| Valentino Rossi |
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Valentino Rossi is a famous bike racer. I forgot when I started to like him. Maybe in GP Series 2005-2006, I watched him for the first time. In Italy Moto GP Series (at Circuit Mugello), I remember, that he began the race in position 9. But with his confidence and actually his tactics in races, he can slowly move up to first position. He ability to speed and take over in the corner, make he unbeatable. And at the end of the race, he could be the winner.
His professional career as a racer was in 1996�s Grand Prix for Aprilia in 125cc category. He won his first World Championship in 1997. Then he moved up to 250cc category, and won the World Championship for 250cc category in 1999. Then he moved up again to 500cc category and for this season, he joined with Honda and won in 2001. After 2001, World Championship Grand Prix has changed to Moto GP, and also with the bike engine which replaced with 990cc engine. And also with Honda, Valentino Rossi won the 2002 and 2003 Moto GP Competition.
At the end of 2003 Moto GP Series, Rossi was very disappointed with Honda's Management. Honda's Management didn't appreciate him anymore and believed Rossi's World Champion was because of their bike. So, Rossi took a controversial action, he moved to the weaker motorcycle team, Yamaha. He wanted praise as the real biker, no matter what his bike was. And he proved what he said; he won Moto GP Competitions in 2004 and 2005.
Now, I know why a lot of people like him very much. Valentino Rossi maybe is the most entertaining rider. He races like an artist. He races with his heart and all of his passion in races. He not only raced to win, he also provides us with the greatest races. Not like the other racers, who are very dependent on their bikes, Valentino Rossi doesn't depend only on his bike. His ability to speed and take over the opponents in the corner make him known as the real biker, who depends just on his ability, no matter what the bike.
In the future, Moto GP maybe has a new champion, and it will be a great race too, but it won�t be as great as when Rossi was there.
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Rossi at the 2017 Aragon Grand Prix
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| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 February 1979 Urbino, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current team | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bike number | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | valentinorossi.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rossi is widely considered one of the greatest motorcycle racer, with nine Grand prix world championship to his name – seven of which are in the premier class. Rossi is also the only road racer to have competed in 400 or more Grands Prix. He has ridden with number 46 his entire career, also when being the title defender.
After graduating to the premier class in 2000, Rossi won the 500cc World Championship and 8 Hours of Suzuka with Honda in 2001, the MotoGP World Championships (also with Honda) in 2002 and 2003 and continued his streak of back-to-back championships by winning the 2004 and 2005 titles after leaving Honda to join Yamaha. All of those titles were won in a dominant manner, being decided before the final round on all occasions. He lost the 2006 title with a crash in the final round at Valencia, ceding the title to his former Honda teammate Nicky Hayden. In 2007 Rossi and Yamaha were of no match to a dominant Casey Stoneron a Ducati, and Rossi ultimately finished a then career-low third overall.
Rossi regained the title in 2008 following several tight duels with title defendant Stoner and retained it in 2009. After a 2010 marred by a broken leg and no title challenge, Rossi left Yamaha to join Ducati for the 2011 season. Rossi replaced Stoner at Ducati, who went on to win the 2011 title with Honda instead while Rossi endured a difficult spell with his compatriot marque. It was confirmed in 2012 that he would rejoin Yamaha for the 2013 and 2014 seasons after Rossi suffered two winless seasons while at Ducati.
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Early career
Rossi was born in Urbino ,Marcho and he was still a child when the family moved to Tavullia. Son of Grazinio Rossi, a former motorcycle racer, he first began riding at a very young age.Rossi's first racing love was karting. Fuelled by his mother, Stefania's, concern for her son's safety, Graziano purchased a kart as substitute for the bike. However, the Rossi family trait of perpetually wanting to go faster prompted a redesign; Graziano replaced the 60cc motor with a 100cc national kart motor for his then 5-year-old son.
Rossi won the regional kart championship in 1990. After this he took up Minioto and before the end of 1991 had won numerous regional races.
Rossi continued to race karts and finished fifth at the national kart championships in Parma. Both Valentino and Graziano had started looking at moving into the Italian 100cc series, as well as the corresponding European series, which most likely would have pushed him into the direction of Formula 1. However, the high cost of racing karts led to the decision to race minimoto exclusively. Through 1992 and 1993, Valentino continued to learn the ins and outs of minimoto racing.
In 1993, with help from his father, Virginio Ferari, Claudio Castiglioni and Claudio Lussari (who ran the official Cagiva Sport Production team), Rossi rode Cagiva mito125cc motorcycle for the team, which he damaged in a first-corner crash no more than a hundred metres from the pit lane.He finished ninth that race weekend.
Although his first season in the Italian Sport Production Championship was varied, he achieved a pole position in the season's final race at Misano, where he would ultimately finish on the podium. By the second year, Rossi had been provided with a factory Mito by Lusuardi and won the Italian title.
In 1994, Rossi raced in the Italian 125 CC Championship with a prototype called Sandroni, using a Rotax engine. The bike was built by Guido Mancini, a former rider and mechanic who had worked, in the past, with Loris cappirossi. A documentary about Mancini, called "Mancini, the Motorcycle Wizard" (Il Mago Mancini), was released in 2016 by director Jeffrey Zani and explains the birth of the motorcycle and the relationship between Rossi and the mechanic.
In 1995, Rossi switched to Aprilia and won the Italian 125 CC Championship. He was third in the European Championship
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