Valentino Rossi & MotoGP season 2005

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Rossi blazes to victory ahead of Gibernau in a classic battle of the giants race


Valentino Rossi has won the Grand Prix Alice de France at Le Mans after a fierce battle to the end with Sete Gibernau, once again forcing his archrival to settle for second place while thwarting his Le Mans hat-trick dreams.

Rossi started the race in pole position before his team-mate Colin Edwards took the early lead on the first lap, with Nicky Hayden following in second.

Edwards continued a Gauloises Yamaha Team lead until lap 18, with Rossi close behind and Gibernau cutting the gap with a succession of fastest laps. As much as Edwards tried, he was unable to hold the lead and both Rossi and Gibernau overtook, turning the race into a classic battle of the giants.

Edwards ran the rest of the race alone to finish in third place, putting two Yamahas into the top three, with Marco Melandri finishing in fourth after coming off best from a battle with Max Biaggi, who finished in fifth.

American Nicky Hayden was forced to settle for sixth position after an impressive start to the race that saw him take an early second-place lead. Ducati rider Loris Capirossi finished in seventh position ahead of Kawasaki Racing Team rider Shinya Nakano in eighth.

Spanish Fortuna Yamaha Team rider Toni Elias and Australian Camel Honda rider Troy Bayliss completed the top ten respectively.

Rossi now leads the championship on 95 points, with a 37-point advantage over nearest challenger Marco Melandri on 58 points and a massive 42-point advantage over Gibernau.

The Le Mans race was not accident free. Alex Barros dramatically crashed out in the first half along with Shane Byrne. Other riders to crash out included Carlos Checa and Roberto Rolfo. None of the fallen riders sustained serious injury.

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Karijera

1996: World Championship debut at the 125cc Malaysian GP riding an Aprilia in Scuderia AGV. Final Championship position: 9th with 111 points - 1 victory: Czech Republic.

1997: Second youngest ever 125cc Champion riding an Aprilia for the Nastro Azzurro Team. Final Championship position: 1st with 321 points - 11 wins: Malaysia, Spain, Italy, France, Netherlands, Imola, Germany, Brazil, Great Britain, Catalunya and Indonesia.

1998: Moves up to 250cc class riding an Aprilia for the Nastro Azzurro Team. Final Championship position: 2nd with 201 points - 5 wins: Netherlands, Imola, Catalunya, Australia and Argentina.

1999: Becomes the youngest ever 250 World Champion riding for the Aprilia Grand Prix Racing. Final Championship position: 1st with 309 points - 9 wins: Spain, Italy, Catalunya, Great Britain, Germany, Czech Republic, Australia, South Africa and Brazil.

2000: Moves up to the 500cc class riding a Honda for the Nastro Azzuro Team.Final Championship position: 2nd with 209 points - 2 wins: Great Britain and Brazil

2001: Takes the 500cc World Championship riding a Honda for the Nastro Azzuro Team.Final Championship position: 1st with 325 points. - 11 wins: Japan, South Africa, Spain, Catalunya, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Portugal, Pacific, Australia, Malaysia and Brazil.

2002: Wins revised format MotoGP World Championship riding all-new four stroke Honda RC211V for the Repsol Honda Team. Final Championship position: 1st with 355 points -11 wins: Japan, Spain, France, Catalunya, Italy, Netherlands, Great Britain, Germany, Portugal, Brazil and Australia.

2003: Wins his second MotoGP World Championship for the Repsol Honda Team. Final Championship position: 1st with 357 points ? 9 wins: Japan, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Portugal, Rio, Malaysia, Australia and Valencia.

2004: Moves to Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha and wins the MotoGP World Championship. Championship position: 1st with 279 points after 15 of 16 rounds. 8 wins: South Africa, Italy, Catalunya, Netherlands, Great Britain, Portugal, Malaysia and Australia.

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Biografija


Class: MotoGP
Number: 46
Team: Repsol Honda
Bike: Honda
Date of birth: 16/2/1979 Place of birth: Urbino
Age: 24 Residence: London
Nationality: ITALY Weight: 59 kg.
Height: -


Reigning MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi joined Yamaha at the start of the 2004 season, and quickly stunned the world by 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. In 2005 he is joined in the Gauloises Yamaha Team by his former Suzuka Eight-Hour team-mate, Colin Edwards.

