By: EFE
By: EFE
The Italian Valentino Rossi put this Sunday “full stop” to his sports career after 432 grand prizes and 26 seasons in which he has achieved no less than nine world titles.
Among his achievements is one of 125 cc (1997), another in 250 cc (1999) and seven of 500 / MotoGP (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009) and he got raise the m otociclismo at heights never reached thanks to its celebrations, its spectacularity on the track and the way of doing things.
Rossi, a native of Urbino, where he was born on 14 February 1979, has not been able to resist the passage of time in the face of the “pull” of the young promises and this, together with his lack of results, led him to make the determination to stop competing at the end of this season in the motorcycle world championship.
😢 # GrazieVale MADE HISTORY, BECAME A LEGEND: VALENTINO ROSSI RETIRED!
🇮🇹 Il Dottore played the last race of his career, ending in the 10 ° place in # ValenciaGP
👏 After 26 seasons in motorcycling, the Italian multi-champion says GOODBYE … pic.twitter.com/vUFkSVG1C3
– SportsCenter (@SC_ESPN) November 14, 2021
However, in his mind, new challenges are already brewing in the world of four wheels that he will reveal over time, although now he has to say goodbye and that, although l or hide it, is going to be a tough time for someone who has given everything for motorcycling and, at the same time, he has received so much from motorcycling.
A winning rider, of caste and with a charisma and empathy with all motorcycling fans and followers who will be very difficult to match for any of their rivals.
Valentino Rossi debuted in 1996 in the world championship and that same year, before the start of the World Cup, he was already in Madrid in the presentation of the Cajamadrid Aprilia Cup with budding figures such as Jorge Lorenzo, then ten years old, or Álvaro Bautista, and backed by one of its first “bosses” or patrons, the Italian Gianpiero Sacchi, who “sold” wonders of that young boy with long blond hair.
His 115 wins and 235 podiums in total, they are a baggage within the reach of very few riders, but surely for the vast majority of motorcycling fans what will remain to be remembered will be its various celebrations , which since 1996 began to become famous and everyone waited after reaching the top of the podium. His first world title, a season later, in 125 cc, it could be said that it led him directly to the road to the “Olympus” of motorcycling.
Without a doubt, one of the greatest in the history of world motorcycling steps aside for young people to try write a sporting career as brilliant and successful as the one starring Valentino Rossi, the greatest “Il Dottore”.
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