Motorcycling - Rossi admits qualifying pace a problem

Valentino Rossi believes he made a breakthrough with his Yamaha in Friday practice at Le Mans and should be more competitive than in his last two races. Email 0 Share 0 Tweet 0 The seven-time MotoGP champion has not been on the podium since his ...

LE MANS:Nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi targets an 80th career MotoGP win on Sunday at the French Grand Prix, where he also hopes to break his duck for the season. The Italian Yamaha star currently sits at fourth in the world championship, ...

If you're not familiar with Valentino Rossi, let me fill you in: He's Italian, he has mad hair, and he's nicknamed "The Doctor." Oh, and he's won the MotoGP World Championship seven times. Despite being accustomed to two wheels, Rossi has never ...

Valentino Rossi was surprised that Honda had the edge over Yamaha in Sunday's MotoGP race at Jerez. AutoSport 23 minutes ago Email 0 Share 0 Tweet 0 Rossi and factory Yamaha team-mate Jorge Lorenzo lost out to the works Hondas of Dani Pedrosa and ...

1. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) 25 points, 2. Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) 20, 3. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 16, 4. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 13, 5. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/Yamaha) 11, 6. Alvaro Bautista (ESP/Honda) 10, 7. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 9, 8.

Eight years ago Valentino Rossi won the Jerez MotoGP race from Sete Gibernau with a hard final corner overtake that put the Spainiard in the gravel. Sunday's Jerez race saw a near-repeat of the incident, with Marquez forcing Lorenzo wide at the same ...

Valentino Rossi said a brake issue compounded what was already a difficult MotoGP weekend for himself and Yamaha at Austin. Email 0 Share 0 Tweet 0 After battling through to secure a podium in the first race of his Yamaha return, Rossi headed to ...

Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi, who got off to impressive starts at the season-opening Qatar race, will be aiming for another one-two finish at Sunday's maiden MotoGP race in Austin. Spain's Lorenzo won the 2013 opener at the Losail ...

We’re big fans of Valentino Rossi. He’s a nine-time MotoGP champion, once lapped within half a second of Michael Schumacher in a Ferrari F1 car, and cites Colin McCrae as his hero. He is also, as you might have guessed, annoyingly ...