Yamaha Motor Europe is delighted to announce that the inaugural Yamaha R3 bLU cRU Challenge winner Alfonso Coppola will make the step up to compete in the 2018 FIM Supersport World Championship with the newly formed GRT Yamaha Official WorldSSP Jnr Team. The 20-year-old Italian finished as runner-up by just one point in the overall 2017 WorldSSP300 Championship, after an incredible debut season that saw him record one victory and five further podiums in just eight races, with Coppola now focused on the next challenge in his career riding for an official Yamaha team onboard the YZF-R6.