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World Championship Motorsports (WCM) was a grand-prix motorcycle racing team formed in 1992 by american Bob MacLean and british Peter Clifford. The team ran Yamaha motorcycles from to and was called Red Bull Yamaha WCM. ==Competition history== The partnership began in when Yamaha made it possible for independent teams like WCM to purchase the YZR engine. The frames were built by ROC, Serge Rosset's company, and Peter Goddard was the first rider that WCM engaged. In the next five seasons riders like Niall Mackenzie, Andrew Stroud, Neil Hodgson and James Haydon rode the ROC-Yamaha bikes for WCM. In the team had a single ROC-Yamaha bike with Kirk McCarthy as rider. However, after the first three races the Promotor-Yamaha team withdrew from the championship. Yamaha invited WCM to take control of the team with two factory-spec YZR500s and riders Luca Cadalora and Troy Corser. WCM gained a Red Bull sponsorship and the team was rebranded as ''Red Bull Yamaha WCM''. In the 1998 Grand Prix season, WCM rider Simon Crafar scored the only victory of the season for a manufacturer other than Honda, when he won the 1998 British Grand Prix at Donington Park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1998 500cc British Grand Prix results )〕 The following year, WCM rider Régis Laconi won the 1999 500cc Valencia Grand Prix riding a Yamaha YZR500.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1999 500cc Valencia Grand Prix results )〕 The team experienced its greatest success in 2000 when rider Garry McCoy won three Grand Prix races however, inconsistent results relegated him to fifth place in the final standings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Garry McCoy MotoGP career statistics )〕 For when the rules changed to allow 4-stroke engines up to 990cc, WCM remained with the old 500cc 2-stroke motorcycles. Garry McCoy and John Hopkins, raced for the team. In , Chris Burns and José David de Gea made up the team's rider line-up. Red Bull left the team to sponsor KTM in the 125cc World Championship. WCM joined forces with Harris Performance Products and was renamed to Harris WCM. Harris WCM built their own 4-stroke MotoGP racer with an engine based on the Yamaha YZF-R1 engine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Red Bull Yamaha reborn as Harris WCM )〕 The FIM however found that the motorcycle was not in conformity with the championship technical regulations and the team was disqualified.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Harris WCM disqualified )〕 The team appealed but the International Disciplinary Court turned the appeal down.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WCM appeal verdict announced )〕 The team took their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (the final stage in the appeal process) but the court again ruled in FIM's favour.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WCM take FIM to Arbitration )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WCM lose arbitration )〕 Following the courts decision the team entered the British, German and the Czech Republic Grand Prix using 1993 2-stroke 500cc Yamaha-engined motorcycles while they continued to develop the 4-stroke machine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WCM to make MotoGP return – on '93 Yamahas! )〕 The Harris WCM motorcycle made its debut at the Portuguese Grand Prix.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WCM embarrass Kawasaki, Proton )〕 For Chris Burns was joined by Michel Fabrizio as the team riders. Following an injury mid-season Burns was replaced by James Ellison while Youichi Ui replaced Fabrizio following Fabrizio's one race ride for Aprilia at the Portuguese Grand Prix. Halfway through the season WCM announced that it joined forces with Blata to run a V6 machine for .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WCM to run Blata V6 in 2005! )〕 The team was called Blata WCM and James Ellison and Franco Battaini were the team riders. The new motorcycle was not ready at the start of the season and the team continued using their Harris WCM motorcycle. The new V6 motorcycle was due to make its debut at Czech Republic Grand Prix but it was not ready.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=No Blata V6 at Brno )〕 Blata said that the bike would be completed, but the motorcycle never raced.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Blata: The V6 will be completed )〕 The provisional entry list for listed WCM with Bimota engines and Jeremy McWilliams and Jason Perez as riders.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=McWilliams, Perez, Bimota on MotoGP entry list )〕 but the team was missing from the final entry list as the team dropped out of the championship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Final 2006 MotoGP entry list announced - no WCM )〕 In June 2006, WCM and Winona Racing, announced a strategic partnership to run a 250cc World Championship team in 2007 while WCM also planned a 2007 MotoGP return.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Winona, WCM join forces )〕 Winona WCM, did not race in 2007 after the team's principal sponsor failed to deliver funding in time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=250: Winona WCM postpone comeback )〕 Other notable WCM riders were John Hopkins, Noriyuki Haga, Alex Hofmann, and Ralf Waldmann. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Championship Motorsports」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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