[NEWS] Rossi heads back to Yamaha for 2013 on two-year contract
August 10th, 2012 by Elusive MediaValentino Rossi first joined Yamaha in 2004 and achieved four MotoGP World Champion titles with the Yamaha YZR-M1 in 2004 & 2005 and again in 2008 & 2009. He won 46 Grand Prix races with Yamaha over a 7-year period before leaving at the end of the 2010 MotoGP season.
Rossi, who is presently 8th in the Championship standings, will partner Jorge Lorenzo who currently leads the 2012 MotoGP World Championship by 23 points, having taken five victories from the first ten completed races of the 18 race series.
Lin Jarvis, Managing Director, Yamaha Motor Racing
“This announcement is once again excellent news for Yamaha. In June we were able to sign Jorge Lorenzo for the 2013-14 campaign and now we are able to confirm Valentino Rossi for the next two years. In doing so we have been able to put together the strongest possible team to challenge for victories and to promote the Yamaha brand. We have run this ‘super team’ together in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and during that time we achieved the ‘triple crown’ titles with Rider, Manufacturer and Team World Championship victories for three consecutive years. The target for the future is obvious and we will do our utmost to achieve our goals. I have no doubt that with the experience, knowledge, skills and speed of these two great champion riders we will be able to challenge for many race wins and for the 2013 & 2014 World Championship titles. The signing of Valentino completes our future planning for the Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Team. Now that this is done we will put our 100% efforts into completing the job at hand and to supporting Ben Spies and Jorge Lorenzo in their search for race victories and for Jorge’s 2012 World Championship title challenge.”
Press release courtesy of Yamaha Factory Racing
Source: MotoGP.com
‘The Battle of Barcelona’: OnBoard and Unseen
June 16th, 2009 by Elusive MediaSpecial video footage from Sunday’s epic race available on motogp.com.
source: motopg.com
If it was exciting for fans watching the Barcelona battle between Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo this past Sunday, one can only imagine what it was like for the riders themselves. motogp.com today offers the next best thing: OnBoard action from the cameras placed on the Fiat Yamaha teammates’ respective M1 machines.
The final three laps of the Catalonia clash are reviewed in three distinct OnBoard videos today (Tuesday). ‘OnBoard with Lorenzo in Barcelona’ follows the final trio of laps from the perspective of the Spanish star, whilst ‘OnBoard with Rossi in Barcelona’ goes close-up for the same series of laps until the chequered flag. A final video entitled ‘Rossi v.s. Lorenzo: OnBoard Battle’ mixes the two in a special cut.
The tussle between Rossi and Lorenzo will be reviewed all week on MotoGP.com, with new shots, unseen footage and opinions from the epic race. To view the video content, buy a VideoPass here and enjoy the action.
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