Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. hereby announces that Altadis/Seita’s sponsorship regarding Yamaha’s Factory MotoGP Team will not continue after the end of the 2005 season. For more than 40 years, Yamaha has successfully participated in the Road Racing Grand Prix World Championship and it has become the leading manufacturer of the MotoGP competition. Altadis/Seita have been [...]
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Rossi challenges rally stars at Bologna
Posted on 13 December 2005.
Valentino Rossi displayed again his rallying skills in last weekend’s Findomestic Memorial Bettega, a rally event held at the Bologna Motorshow in Italy. Driving a Subaru Impreza WRC, a model he already competed with in previous events, the Italian faced several specialists of the discipline. The MotoGP Superstar raced against Piero Longhi, the Italian Rally [...]
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Best of both worlds
Posted on 11 December 2005.
The 2005 racing season has been memorable for Yamaha in many ways. Hard work from the riders and teams earned Yamaha riders’ and constructors’ titles in MotoGP and in the MX1 and MX2 motocross classes. However this year was also one of celebrations on and off the track. In a unique event, themed ‘The best [...]
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Rain affects third day of testing for Yamaha in Malaysia
Posted on 30 November 2005.
The final day of Yamaha’s three-day Sepang Test was interrupted today, when rain throughout the morning meant that Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards were not able to get out on track until mid-afternoon. Despite the delay, Edwards had his first ride on the prototype 2006-spec YZR-M1 and both riders completed some important tyre testing for [...]
Rossi and Edwards speed up at Sepang
Posted on 29 November 2005.
Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards completed a positive second day of testing at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia today, both making marked improvements to their lap times from yesterday. Rossi topped the unofficial time sheets at the close of play and Edwards was also over eight-tenths of a second faster than on day one. Rossi [...]
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Gauloises Yamaha Team get back to business in Sepang
Posted on 28 November 2005.
Just three weeks after rounding off Yamaha’s victorious 2005 season in Valencia, Gauloises Yamaha Team riders Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards were back in Malaysia at their most frequently-visited testing venue today, as they commenced their winter program at Sepang alongside Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha Tech 3. A short rain shower in the morning [...]
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Rossi beats McRae at Monza Rally
Posted on 21 November 2005.
MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi finished his first competitive outing in a Subaru WRC car with an impressive second overall – ahead of former World Rally Champion Colin McRae – at this weekend’s Monza Rally Show. Although far from a ‘full’ rally – the event uses parts of the famous Italian racetrack and its access [...]
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Rossi completes ‘ very different’ Ferrari test
Posted on 12 November 2005.
Valentino Rossi was giving nothing away about his future intentions – or even lap times – after completing his three-day Ferrari test, held at two different circuits. As previously reported, while many of the MotoGP world champion’s rivals were starting a two-day test at Valencia on Wednesday, Yamaha rider Rossi was back behind the wheel [...]
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MotoGP champion Rossi tests again for Ferrari
Posted on 11 November 2005.
LONDON, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Valentino Rossi has wasted no time in getting back behind the wheel of a Ferrari Formula One car after the final race of the MotoGP season last weekend. Ferrari said on Thursday that the charismatic Italian, five times a winner of motorcycling’s top class, was halfway through a three-day test [...]
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Motorcycling-Pedrosa keen to test himself against Rossi
Posted on 10 November 2005.
MADRID, Nov 9 (Reuters) – World 250cc champion Daniel Pedrosa is keen to test himself against five-times MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi when he steps up to join the premier category next season. "I am interested to know what I am capable of, and to see how I compare against Valentino Rossi," Pedrosa told sports daily [...]
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Yamaha concludes 50th Anniversary year with Valencia podium
Posted on 06 November 2005.
Yamaha Factory Racing rider Valentino Rossi scored his sixteenth podium from seventeen races in the final round of the 2005 MotoGP World Championship to put the shine on Yamaha’s 50th Anniversary celebrations at Valencia. The Italian started from his lowest grid position of the season but produced a dramatic ride to end the race in [...]
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Yamaha Factory Racing face Sunday challenge at Valencia
Posted on 05 November 2005.
Yamaha Factory Racing rider Valentino Rossi faces an uphill battle in the final round of the 2005 MotoGP World Championship tomorrow after qualifying fifteenth fastest at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia. Rossi slid from his YZR-M1 machine just over eleven minutes from the end of this afternoon’s qualifying session and, despite returning to the [...]
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