Yamaha has won nine of the last 14 Dutch TTs, and Assen has been Valentino Rossi’s best track since his return to the Iwata marque. But the team seems to have lost its edge at the track in 2018. With the Dutch TT coming up, it has now been exactly one year since Yamaha last won a MotoGP race. Despite Rossi, Maverick Vinales and Johann Zarco sitting second, third and fourth in the standings, only the Frenchman so far has got close to winning a race this year, during the wet, chaotic - and not representative - Argentinian Grand Prix. The French GP, another traditional Yamaha track passed by with Marc Marquez dominating and, after Friday and Saturday prior to the Dutch TT, there is a real...
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