PIC: Rossi's Yamaha unveiled
Updated with Video...
This is the official livery ꧃that MotoGP megastar Valentino Rossi will race with during his 2013 return to Yamaha.
Rossi's new colours - alongside those of reigning world champion team-mate Jorge Lorenzo (168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:see separate story) - were unveiled at Jerez on Friday, on the eve of the final official pre-season test🐽 at the Spanish circuit.
Without a title sponsor since Fiat left at the end of 2010, Yamaha has again c🍎hosen blue-and-white corporate colours for its factor♔y MotoGP team.
The only colour difference between the bikes is that Rossi's M1 features yellow for his #46, while Lorenzo has a red #99, both on a silver backinꦡg.
A t🅰riple 500cc/MotoGP champion with Honda, Rossi made a shock switch to the be🅰leaguered Yamaha team for 2004.
Rossi won his very first race on Ma꧒sao Furusawa's heavily-re🐻vised YZR-M1 and finished the season as champion. It was Yamaha's first premier-class title since Wayne Rainey in 1992.
Three more title victories followed, plus a symbolic 46 of Rossi's re🔥cord 79 premier-class wins, before the I💮talian - aggrieved that team-mate Lorenzo was now his closest title rival - embarked on an ill-fated new challenge at Ducati.
But Rossi rarely looked comfortable on the Desmosedici, claiming just three podiums in two years - prompting his much-anticipated Yamaha return, at the age o🅘f 34, this season.
See below for more pictures ༺of Rossi's n🧜ew colours.
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