Valentino Rossi - Movistar
Yamaha MotoGP - Rider MotoGP
Racing Number 46
Rider
Profile
Date of birth: 16-02-1979
Place of birth: Urbino, Italy
Nationality: Italy
Height: 181 cm
Weight (kg) 69 kg
Hobbies: Soccer, radio-controlled toys,
rally racing
Total races: GP starts: 348 (288 x
MotoGP/500cc, 30 x 250cc, 30 x 125cc)
Victories: 114 (88 x MotoGP/500cc, 14 x
250cc, 12 x 125cc)
Pole positions: 61 (51 x 500cc/MotoGP, 5 x
250cc, 5 x 125cc)
Podiums: 221 (185x 500cc/MotoGP, 21 x 250cc,
15 x 125cc)
Wins: 114 (88 x MotoGP/500cc, 14 x 250cc, 12
x 125cc)
First race: 1989
First Grand Prix: Malaysia, 1996 (125cc)
First pole: 1996
Racing
Career Information
2016: 2nd
MotoGP World Championship, Movistar Yamaha MotoGP
2015: 2nd,
MotoGP World Championship, Movistar Yamaha MotoGP
2014: 2nd,
MotoGP World Championship
2013: 4th,
MotoGP World Championship
2012: 6th,
MotoGP World Championship
2011: 7th,
MotoGP World Championship
2010: 3rd,
MotoGP World Championship
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: 500cc
MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPION
2000: 2nd,
500cc MotoGP World Championship
1999: 250cc
WORLD CHAMPION
1998: 2nd,
250cc World Championship
1997: 125cc
GP WORLD CHAMPION
1996: 9th,
125cc 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
Valentino Rossi was born in Urbino, Italy on
16th February 1979. Rossi was riding bikes from the very start, thanks to
guidance and support from Graziano Rossi, his father and fellow former Grand
Prix winner. Beginning his racing career in go-karts, the young Rossi moved on
to mini-motos and began to show the talent for two wheels that we all see
today. The following years saw Rossi progress through the competition of junior
road racing, seizing the Italian Sport Production Championship by 1994 and
taking the Italian 125cc championship a year later. Those results and an
exhilarating third place in the 125cc European Championship saw him progress to
the world stage a year later.
Rossi made his World Championship debut at
the Malaysian Grand Prix of 1996 where he managed to complete the entire
season, finishing in 9th position overall and securing his first World
Championship Grand Prix victory. The year after he went on to be the youngest
rider ever to win the 125cc World Championship, taking eleven wins and riding for
Aprilia. After moving to 250cc he stormed to second place in his first year
then continued on to become World Champion in 1999.
He dominated the sport between 2000-2005,
winning six successive titles in a row. After moving to Yamaha in 2004, Rossi
made history by becoming the first rider to ever win back-to-back class premier
races for two separate manufacturers with an astounding win at the opening
Grand Prix in South Africa. He would go on to win 9 of the next 16 races,
including a nail biting penultimate win at the Grand Prix in Phillip Island and
a hometown victory at the Valencia Grand Prix, there taking Yamaha’s first
World Championship title since the early 90s.
For a period, many thought that the
Italian’s domination of the class was over, making his comeback to win title
number eight in 2008 even more sensational, despite the arrival of new teammate
Jorge Lorenzo. Rossi took nine victories on the way to his highest ever tally
of 373 points at the end of the year and another championship.
Rossi made the move to Ducati for the 2011
and 2012 seasons. These were barren years for the ‘Doctor’ as he
uncharacteristically struggled, leaving the door open for his great rival Casey
Stoner to lift his second title in 2011. Lorenzo made it two championships in
three years by winning again in 2012, before Rossi made a sensational return to
the factory Yamaha team in 2013 to once more partner Lorenzo.
In 2014, he was runner up to a dominant
Marquez, as the Spaniard won the first ten races of the season, with Rossi
finishing in a strong second place. It looked like it could finally be Rossi’s
time to lift the tenth title in 2015, but he missed out on the title by just
five points to Lorenzo after a dramatic grand finale at Valencia. The following
season Rossi would once again come close, missing out to a resurgent Marquez by
49 points.
