1991. 1990 World Champions. Wayne Rainey (pictured at Laguna Seca) became the 500cc world champion. John Kocinski (pictured at Suzuka) became the 250cc world champion. The 1990 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 42nd F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. 19 May 2016 – Vinales signs two-year deal with Yamaha. Maverick Vinales and Valentino Rossi at the 2016 British MotoGP. Photo by: Kevin Wood. “With great pleasure Yamaha announced the signing The Spaniard made Grand Prix history in Portugal by becoming the youngest rider ever to clinch three podiums in his first three races and was rightly given a place on the top table with the The 2019 FIM MotoGP World Championship was the premier class of the 71st F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. After fifteen rounds of the championship, Marc Márquez successfully defended his Rider's Championship in Thailand taking his sixth premier class title and fourth in a row, having already won nine races. Emulating Doohan is a tremendous challenge, and since the Australian's on track heroics, a hoodoo of sorts has befallen the #1 plate. Riders such as Alex Criville, Kenny Roberts Jr, Nicky Hayden The end of an era for Marquez and the Repsol Honda Team. After six World Championships, 59 wins and 2,626 points – the time of Marc Marquez as an HRC rider in the Repsol Honda Team has come to a close. The Valencia GP weekend was a chance for all involved to remember their time together. Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is delighted to announce that Cal Crutchlow will spearhead the YAMALUBE RS4GP Racing Team as a wild card rider at Round 14 of the 2023 FIM MotoGP World Championship, held at 7. Valentino Rossi, Yamaha. Valentino Rossi is still the rider with the most victories in the premier class, by a comfortable margin (89, from Agostini’s 68 and Marquez’s 56), but his last one was back in 2017, and it was often hard to watch Rossi struggle to regain his former pre-eminence in 2019. 2024 MotoE World Championship. Francesco Bagnaia will enter as the defending Riders' Champion. The 2024 FIM MotoGP World Championship will be the premier class of the 76th Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) Road Racing World Championship season, the highest level of competition in motorcycle road racing . The Supersport World Championship, abbreviated to WorldSSP, is a motorcycle racing competition on hard-surfaced circuits, based on mid-sized sports motorcycles. Competition machines were originally based on production-based motorcycles with 600 cc to 750 cc engines, depending on the number of cylinders. After trials in UK national series LCAH6.