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Yamaha's Chiara Fontanesi continues to stamp her authority on the 2012 FIM Women's Motocross World Championship. The Italian claimed both motos on her YZ250F at Arco di Trento on home turf last weekend for the third round of eight in the current campaign.

Monster Energy Yamaha will hope to feed off the positive results posted by David Philippaerts and Christophe Charlier at the Grand Prix of Mexico last weekend as they head to Beto Carrero in Brazil for round five of the FIM Motocross World Championship on Sunday. Philippaerts returned to the podium for the first time since the Grand Prix of Spain last year and gave the factory team their first '25 points' of the season af...

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Among the six rider entry of the factory Monster Energy Yamaha team in the FIM Motocross World Championship is twenty-four year old Scot Shaun Simpson. The former British (MX2) and Belgian (MX1) Champion has begun his second season in the premier class of the FIM series and his first with Yamaha in an eight year career on the Grand Prix stage. Simpson is one of the UK's most charismatic and articulate off-road racers.

The Yamaha YZF-R1 and YZF-R6 proved to be in dominant form last week, taking a sweep of victories in some very difficult conditions across multiple national and European championships. In the British Superbike Championship, 2011 champion Tommy Hill was back on form with new teammate Noriyuki Haga. The Swan Yamaha pair made a clean break in the first Oulton Park race on Sunday with the Yamaha R1; Hill took a decisive victory and the fastest lap of the race with Haga just 1.5 seconds beh...

Monster Energy Yamaha will head to the Grand Prix of Mexico this weekend with the Rinaldi division of the squad fully fit and ready for the first FIM Motocross World Championship event to hit Guadalajara and the Nico España circuit. Steven Frossard has felt a major improvement in his right knee since his anterior cruciate ligament surgery and unfortunate attempt to enter the motos at Fermo for the Grand Prix of Italy two...

So we are just about to go to Mexico and I feel a lot better with my knee. I have more movement, more strength and I reckon I will be able to do more on the Yamaha when we get to Guadalajara. It is amazing what a few days can do and I can accept now that Fermo and the Grand Prix of Italy came just too quickly after the operation. It has been a crazy start to the season. I was very happy to finish on the podium at Valkensw...

Monster Energy Yamaha will welcome back two of their riders this weekend at Fermo for the Grand Prix of Italy and the third round of the FIM Motocross World Championship. Steven Frossard has been using a bicycle only several days after an operation on his right knee to remove the anterior cruciate ligament following an incident in the qualification heat for last weekend's Grand Prix of Bulgaria. The 2011 MX1-GP runner-up...

Monster Energy Yamaha's Steven Frossard will travel to Fermo for the Grand Prix of Italy this weekend and attempt the third round of sixteen in the FIM Motocross World Championship in the wake of successful surgery on his right knee on Monday. The 2011 MX1 championship runner-up required a procedure to remove a damaged anterior cruciate ligament and is now hopeful of postponing a reconstruction of the joint until the end...

Monster Energy Yamaha's Steven Frossard will sit out the rest of the Grand Prix of Bulgaria - the second round of sixteen in the FIM Motocross World Championship - after twisting his right knee during the MX1 qualification heat on Saturday. The 2011 championship runner-up caught his foot on the ground during the 20 minute and 2 lap race and pulled into the pits.