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Valentino Rossi
Rossi at the 2017 Aragon Grand Prix
Nationality
Italian
Born
(1979-02-16) 16 February 1979 (age 45) Urbino, Italy
Monza Rally Show World Rally Championship Blancpain Endurance Series Gulf 12 Hours 24H Series Intercontinental GT Challenge Le Mans Cup - GT3
This article is part of a series about Valentino Rossi
Italian motorcycle road racer
Career
Grand Prix wins
Family
Graziano Rossi (father)
Luca Marini (half-brother)
Eponyms
Valentino Rossi: The Game
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Valentino Rossi (/ˈrɒsi/; Italian:[valenˈtiːnoˈrossi]; 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, he is widely considered to be one of the greatest motorcycle racers of all time.[1][2][3] Rossi has nine Grand Prix World Championships, seven of which were in the premier 500cc/MotoGP class. He holds the record for most premier class victories, with 89 to his name. He won premier class World Championships with both Honda and Yamaha. He is also the only road racer to have competed in 400 or more Grands Prix,[4] and rode with the number 46 for his entire career.
After graduating to the premier class in 2000, Rossi won the final 500cc World Championship (becoming the last satellite rider to win the top-class title to date) and the 8 Hours of Suzuka with Honda in 2001. He also won MotoGP World Championships with the factory Honda Team in 2002 and 2003 and continued his run of back-to-back championships by winning the 2004 and 2005 titles after leaving Honda to join Yamaha. He lost the 2006 title with a crash in the final round at Valencia. In 2007 he ultimately finished third overall, before regaining the title in 2008 and retaining it in 2009.[5] After a 2010 season marred by a broken leg and no title defence, he left Yamaha to join Ducati, replacing Casey Stoner for the 2011 and 2012 seasons, and endured two winless seasons with the Italian marque.[6][7]
Rossi returned to Yamaha in 2013 and finished fourth in the standings followed by three successive runner-up positions in 2014, 2015 and 2016. His best chance of winning a tenth title came in 2015, where he led the standings for most of the season, finishing five points behind teammate Jorge Lorenzo, the eventual champion. 2017 was the final season he achieved over 200 points in the championship and he took his final race victory at the 2017 Dutch TT at the age of 38. After three winless seasons with the factory Yamaha team, he moved to Petronas SRT for 2021, retiring after only one season with the satellite Yamaha team and failing to achieve a podium for the first time in a career spanning 26 seasons in Grands Prix. The dominant force in MotoGP in the 2000s, all of Rossi's seven premier class titles came in this decade, including 77 race wins and 48 pole positions. In the ensuing 12 seasons, he managed 12 race wins and seven pole positions. During this period, Rossi was the 6th most successful rider in terms of total race victories.[8]
Rossi was inducted into the MotoGP Hall of Fame as an official Legend by the FIM at the awards ceremony after the conclusion of the 2021 season.[9] His #46 bike number was retired at the 2022 Italian Grand Prix.[10] Rossi owns the Racing Team VR46, which competes in MotoGP as of 2024. He also plans to be involved in and administering his motorcycle racing team VR46.[11] In addition to his team management role, Rossi competes full-time in the FIA World Endurance Championship, driving for Team WRT.[12]
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^"Valentino Rossi to leave Yamaha for Ducati in 2011". BBC Sport. 15 August 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
^"Best of 2010s: MotoGP's superstars of the decade". Crash. 18 December 2019. Archived from the original on 29 September 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
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^"BMW M Team WRT ready for exciting Hypercar and GT challenges in 2024". Team WRT. 2 February 2024. Archived from the original on 14 February 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
ValentinoRossi (/ˈrɒsi/; Italian: [valenˈtiːnoˈrossi]; born 16 February 1979) is an Italian racing driver, former professional motorcycle road racer...
This is a list of career statistics of ValentinoRossi. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap) (key) (Races...
title record with eight, followed by ValentinoRossi with seven and active rider Marc Márquez with six. As of 2023, Rossi holds the record for most top-flight...
2004, ValentinoRossi joined Checa at the team. Rossi got 9 wins and won the championship. Colin Edwards joined the team for 2005, when Rossi once again...
motorcycle racing as he won the 2006 MotoGP world title, breaking ValentinoRossi's five-year consecutive streak. He remained with Honda for two more...
ValentinoRossi 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...
world champion between Movistar Yamaha teammates Lorenzo and runner-up ValentinoRossi. It was first time since 2013 that the world title was decided on the...
Fanshop of ValentinoRossi Bikes of ValentinoRossi in the fanshop ValentinoRossi (1979), Motorcycle Racer 9 times World Champion. Graziano Rossi (1954)...
winning multiple races, but not being able to consistently challenge ValentinoRossi and Yamaha for the title during those seasons. Stoner had a strong...
onwards. It was also the final season of seven-time MotoGP title winner ValentinoRossi after 22 seasons in the premier class, as well as the final season...
fifth. Márquez and Pedrosa finished second and fourth respectively, as ValentinoRossi took his first race victory since 2010. Márquez then won the next four...
2007 by the RC212V. In 2002, the debut year of the RC211V, Honda and ValentinoRossi dominated by winning the constructors' championship by more than 100...
Quartararo moved up to the Yamaha Factory Racing Team for 2021 replacing ValentinoRossi, and managed to win the championship in his first season collecting...
close' to breaking even". 17 May 2006. "MotoGP: China axe saddens ValentinoRossi and Casey Stoner". "2006 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship)...
has given him an unassailable lead over his title rivals Lorenzo and ValentinoRossi – who both crashed out at Motegi – with three races remaining. Márquez's...
crashed at Turn 9. That left ValentinoRossi with Dovizioso at the front and Jorge Lorenzo in a distant 3rd place. Rossi ran wide at turn 1 some laps...
championship leader ValentinoRossi prompting Lorenzo to claim his chances of winning the title have gone. He won at Indianapolis, while both Rossi and Pedrosa...
popular cocktail) VR46 The Doctor (orange flavor, yellow can with ValentinoRossi's The Doctor branding) LH44 Lewis Hamilton (red can with yellow and...
in a relationship with Fernando Alonso from 2016 to 2021 and with ValentinoRossi from 2011 to 2016. Her best friend is Rachele Fogar (daughter of Ambrogio...
competing. The SKY Racing Team VR46 is a motorcycle racing team owned by ValentinoRossi and based in Tavullia (Marche, Italy). The team enters Grand Prix motorcycle...
ValentinoRossi was so devastated by the loss of his close friend and his role in it that it became the trigger that caused the creation of Rossi's racing...