through my years of progression and arriving in MotoGP, I've always looked upon the blue bikes with great enthusiasm. It's now a reality, and I want to thank Yamaha Motor Company for its commitment to me in such an important transition phase of the project. Mr. Lin Jarvis was a key figure in starting discussions and making this happen. I believe I can be useful in this transition period of bringing the bike back to the top. I want to thank Mr. Campinoti, Gino Borsoi, and all the Pramac staff for embarking on this journey together. I can't be happier and more excited to get this new chapter started."