Valentino Rossi

      

COSMIC, “ROSSIFUMI”, VALENTINIK, THE DOCTOR i’m talking about VALENTINO ROSSI ( born in Urbino 16-02-1979 by): 'The 7 times world champion in various classes of Grand Prix, 125-250-500-MotoGP He made his debut on March 31, 1996 in Malaysia Classroom 125 in saddle of Aprilia. Rossi had a little success in the 1996 World Championship season, collecting more crashes than anything else, failing to finish five of the season's races. In August, he won his first World Championship Grand Prix at Brno in the Czech Republic on an AGV Aprilia RS125R. Rossi treated it as a learning process and refined his skills enough to completely dominate the 125 cc World Championship in the following 1997 season, winning an impressive 11 of the 15 races. Winning the 125 class title he passed in 250; when he won the 250 he passed in 500 and Motogp. In 2004 Rossi passes to Yamaha, and after working hard all winter to find a good set-up, he surprises everyone by winning the first race. After a very hard season, he finally wins the Title at Philip Island, showing to Honda that the rider makes the real difference. The best victory of his career will be in the circuit of Welkom in South Africa (Phasika Freeway): the debut of Rossi on the Yamaha. At Welkom Rossi made a stunning fight against Biaggi, his historical enemy demonstrating its unquestionable superiority transforming this M1 in a competitive motorcycle.
The last 2 years Valentino have been a difficult period of his career because of problems with the M1 and several accidents (in 2006 he had trouble in the first half of the season):
Valentino Rossi returned to MotoGP for the 2007 season riding the new Yamaha YZR-M1 800 cc.,with the clear target of recapturing the MotoGP World Championship title after being dethroned by Nicky Hayden last year: but too difficult with the moto Vale has to be satisfied with the third place (with 4 races won in the 2007 season!!!!) He has always raced with the number #46 in his motorcycle grand prix career. Rossi has stated that the original inspiration for this choice of number was a Japanese "wild card" racer whom he saw on television speeding past much more seasoned riders in a wet race. He later found out that it was the number his father had raced with in the first of his 3 races. However, in a homage to Barry Sheene (who was the first rider of the modern era to keep the same number), Rossi has stayed with the now-famous #46 throughout his career,

Peculiarity: He’s left-hander.