Nine-time MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi has signed a new two-year deal to remain with Yamaha's factory team through 2020. News of the agreement comes as the 39-year-old gets set for his 13th season with Yamaha."When I signed my last contract with Yamaha, in March 2016, I wondered if that would...

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP managing director Lin Jarvis is fully confident Valentino Rossi will race with his team beyond 2018, although claims that the rider has already signed are untrue."Yesterday we were actually in Manila in Philippines for a promotional event and Valentino explained to the media there that right now...

Valentino Rossi is set to miss a second MotoGP round due to his leg injuries suffered in a training accident, and this time his Movistar Yamaha team will replace him.Yamaha World Superbike rider Michael van der Mark (pictured) is set to make his MotoGP debut on Valentino Rossi's YZR-M1 at...

Yamaha MotoGP boss Lin Jarvis says Valentino Rossi is not viewing his next two seasons as his last, and he believes the Italian could continue to race when he's 40.A month after turning 37, Rossi signed a new, two-year deal with Yamaha on the eve of the 2016 season opener...

Yamaha MotoGP managing director Lin Jarvis says the door would always be open for the Ducati-bound Jorge Lorenzo to return in the future.Lorenzo will move to the Italian manufacturer next year, ending an association with Yamaha that has so far netted three titles and 41 premier class victories. With the...

The departing Jorge Lorenzo will receive the same treatment as Valentino Rossi from Yamaha this year, other than when it starts working on its 2017 MotoGP bike.Lorenzo will leave Yamaha after nine years at the end of this season, having signed a two-year deal with Ducati, while Rossi will stay...

Valentino Rossi was prepared to wait until the middle of the year for a new MotoGP deal, before Yamaha put one to him on the eve of the season opener.Rossi had indicated he was likely to seek a two-year contract extension with Yamaha beyond 2016, but said he would wait...

Yamaha has some riders in mind if it does need to replace Jorge Lorenzo at the end of the 2016 MotoGP season, team boss Lin Jarvis says.Valentino Rossi penned a two-year contract extension to the end of 2018 during the Qatar Grand Prix week, and Lorenzo has been tabled his...

Yamaha MotoGP boss Lin Jarvis believes Jorge Lorenzo is waiting to evaluate a potential offer from Ducati following Yamaha proposing a MotoGP contract extension last week.Both Yamaha riders' contracts expire at the end of 2016, and the manufacturer put two-year extensions – negotiated over recent weeks – to Lorenzo and...

Seven-time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi has signed a new, two-year contract extension with Yamaha.The 37-year-old returned to Yamaha in 2013, and the new deal takes him to the end of the '18 season.Rossi had already outlined his intent to secure a two-year contract, before then potentially exploring additional opportunities...