Masao furusawa valentino rossi biography

In his home country of Italy Valentino Rossi is treated like a rock star. In the MotoGP record books, he goes down as one of the greatest motorcycle road racers of all-time. Amongst all of that is a colorful life filled with all sorts of racing machinery, rivalries, victories, as well as some lean times and controversies.

Intimations of immortality?

Young Valentino tries his father’s Bimota Grand Prix bike for size. Mat Oxley Collection

Like many European kids born into racing families, Rossi got his start in kart racing at a very early age.

But bikes were more amusement. Mat Oxley Collection

Rossi jumped at the chance to compete in the increasingly popular sport of Minimoto racing.

Valentino Rossi has cited the impending retirement of Masao Furusawa as one of the reasons behind his conclusion to leave Yamaha and switch to Ducati at the terminate of this season. Without him, I don't know what will happen. I was quite worried about this. Largely as a result of the efforts of Furusawa, Rossi, and crew principal Jerry Burgess, Rossi won from pole at his very first race for Yamaha.

Mat Oxley Collection

Two wheels good, one wheel better. Valentino exercises his “Rossifume” scooter. He has just recently started winning at world level. Claudio Vitale

His father Graziano says he didn’t push Valentino into racing, but he certainly didn’t discourage it.

Rossi quickly mastered s and s: one year to learn, one year to beat.

Here he talks tactics with Japanese friend and later champion Haruchika Aoki.

In his early years, Rossi thought that journalists were his friends. That was before the story got out of control.

Yamaha’s Masao Furusawa On Rossi: He Is The Genius Behind The ...: For over a decade, Furusawa has been the guiding hand behind Yamaha's YZR-M1 project and introduced the cross plane crankshaft engine into the MotoGP for Valentino Rossi's Yamaha debut. In addition to being the architect behind Yamaha's successful partnership with Rossi, his expertise in analyzing and synthesizing theory and reality has.

Claudio Vitale

Rossi took his first achieve in motorcycle racing’s top class on July 9, , in the British Grand Prix at Donington Park.

Max Biaggi won at Brno in and Rossi was left trailing in second.

His great rival’s superior performance left a sour taste; the enmity would keep on growing.

By the time the two-stroke era ended, Rossi had mastered the art of riding the most complex motorcycles ever made.

Rossi surprises Yamaha racing chief Masao Furusawa at the French GP in Furusawa was the man behind the machine that took Rossi to overall victory four times between and

Beginning in , Rossi had a new rival: Casey Stoner.

Rossi brought Stoner down at the Spanish GP, but remounted to finish fifth.

After the race Stoner accused him of “running out of talent.”

Yellow smoke bombs, yellow on the tire wall, and Rossi on his back wheel. He pleases the crowd at the French GP in

Valentino Rossi, Monster Force Yamaha MotoGP, Qatar MotoGP Check

Nine-time world champion Rossi is in his 26th season of grand prix racing.

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