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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. His nickname is The Doctor, Rossi is widely considered one of the greatest motorcycle racers of all time.
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]
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.
In 2002, the debut year of the RC211V, Honda and Valentino Rossi dominated by winning the constructors' championship by more than 100 points over their nearest rival. The bike underwent small modifications over the season, but it did not as yet have traction control so much as a handlebar-mounted power management system with three settings for different needs during a race.
The Cagiva Mito was the first bike of Valentino Rossi, eventual 9 time MotoGP world champion. In 1994, Rossi had been provided a factory Mito by Cagiva team manager Claudio Lusuardi and cruised to the Italian title. During the 1990s the Mito was the arch-rival to Aprilia's AF1 125 Futura and later the RS125, a similar 2-stroke 125 cc race ...
Valentino Rossi: Honda: 16 9: 9 16 12 357 80 2004 Italy: Valentino Rossi: Yamaha: 16 5: 9 11 3 304 47 2005 Italy: Valentino Rossi: Yamaha: 17 5: 11 16 6 367 147 2006 United States: Nicky Hayden: Honda: 17 1: 2 10 2 252 5 2007 Australia: Casey Stoner: Ducati: 18 4: 10 14 6 367 125 2008 Italy: Valentino Rossi: Yamaha: 18 2: 9 16 6 373 93 2009 ...
The SKY Racing Team VR46 is a motorcycle racing team owned by Valentino Rossi and based in Tavullia (Marche, Italy). The team enters Grand Prix motorcycle racing in the Moto2 category with Kalex chassis and previously in Moto3 category with KTM RC250GP motorcycles. The team manager is the former road racer Pablo Nieto.
In 2022, Rossi return to the track to compete in car racing in the GT World Challenge Europe, joining Belgian outfit Team WRT. Rossi, who called time on an illustrious motorcycling career spanning more than two decades in 2021, had previously spoken of a desire to move into car racing, and underwent a test with Team WRT in Ricardo Tormo Circuit ...