Valentino Rossi #46

Valentino Rossi or more known as the doctor, is one of the best motorcycle riders in history. He was born in Urbino, the 16th February of 1979. He is still competing. His father is called Graziano Rossi and his mother Stefanía Palma. He has a brother (Luca Marini) and a stepsister (Chiara Rossi). Rossi's nicknames appart from "the Doctor" also got some as "Rossifumi" or "Valentinik". He started being a "karts" pilot but then he changed to motoracing. In 1996 started to compete in 125cc, in 1997 he won his first championship. In 1998 and 1999 Rossi stayed in 250cc. The second year in 250cc (1999) he won the Championship. Since the year 2000 to now a day he has benn running in GP category. Between 2000 and 2003 he stayed with Honda. Then in 2004 he changed to Yamaha until 2009. He started winning but in 2006 and 2007 he fall in a crisis. In 2008 he came back and won again the Championship doing a recor of the maximum points won in a season. In 2009 he did one of his best performances. He won the Championship, however he got dificultties to win Jorge Lorenzo. In 2010 he started very well, but in the middle of the season he got injured and he couldn't do a good perfromance. Anyway, that last year 2011 he changed to Ducatti, the Italian motorbike. He didn't have a good year either. He got trouble with the chassis of Ducatti, but he didn't have just technical problems; at the end of the season, his good friend Marco Simoncelli died. However, V.R.46 is a legend in moto GP.

One of the greatest performance I have never seen from Rossi, against Lorenzo, in Catalunya 2009.
"Sorry about the lenguage, I did not find any video in English"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X0hWA3kH9Y