August 2, 2005 Yamaha Motor and Valentino Rossi signed a contract extension yesterday, ensuring that Valentino will stay with Yamaha for the 2006 MotoGP World Championship.

Ducati have expressed their hopes that Yamaha will release Valentino Rossi of his contract as soon as the 2010 MotoGP season ends, and not at the end of the calendar year.

Valentino Rossi's switch to Ducati for the upcoming couple of seasons will provide his current team Yamaha with an extra motivation to beat the Doctor in the MotoGP.

It’s been two years since Yamaha’s R1-riding Motobot challenged MotoGP GOAT Valentino Rossi to a lap time duel. And now, the race has been run, at California’s Thunderhill raceway.

Valentino Rossi knows the Yamaha Fight Club. He has been here before: Locked in a desperate battle for the MotoGP World championship against his nemesis Jorge Lorenzo.

Sunday at the Shell Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix was another reminder that there’s plenty of grit and determination in Valentino Rossi (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) yet. P4 doesn’t tell the ...

The Rossi/Yamaha partnership would deliver two more titles, in 2008 and 2009, before the age of Lorenzo saw him win the championship three times between 2010 and 2015.

Rossi left Yamaha in 2010, having won 46 races for the Japanese team. However, that year the man known as "The Doctor" lost his world title to younger teammate Lorenzo.