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Keeping Rossi and Lorenzo at Yamaha in 2017 “tricky”

Yamaha will have a tough job convincing both Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo to spend another season as teammates, according to Tech 3 boss Herve Poncharal. Both Rossi and Lorenzo are out of contract at the end of the season, and the future plans of both riders are likely to prove key to the 2017 rider market. While Yamaha has indicated its preference to sign new deals with its existing riders, Poncharal says the tensions that arose between the pair in the closing stages of last season could make keeping both riders together another season a tall order. “Lorenzo and Rossi both had a two-year contract, so it was out of the question to consider anything else than their coexistence,” the...
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