Valentino Rossi (born in Urbino, Italy, February 16, 1979, age 33 years) is a Grandprix motor racer in the world championship after Michael Doohan era, with the world champion title in four different classes diraihnya berkarier.Ia within seven years is one 's most successful racer of all time, with 9 World Champion title. According to the issue of American sports magazine, Sports Ilustrated, Rossi
is one of the greatest athletes in duunia wage, it is estimated to be paid $ 34 million in 2007. Total racer this eccentric chronicle 9 world title, once in the 125cc class, once in the 250cc class, and seven times at peak class, 500cc and MotoGP. After his father, Graziano Rossi, Rossi started racing in Grand Prix in 1996 for Aprilia in the 125cc category and won the first World Championship the following year. From there, he moved to the 250cc category with Aprilia and won the 250cc World Championship in 1999. It won the 500cc World Championship with Honda in 2001, the MotoGP World Championship (also with Honda) in 2002 and 2003, and a further victory to win the world title beruntunnya 2004 and 2005, after leaving Honda to join Yamaha, before recapturing the title 2008 and defended in 2009. Rossi is first in the standings most race wins in the history of 500 cc / MotoGP, with 77 victories, and second in all time overall wins standings with 103 race wins (behind Giacomo Agostini with 122). Rossi, along with Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR), Michael Schumacher (F1) and Sebastien Loeb (WRC), also widely cited as one of the legends in the automotive athletics Move to Yamaha at the end of the 2003 season ahead of Valentino Rossi's 2004 season made a surprising decision. It decided that migration from dibelanya team then the team that is manufacturer Honda, Repsol Honda HRC has delivered himself won the world champion in 2002 and 2003 and took the world champion Doohan grab, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 also became world champion Alex Criville 1999. Rossi decided to leave the super team joined together and choose the Yamaha team, who last won the world champion in 1992 by racer Wayne Rainey. Rossi moved to Yamaha team alone, it also brings Jerremy Burgess, the former head mekaniknya also deal with Doohan and Criville. They perform a series of tests fix the motor technology owned Yamaha YZR M1 Rossi to be able to match the strongest motor in the current MotoGP, owned Honda RC211V. About this kepindahannya, many of which do not count and pessimistic it will be able to defend his winning school. One of the pessimistic statement came from Max Biaggi, bebuyutannya enemy say, "I do not think he moved to Yamaha, but anyway it would be difficult beat Honda. Rossi himself even less optimistic it can maintain its world champion. "We take time to appear competitive, to win in his first season with Yamaha obviously very difficult". But it mementahkan all the pessimistic view. Even in the first season of the 2004 series GP Welkom, South Africa he beat Max Biaggi who mengendari Honda motor, albeit with a very tight match, with Yamaha motor, the last podium finish in 1992. Even in 2004 and 2005 Rossi became world champion with Yamaha and became the first Yamaha racer most champions in a season (9 times champion Rossi in summer 2005).
