Yamaha

Alex Lowes has been buoyed by a productive pre-season test at Portimao as he impressed on the lap times for Pata Yamaha.

Franco Morbidelli is confident competing on the same specification of Yamaha MotoGP bike will benefit both himself and Valentino Rossi in 2019.

With Lewis Hamilton's F1 car looking on during the Petronas Yamaha Sepang team launch, and given the Englishman's long-held desire to try a MotoGP bike , it was an obvious question to ask:

This is the livery with which the new Petronas Yamaha Sepang team will make its MotoGP race debut during the 2019 season. Franco Morbidelli and Fabio Quartararo helped unveil the colours of Malaysia's first MotoGP team during a special ceremony at the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.

Yamaha Motor Racing president Kouichi Tsuji has attempted to play down the factory’s decision to replace its MotoGP project leader ahead of the 2019 season by insisting it was a matter of personnel “rotation.”

Sepang CEO Razlan Razali describes the new Petronas Yamaha MotoGP team as an ‘ambitious underdog’ at its 2019 launch to mark a new era for the Malaysian squad.

Unofficial times from day two of the Jerez World Superbike test

Moriwaki-Althea Honda are not in testing action at Jerez. BMW WorldSBK Team only used transponders for the final hour of track action. 1. Stefan Bradl GER HRC MotoGP Test Team 1m 39.152s 60 laps*

Unofficial World Superbike test times from Wednesday

The Moriwaki-Althea Honda team are not in testing action at Jerez while no times were recorded for the BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team. 1. Alex Lowes GBR Pata Yamaha 1m 40.442s 77 laps

Dani Pedrosa says he was turned down for the Honda test rider role due to his size compared to the rest of its MotoGP riders ( Marca )

Dani Pedrosa kept his cards close to his chest, but it was well known that the 31-time MotoGP winner was in discussions with the new Petronas-backed Sepang Yamaha team after losing his Honda seat to Jorge Lorenzo.

With Hafizh Syahrin preparing for the second year of what is hoped will be a long relationship with Tech3, the new Petronas Yamaha team has its sights set on another young Malaysian to become its first home MotoGP rider.

Valentino Rossi believes Marc Marquez looks like has no fear about crashing compared to his rivals ( GPOne.com )

With pre-season testing preparations being finalised and targets being drawn up for the 2019 MotoGP world championship, Crash.net looks over what key objectives each manufacturer will be desperate to get right.

The provisional 2019 World Superbike entry list has been officially published with an 18-rider line-up set to make up the grid.

The 2019 World Supersport entry list has been officially published by championship organisers with a 25-rider grid set to contest the upcoming campaign.

Maverick Vinales wants to bring in a sports psychiatrist to help him ahead of the 2019 MotoGP season – Motor Sport Magazine

Maria Herrera will become the first female to contest a full campaign in the World Supersport championship after securing a deal with MS Racing Yamaha who steps up from World Supersport 300 in 2019.

A new year welcomes in a brand-new season of MotoGP and naturally everything is to play for with familiar faces in new places, teams at crossroads and a couple of new eras which begin in 2019.

The opening MotoGP test at Sepang in January took place without a Malaysian rider and certainly no sign of a Malaysian team.

Fabio Quartararo was the most surprising of the four 2019 MotoGP rookie signings. The young Frenchman had gone almost two and a half years without a podium when he snatched a shock debut victory, for Speed Up in the Moto2 class, at Catalunya in June.

Franco Morbidelli has been encouraged by new crew chief Ramon Forcada’s work with the Petronas Yamaha team and is “very curious to see how we can translate our work onto the track”.

Jonas Folger hopes he will get the chance to do at least one wild-card race entry as part of his new role as Yamaha's European MotoGP test rider.