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Valentino Rossi in 2017. Valentino Rossi is an Italian nine-time Grand Prix world champion - seven of which are in the premier MotoGP class. Rossi raced for Honda's factory team, Yamaha's factory team and Ducati's factory team. Rossi is also the only road racer to have competed in 400 or more Grands Prix. [1]
Valentino Rossi (/ ˈ r ɒ s i / ROSS-ee, Italian: [valenˈtiːno ˈrossi]; born 16 February 1979) is an Italian racing driver, former professional motorcycle road racer and nine-time Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champion. Nicknamed The Doctor, Rossi is widely considered one of the greatest motorcycle racers of all time.
Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing, which has been divided into four classes: MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3, and MotoE.Classes that have been discontinued include Formula 750, 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc, 80cc, 50cc and Sidecar.
Valentino Rossi: Movistar Yamaha MotoGP: Yamaha: 23 +6.629 1 16: 4 29 Andrea Iannone: Team Suzuki Ecstar: Suzuki: 23 +7.885 4 13: 5 42 Álex Rins: Team Suzuki Ecstar ...
The winner of the constructors' world championship is not necessarily the bike used by the riders' world champion. For example, in 2004, Valentino Rossi who rode a Yamaha bike won the riders' world championship, but in the constructors' standings, Honda have higher points than Yamaha, therefore Honda won constructors' world championship.
The Moto GP race was won by Casey Stoner with Jorge Lorenzo second and Valentino Rossi in third place. [4] This broke Rossi's sequence of seven consecutive victories at this event . During the weekend, Dani Pedrosa recorded the fastest speed ever for a motorcycle grand prix bike, with 349.3 km/h (217.0 mph) breaking Makoto Tamada 's record of ...
In the MotoGP class, Valentino Rossi took his first pole position since the 2010 French Grand Prix. However, it was Marc Márquez who won the race, taking his thirteenth victory of the season, [ 2 ] surpassing the previous premier class record of twelve wins set by Mick Doohan in 1997 .
Valentino Rossi is second with 115 wins, and Ángel Nieto is third with 90 wins. Rossi holds the distinction of having the longest time between his first win and his last. He won his first Grand Prix in 1996 at the 125cc Czech Republic Grand Prix, and his last in 2017 at the MotoGP Dutch TT, a gap that spans 20