The Doctor's back baby.

'Bye bye baby' was the slogan on every Yamaha team members t-shirts in Valencia 2010 when Valentino Rossi's 7 year love affair with Yamaha came to an end.
However, after a roller coaster two season spent at Ducati 'The Doctor' is returning back to the team he won several of his championships at: Yamaha. He's signed a two year contract with the team.

I'm not sure whether the move back to the blue and white machine is the best move but i really hope for Vale and MotoGP as a whole that it's a rewarding one.
Don't get me wrong i'd love nothing better than to see Valentino win (which i'm sure he will) and possibly bag another championship but he returns to the team where after he left Jorge Lorenzo settled in to and made his own to an extent, there's no denying he's their number 1 rider, up till now at least.
Even though Rossi's results at Ducati have been far from competitive, i was hoping it'd pick up, that some time soon he'd be back up the front winning races, i think it's even been evident in the few races that the Duc has been slowly improving. I guess we'll never know now.

With the greatest current MotoGP rider heading back to a competitive team, maybe 2013 is looking a little more promising for excitement, with Casey Stoner leaving the sport it's fair to say a lot of people thought it would be an easy championship for Jorge Lorenzo but now with Valentino Rossi, along with Honda riders Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez maybe it won't be one long parade, i hope they all have a lot of exciting, close racing battles at the top!

Good luck and welcome back to Yamaha Vale.

Low down's i've missed: Formula 1

Great Britain - Silverstone:

[1st- Mark Webber, 2nd- Fernando Alonso, 3rd- Sebastian Vettel]

*Post coming soon.

German GP - Hockenheim:

[1st- Fernando Alonso, 2nd- Sebastian Vettel, 3rd- Jenson Button]

Hungarian GP - Hungaroring:

[1st- Lewis Hamilton, 2nd- Kimi Raikkonen,m 3rd- Romain Grosjean]

News Update:

With the awful accident during the Marussia straight line test, day's before the British Grand Prix, involving Maria de Villota who sadly lost her eyesight in her right eye and had serious facial injuries, she's now back home in Spain on the road to making the best recovery possible!

So far as driver signing, F1 hasn't quite entered the silly season as quickly as MotoGP has but there's still the rumours of who'll end up where. The day after Silverstone Red Bull announced Mark Webber has signed another one year contract with the team, so Red Bull will continue with the same driver pair for another year.

Lewis Hamilton has been in the spotlight as to whether he'll be staying at the team with Jenson Button, making it known he hasn't been 100% happy with the team lately but a win in Hungary and maybe a few more to the end of the year as McLaren begin to pick the pace up might sway him...

The main talk has been firmly at Ferrari, in particular Felipe Massa, with recent form being far from competitive for the team, a big question mark is on where his future lie's. Currently, it isn't looking promising for the Brazilian to stay at Ferrari. 

When the second half of the season starts up in less than a months time i'm sure the contracts and swapsies will start being confirmed. 

Next Up:

The infamous Span-francorchamps in 27 days and counting. Will Kimi 'King of Spa' Raikkonen reign once more at the circuit or will another surprise winner taking to the podium?!

Low down's i've missed: MotoGP

With the summer break now underway in both Formula 1 and MotoGP i missed a few low down's in both series.

Assen TT:

[1st-Casey Stoner, 2nd-Dani Pedrosa, 3rd-Andrea Dovizioso]

German GP - Sachsenring:

[1st- Dani Pedrosa, 2nd- Jorge Lorenzo, 3rd- Andrea Dovizioso]

Italian GP - Mugello:

[1st- Jorge Lorenzo, 2nd- Dani Pedrosa, 3rd- Andrea Dovizioso]

US GP - Laguna Seca:

[1st- Casey Stoner, 2nd- Jorge Lorenzo, 3rd- Dani Pedrosa]

News Update:

Since Casey Stoner's announcement that he'll be retiring at the end of the season speculation as to who'll take his place and where other drivers will be staying or going has been all the talk. 

Well, a few weeks ago the MotoGP Rookie rule was dropped and within days it was confirmed that Moto2 rider Marc Marquez will be taking over Stoner's ride, with teammate Dani Pedrosa staying on at the team too. 

With the rumour mill already going crazy over where exactly Mr.Rossi will be next season, it went in to  over-drive when Nicky Hayden announced he'd signed another contract with Ducati next season, a long with that early last week Yamaha rider Ben Spies took to his Twitter to really ramp up the rumours by telling fans he will not be staying at the team next year, it's in doubt as to whether he'll be staying in MotoGP - where he has had a far from great 2012 season - and moving back to Superbikes. 

As of yet, no 2nd rider at Yamaha has been confirmed so the waiting game commences as to what Valentino will be doing next season.

Is it really a smart move for him to go back to a team that is now dominated by Jorge Lorenzo?! 

Next Up:

The next race is at the Brickyard - Indianapolis in just over two weeks time before it heads back to Europe and the fly away's to wrap up the 2012 season.