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How Yamaha broke its miserable streak

Yamaha will remember the 2018 MotoGP season as the year it set a new record losing streak, but in the last few races of the year there were finally some signs of a revival. Three key changes were crucial in making that happen.

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When Maverick Vinales won last month's MotoGP race at Phillip Island, it ended Yamaha's longest jinx in the top tier of grand prix motorcycle racing - one that had grown to a yawning stretch of 25 races.

That was very nearly followed up by another Yamaha win a week later, as Valentino Rossi led Marc Marquez up until the moment he crashed with four laps to go. And it was a similar story at Valencia last weekend, when either Yamaha rider could have won in the wet if they hadn't crashed.

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