The son of former racer Graziano Rossi, Valentino contested his first bike race at the age of 12 when he switched from Karts to Minimotos. He quickly progressed through the Italian domestic scene, collecting a 125cc Italian Sports Production title along the way, before being crowned 125cc Italian Champion in 1995 and taking third in the 125cc European Championship in the same year.

His World Championship debut came at the Malaysian Grand Prix in 1996 and he finished his first international season in ninth 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 has held onto his crown ever since, taking the MotoGP World title in 2002 and 2003, before making his sensational switch to Yamaha for his victorious 2004 season. He turns 26 in February and remains the youngest rider to have won World Championships in all three classes.

He continues to have the support of his long-standing Crew Chief, Jeremy Burgess, who moved from Honda to work with him in the Yamaha Factory Team. One of the most popular members of the paddock, ?The Doctor? has a wide fan base all over the world. A keen football fan and a promising rally driver (F1?), He is now based in London between races.

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Zanimljivosti vezane za Rossija


# In 2001 Rossi became the youngest ever rider to win titles in three different classes. The only other two riders to win titles in three classes are Phil Read (125, 250, 500) and Mike Hailwood (250, 350, 500).

# Rossi was the fourth youngest rider ever to win the 500cc title after Freddie Spencer, Mike Hailwood and John Surtees.

# First place at Phillip Island was Rossi?s 100th podium from 139 starts in the three different classes of Grand Prix racing. Only five riders in the 56-year history of Grand Prix racing have stood on a Grand Prix podium more frequently than Valentino Rossi.

# At the opening race of the year in South Africa, Rossi became the first rider in the 55-year history of MotoGP to take back-to-back victories riding machines from two different manufacturers.

# Rossi?s victory in Australia was his eighth of the year ? the highest number of wins in a season for any Yamaha rider in history.

# Rossi is the seventh rider to take four or more premier-class World Championships. Giacomo Agostini has won the most with eight, followed by Mick Doohan with five and then Geoff Duke, Mike Hailwood, Eddie Lawson and John Surtees with four.

# The only rider other than Rossi to win back-to-back titles on different machinery was Eddie Lawson, who won the title riding a Yamaha in 1988 and again on a Honda in 1989.

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Valentino Rossi Biografia




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1.V. Rossi 95
2.M. Melandri 58
3. S. Gibernau 53
4. M. Biaggi 47
5. A. Barros 43
6. C. Edwards 41
7. S. Nakano 27
8. N. Hayden 26
9. O. Jacque 25
10. L. Capirossi 23

Nel 1994, dopo un anno, si ? classificato primo in sella alla Cagiva, cos? come nel 1997, a diciotto anni, ? diventato campione mondiale classe 125 con l'Aprilia. Nel 1999 ha vinto il motomondiale classe 250 ed ora domina incontrastato la classe maggiore delle motogp.

Valentino Rossi ? stato dunque il primo italiano a vincere il Mondiale in tre diverse categorie. Il leggendario Giacomo Agostini, ad esempio, vinse s? ben quindici Mondiali nella sua carriera, ma tutti nelle classi 250 e 500. Rossi invece ? il terzo pilota nella storia del Mondiale a trionfare in tre classi diverse.
Prima di lui, Phil Read (125, 250 e 500) e Mike "the bike" Hailwood (250, 350 e 500): nomi leggendari della storia del motocliclismo.

Figlio dell'ex pilota degli anni '70 Graziano Rossi e di Stefania Palma, Valentino ? nato a Urbino, ? cresciuto a Tavullia (PS), ma ormai risiede a Londra. Il padre Graziano si classific? terzo al campionato mondiale 250 nel 1979 su una Morbidelli.
Il piccolo Rossi ha quindi iniziato a seguire le gare del campionato del mondo ancora prima di camminare e di stare in equilibrio su due ruote. Le sue prime esperienze agonistiche sono a quattro ruote: il 25 aprile 1990 il giovanissimo Rossi vince la sua prima gara di go-kart.

