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Viñales arrived in Montmeló in a good mood, after a mature ride at the Mugello Circuit. He extended his lead in the championship to 26 points with a well-deserved second place finish, giving him a healthy margin as he commences the seventh round of the 2017 MotoGP season. The young contender hopes to ride his YZR-M1 to the rostrum this weekend in front of the Catalan fans. He previously achieved four consecutive podium finishes here in the lower classes, with a second place in 125cc (2011), a first and third place in the Moto3 championship (2012 and 2013), and a second position in Moto2 (2014). In the MotoGP class he scored his best result last year, finishing just off the steps in fourth place and setting a circuit record lap of 1‘45.971s, so he fancies his chances to add another top result to his résumé this weekend. Though the previous round last weekend demanded considerable effort from the still recovering Rossi, who gave 100% to secure fourth place in front of his home crowd, he is ready to challenge for the podium this weekend in Montmeló. The Doctor holds third place in the championship rankings, 30 points behind his teammate, and is eager to decrease the gap this weekend at one of his most successful circuits, where no one should bet against him. He holds an impressive 13-year podium streak, that lasted from 1997 to 2009 and was spread out over various classes (MotoGP, 500cc, 250cc and 125cc). Moreover, he previously recorded seven premier victories with wins in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2016 in Catalunya, and he only finished off the rostrum four times in 20 races (not including the race in 2010, when he didn't ride due to an injury). The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya has been a crowd favourite ever since it hosted its first MotoGP race in 1992. Its great reputation was further underlined when the venue won the IRTA 'Best Grand Prix' trophy in 2001. With an exciting 4.7km lay-out consisting of 13 corners (eight right, five left), the Catalan round is known as one of the most atmospheric and thrilling races on the calendar. View full news

The track and venue in Orlyonok, Russia, is located on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, 150km North West of Sochi. While the circuit it is new to the MXGP calendar, and will be foreign to most of the riders in MXGP and MX2, it actually made its international debut last year as the host of the 2016 FIM Junior Motocross World Championship. The pale coloured clay track is relatively wide and flowing with plenty of elevation. It was also very long last year, although it is said to be shorter for the grand prix this weekend. Jeremy Van Horebeek goes in tied on 261 points with the defending world champion Tim Gajser - in fourth place - and is 28-points shy of Belgian compatriot Clement Desalle, who is in third place. Romain Febvre, on the other hand, is currently eighth and is only 5-points shy of the only Russian contesting the entire series, Evgeny Bobryshev. Arnaud Tonus needs 4 points on Glenn Coldenhoff to move into tenth, while his Wilvo Yamaha Official MXGP teammate Shaun Simpson is still in fourteenth despite not attending the previous two rounds after breaking his hand in the final race at the MXGP of Latvia on May 8th. Simpson is aiming to return at the MXGP of Lombardia, which will take place in the sand of Ottobiano, Italy on the weekend of June 25th. View full news

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Sorry I didn't think about leaving a post up first, to be honest I didn't realise the setup screen would be so in your face. If you want to re-enable the two factor authentication you can just go to your profile settings here: https://yamahaclub.com/forums/settings/account-security/

Hi all, I've had several requests to look at adding two factor authentication to users accounts. I've just set this up and you'll be seeing a pop up with information to set this up. This is optional and you can chose at the bottom of the window to opt out, you won't have to see this again if you opt out. You can either use the Google phone app to authenticate or answer an additional security question. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers Alex

Great to have you on board!

Sorry guys turned out to be far harder than expected. Luckily Drewpy saved the day!

Hiya, sorry about this. I think I've worked out what's happened. In between the server move and saving/restoring the database I lost a few hours of data. It'll now be in the old backup which I can restore but then I'll lose the time this side... Let me see what I can do.

Hi all, Sorry for the delay in getting this fixed. MediaTemple had a server outage which corrupted one of our database tables which took longer than expected to fix. All is back up and running fine now, thanks for your patience.

Thanks for your patience everyone, the site is back up online. Why do these things always happen when I'm away for work. Our backup software had a glitch and stopped removing the older backups which put the server over capacity. Our old backups have now been removed and we've got loads of space back.

