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Full Friday free practice times from the US Grand Prix at Laguna Seca, round eight of the 2009 MotoGP World Championship. Mika Kallio is absent due to a finger injury, while Gabor Talmacsi will be Scot Honda's only rider from this event onwards.

Valentino Rossi has become only the second rider in motorcycle grand prix history to reach 100 wins with a measured victory at Assen on Saturday.

Updated race results from the Dutch TT at Assen, round seven of the 2009 MotoGP World Championship. Valentino Rossi wins his 100th grand prix, Toni Elias drops from eighth to twelfth after a 20 second post-race penalty...

Full qualifying times from the Dutch TT at Assen, round seven of the 2009 MotoGP World Championship. Do not copy-and-paste this results template onto other websites

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd has signed a three-year agreement with Petronas that will see the Malaysian oil and gas corporation become a new Official Sponsor of the Fiat Yamaha Team.

Reigning six-time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi expects 2008 runner-up Casey Stoner to be his number one rival during an "even more difficult" 2009 season.

Fiat Yamaha today (Monday) unveiled the machine and colours with which Valentino Rossi will defend his MotoGP World Championship in 2009, during a special online presentation.

Jorge Lorenzo will race in this Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi with a special 'Lupin III' livery on his Fiat Yamaha M1.

By Mike Nicks Valentino Rossi's success in winning three consecutive races and soaring to the top of the MotoGP championship may have blocked Yamaha's plans to offer the seven-times world champion a pay cut in 2009, according to the daily Spanish newspaper Sport .

By Peter McLaren If Valentino Rossi's Sepang race simulation is anything to go by then the Italian looks to have made a giant leap forward in the three-and-a-half months since last October's Malaysian Grand Prix.

By Peter McLaren Confidence isn't something that Jorge Lorenzo appears to lack, but the MotoGP rookie's self-belief was surely given a further boost when he finished last week's Sepang test in third position - as the top Yamaha rider.

The former five-times MotoGP world champion is aiming to bounce back from two successive title defeats in 2008, when he will also switch from Michelin to Bridgestone tyres... Q: Valentino, firstly can you tell us how your hand is following your injury in Valencia?

The 20-year-old first rode a YZR-M1 during a secret test at Almeria during the MotoGP summer break, but Valencia marked his first time working with the factory Yamaha team - which will be restructured next season to allow Valentino Rossi to race with Bridgestone tyres, while Lorenzo uses Michelin