Whilst reading you can clearly tell that this is a translation (originally written in Italian) with the occasional sentence structured incorrectly, or worded weirdly but with a near 300 page book its not frequent enough to be bothersome. with the first 3 chapters (70 pages in my version) solely focusing on his decision at the end of the 2003 championship to leave the powerhouse that was Honda (who had won 8 of the last 10 championships) to join the once great but now failing Yamaha team which as time has shown us was a successful decision but at the time was highly controversial and it was interesting to find out why he left Honda where he had won 3 consecutive championships When I started this biography I was a little surprised as it starts with Valentino Rossi battling with Max Biaggi at the final corner of Phillip island, the final race of the 2001 MotoGP championship, when I expected it to begin with his childhood, which it does in chapter 4. Ia telah menang di level internasional dengan Aprilia, Honda, dan Yamaha. Pada 2002, saat usianya baru 23 tahun, ia sudah mampu meraih sukses yang eblum kejuaraan dunia untuk semua kategori : 125cc, 250cc, 500cc, dan MotoGP. Ia adalah dewa sirkuit motor, raja MotoGP, penguasa balapan motor. Tetapi ia telah meraih lebih dari impian tertingginya : ia mendominasi berbagai kejuaraan, a mematahkan lusinan rekor, ia megoreksi batas kecepatan dalam dunia balap motor, dan ia menciptakan tren baru. Sewaktu kecil, ia hanya ingin menjadi pembalap sepeda tercepat. Ia kini membalap untuk Yamaha dan tinggal di London tengah.Īlam memberinya talenta dan ia melakukan sisanya. Ia memenangkan GP pertamanya pada umur 17 tahun, titel kejuaraan dunia pertamanya pada umur 18 tahun, dan kejuaraan MotoGP pertamanya pada usia 22 tahun. VALENTINO ROSSI lahir pada 16 Februari 1979, di Urbino, Italia. Yet he remains faithful to himself-one moment the intelligent, articulate interviewee the next a jokester the next the single-minded, focused, strategic racer with split-second skills the rest of us can only dream of. Rossi has become the 21st Century face of motorcycle road racing. From his native Italy to California, from Philips Island to Laguna Seca, he has raised the limits, reshaped the frontiers of the sport and set new trends. Both on and off-track, on the ubiquitous TV screen or walking in the street, Rossi is idolized as though he were a rock star. And all at speeds which approach 200 mph. He wins on a Honda the next year and then switches to Yamaha, to every race fans’ surprise, and wins against all odds. In 2002 the premier class switched direction moving from 500 cc two-strokes to 990 cc four-strokes from then on to be known as MotoGP. First in the ultra-competitive 125 class starting in 1996 then in the 250 class only to graduate shortly thereafter to the big league of the 500s. Rossi’s record in the motorcycle road racing World Championship is supreme. This is the official, personal story: fast paced yet insightful. Certainly he is the greatest in modern times and similarly the best loved. What If I had Never Tried It is the first autobiography of arguably the world's greatest motorcycle road racing champion, Valentino Rossi.
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