Valentino Rossi Ducati – MotoGP 2012

Yamaha pitbox Following on from their first and third finishes in Sunday’s Grand Prix of Spain, Fiat Yamaha Team riders Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards got back to work straight away with a two-day test yesterday and today. The scene of their victorious celebrations under sunny skies on Sunday was a very different place on [...]

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Valentino – Colin Valentino Rossi returned to the top step of the podium today after leading for all 27-laps of the Grand Prix of Spain, taking his first victory since Sepang last year and his 46th win of the four-stroke MotoGP era. Rossi’s 26th win for Yamaha also makes him the most successful rider at [...]

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Valentino Rossi’s longest losing streak since 2000 has been broken by an uncompromising victory over home hero Dani Pedrosa in Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez, in front of 138,000 fans. Former five-times world champion Rossi had gone five races without a victory, including a surprise loss to Casey Stoner in the Qatar season-opener, marking [...]

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Valentino Rossi Valentino Rossi will start from second position for tomorrow’s Grand Prix of Spain in Jerez after an exciting and extremely close qualifying battle today, while his team-mate Colin Edwards will be just behind him in fourth having lost out on third position in the dying moments of the session. It is Rossi’s eighth [...]

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Valentino Rossi The first European race of the season got off to a slightly shaky start for Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards today, with the Fiat Yamaha Team riders struggling for rear grip at the Andalucian circuit of Jerez. The Italian and the American finished the day in sixth and ninth respectively and the weekend [...]

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Jerez circuit The second round of the MotoGP World Championship welcomes the Fiat Yamaha Team to Europe next weekend with Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards looking to continue their strong start to the season at Jerez. After starring in an intriguing curtain-raiser to the season in Qatar, where the pair dominated in practice only to [...]

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Valentino Rossi Fiat Yamaha Team rider Valentino Rossi finished second in the inaugural Grand Prix of the 800cc era today after losing out in a close battle with Casey Stoner (Ducati), who took his first MotoGP win. After starting from pole position for the 46th time in his career, Rossi got a good start but [...]

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Rossi – Edwards Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards carried on from where they left off yesterday on day two of the seasonopening Grand Prix of Qatar, topping the time sheets again in this morning’s free practice before taking first and third in a gripping Qualifying session this afternoon. Rossi will start from pole for the [...]

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Qatar track Yamaha Factory Team riders Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards begin their assault on the 2007 MotoGP World Championship next weekend as the most eagerly anticipated season in recent history finally fires up in Qatar. Saturday’s race is the first of eighteen mouth-watering events across thirteen countries and four continents that will decide the [...]

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Valentino Rossi During a presentation in Italy today, Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd announced that it has reached a two-year agreement with Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. to become title sponsor of the Yamaha Factory Racing Team in the MotoGP World Championship. The Team’s Official Launch took place in Milan this afternoon and the Team will be known [...]

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The long-running saga of the Yamaha factory teams official sponsor finally reached its conclusion today, with the successful MotoGP outfit confirming their collaboration with FIAT in 2007 through to 2008. The announcement was made at the team presentation in Milan, held at the Palacio de Congresos Stella Polare, at which representatives from Yamaha, FIAT Brand [...]

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