Valentino Rossi and Movistar Yamaha team-mate Maverick Vinales have welcomed the news that 2017 MotoGP podium finisher Jonas Folger is to become the factory's new European test rider .
Maverick Vinales returns to the scene of his memorable first MotoGP victory at Silverstone this weekend. The Spaniard's dominant performance at the 2016 event was also Suzuki's first (and so far only) MotoGP victory since 2007.
After his worst dry qualifying since Indianapolis in 2011, Valentino Rossi rode from14th to 6th in Sunday's Austrian MotoGP. For a winner of 89 premier-class races, it was nothing to get excited about.
Having listened to Yamaha's apology after Saturday's miserable qualifying at the Red Bull Ring, Valentino Rossi called for the factory to deliver the kind of 's
Fastest on Friday, Dani Pedrosa dropped to tenth in qualifying and then had to settle for a frustrating eighth in Sunday's Czech Republic MotoGP. The cause of his misery was a lack of acceleration, which was costing the Repsol Honda rider as much as 0.2s per corner exit.
A weekend of on and off-track drama for Maverick Vinales ended with the Spanish star being sent flying in a first lap accident at the Czech Republic MotoGP.
Danilo Petrucci is targeting a top-five finish in Sunday's Czech Republic MotoGP after overcoming a fortunately-timed engine failure in final practice.
Could Jorge Lorenzo claim his third Ducati MotoGP win at Brno this weekend? Many feel the Spaniard is one of the pre-event favourites, given his affinity with at the Czech Republic circuit and the Desmosedici's impressive horsepower.
Having taken back-to-back podiums for the first time since his Yamaha debut at the start of 2017, Maverick Vinales is certain he and his team are 'on the right path' heading into the second half of the 2018 MotoGP season at Brno this weekend.
Without double-digit points since Jerez in May, Johann Zarco used the brief MotoGP summer break to 'analyse everything' as he seeks to break back into the top five at Brno this weekend.
MotoGP racing is closer than ever, with half-a-second covering the top eleven riders in qualifying at Assen and then the top nine last time at Sachsenring.
When Marc Marquez and Maverick Vinales ran wide while battling with six laps of to go, it put Andrea Dovizioso and Valentino Rossi at the front of Sunday's daring Dutch MotoGP race.
Valentino Rossi and Andrea Dovizioso saw their Dutch MotoGP podium hopes end after a 'bar-to-'bar braking contest into Turn One, on the penultimate lap.
Defending Le Mans winner Maverick Vinales felt helpless to prevent himself slipping from first to eighth on the Saturday MotoGP timesheets. Air and track temperatures were 13 and 22 degrees respectively when the Movistar Yamaha topped the morning FP3 session.
Maverick Vinales put Yamaha on top of the timesheets with a new Le Mans lap record of 1m 31.619s during Saturday morning's FP3 session. At one stage M1 riders were filling the top three places courtesy of Vinales, Valentino Rossi and Monster Yamaha Tech3's Johann Zarco.
Valentino Rossi arrived at the French MotoGP after a miserable weekend in Jerez, tenth place in the post-race test and then a 'quite slow' private test at Mugello.
Having discovered that the 2018 Yamaha suffers some of the same grip problems as last season at Jerez, Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales will be hoping the current bike can also be just as strong as last season at Le Mans.