The normal excitement of the 2001 500cc MotorGP World Championship featured 4 Yamaha groups entering an overall of 8 products. The Yamaha YZR 500 '01 had undergone many improvements through the past 12 months. These alterations had been made to enhance driver feel, self-confidence, and rideability, and enabled crisper throttle reaction in slow corners, which encouraged the rider to speed up much harder and earlier in the day, among the YZR500's stronger traits. The greatest change on appearance the 2001 model wound up being this brand new carbon-fiber bodywork, which can be built to provide more stability at greater prices. The cyclists the two bikes entered by the Factory Yamaha team was in fact Massimiliano "Max" Biaggi, nicknamed "The Roman Emperor," and teammate Carlos Checa "El Toro." M. Biaggi secured their first success on French Grand Prix with C. Checa arriving second. Biaggi later on proceeded to just just take Round 7, the Dutch TT and Round 9, the German Grand Prix.
