(CNN)MotoGP's factory Yamaha team has ended speculation about one of the sport's brightest young talents and hinted at the end for arguably its biggest ever star. We use cookies to help us understand our website visitors so we can improve our website, products, services and marketing efforts. What was once as a Junior Team will have a piece of World Championship history in its ranks. Rossi's hunger for racing has appeared undiminished, however, in spite of disappointing results last term. This negotiation had been going for a while.

Yamaha Racing managing director, Lin Jarvis, explained the team's thinking. If something doesn't change, this is why 2020 MotoGP is the losers’ world championship... Off the track, Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi: from the 2008 'wall' to teamwork at Sepang, GPone MotoGP, Bar Sport at Sepang with Carlo Pernat.

9-times World Champion confirmed to continue in MotoGP with the Malaysian squad together with Franco Morbidelli. "I am very happy to continue riding in 2021 and to do it with the PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team. Italian MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi said Sunday he was in no hurry to retire amid speculation the veteran might quit the sport after several lean years.. We have evolved from a Moto3 team to a Moto2 team to a MotoGP team in a short time frame and now to be leading the MotoGP teams’ championship and signing one of the greatest riders the sport has ever known is incredible.

Should he end his illustrious MotoGP career, Rossi's future may yet be on four wheels. "The real question is whether he still believes he is competitive ... and he will only know that once MotoGP has returned to familiar territory in Europe," Emmett told CNN. Valentino Rossi needs no introduction, considered by many as the Greatest Of All Time through a record-breaking career in the premier class of the sport since 2000. Getting ahead of the Yamahas at the start will be essential, as will not overheating the tires... "I had a good pace from the morning but we will have to manage the tyres so as not to finish them after 10 laps”. PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team is proud to announce that Valentino Rossi will join the squad for the 2021 MotoGP season. Rossi hinted that he wants to continue in 2021. "This current and final season with the Factory Yamaha Team is his 25th in the motorcycle Grand Prix racing World Championship and his 15th year with Yamaha. n° 558 del 30/12/2003 c/o Tribunale di Roma, Buffer Overflow srl © Partita IVA: 09505981002 - Tutti i diritti Riservati, Fondatore e Direttore (Responsabile): Paolo Scalera. It can be read one way, but Vale and Andrea give it a different meaning. VR46.com, the official Valentino Rossi's e-commerce. We believe that the combination of Valentino and Franco will provide a truly formidable force on track to help us in our goal of being as competitive as possible together next year. Discover the widest collection of Vale’s clothes, accessories and gadgets. The upcoming season, which gets under way in Qatar on March 8, will be Rossi's 25th in the World Championship, his 21st season in the premier class and his 15th year with Yamaha. "Yamaha asked me at the beginning of the year to make a decision regarding my future," he said.

"In the first half of the year I made my choice and I talked with Yamaha, who agreed with me.

This year has already seen two pole positions, four podiums and three race wins, and the lead of the outright Teams’ Championship, for the outfit. They told me even if there was no place for me in the Factory Team, the factory bike and the factory support were guaranteed.