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.

Valentino Rossi News

Valentino Rossi Ready. Is Ducati? - Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:34:39 -0800
Valentino Rossi has hunger to win, just needs bike and tires. MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO, ITALY, JAN 10 - Ducati Marlboro's Valentino Rossi is much healthier than when he arrived here for his first Wrooom a year ago.

Valentino Rossi Wins! - Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:34:39 -0800
Okay, it was a go-kart race, but still... MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO, ITALY, JAN 13 - A win's a win and it's been a long time coming. Ducati Marlboro's Valentino Rossi beat Ferrari Marlboro Formula One drivers Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso in a flag to flag romp to win the go-kart race on the frozen lake on a chilled night at the conclusion of Wrooom 2012, the combined Ducati/Ferrari team intro.

Valentino Rossi wins on ice as Wrooom 2012 ends - Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:49:03 -0800
Ducati MotoGP star Valentino Rossi beat Ferrari F1 drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa in a kart race on ice as Wrooom 2012 came to a close on Friday evening at Madonna di Campiglio, Italy.

Valentino Rossi signals desire to stay in MotoGP - Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:43:08 -0800
"I would like to help Ducati achieve something and then maybe stop. But I would like at least one more contract, another two years" - Valentino Rossi.

Rossi is not fading yet, insists Lorenzo - Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:25:18 -0800
Valentino Rossi has not passed his peak and is still capable of returning to the forefront of MotoGP, insists his former team-mate Jorge Lorenzo.