French engineer Guy Coulon will work as Andrea Dovizioso’s MotoGP crew chief in the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 squad in 2012. The Italian rider had initially wanted former Team Roberts and Suzuki crew chief Tom O’Kane to join him at Tech 3 next season after he left the Repsol Honda squad at the end of 2011. But even though Suzuki ...
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- MotoGP
- 09 January 2012
Signing Jorge Lorenzo on a new contract will be a key priority for Yamaha at the start of the 2012 MotoGP world championship campaign. The 2010 world champion is out of contract at the end of next season with Casey Stoner, Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi, and Yamaha boss Lin Jarvis has conceded it is essential for the Japanese factory’s ...
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- MotoGP
- 21 December 2011
Monster Yamaha Tech 3 boss Herve Poncharal has said the decision not to offer a new deal to popular American Colin Edwards for 2012 was one the toughest he’s ever had to make. The 37-year-old left Tech 3 after four years to join the Forward Racing squad where he will ride the new Suter/BMW 1000cc machine next season. With Yamaha ...
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- 21 December 2011
Cal Crutchlow will still have to wait until next month’s Valencia test to get his first ride on Yamaha’s new 1000cc MotoGP machine. It was rumoured that the British rider might test the new YZR-M1 earlier than anticipated because former world champion Jorge Lorenzo is unable to race or test in Malaysia after he suffered a nasty left hand injury ...
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- 20 October 2011
