Rossi heads back to Yamaha

Lin Jarvis, Managing Director, Yamaha Motor Racing
"This announcement is once again excellent news for Yamaha. In June we were able to sign Jorge Lorenzo for the 2013-14 campaign and now we are able to confirm Valentino Rossi for the next two years. In doing so we have been able to put together the strongest possible team to challenge for victories and to promote the Yamaha brand.

We have run this ‘super team’ together in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and during that time we achieved the ‘triple crown’ titles with Rider, Manufacturer and Team World Championship victories for three consecutive years.

The target for the future is obvious and we will do our utmost to achieve our goals.

I have no doubt that with the experience, knowledge, skills and speed of these two great champion riders we will be able to challenge for many race wins and for the 2013 & 2014 World Championship titles.

The signing of Valentino completes our future planning for the Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Team. Now that this is done we will put our 100% efforts into completing the job at hand and to supporting Ben Spies and Jorge Lorenzo in their search for race victories and for Jorge’s 2012 World Championship title challenge."

RACE SCHEDULE 2013

- Qatar Grand PrixQatar 31 Mar
 
- Americas Grand PrixAmericas 21 Apr
 
- Spanish Grand PrixSpain 05 May
 
- French Grand PrixFrance 19 May
 
- Italian Grand PrixItaly 02 Jun
 
- Catalan Grand PrixCatalunya 16 Jun
 
- Netherlands Grand PrixNetherlands 29 Jun
 
- German Grand PrixGermany 07 Jul
 
- United States Grand PrixUnited States 21 Jul
 
- Indianapolis Grand PrixIndianapolis 18 Aug
 
- Czech Republic Grand PrixCzech Republic 25 Aug
 
- British Grand PrixBritain 01 Sep
 
- San Marino Grand PrixSan Marino 15 Sep
 
- Aragon Grand PrixAragon 29 Sep
 
- Malaysian Grand PrixMalaysia 13 Oct
 
- Australian Grand PrixAustralia 20 Oct
 
- Japanese Grand PrixJapan 27 Oct
 
- Valencia Grand PrixValencia 10 Nov