I costi per intraprendere uno sport del genere erano per? troppo elevati e cos?, di comune accordo con il padre, decide di passare alle minimoto. E' la scelta vincente. Il giovane pilota di Tavullia comincia a vincere le gare e campionati a ripetizione, e nel 1993, sulla pista di Magione, debutta in sella a una moto vera, una Cagiva 125.

Campione italiano della Sport Production nel 1994, l'anno successivo conquista il titolo nazionale della 125 (a sedici anni: il pi? giovane della storia) e si piazza terzo nel campionato europeo della stessa categoria.

Il 1996 ? l'anno dell'esordio mondiale: arriva alla prima vittoria (GP Repubblica Ceca a Brno), preceduta dalla prima pole position. Da qui in poi possiamo osservare un dato curioso: Valentino Rossi ha sempre vinto il Mondiale negli anni dispari e sempre nella seconda stagione in una classe. Se dovessimo quindi stilare una tabella sinottica, risulterebbero questi dati: vittorie sulla 125 nel 1997 e sulla 250 nel 1999, mentre nel 2001 abbiamo la vittoria nella classe 500.

A rigor di cronaca, comunque, bisogna dire che ? nel 1997 che esplode definitivamente il fenomeno Rossi sul piano mediatico, grazie senz'altro ai suoi successi ma anche alla capacit? innata di saper conquistare il pubblico, ad esempio con i suoi incredibili modi di festeggiare ogni successo. Travestimenti, prese in giro, scherzi che entrano nel mondo delle corse. In tutti i circuiti gli appassionati aspettano l'ennesima "trovata" del pilota di Tavullia, che a seconda delle circostanze, si trasforma in Robin Hood, Superman, o gladiatore.
Per non parlare poi della sua eterna rivalit? con l'altro campionissimo Max Biaggi, stella inizialmente oscurata dall'astro Rossi. Una rivalit? che ha dato origine a numerosi e spiacevoli dissapori.

In conclusione, Rossi ha finora disputato un numero incredibile di gran premi arrivando a vincerne circa il 50% e conquistando un altrettanto notevole numero di pole position.

Valentino a 22 anni e 10 mesi, ? stato il quarto pi? giovane campione mondiale della storia, dopo Freddie Spencer (il pi? "verde" in assoluto, con 21 anni, 7 mesi e 14 giorni), Mike Hailwood e John Surtees.
Nessuno per? ha mai vinto tanti Gran premi prima di compiere i ventitr? anni: 37. Il pi? vicino a realizzare questo record ? Loris Capirossi che, da Under 23, conquist? ben quindici successi.

Il 12 ottobre 2003 ? stata una giornata storica per il mondo dei motori e per l'orgoglio italiano: mentre nella F1 la Ferrari entrava nella storia vincendo il suo quinto titolo mondiale "costruttori" consecutivo (e Michael Schumacher entrava nella storia vincendo il suo sesto titolo mondiale), Valentino - 24 anni - saliva sul gradino pi? alto del podio festeggiando il suo quinto titolo mondiale, il terzo consecutivo nella classe maggiore, proiettandosi con merito, come una leggenda vivente, tra i pi? grandi di sempre: un fenomeno!

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E tako vec moze

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May 14, 2005,
Rossi's boss denies F1 a done deal :


Valentino Rossi's Yamaha team boss has denied saying that the MotoGP world champion would race in Formula One from 2007.

"I certainly did not say that he would be in F1 from 2007," Yamaha team director Davide Brivio told reporters in Le Mans, the venue for this weekend's French Grand Prix.

Italian daily Gazetta dello Sport had quoted Mr Brivio as saying: "We have already agreed on a one-year contract and we know that from 2007 he (Rossi) will be in Formula One".

Mr Brivio said he had not been that specific.

"I think it's important to set the record straight," he said in Le Mans.

"I said that we are going to start working on an extension to Valentino's contract and we will be discussing [it] after [the June 5 Italian Grand Prix at] Mugello.

"I was then asked about any plans Valentino might have to drive in Formula One and I said that would be Valentino's decision and it might happen.

"From Yamaha's side we hope that he will still be riding for us but I cannot predict Valentino's future."

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