Ville Valtonen

Welcome to the homepage of Finnish RR-rider Ville Valtonen. Through these pages, one can follow the life, riding and races of Ville

For the season 2011 Ville is riding with yet another motorcycle brand. Tool of trade is going to be Yamaha`s proven YZF-R6 bike in “cup” specification.
Reason for keeping this bike very close to standard trim is naturally the rules that are used in German Yamaha cup. So the big news is, for the season 2011 we are going to step it up a notch and ride the full Yamaha cup series, run as a part of very successful and highly competitive IDM series in Germany. This cup which has been run for more than 30 years has developed 4 world champions and several national level champions. As a package, we as a team view it as the best way to “move up the ladder”, if you will. Since doing well in this series is usually noticed by bigger class people as well.

Rules are simple and plain. Every rider is riding with exact same bike, tires, suspension, brakes etc. So with these given rules there definitely will not be any technical advantage to any team/rider. It will be just about the rider and his skill to adjust the bike to his needs.

The class will be very competitive and challenges will be big for small team from Finland, but we will give it everything we got, that is certain. At the end of January riders from 12 different country`s have been accepted and number of riders will be eventually limited to around 45. So do expect the competition to be fierce!