Sunday's live Austrian MotoGP TV broadcast showed in shocking detail just how close Maverick Vinales and especially Valentino Rossi came to being hit by the cartwheeling bike of Franco Morbidelli.
During his 25-years in motorcycle grand prix racing, Valentino Rossi has been in plenty of dangerous situations. But the Italian described the aftermath of Sunday's Austrian MotoGP accident between Johann Zarco and Franco Morbidelli as the scariest moment of his career.
After struggling to recognise his Yamaha on the way to eleventh place in Friday practice -"it's like a totally different bike" - Maverick Vinales made big progress to top Free Practice 3 at the Austrian MotoGP.
Monster Yamaha riders Maverick Vinales and Valentino Rossi both narrowly missed out on a top ten place during opening free practice for the Austrian MotoGP.
Valentino Rossi couldn't repeat his Jerez podium, but finishing just 1.1s from the Brno rostrum after starting in tenth meant he considered Sunday's fifth position to be a better overall performance.
Reflecting on Johann Zarco's surprise pole position on a 2019-spec Ducati at Brno, Valentino Rossi highlighted that newer does not always mean better when it comes to MotoGP technology.
Valentino Rossi produced his best FP3 performance of the season so far at Brno, where a fifth place on the 'unbelievably' close timesheets allowed him to safely sail through to Qualifying 2.
Valentino Rossi returns to the scene of his very first grand prix victory, at Brno this weekend, buoyed by a return to the MotoGP podium last time at Andalucia.
Valentino Rossi and his Monster Yamaha crew 'pushed hard' to go their own way with bike set-up, before ending the Italian's 17-race podium drought at Andalucia last weekend. Rossi had been caught in a Catch-22 situation heading in to round two.
Celebrations for Yamaha's first MotoGP 1-2-3 finish since Australia 2014 at Jerez on Sunday were tinged with concern at having already 'lost' three engines.
Marc Marquez's withdraw from Sunday's Andalucia MotoGP race means that the reigning world champion will start his latest title defence with at least two non-scores.
Maverick Vinales and Valentino Rossi gave Monster Yamaha a perfect start to the inaugural 'Andalucia MotoGP' weekend with first and second places in opening practice.
Could MotoGP's first-ever back-to-back races at the same circuit finally provide Valentino Rossi and Yamaha with the clue needed to solve his rear tyre problems?
Valentino Rossi's season-opening Spanish MotoGP ended prematurely on lap 19 of 25 when his Yamaha came to a halt on the home straight. The Italian, in tenth place at the time, had joined only team-mate Maverick Vinales in selecting the soft rather than hard front tyre for the race.
After sinking to 20th on Friday afternoon, Valentino Rossi rallied back into the top ten - thus securing direct access to Qualifying 2 - during Saturday morning practice for the Spanish MotoGP.
Valentino Rossi suffered a difficult official start to his 25th grand prix season, being left 13th on the Friday practice timesheets for the Spanish MotoGP at Jerez.
Monster Yamaha MotoGP riders Maverick Vinales and Valentino Rossi finished FP1 for the Spanish Grand Prix season-opener in second and 13th places respectively.
Following yesterday's news that, although not officially signed, Valentino Rossi is 99% certain he will continue in MotoGP by moving to Petronas Yamaha next season, the Italian has expanded on the 1% still to be 'fixed'.
Valentino Rossi described reports that he has signed to ride for Petronas Yamaha in MotoGP next season as 'fake' but admitted it's now '99%' certain that he will join the satellite team.