The official MX Team of YAMAHA in Greece, the Yamaha Racing VGR team clinched the title in MX2 Class in the penultimate round of the MX National Tour. Young rider Manolis Kritikos had a successful season so far with 10 wins, one 2nd and one 3rd place finishes in the 6 Rounds of the Tour. The National Tour comprises of 7 Rounds and six of them have been completed however the 19 years old Kritikos has been way ahead in the points therefore, he has clinched the title no matter whether he will compete in the final Round. Team manager and chief mechanic Stavros Georgakopoulos (ex-multi National MX champion in Greece) revealed that the team used some new parts made from R&D Racing that boost up the performance of the Yamaha YZ250F and enhanced the overall pace of Manolis Kritikos. Precisely the new R&D RC2 cams and the R&D velocity stack along the reprogrammed mapping provided by R&Ds Bill Chapin (former top AMA Supercross/National tuner) and used in the 6th Round and raised the overall performance.
