{"id":35580,"date":"2010-08-15T11:35:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T18:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35580"},"modified":"2010-08-15T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T18:35:19","slug":"motorcycle-roadracing-ducati-announces-two-year-deal-wvalentino-rossi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35580","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Roadracing &#8211; Ducati announces two-year deal w\/Valentino Rossi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ducati has finally confirmed that Valentino Rossi will join its lineup next season, the seven-time MotoGP champion having signed a two-year deal with the Italian squad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rossi&#8217;s move to Ducati has been regarded as near certain by MotoGP insiders for several months, and this afternoon at Brno Yamaha issued a statement announcing that it was parting company with the Italian legend after seven years together, during which Rossi has won four MotoGP championships and 45 grands prix so far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rumors of a Rossi-Ducati deal first surfaced last autumn\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/ducati-announces-two-year-rossi-deal\/article\/176929\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ducati has finally confirmed that Valentino Rossi will join its lineup next season, the seven-time MotoGP champion having signed a two-year deal with the Italian squad. Rossi&#8217;s move to Ducati has been regarded as near certain by MotoGP insiders for several months, and this afternoon at Brno Yamaha issued a statement announcing that it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35582,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35580\/revisions\/35582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}