Rossi's 10 BEST WINS!
10 2015 QATAR GP (LOSAIL)
Ducati came out swinging in 2015 with its first Gigi Dall’Igna-designed Desmosedici, which put Andrea Dovizioso on pole, while Jorge Lorenzo and teammate Valentino languished in sixth and eighth.
On Sunday, as he so often did, Vale pulled the rabbit from the hat. Dovizioso, Lorenzo and Andrea Iannone led, with Vale closing fast.
“When I did a lap alone, a one 55.2s, I said, ‘Wow, not so bad’.”
After trading blows with Dovizioso he inflicted the coup de grace on the final lap to beat his countryman by 0.174sec.
“That was one of the best races and one of the best battles,” he grinned. “My bike was well balanced for the end, but I was close to crashing two or three times.”
But perhaps he had been lucky: Lorenzo was with them until his helmet liner came adrift, obscuring his vision, while reigning champion Marc Marquez spent the whole race fighting back from a first-corner excursion.
Valentino immediately knew the significance of Marquez’s mistake.
“I saw him go wide. I knew it was a special moment… a good chance to win.”
09 2006 ITALIAN GP (MUGELLO)
The 2006 MotoGP season was one of Valentino’s worst at a time when the competition was getting stronger and stronger. By the time he arrived at Mugello in
