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Valentino Rossi has taken his second victory in two weeks away from the MotoGP championship, after taking a clean sweep of all nine stages at the Monza Rally Show. Driving a WRC-spec Ford Fiesta in.
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After a disappointing 2017 season, Yamaha endured an even worse campaign last year and broke its record for its longest-ever premier class win drought, which was finally broken by Maverick Vinales in Australia after 25 races. That was the only race won by a Yamaha rider, with the other 17 shared by Honda and Ducati. Although Rossi and Vinales finished the year third and fourth overall respectively, the works Yamaha team dropped out of the top two in the teams’ standings for the first time since 2007, accruing its lowest points tally since the same year. Rossi believes part of the reason Yamaha has fallen behind in the last two seasons is that the manufacturer is not investing the same amount of resources in terms of personnel at races. “In recent times, especially in the last year-and-a-half, the technical situation in MotoGP has changed a lot,” said Rossi. “Ducati was the first to make a step with the quantity of people and of engineers. “It’s a bit closer to Formula 1, while still remaining very far away.