9 GREATEST ROSSI MOMENTS
Sep 15, 2021
3 minutes
WORDS STEPHEN DOBIE
PICS
GETTY AND GOLD & GOOSE
01 FIRST WORLD TITLE (1997)
Valentino picked up the first of his nine world titles at the tender age of 18. It was his second season in the world bike racing championship’s third tier – nowadays known as Moto3, in the late Nineties it was called the 125cc Championship.
After a consistent but unexceptional opening year, Vale really turned the screw second time around, winning not only 11 of 15 races on his Aprilia, but the hearts of most
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