

He has participated in the top category, with the three great motorcycle teams of his time: Honda, Yamaha, and Ducati, being since 2013, pilot of the Movistar Yamaha MotoGP. Winner of nine world titles in four categories: 125cc (1997), 250cc (1999), 500cc (2001) and six-time MotoGP champion (09). The following year he won the Italian championship in the 125 class and finished third in the European championship in the same category.

In 1994 he participates simultaneously in the Sport Production championship and the Italian GP, winning the SP championship and gaining experience in the Grand Prix prototypes. His debut as a motorcycle rider is in the Italian Sports production championship or SP championship in 1993 in a Cagiva Mito by Claudio Lusardi with which he suffers a fall in the first corner of the first practice.

The high costs of following this path forced him to stay on the mini motorcycles with which he won the regional championship in 1992. His father tried to get Valentino to continue in the four-wheel world and tried to position him in the European kart championship and the regional 100 c.c. He won the regional championship in 1990. He has a brother (on his mother’s side), Luca Marini, and a sister, Clara Rossi (on his father’s side).įrom a very young age, he lived in Tavullia, where he began his life in motorsport running in karts supported by his father Graziano. From 2012 to 2016, she was sentimentally linked to Linda Morselli.His parents are Graziano Rossi and Stefania Palma. "This is how Father Graziano expresses himself in an interview in February 2015.Īs a child, he always uses number 46, even in the vintages where he has the chance to show off the 1 in charge of the champion is the same number previously used in the Motomondiale by his father and subsequently by a Japanese pilot he was very passionate about.Īfter his divorce, his parents had two other sons, both born in 1997: the brother-in-law of mother Luca Marini, born on August 10, also a motorcycle pilot (in the Motomondiale from the 2016 season), and her sister-in-law paternal part, Clara Rossi, born in November.

"We were on the Berloni square, I tied my car with a rope behind my scooter, and I drove it while doing the crossbows and the counterweight." How old was? "Maybe I miss two, I remember him because he had a wheelchamber for two and a half years. Thanks to his father's motorcycle passion, Valentino has lived since his first year of contact with the motors: Son of Stefania Palma and Graziano Rossi, who was a motorcycle pilot in the 1970s and 1980s, was born in Urbino, and then grew up in the village of Tavullia, in the province of Pesaro. We hired the pilot with this very small Honda HRC replica that brought him to the top. Pendant dedicated to one of the world's greatest championship championships: Valentino Rossi.
