
The Matadero Madrid, an old abattoir that is now a reformed cultural space, was the site of the 2018 presentation of the Movistar Yamaha MotoGP team this week and both Valentino Rossi and Maverick Viñales are hoping to be the ones holding a blade to the competition in the nineteen round Grand Prix series to come.
Bathed in blue and speaking in front of media, guests and dignitaries in the capital city both the Italian and the Spaniard looked in firm trim and chatted of their eagerness to commence testing with the first outing this week at Sepang in Malaysia, followed by sessions in Thailand and Qatar in February.