2016 was another year with the ‘Doctor’ on
fine form, netting himself two new MotoGP wins and a further silver medal in
the World Championship. His stellar riding pushed Movistar Yamaha MotoGP once
again into the team title as his never ending love for the sport continued to
shine through. He still manages to support the next generation of stars at his
famous riding ranch and the VR46 Racing team, all of which keeps him as popular
now as he has ever been.
Now in his 22nd season in the World
Championship, the ‘Doctor’ is as determined to win as he was when he first
broke on to the scene. If anything, Rossi has grown hungrier with age. One
accolade remains out of his grasp, that elusive tenth title. When Rossi lifted
his ninth title back in 2009, few would have guessed that he would still be
riding 8 years later, let alone that he would still be winning races and
challenging for the title. 2017 has been another exhilarating year so far for
the ‘Doctor’, including a thrilling victory in ‘The Cathedral of Speed’ at the
Dutch GP.
Like a fine wine, Rossi only seems to get
better with age, with the Italian finishing as runner–up the last three
seasons. To keep himself motivated he now trains on a daily basis with the
young Italian riders he is nurturing through the VR46 academy scheme, something
that he says not only keeps him on his toes, but keeps his joy for racing
alive.
Though Rossi is still chasing his tenth
World Championship Title, he is already known as one of the greatest of all
time. Only Carlo Ubbiali and Mike Hailwood equal the ‘Doctor’ in the number of
Championship Titles won, and only Angel Nieto and Giacomo Agostini have more.
With 189 races and 55 wins Rossi remains the most successful Yamaha racer to
date. Rossi also holds the auspicious title of being the only rider to win
premier class titles on five separate types of motorcycles: A Yamaha 1000cc
4-cylinder four-stroke, Yamaha 800cc 4-cylinder four-stroke, Yamaha 990cc 4-cylinder
four-stroke, 990cc 5-cylinder four-stroke and a 500cc 4-cylinder two-stroke.
MotoGP
2017 Result of Valentino Rossi - Movistar Yamaha MotoGP total 208 points
Round
|
Round name
|
Points
|
Total
|
Overall position
|
1
|
2017 MotoGP Qatar - Losail Circuit
|
16
|
16
|
3
|
2
|
2017 MotoGP Argentina - Termas de
Rio Hondo
|
20
|
36
|
2
|
3
|
2017 GP of the USA - Circuit of
the USA
|
20
|
56
|
1
|
4
|
2017 MotoGP Spain - Jerez
|
6
|
62
|
1
|
5
|
2017 MotoGP France - Le Mans
|
0
|
62
|
3
|
6
|
2017 MotoGP Italy - Mugello
|
13
|
75
|
3
|
7
|
2017 MotoGP Spain - Circuit de
Catalunya
|
8
|
83
|
5
|
8
|
2017 MotoGP Netherlands - Assen
|
25
|
108
|
3
|
9
|
2017 MotoGP Germany - Sachsenring
|
11
|
119
|
4
|
10
|
2017 MotoGP Czech Republic - Brno
|
13
|
132
|
4
|
11
|
2017 MotoGP of Austria - Red Bull
Ring / Spielberg
|
9
|
141
|
4
|
12
|
2017 MotoGP Great Britain - Silverstone
|
16
|
157
|
4
|
13
|
2017 MotoGP San Marino - Misano
|
0
|
157
|
4
|
14
|
2017 MotoGP Spain - Aragon
|
11
|
168
|
5
|
15
|
2017 MotoGP Japan - Motegi
|
0
|
168
|
5
|
16
|
2017 MotoGP Australia - Phillip
Island
|
20
|
188
|
4
|
17
|
2017 MotoGP Malaysia - Sepang
|
9
|
197
|
4
|
18
|
2017 MotoGP Spain - Valencia
|
11
|
208
|
5
|
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