Today is Valentino Rossi’s 30th birthday and many people may think why does a motorcycle rider get so much attention from the Italian and Spanish media and not only from them. It’s hard to not remember 8 World Championship Titles, 97 race wins, second only to the great Giacomo Agostino, 151 podium finishes and 51 pole positions and 78 fastest laps and 3720 championships points in his career or his special helmets or his colorful post race celebrations.
Valentino’s popularity and following is second to none in the motorcycling world and on the web, according to Mike Werner from Bikes in the Fast Lane, only in Facebook, the popular social network, Rossi has 972,263 registered fans compared to 2007 World Champion Casey Stoner who has 32,621 registered fans or his old rival Max Biaggi who has a mere 5,027 registered fans. If you check out Spanish website La Lista Wip (the webs important persons survey) Rossi finds himself in 254th position world wide and 4th in Italy with 6.371.769 web references.
Italian sports daily, Gazzetta dello Sport interviewed ‘The Doctor’ in occasion of his birthday and one of the questions they asked him what would he like as a special present, and his answer was the “maybe a new world title”.
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