Motorsports Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yamaha Racing A year of hard work finally came to an end for the Fiat Yamaha Team today with the last day of testing in Valencia. Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi finished the day first and third, signing off for...
Motorsports Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yamaha Racing 2009 MotoGP Spain Valencia 07/11/2009 Jorge Lorenzo qualified third today in the final MotoGP qualifying session of the season in Valencia. It was the 16th time the Spaniard has been on the front row this season, more than...
Motorsports Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yamaha Racing 2009 MotoGP Spain Valencia 08/11/2009 Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo finished second and third in the season-ending Grand Prix of Valencia this afternoon, the ninth time the pair have shared the podium this season. It ensured that Yamaha...
SPEED (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jorge Lorenzo was the only rider to break the 1’32 barrier on Tuesday in Valencia, while Superbike champ Ben Spies continued to climb the charts..
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jorge Lorenzo was the fastest rider on the second day of testing at Valencia, with the lack of wind helping the Spaniard to drop into the 1'31 bracket. Lorenzo set his fastest time on the new soft tire Bridgestone has brought, which both Lorenzo and Hayden reported as giving more edge grip. Lorenzo spent the day testing some electronics and suspension. Casey Stoner was the second fastest man of the...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Casey Stoner continues his domination of proceedings at Valencia, the fastest rider once again in the morning session of MotoGP practice. The Australian topped the timesheets just about all session, with only Jorge Lorenzo to get close. Lorenzo looked to have a firm grip on 2nd, but was bumped down to 3rd by Dani Pedrosa, who put in a blistering lap in the dying minutes of practice. Pedrosa leapfrogged...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Casey Stoner continued his domination of the MotoGP class during the first session of free practice at Valencia, coming in fresh from victory at Sepang to top the timesheets during practice. The Ducati rider took his time, though, spending most of the session as 2nd fastest behind Jorge Lorenzo. With 5 minutes to go, the Australian finally found the extra pace he was looking for, putting nearly four...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The final MotoGP round of the 2009 season may not yet be over, yet the jockeying for position in contract negotiations for the 2011 season has already begun. After Yamaha expressed the hope that Valentino Rossi would end his career with the Japanese firm, today it was the turn of Jorge Lorenzo to express the same desire. Speaking at the launch of the game Forza Motorsport 3 at the Circuit de Catalunya...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Silly season for the 2010 MotoGP rider line up may be all but completed, but for technicians and engineers, it has only just begun. It started out in Australia, where it emerged that Pete Benson, Andrea Dovizioso's crew chief, and Daniele Romagnoli, Jorge Lorenzo's team manager, would both be leaving their positions at the end of the year. The attrition is continuing now, and most of the damage seems...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
After winning his 7th MotoGP World Championship, his 9th world title in total, and his 4th for Yamaha, Yamaha's bosses were naturally effusive in their praise for Valentino Rossi. At a press conference after the race , which featured Yamaha Racing's Managing Director Lin Jarvis alongside Yamaha's MotoGP project leader Masao Furusawa, the pair heaped praise on the Italian. "Bringing Valentino...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
One announcement of interest at the Phillip Island MotoGP round was that Jorge Lorenzo's team manager, Daniele Romagnoli, would be stepping down from his role and pursuing a more technical and less managerial role elsewhere. Romagnoli, whose background was as a data engineer and then crew chief, was promoted to team manager to make way for Lorenzo's choice of crew chief Ramon Forcada. But like so...
FOOTBALL: Just Love The Game (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Valentino Rossi received a special gift from Inter Milan after winning his ninth World title of his career in Malaysia on Sunday. Rossi is a huge Inter fan and and has been spotted frequently in the stands at the San Siro in recent years and the Nerazzurri have been quick to congratulate the 30-year-old on their official website. A club statement read: "He had to wait until the end of a violent...
Valentino Rossi - MotoGP 2007 (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Full Saturday free practice times from the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang, round 16 of the 2009 MotoGP World Championship. Niccolo Canepa, who injured his arm in Friday practice at Phillip Island last weekend, has been replaced by Aleix Espargaro. 1. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team 2min 0.518 sec 2. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team 2min 1.087 sec 3. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team 2min 1.254...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Dani Pedrosa was the fastest man in the second session of free practice at Sepang. The Repsol Honda rider edged Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner by the narrowest of margins, less than six hundredths of a second separating Pedrosa and Stoner, and all three well under the lap record. Jorge Lorenzo was also under the 2'02 bracket, but nearly four tenths behind Pedrosa. Results: read more
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
It is no secret that Valentino Rossi is uncomfortable having Jorge Lorenzo as a team mate. The young Spaniard has raced with and even beaten Rossi on a number of occasions this year, and has pushed Rossi hard for the title. The fact that Lorenzo is doing this on exactly the same equipment as Rossi - a bike that Rossi has spent the last five years developing - merely makes the situation even worse....
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