Valentino Rossi - Motorcycle Superstar

Welcome to ValentinoRossi.info an unofficial fan site dedicated to one of the world’s greatest motorcycle champions. We hope you’ll take time to read about and learn about this charismatic Italian superstar and catch some of the colour, excitement and drama that is all part of the motorcycle racing calendar.

Italian motorcycle race champion Valentino Rossi was born 16 February 1979 in Urbino, Italy. He is the son of 1970’s racer Graziano Rossi. As a teenager, he began racing with karts, then moved on to minimotos (minibikes). In his second Grand Prix season in 1996, racing125cc class bikes, he won his first World Championship in Malaysia. Rossi had won 38 Grand Prix races before he was 23.

In his second season Rossi moved to the 250cc class and won the 1999 World Championship. Moving to the premier 500cc class in 2000 and riding a Honda for the Nastro Azzuro Team, he finished second in the championship that year. Racing for Honda again he won the 2001 World Championship with 11 wins.

In subsequent years he contested the revised MotoGP World Championship and won in 2002 and 2003 riding with the Honda team. Later that year he shocked fans by agreeing to ride with Yamaha and in 2004 and 2005, with Yamaha, won back to back championships.

Nicknamed “The Doctor” for the skill and precision he has displayed in his way to the top and the calculated way he out-races his opponents, Rossi was the winner of seven Grand Prix World Championships in racing by the time he was 26 years old.

Rossi – one of the all-time greats
Now regarded as one of the all-time greats, the charismatic Rossi is both a crowd puller and a crowd favorite. Racing in number 46, as his famous father did, he holds more records than any other rider. With six world championships he has conquered the 125cc, 250cc and 500cc championships.

With 40 Moto GP victories from 65 starts and countless victories in the 500cc, 250cc and 125cc classes, Rossi has stood on the winner’s podium around 120 times in his illustrious career. He becomes only the second rider in history, after Eddie Lawson, to win the championship with different manufacturers in consecutive seasons.

With the 2006 riding season about to begin at Jerez in Spain, Valentino Rossi faces a season with plenty of new riders and with out Max Biaggi or Alex Barros. Will his five years of supremacy come to an end or will he power on to smash more records?

Click the links on this site and read the MotoGP news, find out more on Rossi’s career, check out the bikes, and read about his rivals. Follow Rossi’s career on www.valentinorossi.info and see what the future holds for this multi world champion rider.

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Valentino Rossi and his teammates drop in on the employees. (Cycle News) - Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:11:34 GMT
Yamaha's most famous employee Valentino Rossi dropped in on his co-workers today at Yamaha Motor Corporation's U.S. headquarters in Cypress, California.

Rossi returns seeking Monterey win (Vallejo Times-Herald) - Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:12:12 GMT
Valentino Rossi is aiming for a another dose of winner's champagne this weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.Rossi, coming off his 100th career victory last weekend in Assen, Netherlands, leads the field into Monterey for the Red Bull MotoGP.

Rossi on target for record start. (Crash.Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport) - Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:20:09 GMT
Having become only the second rider in history to break the 100 grand prix wins barrier last time out in Assen, Valentino Rossi has a simpler task ahead of him to claim another record in this weekends US Grand Prix at Laguna Seca. Rossi has never missed a race since making his grand prix debut in the 125cc class, at the start of the 1996 season, and Sundays US GP should see Rossi make his 158 ...

Get Your Rossi Gear (Cycle News) - Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:11:33 GMT
Yamaha Motor Corporation U.S. A. is pleased to announce that it has been appointed the U.S. distributor of the all-new line of Valentino Rossi's "VR 46" official merchandise.

[features] Fast Company : Casey Stoner and Valentino Rossi lead the tightest MotoGP fields in two decades. - Monterey ... (Monterey County Weekly) - Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:18:39 GMT
One of the greatest sporting events on earth returns to Laguna Seca this weekend. MotoGP. Anyone who wants to argue this point didn’t see the race last year. For the last three years, the race at Laguna Seca (which comes mid-season) has determined the eventual winner of the championship, but last year’s race was the stuff of which legends are made. Thirty million people worldwide watched ...