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[2012/08/03][16:03:15]
[Translate]: Thomas Baujard of @moto_journal has the scoop. MacKenzie spoke to Rossi at Yamaha's HQ in Amsterdam. He's signed the deal. Good job Tom!yessssssss
Nice scoop! So we can haz more of diz?
I don’t think it will make that much of a difference to be honest. Its Lorenzo’s team not, they aren’t going to flip-flop everything back around for Rossi. He may jump a few spots in the points standings on the Yamaha but I don’t think he will actually compete for the championship. And like the article states with the option of going to WSBK after the two years…I REALLY hope he does because the competition and talent is much better over there right now then in MotoGP.
When rossi’s leg was broken and he was on crutchlows R1 he still put in better lap time then top WSBK memebers. I don’t think rossi would have any issue in WSBK I honestly think he would do real well. In fact it make make WSBK eclipse GP. I cant wait to see him over there.
Turns out not true, Motomatter admitted the mistake on twitter.
they were hacked for the tweet, but they are still backing rossi to yamaha.
Yeah. More chatter on this about Yammy is going to announce Rossi on Aug 15…:dunno
the drama of GP better then the races:lol
“There are now several sources in the environment that tell the same story, that is, the decision to Valentino to leave the Ducati , which obviously could not provide the necessary technical safeguards, and to return to Yamaha .
Like all decisions Valentino , the abandonment of the Ducati and the simultaneous transition to Yamaha is the result of reasoning and calculations. Valentino , who is anything but stupid, he demanded of Ducati technical safeguards that would allow him to reverse the current trend and bring the Ducati to win but Not having received these assurances from Ducati and not wanting to be remembered as the cause of the failures Ducati has rightly chosen a path that will allow him to demonstrate that it is still a winning driver in the race and, judging from the two-year contract in the league.
Hence it Valentino , also giving a rich contract Ducati , accepts a challenge that most sporting and economic returns to the Yamaha alongside former teammate, former world champion and current standings leader Jorge Lorenzo .
Conscious that to win a challenge of this level, Valentino Rossi claimed that Yamaha shops with Ducati a premature termination of his contract with Don Ducati so that you can try the M1 in Valencia the next day of the last race of the season 2012. It is this last detail to be defined before signing the contract that we will definitely by the end of August because Ducati itself has, at this point, plan their championship in 2013.
We are rather unfounded reports appeared in Internet where there are rumors of a passage in SBK concluded the two-year contract Yamaha in MotoGP .”
latest chatter, Yammy just changed it to tomorrow.
I am beginning to wonder if the “hacked account” thing is an excuse came up with the guy when he was being pressured by Yammy’s lawyer…:rofl
:lol
It’s Official!
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.”
and from Ducati…
Ducati wishes the Italian well for the new challenges that await him, and in the meantime, the team will continue to give its best effort in order to improve over the latter part of the season.
Racing has always been in Ducati’s DNA, and now more than ever, it is integral to the Borgo Panigale company’s product development and image. AUDI shares Ducati’s strategic approach and agrees with its growing commitment to competition.
Therefore, having recently renewed its agreement with American Nicky Hayden, Ducati is in the process of finalizing the team that will take part in the 2013 World Championship, confident that its team and bike will be capable of competing at the highest level.
So is Divi going to Duc?
Dovi would be crazy to do so. YOU have to be Stoner to win on a ducati
These are riders first 2 years riding for Ducati … their results. Take note the Podiums column.
Ducati is Stoners Excalibur
It’s like I said when Rossi went to Ducati, Stoner is the only one who can win on that bike. Stoner is better then Rossi. The man could ride around that bikes issues Rossi cannot. And I had my balls roasted on the R6-forum. :rofl
Rossi said it himself “Stoner rides like a God” But glad to see him see his mistake take a pay cut and return to Yamaha, he should have never left. Now everyone see just how much talent “Moaner” has.
Italian TV reports that dovi will sign a 2 year deal with ducati.
In other words, this is the beginning of the end of Dovi’s motogp career. I guess he figures that its better to be on a bad factory bike than on a satellite bike.
