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Valentino Rossi

The Definitive Biography by Barker, Stuart Code: 61013 Format: Paperback / 368 pages Publication date: 01/07/2021 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days Price: AU $22.99

 AN EXCEPTIONAL READ - Motor Cycle News STUART BARKER IS TO WRITING WHAT VALENTINO ROSSI IS TO RIDING [...] A MUST-READ FOR ALL BIKE NUTS - DAILY MIRROR At high speed everything becomes more difficult and more beautiful. When youre racing at 180mph, the semi-bends become bends, the little holes become big holes, everything becomes extreme and bigger. And then it becomes beautiful. Valentino Rossi is an icon: the most successful and most loved motorcycle racer of all time, he has transcended MotoGP to become a symbol of courage, risk and daring. To race for twenty-three years at the very highest level of the worlds most dangerous sport is unprecedented. But then, there has never been a motorcycle racer like Valentino Rossi. He is a modern-day gladiator, a man who still risks his life every time he throws a leg over a motorcycle. Yet for all his two-wheel talents, it is Rossis endearing character that has seen him transcend the sport. For Rossi, every race is a home race. He turns MotoGP grandstands across the world a sea of yellow - his traditional lucky colour. In more than two decades of Grand Prix racing, he has seen it all. The deaths of rivals and friends, the glory of unprecedented success, serious injuries, fabulous wealth, the greatest battles ever seen on two wheels, the infamous on and off-track clashes with his fiercest rivals . . . Using exclusive new interviews with those who have been part of Rossis story from start to finish, critically-acclaimed and bestselling motorsport author Stuart Barker has produced the most in-depth book ever written about the Italian superstar - a tale of speed, love and loss, told in full for the very first time, in all its adrenalin-charged, high-octane glory.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days
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Publication date: 01/07/2021
Country of publication: UNITED KINGDOM
Weight: 400 g
Dimensions: 198.00mm X 130.00mm
Code: 61013

Stuart Barker, born in Galloway, Scotland, began working as a motorcycle journalist for Motor Cycle News in 1996. Freelance since 2001, he has written for most of the major motorcycling titles and was editor of the Isle of Man TT programme for eight years. He has written eight books including a bestselling biography of Barry Sheene and a biography of Evel Knievel which is set to be made into a major Hollywood movie. He lives in Kettering, Northamptonshire.