Maverick Vinales

  • MotoGP: Dovizioso, Rossi, Marquez top the pile in FP1

    MotoGP: Dovizioso, Rossi, Marquez top the pile in FP1

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    Battle has commenced as action kicks off for the start of the MotoGP season at Losail International Circuit in Dubai. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) went fastest in FP1 in Qatar, showing good form to start the season – the first in which he says he can be called a title contender from Day 1. But…

  • MotoGP: Zarco, Rossi and Dovi rise to rule day three at Qatar

    MotoGP: Zarco, Rossi and Dovi rise to rule day three at Qatar

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    Johann Zarco (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) left the Qatar MotoGP test as the fastest man on track, with the Frenchman just over a tenth over Jorge Lorenzo’s 10-year-old pole lap record to top the test with a 1:54.029. Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) shot back up into the higher echelons on day two to get…

  • Valentino Rossi SHOCK announcement. He’ll decide after the first three races in 2018 whether he stays or LEAVES MotoGP!

    Valentino Rossi SHOCK announcement. He’ll decide after the first three races in 2018 whether he stays or LEAVES MotoGP!

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    It’s the news about Rossi that will have die-hard Valentino fans worried – but the nine-times world champion has confirmed that his plans for this year in MotoGP are NOT sorted. Speaking at the three-day test at Sepang this week, the Italian Yamaha rider let out the shocking statement which has been first reported by…

  • MotoGP Sepang test: Viñales and Rossi reign on Day 2, Cal third quickest

    MotoGP Sepang test: Viñales and Rossi reign on Day 2, Cal third quickest

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    Maverick Viñales (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) went quickest on Day 2 at Sepang International Circuit, just beating teammate Valentino Rossi to the top late on as the Yamaha duo put in some timeattack laps. Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda Castrol) was third quickest, with the top three split by less than a tenth as the timesheets were…

  • Movistar Yamaha unveils its new MotoGP livery for 2018

    Movistar Yamaha unveils its new MotoGP livery for 2018

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    Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales were on hand to unveil the new Yamaha Factory Racing YZF-M1’s for 2018. The focus of the 2018 Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Team Presentation event was to celebrate the start of the new Championship season. Masters of Ceremonies, Izaskun Ruiz and Dylan Gray, presented the launch and welcomed new Yamaha Motor…

  • Watch the 2018 Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Team presentation LIVE!

    Watch the 2018 Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Team presentation LIVE!

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    Join Valentino Rossi, Maverick Viñales and the Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Team as they present the 2018 YZR-M1 bike livery. Rossi and Vinales set to take the covers off the 2018 YZF-M1 before heading to Sepang for the first official MotoGP test later this month.

  • Yamaha YZF-R1M online applications NOW open

    Yamaha YZF-R1M online applications NOW open

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    The Yamaha YZF-R1M online application system is now live – so, if you’ve got just shy of £20,000 sat in the bank, this is your chance to put your name down for a new YZF-R1M for 2018.   Inspired by the MotoGP-winning YZR-M1 machinery made famous by Valentino Rossi and Maverick Viñales, the high specification…

  • MotoGP: All the stats ahead of this weekend’s racing at Misano

    MotoGP: All the stats ahead of this weekend’s racing at Misano

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    The MotoGP world championship is heading back to Misano – and in preparation for the action kicking off, here’s a bunch of facts and figures about this weekend’s racing at the iconic Italian circuit.  Heading into this weekend’s action, Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) leads the championship – 4 points ahead of Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda), 13…

  • Valentino Rossi on getting older: “I have to train more, and it is harder to recover”

    Valentino Rossi on getting older: “I have to train more, and it is harder to recover”

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    Valentino Rossi spoke openly to MotoGP colleagues, journalists and fans at Misano, just days before he fractured his tibia and fibula. Yamaha has announced that it will not replace the injured Valentino Rossi for this weekend’s racing at Misano, having been ruled out for at least a month after breaking his leg in a motocross…

  • MotoGP: Marquez blasts to the top in testing

    MotoGP: Marquez blasts to the top in testing

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    Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) topped the timesheets by three tenths at the post-Catalan GP test, leaping ahead of Movistar Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Viñales and Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Jonas Folger at the end of action at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. 93 was faster than his fastest in Q2, and only just over a…

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