The "Doctor"
Valentino Rossi


Date of Birth: 16 Feb 1979
Place of Birth: Urbino, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Residence: London, UK
Height: 182 cm
Weight: 59 kg
Marital Status: Single
Hobbies: Soccer, radio-controlled toys
Total Races: GP starts: 174 (114 x MotoGP/500cc, 30 x 250cc, 30 x 125cc)
Victories: 84 (57 x MotoGP/500cc, 14 x 250cc, 12 x 125cc)
Pole Positions: 45
Podiums: 127
Wins: 7 Grand Prix (1 x 125cc, 1 x 250cc, 1 x 500cc, 4 x MotoGP)
First Race: 1991
First Grand Prix: Malaysia, 1996 (125cc)
First Pole: 1996


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


The best there is in the field of motor racing. Rossi’s World Championship debut came at the Malaysian Grand Prix in 1996 and he finished his first international season in 9th place with one race win. The following year he became the youngest ever rider to win the 125cc World Championship, winning eleven races along the way with Aprilia. The pattern continued when he moved into the 250cc class, taking second place in his first year before becoming World Champion in 1999, once again with Aprilia.In 2000 he entered a new phase of his career when he joined forces with Honda in the 500cc class. He proved his worth once again by finishing second, before becoming the last ever 500cc World Champion in 2001. Rossi held onto his crown four the next four consecutive seasons, taking the MotoGP World title in 2002 and 2003, before moving to Yamaha and winning again in 2004 and 2005.

Rossi made history by moving to Yamaha in 2004 and winning the season-opening Grand Prix in South Africa, becoming the first rider in the history of the sport to win back-to-back premier class races for different manufacturers. He went on to win nine out of 16 races, finally clinching the World Championship title, Yamaha’s first for 12 years, with victory at the penultimate Grand Prix in Phillip Island. A final win at the Valencia Grand Prix also ensured that the Yamaha Factory Team won the team title. Rossi followed up that triumph with a season of unprecedented success in 2005, when he successfully defended the title once again with a total of eleven race wins and five pole positions - only finishing off the podium once.