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This season Fiat Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi has continued to increase his legendary status and affirm his spot in
the history of Grand Prix competition. The Italian’s ninth career crown is his seventh in the premier session and his
fourth since uniting with Yamaha in 2004. Some statistics from the fourteenth year of his career:
- Rossi has now
equalled Mike Hailwood and Carlo Ubbiali with 9 crowns in all sessions. Only Giacomo Agostini with 15 and Angel Nieto with
13 are above them.
- Rossi’s victory in Assen this year makes him only the second competitor in history to
claim 100 wins in all sessions. Rossi now has 103, 19 lower than Agostini's record of 122.
- He already takes
the all time premier class wins record, beating Agostini’s points at Indianapolis in 2008. He now has a premier class
victory of 77 in total.
- Rossi’s win this year at Brno takes him to the all time podium record with his
160th stage appearance in all classes. He is also the only competitor to have been on the podium in the premier class over
100 times. Sunday’s stage at Sepang was his 163rd in all classes.
- With 44 victories from 102 events since
he united with the Japanese factory in 2004, Rossi is the most successful Yamaha racer ever. He has 21 more victories than
Kenny Roberts, Yamaha’s next most successful racer.
- Rossi’s current crown means he has now won more
championships for Yamaha than any of the other manufacturers he has raced for in his career.
- His victory at Misano
this season was his 11th victory in all classes at home.
- Rossi is the only competitor in history to have won
at least one GP in 14 consecutive years.
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