Showing posts with label Valentino Rossi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentino Rossi. Show all posts

Saturday, 11 August 2007

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.

Friday, 10 August 2007

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: