With Valentino Rossi repeatedly saying he intends to remain with Yamaha, and Furusawa saying that keeping Rossi is a priority, you might wonder why the rumours of Rossi moving to Ducati are so persistent. It seems that the 2010 MotoGP season will be dominated by gossip and talk of rider contracts, rather than focusing on races, with Casey Stoner set to move to Honda and Jorge Lorenzo said to be looking at Honda or Ducati for a move, too.

We’re only halfway through May, after two races, and the MotoGP is already looking like the big business, moneyed machine it is. Luckily most of the great riders out there are doing their thing on the track and we could still be in for a good season, especially if the Rossi-Yamaha partnership continues. It’s a relationship that goes beyond just the success of a world title or two, and gets to the core of what real camarederie and shared philosophy is in sport.

As Furusawa says, the priority is to keep Rossi:

“I need both riders and soon we have to decide. I would like to keep both of them but this depends on the decision of the riders. To be honest my priority is to keep Valentino more than Jorge. Valentino came to Yamaha in 2004 and he contributed a lot to us.

Continue reading: Yamaha prefers Rossi to Lorenzo: Ducati gets what's coming to them?

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