Valentino Rossi Ducati – MotoGP 2012

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 [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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To commemorate Yamaha’s 50th Anniversary and its extraordinarily successful year in racing this season, Yamaha has decided to race the last round of the 2005 MotoGP World Championship in the company’s traditional red, white and black racing color scheme. This follows the Yamaha Factory Team’s earlier showing of the yellow and black traditional US racing [...]

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Michael Schumacher says that he would relish the prospect of motorcycle racing superstar Valentino Rossi joining him at Ferrari. Recent rumours have suggested that Ferrari could be lining up five-time MotoGP champion Rossi as a potential replacement for Schumacher when the German retires. But Schumacher told German magazine Motorsport Aktuell that the arrival of Rossi [...]

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