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Gresini confirms Michelin, Fortuna exit.
Shortly after the season-ending Valencia Grand Prix, Fausto Gresini confirmed that neither tyre supplier Michelin, nor cigarette manufacturer Fortuna, will continue to support the satellite Honda team next season.
Fortuna concentrates on Lorenzo.
Having announced its departure from title sponsorship of the Gresini Honda MotoGP team, despite riders Marco Melandri and Toni Elias taking four victories this season, cigarette manufacturer Fortuna will instead concentrate all its backing behind newly crowned 250cc world champion Jorge Lorenzo.
Rossi falls in title decider!
Valentino Rossi has fallen from seventh position on lap five of the Valencia title decider, dropping him to 20th and potentially handing the 2006 MotoGP world title to Nicky Hayden.
Final 2006 MotoGP World Championship standings.
These are the top-ten 2006 MotoGP World Championship standings after the 17th and final round at Valencia, Spain.
Rossi on target, Hayden `all or nothing`.
The most crucial pole position of Valentino Rossi's career means the Italian is perfectly placed to claim a sixth MotoGP crown in Sunday's Valencia title showdown, while a second row start has limited Nicky Hayden's already slim options to an all or nothing attack.
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.
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.
Ilmor: We`re in it for the long haul.
The new Ilmor SRT MotoGP team will line-up for its second ever race this weekend at Valencia, where it aims to build on its point-scoring debut at Estoril.
Dunlop increases MotoGP effort.
Dunlop has announced a major investment in new technology at its Fort Dunlop plant in Birmingham, UK, aimed at delivering success in the MotoGP World Championship - although the identity of its 2007 team(s) remains a mystery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.