MotoGP & WSBK 2012

[TB-Racing]

Arghhh!!! Just arrived at the airport and saw your post... Gutted I missed it. Won't be able to see the reply in Singapore anyone know where I can download I or something?

check sports TV channels like Star Sports, Star Sports Asia, ESPN, Star Sports ESPN, Sky Sports as they broadcast races a few days later or next day (Monday), great classic racing at LM on Sunday......

[felix]

Here's a torrent:

http://www.torrenthound.com/hash/85d...-BBC-HDTV-XviD

Good race, glad i stopped myself from reading this thread until after i'd watched it!

[c0rrupt]

Thanks guys

[TB-Racing]

Rossi heads back to Yamaha for 2013 on two-year contract

Valentino 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: http://www.motogp.com

[euphonius]

Dear TB,

Most impressive how this Yamaha news release omits any mention of Ducati! Has Rossi made any public statements?

cheers

[euphonius]

Here's a Reuters story, which at least mentions Ducati but has nothing from Rossi himself:

UPDATE 1-Motorcycling-Rossi to rejoin Yamaha after leaving Ducati


Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:54pm IST
(Adds details, quotes)


* Rossi to join Lorenzo at Yamaha


* Ducati finding partner for Nicky Hayden


ROME, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Italian motorcycling great Valentino Rossi will leave Ducati at the end of the MotoGP season and rejoin Yamaha on a two-year deal, the Japanese-owned team said on Friday.


"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," Yamaha Motor Racing managing director Lin Jarvis said in a statement.


The 33-year-old nine-times world champion - seven in the premier class - first joined Yamaha in 2004 and won four MotoGP titles with the manufacturer before agreeing a two-year deal with Ducati at the end of the 2010 season.


However, the dream of pairing up Italy's best-known rider with Italy's top team turned into a nightmare and he finished seventh on an uncompetitive bike last year.


This season has been just as bad with Rossi lying eighth.


Rossi left Yamaha because he felt having two very strong riders in one team did not work. His then Yamaha team mate was 2010 champion and current championship leader Lorenzo but the Italian will now return to the same arrangement.


Spaniard Lorenzo has ridden for Yamaha since 2008 and leads the current championship by 23 points after 10 races of the 18-race season. Rossi has secured just one podium finish all season.


"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," Jarvis said.


"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 and 2014 World Championship titles."


Ducati said they were in the process of finalising their 2013 championship lineup having recently renewed their agreement with American Nicky Hayden.


Rossi, who last won the championship in 2009, has often been linked with a move to Formula One team Ferrari and pundits wonder whether Rossi made an error in not switching to four wheels when he had the chance with the Italians in 2006 and again in 2009. (Reporting by Steve Scherer, Terry Daley and Amlan Chakraborty; Editing by John O'Brien/Mark Meadows)

[TB-Racing]

interessting read about Ducdi.... http://manziana.motocorse.com/blog/3...T_KV0.facebook

looking forward to the next weekends MotoGP (Indianapolis)

last weekends WSBK race in Silverstone was just awesome and later this month they race in Russia for the 1st. time..............
WSBK Moscow Raceway: http://www.worldsbk.com/en/calendar-...ts/moscow.html