FIAT YAMAHA team manager, Davide Brivio, has revealed Valentino Rossi is set to work out a deal with Yamaha that will see him finish his career with the company.The seven-time world champion has stated a desire remain with Fiat Yamaha until

There is a new trumpeting sound to be heard at the GPs. It comes not only from the high-level four-into-one tailpipe of Yamaha's new four-stroke GP bike, but also from the same factory's publicity machine. Though, after the first few races, this has

charm, however, he came out smelling of roses. And will again, now he has turned up the heat on Yamaha. It had always been, he said, “Yamaha’s prerogative to make bikes 20 kms slower than the others,” before laughingly dismissing the comment as a joke

Let's assume that Max Biaggi is the second best GP rider in the world and the Yamaha the second best GP bike - behind, obviously, Valentino Rossi and the Honda. An over-simplification, for the sake of argument and not a million miles from the truth

, with the name of Colin Edwards also in the frame.Hayden’s factory Honda seat is thought to be earmarked for Andrea Dovizioso.Chris Vermeulen is unhappy at Suzuki, where progress seems to have slowed yet again, which might leave a seat open there for Spies.Yamaha

develop, the more similar they become. The 500 era showed that, with V4 two-strokes all round. They were the URM - Universal Racing Motorcycle. MotoGP four-strokes arrived with a refreshing mechanical diversity. Aprilia had an inline three, Yamaha

Jarno Saarinen, who qualified his new Yamaha 500 on pole for the first two rounds.Saarinen claimed pole in the third race of the year as well, having won the first two, but his story had a tragic ending. He was killed in a 250-class crash at the Italian

, Pedrosa was the fastest of the Honda riders - including Melandri and Hayden.That was at Sepang in Malaysia, and it made me laugh out loud. True, Rossi went faster still on his new Yamaha, and in overall times the double 250 champ ended up third, because

come in the future."It was four years ago Yamaha's then chief of racing, Toshimitsu Iio, articulated this thought, at the same time as he was breaking the first news of the forthcoming four-stroke takeover of the 500 class, striking the death knell

This was history. And just in case nobody had noticed, the shout from new-generation GP bikes - the complex throb of the Honda, the rude-boy bluster of the Suzuki, the howl of the Yamaha and the smooth, shrill Aprilia - underlined the fact. Listen