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Valentino Rossi is an Italian professional motorcycle racer who has won nine Grand Prix World Championships, including seven in the premier MotoGP class. He is the only rider to win a world title in four different classes. Rossi has had great success with Honda and Yamaha, winning multiple championships with each, though he struggled during a two-year stint with Ducati from 2011-2012. Now in his late 30s, Rossi continues to race for Yamaha in MotoGP and owns a junior racing team.

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Valentino Rossi is an Italian professional motorcycle racer who has won nine Grand Prix World Championships, including seven in the premier MotoGP class. He is the only rider to win a world title in four different classes. Rossi has had great success with Honda and Yamaha, winning multiple championships with each, though he struggled during a two-year stint with Ducati from 2011-2012. Now in his late 30s, Rossi continues to race for Yamaha in MotoGP and owns a junior racing team.

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Valentino Rossi (/ˈrɒsi/; Italian: [valenˈtiːno ˈrossi]; born 16 February 1979) is an Italian

professional motorcycle road racer and multiple MotoGP World Champion. He is the only rider
in the history of the World Championship to have won the World Championship in four different
classes: 125cc (1), 250cc (1), 500cc (1) and MotoGP (6).

Rossi is one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time, with nine Grand Prix World
Championships to his name – seven of which are in the premier class.

After graduating to the premier class in 2000, Rossi won the 500cc World Championship with
Honda in 2001, the MotoGP World Championships (also with Honda) in 2002 and 2003 and
continued his streak of back-to-back championships by winning the 2004 and 2005 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 2006 title with a crash in the final round at
Valencia, ceding the title to his former Honda teammate Nicky Hayden. In 2007 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 regained the title in 2008 following several tight duels with title defendant Stoner and
retained it in 2009.[1] After a 2010 marred by a broken leg and no title challenge, Rossi left
Yamaha to join Ducati for the 2011 season.[2][3] Rossi replaced Stoner at Ducati, who went on to
win the 2011 title with Honda instead while Rossi endured a difficult spell with his compatriot
marque. It was confirmed in 2012 that he would rejoin Yamaha for the 2013 and 2014 seasons[4]
after Rossi suffered two winless seasons while at Ducati.

Following his return to Yamaha he has finished second overall in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Rossi led
the championship for the vast majority of the 2015 season before being surpassed by team
colleague Jorge Lorenzo in the final round at Valencia, with Rossi losing out as a result of a grid
penalty sustained for a controversial clash with Honda rider Marc Márquez in the previous
Malaysian round. During Rossi's second stint at Yamaha, Márquez won multiple titles in
succession with Rossi often having to settle for podium finishes and only occasional wins.

Rossi is currently contracted to race until the end of the 2020 season, when he will be 41 years
old.[5] He is also a team owner of junior class team Sky Racing Team by VR46 that competes in
Moto2 and Moto3.

Rossi has a maternal half-brother, Luca Marini, who is currently racing in the 2019 Moto2
season for the Sky Racing Team by VR46

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