Reigning seven time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi has been denied a perfect sweep of 2010 pre-season testing after losing out to Casey Stoner on the very final night of the Qatar test.
The FIM has just released the latest full time MotoGP entry list for the 2010 season. The only changes since the previous list, released in late January, are that Marco Melandri has been restored to his rightful #33 while the Aspar team has secured a title sponsor.
Fiat Yamaha MotoGP riders Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo made their latest PR visit to Indonesia, one of the most important markets for Yamaha, over the weekend.
Reigning seven time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi began 2010 MotoGP testing on top of the timesheets by a comfortable 0.491sec at Sepang on Thursday. The Fiat Yamaha rider was fastest for much of the day, having recorded his best lap time of 2min 1.411sec on lap 15 of 54.
Fiat Yamaha team manager Davide Brivio admits that he is amazed by Valentino Rossi's relentless determination to keep winning - and the effort the Italian puts in to achieve his goal.
A Q&A session with Jorge Lorenzo's new team manager Wilco Zeelenberg, released by the team to coincide with this morning's official unveiling of the 2010 Fiat Yamaha livery at Sepang in Malaysia...
A Q&A session with Valentino Rossi's team manager Davide Brivio, released by the team to coincide with this morning's official unveiling of the 2010 Fiat Yamaha livery at Sepang in Malaysia...
A Q&A session with Yamaha Motor Racing managing director Lin Jarvis, released by the team to coincide with this morning's official unveiling of its 2010 livery at Sepang...
See the best of the sexy shots from the 2010 Barracuda Moto calendar, uniting FIAT Yamaha MotoGP star Jorge Lorenzo and glamorous supermodel Tatiana...
FIAT Yamaha star and 2009 MotoGP World Championship runner-up Jorge Lorenzo poses for a sexy calendar photoshoot with supermodel Tatiana. Watch it all right here...
Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, first and second in the 2009 MotoGP World Championship, were impressed by the latest prototype version of the 2010 YZR-M1 during testing at Valencia on Monday.
Race results from the Valencia MotoGP, the 17th and final round of the 2009 world championship. Casey Stoner, winner of the last two races and fastest in all track sessions at Valencia, crashed out on the warm-up lap and did not take the race start.
During an interview with the BBC , Valentino Rossi warned that Yamaha must choose between keeping him or team-mate Jorge Lorenzo for the 2011 MotoGP season. "Yamaha have to decide between me and Jorge for 2011," he said. "I have a great option to join Ducati."
Yamaha, which has completed a clean sweep of Riders', Constructors' and Teams' MotoGP World Championships in 2009, gave its annual YZR-M1 technical presentation on Friday night at Valencia (see below for more pictures).
Jorge Lorenzo's chances of winning the 2009 MotoGP World Championship officially came to an end in the Sepang rain on Sunday, despite mounting a daring last-to-fourth charge in the Malaysian Grand Prix.