Valentino Rossi Ducati – MotoGP 2012

The FIM MotoGP World Championship will arrive in Bulgaria as of 2012, following a preliminary agreement reached between the Bulgarian Motorcycle Federation and Dorna Sports, the commercial rights holder for MotoGP.br / br / The new five year deal, which will take MotoGP to Bulgaria from 2012 to 2016, was signed in Sofia by Dorna [...]

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2007 MotoGP World Champion Casey Stoner’s 2009 season hinges on his wrist – his left wrist. br / br / The Australian had surgery on the wrist over the winter, but that surgery may have been too little too late, leaving Stoner with wrist problems that may continue to hinder him throughout 2009 and beyond. [...]

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On a chilly February morning MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo got off his Yamaha M1 to try for one day the all new 2009 YZF-R1; the new-generation YZF-R1 inspired by MotoGP. br / br / Lorenzo tested the bike on standard setting so no fine tuning was done from the production machine and after only a [...]

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Valentino Rossi talks about each generation of Yamaha’s YZR-M1 MotoGP machine from 2004, when Rossi crabbed the first MotoGP title in his first Yamaha year, through to last year’s 2009 machine, with which he clinched his 4th MotoGP World Championship with Yamaha.

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Valentino Rossi turns 30 today, 16th February 2009. The Fiat Yamaha rider has had an immensely successful career to date, winning eight world championships, 97 races and becoming the most successful premier-class rider of all time. As he enters his 14th season in the world championship, his sixth with Yamaha, he is still the dominating force in the sport, having recaptured the title in typically exciting style last season.

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Valentino Rossi Fiat Yamaha Team riders Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo rounded off the first test of the 2009 season in strong style, with the Italian finishing second, less than one tenth off Casey Stoner. His Spanish team-mate was seventh and inside the lap record pace for the first time this week. Rossi continued to [...]

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Welcome to the 2009 Yamaha MotoGP livery launch. We’re delighted to be able to share with you a selection of videos, rider interviews and images to show off our new YZR-M1 livery for 2009 and our thoughts and feelings on the upcoming championship season. Simply click on the below links to see the bike unveiling [...]

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table class=”topMargin6″ align=”left” border=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ cellspacing=”0″tbodytrtd class=”tdBlackHeader8″strongGet ready for the launch!/strong/td td rowspan=”2″div class=”spacer13″img src=”http://www.yamaha-racing.com/Images/spacer_tcm78-120217.gif” alt=”” width=”13″ height=”1″ //div/td /tr tr td valign=”top”img src=”http://images.yamaha-racing.com/photo/news/P20090130170610734.jpg” alt=”Get ready for the launch!” align=”left” border=”0″ //td /tr /tbody/table divYamaha are delighted to invite you to a very special virtual event. Join us online at 12pm on Monday 2nd February [...]

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div The Fiat Yamaha Team began a two-day test in Jerez, southern Spain yesterday and Valentino Rossi made a positive start to the second winter session, finishing the day second fastest behind Dani Pedrosa. With this being the final test for the team until February, these two days are especially important in order to gather [...]

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