A lot can be written about Yamaha's first World Champion, but I will firstly make a picture file, the stories come later when I have time.

Cees van Dongen started as a rider already in the 1950's. As he worked later-on as Workshop foreman for the Dutch Yamaha Importer Messrs. "Het Motorpaleis", (the Motorpalace), he also became one of the first Yamaha riders in Europe.