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Valentino Rossi deel 3
Date of Birth 16/02/1979
Place of Birth Urbino, Italy
Nationality Italian
Residence London, UK
Height 182 cm
Weight 67 kg
Marital Status Single
Hobbies Soccer, radio-controlled toys
Total Races GP starts: 226 (166 x MotoGP/500cc, 30 x 250cc, 30 x 125cc)
Victories 103 (77 x MotoGP/500cc, 14 x 250cc, 12 x 125cc)
Pole Positions: 58 (47 x 500cc/MotoGP, 5 x 250cc, 5 x 125cc)
Podiums 163 (127 x 500cc/MotoGP, 21 x 250cc, 15 x 125cc)
Wins 9 (1 x 125cc, 1 x 250cc, 1 x 500cc, 6 x MotoGP)
First Race 1991
First Grand Prix Malaysia, 1996 (125cc)
First Pole 1996
2009: MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPION
2008: MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPION
2007: 3rd, MotoGP World Championship
2006: 2nd, MotoGP World Championship
2005: MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPION
2004: MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPION
2003: MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPION
2002: MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPION
2001: 500 MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPION
2000: 2nd, 500 MotoGP World Championship
1999: 250 GP WORLD CHAMPION
1998: 2nd, 250 MotoGP World Championship
1997: 125 GP WORLD CHAMPION
1996: 9th, 125 MotoGP World Championship
1995: 125cc Italian Champion
1994: 125cc Italian Sports Production Champion
1993: 3rd - 125cc Italian Sports Production Championship
1992: Regional Minimoto Champion
1991: 4th - Italian Junior Go-Kart Championship
1990: Regional Go-Kart Championship - 9 wins
1989: First Go-Kart Race
In 2010 Valentino Rossi has continued to grow his legend and cement his place in the history of Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing. The Italian's ninth career title is his seventh in the premier-class and his fourth since joining Yamaha in 2004. Here are some more statistics from the fourteenth season of his career:
• Rossi has now matched Mike Hailwood and Carlo Ubbiali with nine titles in all classes. Only Agostini with 15 has more.
• Rossi's win in Assen this season made him only the second rider in history to take 100 wins in all classes. Rossi now has 103, 19 less than Agostini's all-time record of 122.
• He already held the all-time premier class victories record, having beaten Agostini's tally at Indianapolis in 2008. He now a premier-class win tally of 77.
• Rossi's win this season in Brno saw him take the all-time podium record with his 160th podium in all classes. He is also the only rider to have stood on the podium in the premier-class more than 100 times. Sepang podium was his 163rd in all classes.
• With 44 wins from 102 races since he joined the Japanese factory in 2004, Rossi is the most successful Yamaha rider of all time. He has 21 more wins than Kenny Roberts, Yamaha's next most successful rider.
• This years title means he has now won more titles for Yamaha than for any of the other manufacturers he has ridden for in his career.
• His win at Misano, Italy this year was his 11th win in all classes on home soil.
• He is the only rider in history to have won at least one GP in 14 successive seasons.
Other facts about Rossi's career
• In 1997 Rossi became the second youngest ever 125cc World Champion after scoring 321 points and eleven wins.
• Two years later, he became the youngest ever 250cc World Champion with nine wins.
• In 2001 Rossi joined Phil Read as one of only two riders ever to win the 125cc, 250cc and 500cc titles.
• Rossi's debut victory for Yamaha at the opening race of 2004 in South Africa made him the first rider in history to take back-to-back wins for different manufacturers.
• After winning the MotoGP World Championship three times with Honda, Rossi took his fourth premier-class title with Yamaha in 2004 and became the only rider other than Eddie Lawson to win consecutive premier-class titles for different manufacturers.
• Rossi remains the only rider to win the premier-class title on four different types of motorcycle: 500cc 4-cylinder two-stroke, 990cc 5-cylinder four-stroke, Yamaha 990cc 4-cylinder four-stroke and a Yamaha 800cc 4-cylinder four-stroke.
• Rossi has never missed a GP since his 125cc debut in 1996. He has started 226 successive races in all classes, 166 of which have been in the premier class. Both of these are records.
Valentino Rossi Deel 2
Rossi tribune TT-Assen 2009
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