Valentino Rossi Ducati – MotoGP 2012

From a press release issued by Marlboro Ducati: BAD WEATHER HITS FIRST DAY OF TESTING AT JEREZ. Loris Capirossi and Casey Stoner were only able to manage a few laps today with the 800cc Ducati Desmosedici GP7. After a couple of exits apiece late in the morning, when temperatures were suitable for the start of [...]

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Valentino Rossi scored his first win on four wheels at the weekend in the Monza Rally. The MotoGP star built up a comfortable lead on the first day of the event by winning all five stages on Saturday, and he then consolidated his position on day two to win the event by nearly 25 seconds [...]

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Valentino Rossi has added to his growing rallying credentials by taking victory in the Monza Rally – then declared that winning feels the same on two or four wheels. Rossi, who recently drove a privately entered 2005-spec Subaru Impreza to 11th overall in Rally New Zealand, took his first Monza Rally victory in a Ford [...]

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While his rivals laboured in the searing Malaysian heat to get their new 800cc MotoGP bikes up to speed, Valentino Rossi chose four-wheels to draw a line under the 2006 season and give himself a break from the pressures of MotoGP. The Italian stormed to an amazing 11th in the New Zealand Rally, just a [...]

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Finland’s Marcus Gronholm recovered from an early off-road excursion to win all five stages on the first day of the New Zealand Rally on Friday as Italian MotoGP ace Valentino Rossi completed his first full day.   Gronholm punctured a tire on the opening stage when he clipped a pole and ploughed his Ford through [...]

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From a press release issued by Pirelli: VALENTINO ROSSI IN NEW ZEALAND WITH A SUBARU IMPREZA ON PIRELLI Italy’s motorcycle world champion with Solberg and Atkinson in the third Impreza. The WRC factory cars on Pirelli P Zero tires are aiming for another top result. After a excellent results three weeks ago in the Rally [...]

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 Pirelli rally manager, Mario Isola has said that it is ‘very satisfying’ for them that MotoGP ace, Valentino Rossi will again use their tyres this weekend, when the Italian takes in the penultimate round in the FIA WRC in New Zealand. Rossi, who also drove a Pirelli-shod Impreza on the 2005 Rally of Monza and [...]

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MotoGP superstar Valentino Rossi, one of the drawcards of Rally New Zealand, arrives in the country on Tuesday. The five-time MotoGP champion lands at Auckland International Airport at 7:40am, several days after the other competitors for this week’s event. He is ranked 64 on the Forbes list of the Top 100 celebrities in 2006. Rally [...]

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Valentino Rossi tried out Mika Hakkinen’s DTM Mercedes on Thursday in the MotoGP rider’s latest foray into four-wheeled sport. A Mercedes spokesman said the 27-year-old, deposed as champion in motorcycling’s top category last month after a five-year reign, was driving the car used by ex-Formula One champion Hakkinen in this year’s German touring car championship [...]

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Just a couple of days after the dramatic finale to his rollercoaster season, Valentino Rossi was back out on track in Valencia yesterday and today, already thinking about next season’s revenge as he got to grips with Yamaha’s new 800cc motorcycle. After the final race of the 990cc era on Sunday, most of his MotoGP [...]

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