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Valentino Rossi was born on 16th of February of 1979 in Urbino, Italy.
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Rossi's first racing love was karting. Rossi won the regional kart championship in 1990.
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Rossi continued to race karts and finished fifth at the national kart championships in Parma. His fathers had started looking at moving into the Italian 100cc series, as well as the corresponding European series, which most likely would have pushed him into the direction of Formula One. However, the high cost of racing karts led to the decision to race minimoto exclusively.
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Valentino Rossi rode a Cagiva Mito 125cc motorcycle, which he damaged in a first-corner crash no more than a hundred metres from the pit lane.
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Rossi had some success in the 1996 World Championship season, failing to finish five of the season's races and crashing several times. Despite this, in August he won his first World Championship Grand Prix at Brno in the Czech Republic on an AGV Aprilia RS125R.
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He won the 125 cc World Championship in the following 1997 season, winning 11 of the 15 races.
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In 1999, he won the title, collecting five pole positions and nine wins.
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Rossi recorded only two wins during the season, winning in Great Britain
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Rossi won his first 500 cc World Championship in 2001, winning 11 races in the final year of that class
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The inaugural year for the MotoGP bikes was 2002, when riders experienced teething problems getting used to the new bikes. He ride Honda.
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Honda
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2004-2010
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2011-2012
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2013-2015