Rossi to Yamaha?

It is no secret Valentino Rossi has 2 options available: 1. stay in Ducati and hope Audi's cash injection can help tame the beast, or 2. go back to Yamaha and what he knows is a great bike but perhaps not the most attractive team mate.

Option 1 sounds good but Rossi has been with Ducati for nearly 2 years now and they have thrown the kitchen sink, in terms of human resources and cash at trying to win an all Italian World title. They have failed miserably to  give VR46 the bike he needs to be competitive. Throngs of cash will help but unlikely in the short term, and Vale's career only exists in the short term. He will have to move Filippo Preziosi sideways because this is the man who's technical vision has failed Ducati. The time required is not there to spend another year developing with Ducati. And Valentino's body wont enjoy another season of crashes. Bottom line losing hurts, crashing allot hurts, going from 1st to 10th hurts.

Option 2 back to Yamaha means admitting failure on Ducati and having to square up directly to a red hot Lorenzo, no excuses. 


In option 1 Rossi will escape any culpability for failure with the old Ducati are rubbish line, but in option 2 he will have to answer the critics or admit he is not what he used to be.


Money is not a factor for Valentino Rossi he has more cash than he can ever spend and both factories will pay him ridiculous amounts to ride for them.

The decision is simple and the decision is made, Rossi is a winner and he will answer the critics. Game on Jorge. Expect announcement at Indy.

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Wet Silverstone could confirm Rossi Ducati exit

                                                        Honda's VR46 NSR500 from 2001 

Its contract time in MotoGP and if Valentino Rossi is to exit ducati this year he will want to leave with at least a single victory for the Bologna factory. If it rains tomorrow at Silverstone it will be Rossi best chance of this elusive win.  He was indeed fastest in Friday wet practice with Nicky Hayden second.
Surely a win here would make his decision to leave Ducati all the more easy.

Where will Rossi go?
Lorenzo rather wryly stated he would welcome Rossi back to yamaha. A delighted Lorenzos new 2 year contract no doubt enhanced by Stoners early bath. Ben Spies will be unlikely to retain the Yamaha ride regardless of a Rossi move. Honda will be without Stoner, but most likely the rookie rule will be rescinded by Carmelo to allow golden boy Marc Marquez to step up to the honda factory team. But Pedrosa's ride is not guaranteed. He has been an 'alien' for many years but seems unlikely to win a championship for HRC.

Would Rossi take Honda back?
Rossi previously described HRC as  on a human level"cold, ice-cold". He has never forgiven them for reneging on a promise to let him keep the NSR500 he won the 2001 title on. HRC also reneged on a promise to allow his Dad Graziano to drive a test on the NSR in 2001. The way Valentino orchestrated a move to Yamaha with secret meetings in Ibiza and late night paddock meetings. The list goes on, but there is serious bad blood here and its unlikely in his final years Valentino would go cap in hand to HRC. And equally unlikely HRC would be knocking on his motor home.


The Ducati experiment has failed and the italian dream VR winning a championship on a Ducati will not happen, a single victory in the rain is possible and its the best they can hope for.  In Valentinos crew chiefs Jerry Burgess last year in MotoGP expect JB to be on the podium alongside Vale (weather permitting).

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