Valentino Rossi will start his Phillip Island assault from second on the grid tomorrow, after sealing his twelfth front-row start of the season in Australia this afternoon while his Fiat Yamaha team-mate Jorge Lorenzo will start fourth

MotoGP action got underway at Phillip Island in Australian yesterday and championship leader Valentino Rossi was in menacing form, the Fiat Yamaha Team rider leading the way almost from start to finish in the first practice session

ItaliaspeedTV: Ducati Corse rider Casey Stoner ahead of this weekend's Australian MotoGP talks of his favourite circuits and their characteristics, the importance of his preparations behind the scenes and his biking heroes

The victorious Fiat Yamaha Team make the long trip down under this week to "The Island" for the Australian round of the MotoGP World Championship, fresh from sealing the Teams' title at the last race held in Estoril

Jorge Lorenzo was untouchable once again in Portugal on Sunday afternoon and bearing a special "Fiat Punto Evo" livery he took a stunning fourth win of the season 16 months on from his maiden MotoGP victory at this same track

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: MotoGP Rd14, Portuguese Grand Prix, Estoril - Fiat Yamaha Team ["Punto Evo" livery]

Jorge Lorenzo took his first pole position since Laguna Seca back in June at Estoril on Saturday afternoon and racing in "Punto Evo" livery he sealed his fifth pole of the season with a strong performance ahead of today's grand prix

Carrying a special "Fiat Punto Evo" livery for this race, Fiat Yamaha pair Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi have made a strong start to the weekend in Estoril finishing Friday's free practice sessions in first and third respectively

The Fiat Yamaha Team has unveiled a one-off special "Punto Evo" livery, which both Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo will carry onto the track for the start of practice today and throughout the Portuguese Grand Prix weekend

When Fernando Alonso lines up on the grid for his first grand prix with the Scuderia next spring, he will in fact be the second Spaniard to drive for Ferrari, following in the footsteps of the legendary Alfonso De Portago half a century ago

Fresh from a break of nearly a month, the Fiat Yamaha Team regroups this weekend at the coastal town of Estoril for the Portuguese Grand Prix with Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo lying first and second in the MotoGP championship

The petrol/methane-powered Fiat Panda Natural Power, Italy's best-selling alternative fuelled production car, has just been a key protagonist in the fourth edition of Ecorally, where it won the class reserved for methane-powered vehicles

Neville Crichton showed himself once again to be the fastest skipper at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, winning the Mini Maxi Racing event aboard Alfa Romeo 3, and he's already planning a new mini maxi which is set to arrive next year

Alfa Romeo 3, which débuted at the Maxi Yacht Cup in 2008 and is now making a "new début" following a complete redesign meaning its a case of two different boats with different performance features and dimensions sharing the same name

The Model Year 2010 Yamaha R1 will come in a special Limited Edition version that will wear the colours of Fiat and Valentino Rossi and include "46" and "The Doctor" logos as well as a replica of Rossi's signature sited on the fuel tank

Alfa Romeo 3 fresh from its victories at the Copa del Rey in Palma de Majorca is ready for what is one of the historical events in the Alfa Romeo regatta calendar: the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Porto Cervo which gets underway this morning

Valentino Rossi may have had a donkey on his helmet today but it was ‘The Doctor' riding the bike once again, as the Italian Fiat Yamaha Team rider bounced back from his Indianapolis mistake with an emphatic home victory at Misano

Local hero Valentino Rossi took his sixth pole of the season at Misano in Italy this afternoon, meaning the Fiat Yamaha rider has finished on top of the standings in all three sessions so far this weekend; team mate Lorenzo qualified third

Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo looked ready for business at Misano on the Italian Riviera today, the Fiat Yamaha Team riders putting in impressive times and finishing the day first and second, several tenths ahead of the next fastest

Ducati Corse has announced that Nicky Hayden, fresh from his first podium for the Italian factory team last weekend, signed a one year extension to his current MotoGP agreement and will line up alongside Casey Stoner for the 2010 season

Just one week after their last outing at Indianapolis in the USA which resulted in victory, the dominant Fiat Yamaha Team will arrive on home shores this week for the second Italian round of the season, at Misano on the east coast of Italy

Fiat Automóveis has announced at a big event in São Paulo in the presence of Ferrari F1 pilot Felipe Massa and the CEO of Fiat Group Latin America Cledorvini Bellini, two new exciting new categories for the Brazilian motorsports calendar

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Fiat Automóveis presentation - Formula Fiat Future & Trofeo Linea

Jorge Lorenzo took an emphatic third victory of the season at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon and in the process halved Valentino Rossi's MotoGP World Championship lead as his Fiat Yamaha team-mate slid out