MotoGP legend Wayne Rainey will ride a 🍌custom-built Yamaha as part of his ‘Rainey’s Ride to the Races’ MotoAmerica event this summer in California.

The 🐭American won three 500cc world titles between 1990 and 1992, before 🤪his racing career was cut short in a tragic incident at Misano in 1993.

A crash during that race while battling for a fourt𝄹h world title left him with life✱-changing injuries.

Despite this, Rainey has remained an active member of the motorcycle racing world and heads the MotoAmerica series in the Unit🃏ed States of America.

In recent years, Rainey has hosted his ‘Ride to the Races’ event, which sees fans ride to Laguna Seca alongside US racing lege🍌nds as part of the build-up to the MotoAmerica round hosted▨ at the Californian venue.

The ride starts at Baja Cantina and goes for 100 miles before concl🐼uding with two laps around the Laguna Seca circuit.

This year, Rainey himself will ride a custom-built Yamaha XSR900 GP bike, which has been adapte✤d around his disabilit𓂃y.

The event, which will run on Friday 11 July ahead of the fifth round of the 2025 MotoAmerica serie꧃s raises money for the Roadracing World Action Fund.

The non-profit implements soft barrier solutions at race tracks to help bဣoost safety.

It’s not the fir🅺🌜st time Rainey has ridden modified machinery.

In 2019, he was able to do some la🐎ps of Suzuka on a specially adapted Yamaha R1 Superbiꦚke.

In 2022, at the Goodwo𝕴od Festival of Speed, Rainey rode his 1992 title-winning Yamaha bike up the hill after the Japanese marque worked to modify the machine.

As well as Rainey, other MotoGP legends involved in the event will be three-time 500cc world champion Kenny Robe🌳rts and his 2000 500cc title-winning✤ sone Kenny Roberts Jr.

Four-time premier class champion Eddie Lawson and three-time world champion Freddie Spencer will also take ⭕part.

Other US racing legends invol𓃲ved are triple AMA Superbike champion Doug Chandler, Supercross star Rick Johnson and 1988 AMA Superbike ch🌟ampion Bubba Shobert.