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May
The nine-time Grand Prix motorcycle world champion joined Yamaha in 2004 and helped turn around form in the Japanese mark, winning the rear title.Rossi would win two more with Yamaha in 2008 and 2009 to take his premiership to Class 7 and finally end his MotoGP career with the mark at the end of 2021.The Italian had two spells with Yamaha, first from 2004 to 2009 and again from 2013 until the end of 2021, after two disappointing seasons with Ducati in 2011 and 2012. Of his 89 MotoGP race wins, Rossi has claimed 56 of them with Yamaha and…