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Following Sunday's season-ending Valencia MotoGP, riders and teams have returned to the circuit for the start of 2019 testing.

Following Sunday's season-ending Valencia MotoGP, riders and teams have returned to the circuit for the start of 2019 testing.

Monday at Valencia was a time for Ducati Corse general manager Gigi Dall’Igna to weigh-up the 2018 MotoGP season and look ahead to 2019, which starts with testing on Tuesday.

'Traction control is one of the most famous and effective strategies but unfortunately it's one of the most difficult to tune'

The new Petronas Yamaha Sepang Racing Team will make its debut during this week's Valencia test, on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Jonas Folger will make his debut as an Yamaha MotoGP test rider at Valencia this week.

Dovizioso wins a wet, restarted Valencia MotoGP season finale from Rins and Pol Espargaro.

Riders' World Championship:

Miguel Oliveria showed his class with a dominant win in the final round of the Moto2 championship in Valencia.

Race results from the 2018 Valencia Moto2 Grand Prix, round 19 of 19.

Wildcard Can Oncu made history by winning on his grand prix debut in the Moto3 race in Valencia.

Race results from the 2018 Valencia Moto3 Grand Prix, round 19 of 19.

Marc Marquez is thought to have suffered a partial shoulder dislocation when he fell on the opening lap of qualifying for the Valencia MotoGP season finale.

Danilo Petrucci will start Sunday's Valencia MotoGP season finale from fourth on the grid after dodging a fiery incident in final practice. As the Pramac rider pulled up for a practice start at the end of FP4, flames could be seen licking from the side of his GP18.

Luca Marini built on his race win in Sepang with a confident performance for pole position ahead of the Valencia Moto2 Grand Prix.

Vinales takes pole position for the Valencia MotoGP season finale. The session took place on a dry track with damp patches, with world champion Marquez falling on his out-lap - the Spaniard appearing to dislocate his left shoulder once again as he rolled through the gravel.

Slick tyres on a drying track with occasional damp patches...

A drying track means the first slick tyre MotoGP laps of the weekend... Qualifying 1 - for those outside the top ten after third free practice, including Rossi, Vinales and Lorenzo - will now get underway.

Tony Arbolino took a risk and changed to slicks at a drying Ricardo Tormo to snatch pole ahead of the Moto3 Valencia Grand Prix.

Qualifying results from the 2018 Valencia Moto3 Grand Prix, round 19 of 19.

Petrucci quickest during a wet FP3 for the Valencia MotoGP season finale. After a dry start to the morning, rain returned in the early stages of FP3 but then eased, allowing some riders to set their best laps of the weekend so far.

Free Practice (3) results from the Valencia Moto3 Grand Prix, round 19 of 19.

Like all of the larger MotoGP riders, Danilo Petrucci's size is often a disadvantage in terms of tyre wear.

Yamaha's difficulties with its MotoGP machine stem from changes made after the 2016 season and, now the problems have finally been identified, the factory is trying to play catch-up against Ducati and Honda.