🅷Mackenzie will get to ride a WorldSBK-Spec R1 for the first time as his hopes of becoming a full-time World Championship rider in 2023 begin. 

The McAMS Yamaha rider recently𝕴 made his return to competitive action, following an accident in Januar🍨y that left him with a broken leg. 

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A ten-time BSB race winner during his 2021 championship winning season, Mackenzie will also wildcard at D𓆏onington Park in July.

Speaking about the news, Mackenzie added: "I am very excited to make my debut in the WorldSBK championship at Assen💎 and it will be quite special to do it with my McAMS Yamaha team as I've been with them for the last five years and together, we have come a long way.” 

"Obviously there is a lot for me to learn with the engiꦓne and electronics, but I know the chassis well as my BSB bike is very similar.

"Assen is a circuit I love riding, the 🦹first time I rode a superbike there in 2018 I finished on the🦹 podium. 

"The level in World Championship is really high and I'm looking forward to getting out on track and giving it our ✱all. 

"I have to say a huge thanks to Steve and the McAMS Yamaha team, as well as Andrea and everyone 💯at Yamaha Racing for making this possible."

Mackenzie won’t be alone in making his WorldSBK💯 debut, as the second round of the season will mark McAMS’ world championsh🃏ip debut. 

It’s also been confirmed that the well-established Yamaha outfit will have full suppoꦿrt from the current world champions Pata Yamaha.

Andrea Dosoli, Yamaha Motor Europe Ro🅰ad Racing Manager, said: "We have enjoyed a long and fruitful working relationship with the McAMS team and their two riders, with a real two-way collaboration bringing benefits for all.”

"We are delighted to see Tarran and McAMS step up onto the💝 world stage in Assen, as this fits perfectly with Yamaha’s racing philosophy of offering opportunities to the best riders and teams worldwide."

Although it’s a first venture into W🧸orldSBK for the McAMS Yamaha team in its current form, Raceways Motorcycles had several wildcard showin♛gs in the World Supersport Championship between 2000-2010.

"We are l💯ooking forward to taking the McAMS Yamaha team to the world stage in our first Superbike wildcard appearance at Assen later this month," said McAMS Yamaha Team♒ Principal, Steve Rodgers.

"Raceways have supported Tarran since his very early days of racing and we’ve seen hi�✱�m rise through the ranks, to the point where he won us the British Superbike Championship in 2021. 

"His d🔯ream is to continue his progression, so we are deligꦺhted to be able to give him the opportunity to make his World Superbike debut."

With Mackenzie’s 'dream' of competin💞g in WorldSBK now official, here’s what the Scottish-born rider had to say when talking to mahbx.com last December: "WorldSBK is the target. I’m only 26; there are some who are younger who are racing there already, but there’s also older guys that race in Superbikes, so I feel there’s still time yet and I want to first come back and prove a point next season by winning the BSB title with number one plate. 

"But I also want to push on and try to move the goal post out a little bit more in WorldSBK. My hope and aim i🧜s to be there in 2023."

With Yamaha winning all four major championships in 2021,🌳 it means WorldSBK will have the unusual scenario of both its world champion Toprak Razgatlioglu and British champion Mackenzi⭕e competing in the same series, while also representing the same manufacturer. 

The 2022 British Superbike champ🥀ionship gets underway on April 15-17.