© Fiat Yamaha Team. After being officially welcomed into the Yamaha fold at the Team's presentation in Turin last week, Jorge Lorenzo was out on track in Fiat Yamaha Team colours for the first time today in Sepang. The three-day Malaysian test is the first of four pre-season tests before the Spanish rookie makes his MotoGP debut in March.

 

© Fiat Yamaha Team. Yamaha Motor Company Ltd. and Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. marked the second year of their MotoGP partnership today, at the official 2008 Fiat Yamaha Team Launch in Turin, Italy. The presentation was hosted by Italian TV star Simona Ventura and took place at the historic Lingotto building, which was Fiat's car factory from 1923 until 1982.

© Repsol Media Service. The Repsol Honda Team today revealed the new racing prototype it will use to contest the 2008 MotoGP World Championship as a day and a half of MotoGP testing began at Valencia, Spain.

© Repsol Media Service. The Honda Racing Corporation (HRC) is very pleased to announce today that the Repsol Honda Team will continue its highly successful partnership with Michelin for the 2008 MotoGP season.

© Repsol Media Service. The early promise of the weekend remained unfulfilled for the Repsol Honda Team at Donington Park on Sunday as the British Grand Prix was affected by rain.

© Repsol Media Service. Long before the Motorcycle World Championship was born, a group of intrepid British riders decided to travel along Europe to race at the different circuits of the old Continent.

© Fiat Yamaha Team. After a wet race in France, Fiat Yamaha Team riders Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards had slightly better hopes for the weather in Italy this weekend but torrential rain throughout this afternoon put paid to that and the riders once again found themselves splashing around a soaking track doing their best to stay upright.

© Fiat Yamaha MotoGP. Valentino Rossi has been back on board for two busy days of testing at the Bugatti circuit in Le Mans.

© Repsol Media Service. The Le Mans race will mark Dani Pedrosa's 100th Grand Prix start.

© Repsol Media Service. Dani Pedrosa took his RC212V to fourth place in Sunday's Grand Prix of China, a result which maintains his third position in the World Championship.

© Fiat Yamaha Team. A weekend of close racing beckons at the Grand Prix of China as the first day of practice finished with the top fourteen MotoGP riders separated by less than a second in Shanghai today.

© Repsol Media Service. With the dust barely settled after yesterday's action-packed Grand Prix of Turkey, Repsol Honda's World Champion, Nicky Hayden, was back in the saddle at Istanbul Park on Monday, continuing the development of his RC212V MotoGP bike.

© Repsol Media Service. Nicky Hayden and Dani Pedrosa head to Istanbul for what promises to be a fascinating Grand Prix of Turkey.

© Fiat Yamaha. Unlike the opening two rounds at Losail and Jerez, MotoGp riders will be racing at a circuit where they have no pre-season testing experience with this year's machines.

© Rivero The Repsol Honda Team riders were busy testing at Jerez on Monday following Sunday's Grand Prix of Spain, together with most of the other contenders in this year's MotoGP World Championship.

© Fiat Yamaha Team. Valentino Rossi returned to the top step of the podium after leading for all 27-laps of the Grand Prix of Spain, taking his first victory since Sepang last year and his 46th win of the four-stroke MotoGP era.

© Repsol Media Service. Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa took a strong second place after a hard fought Grand Prix of Spain at Jerez on Sunday, a result which moves him to equal second on points in the MotoGP World Championship at this early stage of the season.