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Valentino Rossi (Italian pronunciation: [valenˈtiːno ˈrossi] born sixteen February 1979) is an Italian professional bike racer and multiple MotoGP Entire world Champion. He is deemed to be one particular of the greatest and a single of the most productive bike racers of all time, with nine Grand Prix Planet Championships to his identify – 7 of which are in the leading class.

Following his father, Graziano Rossi, Valentino commenced racing in Grand Prix in 1996 for Aprilia in the 125cc class and won his first World Championship the adhering to year. From there, he moved up to kaos motogp with Aprilia and received the 250cc World Championship in 1999. Right after graduating to the leading class in 2000, he won the 500cc World Championship with Honda in 2001, the MotoGP Entire world Championships (also with Honda) in 2002 and 2003, and ongoing his streak of back again-to-again championships by profitable the 2004 and 2005 titles after leaving Honda to be a part of Yamaha, prior to regaining the title in 2008 and retaining it in 2009.[1] He left Yamaha to join Ducati for the 2011 year,[2][3] but it was verified in 2012 that he would rejoin Yamaha for the 2013 and 2014 seasons.[four] He experienced two winless seasons whilst at Ducati.

Rossi arrived shut to successful the 2015 title after numerous many years out of competition, major the championship for most of the period, only to lose out in the last spherical to fellow Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo. The stop of that year was marred with controversy following Rossi having a coming jointly on observe with Marc Márquez ensuing in Márquez crashing, as this kind of Rossi was provided a grid penalty for the closing round, and accused Márquez of deliberately striving to damage his championship, anything Márquez repeatedly denied.[5][6] Comments from riders and specialists showed a generalized consensus that Márquez's manoeuvres were within the policies - with Race Director Mike Webb officially acknowledging that there was blame on each sides.[seven] Márquez's manoeuvres exasperated Rossi, prompting an illegal response,[eight] though Lorenzo ultimately mentioned to the media he was helped by Márquez not creating severe moves making an attempt to overtake him.[9][10][11][twelve] Even so, the controversial rivalries between Rossi and Márquez appeared to occur to an end at the 2016 Catalan Grand Prix, when Rossi started a handshake with Márquez at the parc ferme.