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Friday, 04 November 2005 |
Yamaha Factory Racing rider Valentino Rossi faces an uphill battle in the final
round of the 2005 MotoGP World Championship tomorrow after qualifying fifteenth
fastest at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia. Rossi slid from his YZR-M1
machine just over eleven minutes from the end of this afternoon's qualifying
session and, despite returning to the track on his second machine, he lost
several positions in the final push for times. The Italian will start from the
fifth row of the grid as he aims to score his twelfth victory of the season and
repeat the success he has enjoyed at this circuit for the past two years. |
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Thursday, 03 November 2005 |
Yamaha Factory Racing riders Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards began making
preparations for the final round of the 2005 MotoGP World Championship at
Valencia today, with the cloudy conditions at the Ricardo Tormo circuit
brightened by the return of the factory's traditional red, white and black
racing colours. Both riders' YZR-M1 machines and leathers are decorated in the
famous livery, in commemoration of Yamaha's 50th Anniversary and its
extraordinarily successful year in racing this season. |
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Thursday, 03 November 2005 |
Valencia, Spain
To commemorate Yamaha's 50th Anniversary and its extraordinarily successful year
in racing this season, Yamaha has decided to race the last round of the 2005
MotoGP World Championship in the company's traditional red, white and black
racing color scheme. This follows the Yamaha Factory Team's earlier showing of
the yellow and black traditional US racing colors in the US MotoGP round at
Laguna Seca. |
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Monday, 31 October 2005 |
2004 MotoGP race summary
At Valencia Valentino Rossi secured his ninth and final win of his world
championship winning first season with Yamaha. Down in sixth after a tricky
start he used his improving pace to good effect, winning 0.425 seconds ahead of
second-placed rider Max Biaggi (Honda) and final podium finisher, Troy Bayliss
(Ducati).
After a difficult start, when Rossi did not get the drive he wanted, he
immediately set about reducing the margin of advantage enjoyed by early leader
Makoto Tamada (Honda), and on lap six he made a determined inside pass to lead
the race for the first time. A gritty duel between the pairing saw Tamada pass
on turn one of lap seven, leading the ranks ahead of Rossi, Nicky Hayden (Honda)
and Biaggi. To the rapture of the 122,000-strong crowd, Rossi went back into a
final leading position with a pass on the entrance to the last chicane. |
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