Riding again for the Yamaha Factory Racing Team will be Katsuyuki Nakasuga, the defending champion and current holder of four consecutive titles in the pinnacle JSB1000 class of the All Japan Road Race Championship, and MotoGP regular Pol Espargaró, who put Yamaha in pole position last year with an incredible flying lap, despite it being his first time to race at Suzuka and aboard the YZF-R1. The two star riders that helped bring Yamaha its stunning Suzuka 8 Hours win last year will be joined by Alex Lowes, who rides for Yamaha in its return to the World Superbike Championship this year. The team manager will be Wataru Yoshikawa, the current manager of Yamaha's All Japan Road Race Championship factory team. As for the YART Yamaha Official EWC Team led by manager Mandy Kainz, it will field team regular Broc Parkes, who is competing this season in the Endurance World Championship, and Kouta Nozane and Takuya Fujita, two young but top riders competing in the All Japan Championship's premier class. Also, this year will see Monster Energy as the main sponsor of both Yamaha teams. Monster Energy is a key partner in Yamaha's quest for victory in racing series around the world, such as the MotoGP World Championship, the Motocross World Championship and the AMA Supercross Championship. Yamaha's entries will have the valuable support of Monster Energy and a host of other sponsors as they battle to repeat last year's success at Suzuka. As Yamaha Motor celebrated its 60th anniversary last season, concerted global efforts were made to energize our racing activities, such as the introduction of the new YZF-R1 to the race scene. The result was not only a victory at the previous Suzuka 8 Hours but also numerous wins and championship titles in production-based racing in Japan, Europe and North America. These successes did much to boost Yamaha's presence in the world's markets. Yamaha is pursuing a more aggressive policy for racing activities this season, which includes returning to the World Superbike Championship, and this entry of two factory teams in the Suzuka 8 Hours is another example of this strengthened policy. Yamaha will be aiming to win a second consecutive victory this year in the legendary Suzuka 8 Hours and further strengthen the presence of the YZF-R1 in Japan and abroad. And like last year, we will be seeking new gains in technological expertise, promoting development of human resources and sharing the excitement and rewarding experiences of motorsport as an embodiment of our "Revs your Heart" Brand Slogan. Read original release on yamaha-motor.com View full news

Yeah good idea, i'll take a look at this, I'm sure there's something I can use to send email reminders or similar.

Thanks Bipp. Tapatalk I didn't know was down, I read a comment somewhere with someone saying it wasn't working. When i started looking into it I realised Tapatalk had updated their backend which meant without upgrading their plugin it wouldn't work. It would have been nice if they had sent an email out! The forum upgrades are all to ensure site security, there's only been one change with cosmetics/functionality and that was the upgrade to IPB4. This was needed as IPB will move away from supporting v3 completely. Also it allows use of PHP7 which allows the board to run much faster and use less bandwidth Some good points on purging, I rarely do this and should do it more often. It's hard to do on mass and some really old threads still drive quite a bit of traffic. And as for purging members we have thousands of members which register and regularly read posts but never ever post themselves. If we could just get 10% of them posting we'd have an extremely active board!

Great, i've still got that issue too...

I'll take a look and see if there are any options, on a positive note the forum should now be error free apart from the garage is down until that's properly patched.

What do you think is missing? Do you mean this? https://yamahaclub.com/forums/discover/unread/

So finally an update. After many server changes, reinstalls, PHP upgrades, it is 100% the garage module. It's been disabled which has fixed some of the issues. If I were to uninstall it completely everything apart from the garage would be working. Problem is I can't uninstall the module through the admin panel, even that gives me an error and it isn't possible to uninstall it manually. The developer has acknowledged the problem and says he's releasing an update very shortly, have asked for timeline but don't have one as yet. Sorry for the frustration!

You're right my communication has been shockingly bad in hindsight. Any spare time I've had I've been working on the board trying to get it to work and communicating with the support team. A lot of the errors appear to be coming from the garage application, this has been disabled for now. There are still issues which are being looked in to. The issue which amplifies all this is that I'm now in Australia and the time differences with the support team and the board never line up

Hi guys, sorry for the lack of updates and in the inconvenience in the board being down. You're right in that it's the not the same anymore with the amount of updates etc. No idea why, but the amount of hacking attempts to our server significantly increases every year. Unfortunately with this I personally become liable for the protection of all the data, even though it's all just mostly shite I need to ensure that the site is fully secure, so our last big changes to the site were moving the site over to https. The forum provider had released an update last week which caused an issue, as Drewpy mentioned the database is massive. The site has been around for over ten years and there has been over 40k members data we need to save. They've released another security patch yesterday which was installed, I thought everything was working until I found out this morning it wasn't. I've let the tech guys know and they'll be looking into it. @slice the support functionality is problematic, but that's not your fault. I think I'm actually going to remove it. The problem is I get hundreds a week from people on how to change their chain, line up their wheel, what tyre is best, how to trace a missing vin number etc. The big issue is that we have around ~250k visitors a month to this site who are reading posts, and so many members who view but don't post. Really need to try and get these people more engaged.

Well sort of. You'll need to reselect your country in your profile. Click your username in the top right corner > Edit Profile > Scroll to bottom and select country > Save

Hiya, the issue is that the site hasn't fully moved over to https yet. For some reason the profile photos are loading through http rather than https hence the warnings or on some browsers completely block of the site. It's currently with the support team and hopefully will be sorted shortly.