for Yamaha. As part of a series of ongoing activities to celebrate this landmark Yamaha Factory Racing will run a special livery, the ‘YZR-M1 WGP 50th Anniversary Edition’ for the Assen TT and Laguna Seca races. Reigning MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo

with the factory Ducati team. The 2007 champion impressed in his first test session on board the RC212V at the post-season test at Valencia, ending the session on a high with the fastest time.The Repsol Honda team and the rest of the MotoGP field will get a chance

.”Rossi will partner Nicky Hayden (who can be seen below) in a line-up reminiscent of the Repsol Honda team from 2003. In addition it appears that cigarette sponsorship has officially left motorcycle racing, with the disappearance of Marlboro and the bar-code from

FORMER MOTOGP World Champion Valentino Rossi is to ride his new Ducati MotoGP racer in an all-black black colour scheme at the post-season Valencia test session, rather than the team's Marlboro red colours, as a mark of respect to current employers

Bautista joined a CRT entry, as Michele Pirro will ride an FTR bike powered by a CBR1000RR engine tuned by Ten Kate.The black colours will be used by the MotoGP pair as a mark of respect to the late Marco Simoncelli.Gresini Honda will also field a new Moto3

JUST WHEN we thought we'd found the most gopping MotoGP paintjob ever, along comes Pramac Racing with their new livery for the 2010 season.We're used to seeing the satellite Ducati squad in Pramac's corporate red/white colour scheme but the team has

VISORDOWN BROKE the news about Leon Camier's Aprilia ride in WSB and now we're bringing you this gorgeous colour-scheme that Casey Stoner will ride with at Phillip Island this year.The design has been done by company Sak Art and is meant

of the fastest Ducati went to the Pramac outfit, with the new privateer recruit, Randy De Puniet finishing in tenth. The fortunes of the factory team were not as glowing with Valentino Rossi in 12th, in his first ride on the GP11 in official colours, obviously

GRESINI RACING have announced that Alvaro Bautista will ride for the Honda team next season.An agreement was reached between Bautista and Gresini for the Spaniard to ride a Honda RC213V with Team San Carlo Honda Gresini in 2012.Gresini commented

third rider, and it may be Stoner who runs in different colours, with suggestions that Red Bull may step up to the plate and support the break-away effort.