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Tamada joins Tech 3 Yamaha, Dunlop stays.
Having lost his Konica Minolta Honda ride, former MotoGP race winner Makoto Tamada will switch to the Dunlop backed Tech 3 Yamaha team for the 2007 MotoGP World Championship.
Rossi, Hayden ready for final battle.
It's the battle that will decide the war: 30 laps inside a Valencia 'cauldron', lined by 125,000 fans, will end with either Valentino Rossi or Nicky Hayden crowned the 2006 MotoGP world champion.
Pedrosa responds, pledges full Hayden support.
Having been branded the 'team-mate from hell' for taking out MotoGP championship leader Nicky Hayden in a clumsy collision at Estoril, Dani Pedrosa has pledged to be the American's best friend in Sunday's Valencian title showdown.
Hopkins to F1, Liuzzi to MotoGP!
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP racer John Hopkins and Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One driver Tonio Liuzzi will swap 'day jobs' next week - when Hopkins will drive Luizzi's F1 car, while the American steps onto Hopper's GSV-R.
Rossi to test Subaru before Rally NZ.
Subaru has told Crash.net that MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi will be testing his Impreza in the UK, prior to his appearance in next month's Rally New Zealand.
Bridgestone go soft for 800cc.
Bridgestone believes that the new generation of 800cc MotoGP machines, to be raced from 2007, will allow softer compound tyres than are currently fitted to the 990cc prototypes.
Official: Stoner joins Ducati.
Ducati has officially confirmed that, as rumoured, Honda rookie Casey Stoner will join its factory team for the 2007 MotoGP season - at the expense of Sete Gibernau.
Gibernau to miss Valencia.
Sete Gibernau may already have ridden in his last race for the Ducati Marlboro Team after it was announced that, despite a successful operation to transplant stem cells into his damaged hand and collarbone, the Spaniard will not be fit in time for the Valencia season finale on October 29.
Checa delighted with Honda deal.
Carlos Checa has spoken of his delight at securing a surprise LCR Honda ride, on Michelin tyres, for the 2007 MotoGP season.
2007 MotoGP calendar confirmed.
The FIM has now confirmed the exact dates and locations for the 2007 MotoGP World Championship, the first year of the new 800cc era.
JiR keeps Konica, Honda backing - rider undecided.
JiR (Japan Italy Racing) will keep the backing of title sponsor Konica Minolta, and Honda, for the 2007 MotoGP season - but claims that no decision has yet been taken about who will ride for the team.
Roberts: I didn`t want to do `a Pedrosa`...
Dani Pedrosa may have had no hesitation in attacking world championship leading team-mate Nicky Hayden as if his life depended on it - contributing to a collision that took them both out of Sunday's Portuguese Grand prix - but Kenny Roberts Jr was careful to avoid such a mistake when fighting Val
PICTURES: Stoner fall leaves Gibernau injured.
Sete Gibernau sustained a broken bone in his right hand, and further damage to his recently re-plated collarbone, after being the innocent victim of Casey Stoner's early exit from Sunday's Portuguese Grand Prix.
Toni turns `devil` for incredible debut win.
Toni Elias rode the race of his life at Estoril on Sunday, beating five-times MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi in a photo finish to claim his first ever victory - and podium - from eleventh on the grid!
Ilmor makes history.
Garry McCoy and the Ilmor SRT MotoGP team made history in Sunday's Portuguese Grand Prix when they scored the first ever world championship point for an 800cc machine.
Hayden, Pedrosa talk after `title suicide`.
Dani Pedrosa committed motor racing's most cardinal sin at Estoril on Sunday, when he took out world championship leading team-mate Nicky Hayden in a moment of madness that could cost the American the 2006 MotoGP crown.
Warm-up times - Estoril.
Full MotoGP warm-up times from the Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril, round 16 of the 2006 world championship. The only fall during the overcast session was a harmless low-side by Sete Gibernau.
Daniel Day-Lewis takes `radical` MotoGP ride.
Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis got to experience the full force of MotoGP at Estoril on Sunday, riding two high-speed laps of the Portuguese circuit aboard the Ducati Marlboro two-seater behind Randy Mamola.
Pedrosa takes out Hayden!
Dani Pedrosa has made one of the biggest mistakes ever seen in modern motorcycle grand prix racing - smashing into team-mate Nicky Hayden early in the Portuguese Grand Prix and destroying the American's world championship lead.
Rossi leads Camel qualifying sweep, Hayden third.
Valentino Rossi took his fourth pole position of the 2006 MotoGP season by leading a Camel Yamaha one-two at Estoril on Saturday, but title rival Nicky Hayden limited the damage with third position.
Learning curve continues at Ilmor.
Mario Illien's fledgling Ilmor SRT team completed its first ever MotoGP qualifying session 20th and last at Estoril on Saturday - but easily made the cut for Sunday's Portuguese Grand Prix.
Ilmor makes credible debut.
The brand new Ilmor SRT team made a solid, if unspectacular, MotoGP debut at Estoril on Friday - its brand new 800cc X3 outpacing one of the regular 990cc machines as rider Garry McCoy found 1.3secs between the morning and afternoon sessions.
PICTURES: The Ilmor X3.
These are the first pictures of the new Ilmor X3 MotoGP machine, which will be raced for the first time in this weekend's Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril.
Yellow flags...
As the debate over Valentino Rossi's yellow flag infringement at Phillip Island continues, a possible solution to avoid future unpunished passes might be the use of GPS.