Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in Italy. Valentino Rossi celebrates birthday on February 16 of every year. 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 cc series, as well as the corresponding European series, which most likely would have pushed him into the direction of Formula One. However, the high cost of racing karts led to the decision to race minimoto exclusively. Through and , Valentino continued to learn the ins and outs of minimoto racing. At the first United States round since , Rossi would struggle and finish in third place whilst local hero Nicky Hayden won the race.
Rossi would bounce back by picking up three more wins, starting from a pole-victory in Great Britain and two regular victories in Germany, holding off Gibernau on the last lap, and the Czech Republic.
The bike was built by Guido Mancini, a former rider and mechanic who had worked, in the past, with Loris Capirossi. He was third in the European Championship. Valentino Rossi Birthday Countdown 0 0 0. Let's check it out! Please check the article again after few days.
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By nationality, she is an Italian and his ethnicity is White. Talking about his education, there seems to be no information about his education background. But we shall update it as soon as we get the information. The Italian racer, Valentino Rossi stands at the height of 6 feet and weighs 69 kg. Valentino Rossi holds 7. Valentino Rossi racing at Buriram circuit, Thailand. C-Instagram After that, in he signed a contract with Honda in cc racing and won the cc World Championship in the 2 nd place after Kenny Roberts, Jr.
Furthermore, in he won the final race of cc World Championship. In , he signed a contract with Yamaha, raced in South Africa and won the championship as well as became the first-ever rider to win premier class championships in a sequence. He beat the winner Rinaldo Capello by 24 seconds, winning five of the seven stages on his way.
Rossi also announced at the Monza Rally Show, that he would be entering the Rally of Great Britain, however, he later opted out. At the Monza Rally, Rossi again took first place. In , Rossi and the Factory Yamaha team proved to be even more dominant than the year before. Rossi would immediately begin the season by capturing pole and winning the first round in Spain in a controversial manner, colliding with the Gresini Honda of Sete Gibernau on the last lap.
He would score a second place in Portugal but would score five consecutive victories from the Chinese to the Dutch rounds, including three pole positions in France, Italy and Assen. The rivalry between Rossi and Gibernau climaxed at the round in Jerez.
Rossi started from pole position but Gibernau overtook him on the first lap. On the final lap, Gibernau was in the lead, but Rossi tried to overtake him at the final corner - the Dry Sack hairpin - with both colliding mid-corner. Gibernau ran wide and would finish second whilst Rossi would win the race. After the incident, Gibernau was furious and refused to comment on the last lap.
The Spanish crowd booed Rossi as the Italian national anthem was playing to celebrate his victory. Rossi commented on the incident, stating that his move had been "hard" but also that "motorbike races sometimes are like this".
Beyond his interest in F1, Rossi's strong passion is for rallying. Rally legend McRae taught Rossi the basics of driving a rally car. On 31 May he received an honorary degree in Communications and Advertising for Organizations.
Partnered with increased scepticism that the reason for his success was the dominance of the RCV rather than Rossi, it was inevitable that Honda and Rossi would part. Mid-season rumours pointed towards a possible move to Ducati, which sent the Italian press into a frenzy; the concept of Rossi on the great Italian bike seemed too good to be true. Ducati did indeed try to seduce Rossi into riding their MotoGP bike, the Desmosedici, but for numerous reasons Rossi passed the offer up.
Critics say that compared to the other manufacturers, Ducati had a significant way to go before being competitive even with Rossi at the helm. This proved to be the truth with Ducati's lacklustre performance in the season, which had actually been worse than their inaugural year in MotoGP in With the traditional first venue of the season at Suzuka having been taken off the calendar due to safety considerations following the fatal accident of Daijiro Kato , the season started at Welkom in South Africa.
Rossi took the pole on Saturday and won the South African race after a hard-fought battle with Max Biaggi , becoming the only rider to win consecutive races with different manufacturers, having won the final race of the previous season on his Honda bike.
Rossi took another pole in Spain but his fourth-place finish on Sunday saw the end of a race podium streak.
He would once again miss out on the podium in France but would respond with three victories in Italy and Catalunya where Rossi fought hard with Gibernau throughout the race, and a pole-victory at the Dutch round. Some would also consider the South African round another key point in the rivalry due to the switch Rossi made from the Factory Honda to the Factory Yamaha team, with many believing that Biaggi would have the upper hand for the season due to the advantage the Honda had over its competitors at the time.
During the race, Rossi and Biaggi fought hard but eventually, Rossi crossed the line 0. It was more of the same for Rossi's rivals in Rossi scored consistent podiums, took pole and won the first round of the season in Japan, but the race was marred by the death of Japanese rider Daijiro Kato who crashed at the R and hit the barrier at high speed in the ensuing Casio Triangle.
