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Italian motorcycle road racer. His nickname is The Doctor , Rossi is widely considered one of the greatest motorcycle racers of all time. He holds the record for most premier class victories and podiums, with 89 victories and podiums to his name. He won premier class World Championships with both Honda and Yamaha. He rode with the number 46 for his entire career.

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He also won MotoGP World Championships with the factory Repsol Honda team in and and continued his run of back-to-back championships by winning the and titles after leaving Honda to join Yamaha. He lost the title with a crash in the final round at Valencia. In , he ultimately finished third overall, before regaining the title in and retaining it in Rossi returned to Yamaha in and finished fourth in the standings followed by three successive runner-up positions in , and His best chance of winning a tenth title came in , where he led the standings for most of the season, finishing five points behind team-mate Jorge Lorenzo , the eventual champion.

After three winless seasons with the Yamaha factory team, he moved to Petronas SRT for , retiring after only one season with the satellite Yamaha team and failing to achieve a podium for the first time in a career spanning 26 seasons in Grands Prix. The dominant force in MotoGP in the s, all of Rossi's seven premier class titles came in this decade, including 77 race wins and 48 pole positions.

In the ensuing 12 seasons, he managed 12 race wins and seven pole positions.

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During this period, Rossi was the 6th most successful rider in terms of total race victories. Rossi was born in Urbino , in the Marche region of Italy. The son of former motorcycle racer Graziano Rossi , he began riding at a very young age.