The Guyot Motorcycling Team was founded in 1992 by Christophe Guyot - himself a former rider and passionate sportsman - with the aim of making motorcycle racing more accessible to the young people of France.

In 2003, the team linked up with Yamaha Motor France to become a more professional concern and has since gone from strength to strength, including becoming Endurance World Champion in 2004. Now known as the Yamaha GMT94 team, the squad operates a strategy focused on two very different road race classes - sprint racing and endurance racing.

Although the team is moving into WSBK for 2008, it will continue with its previous rider line-up line up of David Checa and Sébastien Gimbert - and once again enter the world's two most demanding Endurance races; the Le Mans 24 Hours and the Bol d'Or 24 Hours.

2004 Endurance world champion Checa, 27, has raced in WSS with Yamaha GMT94 for the past two seasons. The younger brother of former MotoGP star Carlos Checa, David's racing pedigree includes 250GP and European Supersport before he moved into Endurance racing in 2003. In addition, that same year he was Pirelli's WSBK control tyre tester and participated in a handful of WSBK races.

Gimbert is also a long-time member of the Yamaha GMT94 Team, having first joined the team's Endurance effort in 2004 and become world champion in the same year. Like many Frenchmen the 30 year-old has specialised in the Endurance scene, having won the Bol d'Or with Checa and the GMT94 team in 2007 as well winning the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2005.

But he also has 45 WSBK races under his belt. Gimbert achieved his best WSBK result in 2004 when he scored two fourth position finishes at Magny-Cours. This success was enough to gain him a full-time WSBK ride with Yamaha Motor France the following year, although a broken leg during the season prevented him from showing his full potential.

British rider Steve Plater will join the duo for Le Mans and Bol d'Or. In 2007 the Yamaha GMT94 Team won the Bol d'Or for the first time in style, with a five lap lead, having already won the Le Mans 24hrs twice as a team.

Yamaha GMT94 will receive some support from Yamaha Motor Europe next year, which recognises the importance of Endurance racing in France and the dream of team owner Guyot to become a future top contender in World Superbikes.