Valentino Rossi and His Nicknames

Among MotoGP racers, Valentino Rossi is the most famous and phenomenal racer. Other MotoGP racers usually only has one nicknames (even some racers don't have any nickname) but Rossi has three famous nicknames.
1. Rossifumi

Rossifumi sounds close to Norifumi (Abe), Japanesse GP racers in Yamaha D'Antin who always used number 6. Yupz, Rossifumi is a tribute to Norifumi Abe because Rossi has spectacular performance in Suzuka circuit, as spectacular as Norifumi Abe's.
Because of his spectacular performance in Suzuka, Rossi is also called Kingu Suzuka (same with Norifumi Abe's tittle).

2. Valentinik
Valentinik comes from Paperinik, an Italian Donald Duck superhero. Yupz...the use of this nickname is because of two reasons, Rossi is an Italian and Rossi is a superhero in GP.
3. The Doctor
This nicknames has been used by Rossi since his golden era in 500 cc when he dominates this class. This nickname has been attributed to his cold and clinical dismantling of his opponents.

Valentino Rossi and Suzuki

When we hear about Valentino Rossi, we will directly relate him to three big motorbike manufactures (Aprilia, Honda and Yamaha). But do you know that Rossi has ever had good relationship with Suzuki?

Valentino Rossi started his carrier in Kart-Racing when he was 5 year-old, but in 1990 Rossi failed to get kart license. Hence, in 1991 Rossi moved from kart-racing to minimoto-racing and he won 16 regional races.
In this minimoto racing Rossi rode Suzuki. Here are some pictures i captured from video in Youtube:

GP Legends

Here are the pictures of top five GP racer legends (of course Valentino Rossi is one of them):
1. Giacomo Agostini

2. Angel Nieto
3. Valentino Rossi
4. Phil Read
4. Mike Hailwood
5. Mick Doohan

Top 25 Racer's GP Podium

A racer will not always be the winner, we already know about top 25 racer's GP victories and now how about the top 25 racer's GP podium?

1. Giacomo Agostini : 159
   
2. Angel Nieto : 139
   
3. Valentino Rossi : 133
   
4. Phil Read : 121
   
5. Mike Hailwood : 112
   
6. Max Biaggi: 111
   
7. Jim Redman : 98
   
8. Loris Capirossi: 96
   
9. Mick Doohan: 95
   
10. Luigi Taveri : 89
    
11. Anton Mang : 84
    
12. Eugenio Lazzarini : 81
    
13. Eddie Lawson :78
14. Luca Cadalora : 72
15. Carlo Ubbiali : 68
    
16. Alex Criville : 66
17. Wayne Rayne : 65
18. Pierpaolo Bianchi : 61
19. Jorge Martinez : 60
    
20. Marco Melandri : 58
    
21. Stefan Dórflinger : 57
    
22. Randy Mamola : 55
    
23. Tetsuya Harada : 54
    
24. Dani Pedrosa : 53
    
25. Kent Andersson : 52
    

Top 25 Racer's GP Victories

For you who are just interested in MotoGP maybe only know about the superb Casey Stoner (Ducati Marlboro Team) who dominate MotoGP this season. But for you who are interested in MotoGP for the last five years will know more about racers, such as Valentino Rossi (Nastro Azzuro Honda, Repsol Honda, Gauloises Yamaha, Camel Yamaha, Yamaha Fiat Racing Team), Sete Gibernau (Repsol Honda, Telefonica Movistar Suzuki, Telefonica Movistar Honda), Max Biaggi (Marlboro Yamaha, Camel Honda, Repsol Honda), Loris Capirossi (Emerson Honda Pos, West Honda Pons, Ducati Marlboro), etc.
By the way...
Do you know about Giacomo Agostini, Randy Mamola, John Surtees, Waine Rainey and other GP racer legends?
Here they are:

1. Giacomo Agostini : 122
   
2. Angel Nieto : 90
   
3. Valentino Rossi : 87
   
4. Mike Hailwood : 76
   
5. Mick Doohan : 54
   
6. Phil Read : 52
   
7. Jim Redman : 45
   
8. Anton Mang : 42
   
9. Max Biaggi : 42
   
10. Carlo Ubbiali : 39
    
11. John Surtees : 38
    
12. Jorge Martinez : 37
    
13. Luca Cadalora : 34
    
14. Geoff Duke : 33
    
15. Kork Ballington : 31
    
16. Eddie Lawson : 31
    
17. Luigi Taveri : 30
    
18. Loris Capirossi : 28
    
19. Eugenio Lazzarini : 27
    
20. Freddie Spencer : 27
    
21. Pierpaolo Bianchi : 27
    
22. Dani Pedrosa : 26
    
23. Hugh Anderson : 25
    
24. Kevin Schwantz : 25
    
25. Walter Villa : 24