Rossi finished second at the South African round before winning again in Spain, despite falling back to ninth place on the opening lap. Rossi won the title in Malaysia, his first in the MotoGP class, third in the top class and fifth title overall, with two races remaining.
He won the final race at the Valencian Community round with a special livery, his final win for Honda. The rivalry was also featured in the documentary film, Faster. Initially they were quite friendly in the paddock and off — Gibernau partied on occasions with Rossi at the Italian's Ibiza villa — but a souring in their relationship began in the season and culminated in the "Qatar Incident" that same season when Rossi's team was penalized for "cleaning" his grid position to aid in traction, along with Honda Pons' Max Biaggi , and both riders were subsequently forced to start from the back of the grid.
A number of teams, including Gibernau's Team Gresini and the official Repsol Honda factory team, appealed successfully to race direction for Rossi to be sanctioned. Rossi and his chief engineer, Jeremy Burgess , insisted that they were doing nothing more than what many others had done before when faced with a dirty track and Rossi accused Gibernau of being behind the move to appeal for a sanction, something the Spaniard categorically denied. Rossi accused Gibernau in that he was "playing a dirty game".
The inaugural year for the MotoGP bikes was , when riders experienced teething problems getting used to the new bikes. In he received threats from an Italian-Spanish anarchist movement, which in those days sent parcel bombs to people it considered targets in either of the two countries.
The anarchists considered Rossi "guilty" because at the time he rode for Honda's MotoGP factory team, it had been sponsored by the oil company Repsol since , for which he filmed a commercial in Spain. In Australia Rossi took his second victory of the year. It was Rossi's sixth win at the circuit, after five consecutive wins from to In Malaysia, another second-place finish followed after he initially took the lead halfway in the race after passing Lorenzo.
Rossi took his first pole position since the French Grand Prix at the Valencian Community race, his 60th pole position in Grand Prix racing. Before the first race of the season even started, Rossi and Biaggi already got into a heated argument when Biaggi encountered Rossi at a restaurant in Suzuka and told him to "wash your mouth out before saying my name". At the first round of the season in Japan, one of the most famous episodes in their rivalry took place when Biaggi seemed to have tried to push Rossi into the dirt at high speed and a few laps later Rossi overtook Biaggi and showed, on live television, his middle finger to him.
Their rivalry reached its peak two months later at the Catalan round when at the end of the cc race, Rossi and Biaggi came to blows involving members of their entourage and circuit employees in the moments before the podium ceremony. Neither rider admitted that they got into a fist fight, but Biaggi appeared in the post-race press conference with red marks and scratches on his face, which he said "must have been caused by a mosquito bite".
Rossi claimed that the incident happened because Biaggi bumped into his manager as both riders prepared to go up to the podium with third-place finisher Loris Capirossi. After graduating to the premier class in , Rossi won the cc World Championship and 8 Hours of Suzuka with Honda in , the MotoGP World Championships also with Honda in and and continued his streak of back-to-back championships by winning the and 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 title with a crash in the final round at Valencia, ceding the title to his former Honda teammate Nicky Hayden. In Rossi and Yamaha were of no match to a dominant Casey Stoner on a Ducati, and Rossi ultimately finished a then career-low third overall. Rossi was rewarded in for his cc World Championship by being given a ride with Honda in what was then the ultimate class in World Championship motorcycle racing, the cc.
Retired five-time cc World Champion Mick Doohan , who had also had Jeremy Burgess as chief engineer, worked with Rossi as his personal mentor in his first year at Honda. It was also the first time Rossi raced against Max Biaggi. Rossi started his first year in the cc class off with two retirements in the first two rounds: he crashed out of the South African and Malaysian rounds. He scored points at the third round in Japan, and would pick up two third-place finishes in Spain and France.
Rossi picked up additional points in Italy and would pick up another third place at the Catalan round. He picked up points by finishing in sixth place at the Dutch TT. Rossi won the Rio round. However, it was Kenny Roberts Jr. After his second win, he would go on to finish second at the Pacific round and third at the Australian round. He finished second in his rookie season in the cc class with points. In his second year in the cc class, , Rossi became the sole driver of the official Aprilia Grand Prix Racing team, and would once again dominate the season.
He would start the season off with a pole in Malaysia on Saturday, but finished fifth on race day. He would pick up further points in Japan and went on to win his first race of the season at the third round in Spain. Rossi finished first in the championship with points, 72 points ahead of second-place Jorge Lorenzo.
Six wins was the lowest number of wins Rossi has had in a championship winning season; the previous minima were nine in in the cc class and , and in MotoGP. Rossi also failed to win at Mugello for the first time since He would retire once again at the British round, but bounced back by scoring a podium place in Germany, finishing third.
