The following Q&A with MotoGP superstar Valentino Rossi was provided by Fiat Yamaha at the team’s 2008 launch, held at Turin in Italy on Friday. The former five-times MotoGP world champion is aiming to bounce back from two successive title defeats in 2008, when he will also switch from Michelin to Bridgestone tyres… Q: Valentino, [...]
Archive | January, 2008
Testing 2008 – Hayden ends Sepang test on top
Posted on 26 January 2008.
Nicky Hayden showed Repsol Honda that there is life after Dani Pedrosa by finishing Moto GP’s Sepang test on top of the timesheets. The Repsol squad were minus the services of their Spanish rider after he broke his hand in a fireball crash on day one at the Malaysian track – rendering him out of [...]
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Rossi content with progress
Posted on 25 January 2008.
Valentino Rossi rounded off the third day of testing in Malaysia with another day’s solid progress in Sepang today, the Fiat Yamaha Team rider finishing the test sixth overall out of 22 riders testing. Rossi had time to complete a full race simulation of 21 laps and recorded a general improvement compared to last year’s [...]
Former Moto GP champion Rossi crashes in Malaysia
Posted on 22 January 2008.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Moto GP icon Valentino Rossi crashed on the first day of pre-season testing at Malaysia’s Sepang circuit, clearly rusty after a long layoff due to injury, organisers said Tuesday. The seven-time world champion has been out of action since fracturing his right hand in three places during a qualifying crash at [...]
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Rossi denies Yamaha exit
Posted on 20 January 2008.
Former world champion Valentino Rossi has dampened speculation he is close to leaving Yamaha and expects to be more competitive in MotoGP this year on his new Bridgestone tyres. The Italian, who was a disappointing third last season behind champion Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa, has switched to Bridgestone from Michelins. A winner of seven [...]
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Rossi: Toseland wrong to join Tech-3
Posted on 04 January 2008.
Valentino Rossi believes James Toseland has made a mistake in joining Tech-3 Yamaha for his rookie season and should instead have signed with a Honda team. The 27-year-old Briton will ride for the French satellite Yamaha squad this season alongside Colin Edwards, after turning his back on World Superbikes – a series in which he [...]
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