Posted on 23 December 2010.
Starting the season with a victory in Qatar it appeared to be ‘business as usual’ for Valentino Rossi, but 2010 was to be a year like no other for the Fiat Yamaha man. Podiums at Jerez and Le Mans followed – all the while struggling with a shoulder problem after a motocross accident which followed [...]
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Posted on 13 December 2010. Tags: Ducati, Filippo Preziosi, GP11, Nicky Hayden, Valencia, valentino rossi
The second and final day of testing at Valencia took place in sunny conditions, allowing both Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden to make full use of the available track time. Rossi worked closely together with Filippo Preziosi on the setting of the GP11 machine with the big bang engine configuration, completing 70 laps. His detailed [...]
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Posted on 08 November 2010. Tags: Estoril, Father, Jorge Lorenzo, valentino rossi
Jorge and his father We have just come from the other side of the world and unfortunately it has been too busy for us after Malaysia and the Australian GP to make a full Insider for this week’s race in Estoril. Jorge and Valentino really wanted to share some of their feelings and latest experiences, [...]
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Posted on 08 November 2010. Tags: interview, Lin Jarvis, Masao Furusawa, quotes, valentino rossi
Valentino Rossi “This is a very emotional day but I’m very happy as well because I don’t have any regrets and there have been no bad moments or thoughts throughout these seven seasons together with Yamaha. From the beginning it was something great and we worked very well together. Like in life, in sport the [...]
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Posted on 07 November 2010. Tags: kisses, last race, yamaha
Rossi’s last race for Yamaha Team at Valencia Valentino Rossi last kiss to Yamaha bike
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Posted on 06 November 2010. Tags: Qualifying, spain, Valencia
Jorge Lorenzo World Champion Jorge Lorenzo secured his seventeenth front-row start of the season in Valencia this afternoon, qualifying second behind Casey Stoner for the eighteenth and final round of the season. His Fiat Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi has struggled in all four sessions but the nine-time champion made a drastic improvement in the final [...]
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Posted on 18 October 2010. Tags: Alessandro Cicognani, Ducati, interview, Masao Furusawa, Post-season, Valencia
Valentino Rossi had indicated that he has been given permission by Yamaha’s Executive Officer for Engineering Operations, Masao Furusawa, to test with Ducati in Valencia next month. The question of whether the 31 year-old would be allowed by Yamaha to ride the Desmosedici for the team with which he has signed for the 2011 season [...]
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Posted on 18 October 2010. Tags: double podium, Fiat Yamaha, Philip Island, Rookie Award
Jorge Lorenzo A double podium for the Fiat Yamaha Team today sealed the second leg of the 2010 Triple Crown, as World Champion Jorge Lorenzo finished second and Valentino Rossi third behind winner Casey Stoner in the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island. After a sopping wet weekend the weather finally cleared up today, as [...]
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Posted on 11 October 2010. Tags: crowned, Fiat Yamaha, japan, Jorge Lorenzo, motogp, valentino rossi, World Champion
Valentino Rossi Fiat Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo clinched the 2010 MotoGP World Championship on a day that saw Valentino Rossi return to winning ways in Malaysia. Third place for Lorenzo – his thirteenth podium from fifteen races so far this year – was enough to make him only the second Spanish rider ever to win [...]
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Posted on 10 October 2010. Tags: 2010, Jorge Lorenzo, Malaysia, motogp, Sepang, World Champion
Jorge Lorenzo wins 2010 MotoGP World Championship at Sepang in Malaysia. Jorge Lorenzo has won the 2010 MotoGP World Championship after finishing third in Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang. With Dani Pedrosa missing the race due to injury, the Fiat Yamaha rider, winner of seven of the 15 races so far this year, only [...]
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Posted on 19 September 2010. Tags: Aragon, Qualifying
Jorge Lorenzo Jorge Lorenzo took another front row this afternoon at Aragon, the remarkably consistent Spaniard putting his Fiat Yamaha machine onto the second spot on the grid to continue his record of a top-three qualification at each round this season. His team-mate Valentino Rossi had a more difficult day and will start from seventh [...]
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Posted on 30 August 2010. Tags: Indianapolis
Jorge Lorenzo Jorge Lorenzo finished third at Indianapolis today and Fiat Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi fourth in a punishingly hot race won by Dani Pedrosa. Tech 3 Yamaha and future Factory Team rider Ben Spies finished second, his best result so far in his rookie MotoGP season. Lorenzo dropped three places on his grid position [...]
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