He would once more retire in the Czech Republic, crashing out of the race, but a flurry of victories from Imola to Argentina saw him end in second place in his rookie year in the class with points, just 23 points clear of cc champion Loris Capirossi. In his second year, the championship season, he moved from the AGV team to the official Nastro Azzurro Aprilia Team and would go on to dominate the season.
He would immediately start with a pole and race win at the Malaysian Grand Prix, but retire at the next race in Japan. He would bounce back in the next two races, winning the Spanish and Italian rounds. He finished second in Austria, just 0. He scored a third place at the Czech round, and would go on to pick up two more wins at the Catalan and Indonesian rounds.
He finished in sixth place in Australia. He won the cc title, winning 11 of the 15 races with points. Throughout the season, he would on few occasions dress up as Robin Hood and carry a blow-up doll. This fun-loving character gained him many fans throughout this and the future seasons.
After winning the title in , Rossi moved up to the cc class the following year. Rossi's year started off poor, retiring in the first two rounds: Japan and Malaysia. He would bounce back by scoring three consecutive second places in Spain, Italy and France, but would once again retire at the Madrid round. After the summer break, MotoGP's return to Austria for the first time since , saw Ducati dominate for a finish, Rossi coming a close fourth behind Jorge Lorenzo.
Another wet race in the Czech Republic saw Rossi go against the majority of the field in choosing the harder rear wet tyre. Initially it seemed an error as he fell from 6th to 12th but he recovered throughout the race to finish second to Cal Crutchlow. A week later Rossi finished second at his "home race" in San Marino.
After leading for the majority of the race he was overhauled by Dani Pedrosa in the closing laps. The championship season marks the debut of Rossi.
He had some success in his first year, scoring consistent points and sometimes finishing just off the podium from his very first race at Malaysia to Italy, but retired in both the French and Dutch rounds.
He scored more points by finishing fifth at the German but once again retired at the British round. Since commencing his Grand Prix career, Rossi has worn leathers from Dainese.
In and , Alpinestars was a sponsor on his bike, but did not supply Rossi with leathers. Alpinestars just supplied racing boots for Rossi. After Rossi joined the Yamaha Factory Team, the team wore shirts from Alpinestars, while Rossi maintained his association with Dainese.
In and , Rossi was a member of the Ducati factory team, where the team wore shirts from Puma, while Rossi still maintained his association with Dainese. In , Rossi has a new jacket from Dainese. His jacket has a different graphic compared with Alpinestars Movistar Yamaha jacket. He was third in the European Championship. The bike was built by Guido Mancini, a former rider and mechanic who had worked, in the past, with Loris Capirossi. A documentary about Mancini, called "Mancini, the Motorcycle Wizard" Il Mago Mancini , was released in by director Jeffrey Zani and explains the birth of the motorcycle and the relationship between Rossi and the mechanic.
At the first United States round since , Rossi would struggle and finish in third place whilst local hero Nicky Hayden won the race. Rossi would bounce back by picking up three more wins, starting from a pole-victory in Great Britain and two regular victories in Germany, holding off Gibernau on the last lap, and the Czech Republic.
In , with help from his father, Virginio Ferrari , Claudio Castiglioni and Claudio Lusuardi who ran the official Cagiva Sport Production team , Rossi rode a Cagiva Mito cc 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. 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 cc series, as well as the corresponding European series, which most likely would have pushed him into the direction of Formula One. However, the high cost of racing karts led to the decision to race minimoto exclusively.
Through and , Valentino continued to learn the ins and outs of minimoto racing. Rossi won the regional kart championship in After this he took up minimoto and before the end of had won numerous regional races.
In the late s and early s, especially during his cc career, Rossi's main rival was fellow Italian Loris Capirossi. They often fought hard between each other during the races - with Assen, Catalunya and Mugello as examples - they always maintained a level of fairness on and off the track. At the early stages of his cc career, Max Biaggi was considered Rossi's main rival. Rossi often found himself battling on the track with Capirossi and Biaggi, dubbing them "the three musketeers" by the Italian press.
While the rivalry with Capirossi never escalated and the two always were on good terms with each other, the rivalry with Biaggi had been growing since the mids, even though both didn't race against each other until the season when Rossi first joined the cc class.
He has always raced with the number No. Typically, a World Championship winner is awarded the No. However, in a homage to Britain's Barry Sheene , who was the first rider of the modern era to keep the same number 7 , Rossi has stayed with the now-famous No. Rossi finished a disappointing seventh in Germany, but scored back-to-back wins in the Czech Republic gaining a point advantage over Biaggi and Portugal. He would score another disappointing result at the Valencian Community round when he finished in 11th place, but would score a string of race wins from the Pacific to the Rio rounds.
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