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MotoGP: Silly Season 2018

Post by toratora » Tue Jan 23, 2018 12:39 am

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MotoGP: 2018 to be Petrucci’s last year in Pramac

Post by toratora » Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:40 am

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Neil Morrison wrote:23 Jan 2018

Danilo Petrucci has admitted the 2018 season will be his last for Pramac Ducati after learning of the factory’s interest in Italian starlet Francesco Bagnaia.

Speaking to Italian sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport, Petrucci revealed he will not continue in the satellite squad for a fifth year, but has an option in his current contract to move to Ducati’s official team for ’18.

However, Ducati management used its MotoGP team launch in Bologna last week to state how its priority was to renew the contracts of current factory riders Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo in the coming months.
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MotoGP: Viñales kicks off silly season with two-year Yamaha extension

Post by toratora » Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:43 am

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Simon Patterson wrote:January 24th 2018

Maverick Viñales has delivered the first deal of the 2018 MotoGP silly season by announcing a two-year contract extension with the Movistar Yamaha team at the squad’s launch event in Madrid this morning.
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MotoGP: Hernandez to deputise for Folger at Sepang

Post by toratora » Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:06 pm

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Simon Patterson wrote:25 January 2018

Columbian rider Yonny Hernandez will replace Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Jonas Folger at this weekend’s official MotoGP test at Malaysia’s Sepang circuit, as he lines himself up to replace the German full time for the 2018 season.

Struggling to find a replacement for Folger as he continues to recover from illness but unwilling to break a rider’s contract with another team, team boss Herve Poncharal admits that discovering that Hernandez has no contract in place yet allows them the possibility to test him at Sepang.
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Rossi likely to sign new deal before Qatar GP

Post by toratora » Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:39 am

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Mat Oxley wrote:28 January 2018

Valentino Rossi’s impressive pace on the first day of 2018’s first test has convinced the veteran that he’s ready to continue MotoGP racing into 2019

“It’s only the first day, so it’s nothing,” said Valentino Rossi, on the first day of his 23rd season of Grand Prix racing.
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MotoGP: Bombshell: Yamaha And Tech3 To Part Ways For 2019 - Who Takes Yamahas, Who Supplies Tech3?

Post by toratora » Thu Feb 22, 2018 9:39 am

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David Emmett wrote:Thu, 2018-02-22

If you thought the 2019 MotoGP Silly Season was already in high gear, a bombshell announcement has just put it into overdrive. Today, the Monster Tech3 Yamaha team announced that from 2019, they will be parting ways. Tech3 will no longer be a satellite Yamaha team.

The split brings to an end an association of nearly 20 years with Yamaha. They first started in 1999 with Shinya Nakano and Olivier Jacque in 250cc, before switching to the premier class with the same pair in 2001. Tech3 have been a loyal partner for many years, giving up one seat to a factory-backed rider on a number of occasions, as occurred with Ben Spies, Colin Edwards, and Pol Espargaro.

However, there had been a few signs of tension over the past few months. Although Hervé Poncharal remained ever the gentleman when talking about Yamaha, toeing the company line, there were occasional hints of frustration in his response to questions, though never anything explicit. With Tech3 having been given a better offer from a different manufacturer—as the press release states—that made it easier to end the association with Yamaha.
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MotoGP: Tech3 to leave Yamaha—join KTM?

Post by toratora » Thu Feb 22, 2018 10:39 am

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Peter McLaren wrote:22 Feb 2018

Tech 3 will end its long association with Yamaha at the end of the 2018 MotoGP season.

Tech3 is to end its long association with Yamaha at the end of the 2018 MotoGP season.

And the hot rumour is that the French team will join KTM and receive the very latest factory machinery in 2019.

"We’ve been offered a deal, that includes something we’ve been waiting for almost since we started with Tech3 and I couldn’t say no," team boss Herve Poncharal explains below.

Tech3's surprise move also opens up the possibility of Valentino Rossi's VR46 joining MotoGP to run Yamaha's satellite machines, should existing teams agree to a new entry or if VR46 merge with a current team.

But perhaps 2019 is too soon for such a project, especially as Rossi seems set to continue racing.

Marc VDS, presently with Honda, is another team tipped as interested in the future satellite M1 supply.

If Tech3 are moving to KTM, heavily linked with Red Bull, it seems impossible that they can continue with title sponsor Monster.

“To summarize 20 years of an incredible partnership between Tech3 and Yamaha in a few words is a very difficult mission," said Poncharal.
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MotoGP: Tech 3 to split with Yamaha after 2018

Post by toratora » Thu Feb 22, 2018 11:39 am

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Simon Patterson wrote:February 22nd, 2018

The Monster Energy Tech 3 team have dramatically announced that they will split with manufacturer Yamaha at the end of the 2018 MotoGP season, bringing to an end a twenty-year partnership that has seen the French team cement their place as the series’ premier satellite team.

Speaking in a statement released only a day after confirmed that Hafizh Syahrin would ride for the team this coming season, Poncharal made it clear that the decision to walk away from Yamaha was his, opening up speculation that the team will make a switch to Suzuki, KTM or even Aprilia machinery for next season.
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MotoGP: Syahrin to line up full—time with Tech 3 in 2018

Post by toratora » Thu Feb 22, 2018 12:39 pm

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MotoGP wrote:February 21, 2018

After an impressive #ThaiTest, the Malaysian will become the first from his country to compete in MotoGP™

Following his performance in testing at Buriram, Hafizh Syahrin has been confirmed as riding for Monster Yamaha Tech 3 in 2018. The Malaysian, who was the first from his nation to enter the premier class at the #ThaiTest, now becomes the first to compete full-time as he joins Johann Zarco in the French squad’s line up.

Syahrin impressed in Thailand with his rapid progress, high motivation and learning curve during his first ever test aboard the Yamaha YZR-M1, ending the test in P22 of 24 and only 1.7 seconds off the fastest laptime set by Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team).
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Marquez to stay at Repsol Honda in 2019 and 2020

Post by toratora » Mon Feb 26, 2018 9:39 pm

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MotoGP wrote:February 26, 2018

Marc Marquez will be staying at the Repsol Honda Team for two further seasons, having signed a contract to remain at Honda in 2019 and 2020. Marquez, who joined the team in 2013 as a rookie and went on to take his first premier class crown that year, will have raced with the squad for a total of eight seasons by the conclusion of the 2020 season—and it has been quite a ride.
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