Valentino Rossi can be said to be the most successful MotoGP racer. At the age of no longer young, the Italian driver is still able to compete and top the drivers' standings this season.
Here are some interesting facts about the 38-year-old aging driver:
1. Rossi has made 88 wins in 500 cc and MotoGP motorcycle racing.
2. Rossi is very superstitious and he has the same ritual every time he races, which is standing two meters behind the motorbike, holding his shoes, touching the pedals right on the motorbike, and squatting.
3. Rossi always goes up to the motorbike and gets off the motorbike from the same direction.
4. Rossi has a Moto3 team called Shy Racing Team by VR46, with drivers Romano Fenati and Andrea Migno.
5. The Doctor's nickname, according to his father, Graziano Rossi, based on the habits of Italians to call someone who is an expert in a field and respected. Rossi was the greatest Italian motorbike driver after Giacomo Agostini's era in the 1960s.
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6. Rossi actually has the right to use motorbike number 1, because he was 7 times the world champion. But he still wears number 46, his father's motorcycle number while still racing in 1979. Number 1 is pinned on the sleeve of Rossi's racing jacket.
7. Rossi has another nickname, the Highlighter Pen, because he always wears bright yellow in his racing clothes.
8. By Yamaha's former teammate, Colin Edwards, Rossi was nicknamed The GOAT which stands for Greatest of All Time.
9. In 2006, Rossi tested a Ferrari Formula 1 car. He lost quickly one second behind Michael Schumacher, but faster than David Coulthard and Mark Webber.
10. The car rally is Rossi's other passion in the world of racing. In 2005, he won the Monza rally with a Subaru Impreza car.
11. In 2008, Rossi joined the Rally of Great Britain and was ranked 12th.
12. Rossi was the most successful Italian ambassador, and was awarded the Winning Italy Award.
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13. Rossi was born in Urbino, January 16, 1979, to Graziano Rossi and Stefania. Like his father who was a motorbike racer, Rossi was crazy about speeding at the age of 5 years.
14. Rossi started racing from Gokar, and won his first title in 1990. Due to cost constraints, Rossi moved to mini motorcycle racing in 1992-1993.
15. Rossi had a tax case in Spain, which forced him to move from his villa in Ibiza and returned to Italy.
16. Rossi was threatened with murder by an ultra nationalist Italian, only because Repsol, a Spanish company, sponsored him.
17. In 2009, Forbes magazine placed Rossi as the number 9 richest sportsman in the world.
18. In 2007, he was suspected of taxing by the Italian tax service. Rossi has been living permanently in London since 2000, and has only paid a small tax because of his non-domicile status.
19. In February 2008, Rossi finally paid taxes to the Italian government for 35 million euros or around Rp. 509 billion.
20. Rossi has the Valentino Rossi The Game game, which was developed for PlayStation 4 and XBoxOne.
21. Rossi is an admirer of Diego Maradona, and that he showed by wearing Maradona's uniform after winning the 2015 Argentina MotoGP.
22. Rossi is a fan of the Internazionale Milan football club, but before that he was a worshiper of Sampdoria.
23. Rossi has other skills, namely designing a helmet design. The "Sun and Moon" design is the most commonly used design.
24. Rossi has never moved a racing clothing brand. Since first plunging as a professional racer, he always wears Dainese, which is an authentic Italian product.
25. Rossi had a lasting rivalry with Max Biaggi from the 1990s to 2000, and only ended after Rossi won MotoGP five times in a row from 2001 to 2005.
26. Rossi won his first Grand Prix race in the Czech Republic GP in August 1996, as a 125cc class racer on the Aprilia AGV team.
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