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.

Powers out in Aragon.

In the middle of nowhere in the country that is referred to as “sunny Spain” but really wasn’t all that sunny, the MotoGP paddock were at their next stop on the calendar - Motorland, Aragon.

In the 125’s Nico Terol won the race by 7 seconds from Johann Zarco who raced Hector Faubel for the majority of the laps, in bid to both be higher on the podium however on the last corner Faubel crashed out in an attempt to pass Zarco and gave Marverick Vinales 3^rd place on the podium.

Briton Danny Kent had a strong race at his first Aragon Grand Prix, he finished up 7^th, slip streaming along the start/finish straight he moved up from 9^th to 5^th but lost out on the last lap to Sandro Cortese.

Moto2 was another belter of a race. Spaniard and reigning 125 champ, Marc Marquez started from pole and carried out what he started into the race. Stefan bradl and Scott Redding challenged for the lead early on, meanwhile Andrea Lannone battled through the field from 10^th along with Simon Corsi and Alex de Angelis all up at the front, this saw a five-way battle for the lead.

Responding to his competitors, Marquez broke out from the pack on Lap 13 taking the lead and winning in Aragon.

On Lap 16 Bradl feel back and finished in 8^th after what appeared to be a mechanical problem. Lannone finished in 2^nd and joining in on podium celebrations was Corsi.

Another MotoGP, another Stoner victory, his dominance on the Repsol Honda is still evident, even if they changed the livery to what looked like a kid had scribbled on it in a off orange colour (it’s what we’ve all been thinking!)

From Lap 2 Stoner remained top dog, or should I say top kangaroo? He left the rest of the pack behind to take his eighth victory in the last 14 races!

Ben Spies on the factory Yamaha was off to a strong start taking an early lead into Turn 1, in front of Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa however by lap two the Honda’s had better speed and demoted him to 3^rd, he finished the race in 5^th. The Yamaha struggled with tyre wear Spies later said “[by the] sixth of seventh lap the tyre just made a huge drop and just kept going down.”

His teammate Jorge Lorenzo finished in 3^rd, after a slow start he crept up to 3^rd on the grid and held off Marco Simoncelli who finished in 4^th.

The race had thrills and spill’s, Andrea Dovizioso crashed the newly designed Honda on the first lap along with Karel Abraham who had a nasty crash on Lap 1, causing Randy De Puniet to run wide of the track to avoid him, RDP managed to rejoin safely and finished 12^th.

It didn’t end there with Loris Capirossi having a nightmare end of season, colliding with Toni Elias on Lap 15, dislocating his right shoulder in the fall - we hope to see him in Motegi!

Valentino Rossi who started from the pit lane finished in 10^th behind Cal Crutchlow while Rossi’s teammate had a scrap for 7^th, piping Hector Barbera on the last lap. 

Repsol Honda's Aragon livery... Hmm.

[MotoGP Podium - Dani Pedrosa, Casey Stoner, Jorge Lorenzo]

Next up is the fly away races, we head off to Motegi, Japan first where all the riders will be racing and a plus, Yamaha will be running their red and white livery! 

Motegi

Yep, back on the subject of Motegi circuit in Japan.

Yamaha have officially confirmed both drivers will be riding at Motegi in October.
That's right, Jorge Lorenzo after not liking the idea because of concerns about radiation levels is going to be racing! Like i said before, maybe he realises he needs to win as many races as he can to take the championship from Casey Stoner...

To add to the good news they will also be racing the 50th anniversary colours for what will be the 4h time this season!! If only they'd keep the red and white colour scheme, i would never get bored of how beautiful it is.