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Many motorsports fans enjoy the powerful acceleration of large displacement V8 engines. Also drag races had been actually recognized as a professional competition when Yamaha started a project to build a motorcycle with an image of a V8 hotrod. This was the start of the development of V-max. The concept for the development for the model was very simple and clear- to build the strongest bike with V4 engine. | Many motorsports fans enjoy the powerful acceleration of large displacement V8 engines. Also drag races had been actually recognized as a professional competition when Yamaha started a project to build a [[motorcycle]] with an image of a V8 hotrod. This was the start of the development of V-max. The concept for the development for the model was very simple and clear- to build the strongest bike with V4 engine. | ||
Says Mr. Araki: "There was one impressive scene I saw, when I visited the USA to study the market. It was a ' Bridge Race'. Each time two bikes bikes lined up and set off. They simply competed for acceleration speed for 400 meter. Young people were crazily enjoying the Zero 4 race (400- meter race). (Of course it was not an official name of the race but Yamaha R&D staff nicknamed it). They were using a bridge over the Mississippi River. They started from one end of the bridge, and the finish line was the opposite side. It was a simple rule. First concept I imagined from this impressive race was 'To make a bike, which is strong at straight lines and really fast.' It was the birth of the 'V-max' concept." | Says Mr. Araki: "There was one impressive scene I saw, when I visited the USA to study the market. It was a ' Bridge Race'. Each time two bikes bikes lined up and set off. They simply competed for acceleration speed for 400 meter. Young people were crazily enjoying the Zero 4 race (400- meter race). (Of course it was not an official name of the race but Yamaha R&D staff nicknamed it). They were using a bridge over the Mississippi River. They started from one end of the bridge, and the finish line was the opposite side. It was a simple rule. First concept I imagined from this impressive race was 'To make a bike, which is strong at straight lines and really fast.' It was the birth of the 'V-max' concept." | ||