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Here are some interesting facts and figures on Valentino Rossi's 100 Grand Prix win career so far.

 

The victory at the Alice TT Assen saw Valentino Rossi become only the second rider in history to reach the 100 Grand Prix win milestone.

 

So lets have a look at some interesting statistics relating to Valentino Rossi’s colourful and triumphant march to a century of GP successes, along the way have brought him eight World titles across the three Grand Prix classes so far.

 

Valentino Rossi's 100 victories have come from 217 Grand Prix starts, a win rate over his career of a remarkable 46.1%.

 

Valentino Rossi has claimed victory on six types of motorcycle, it all began with the 125cc Aprilia (12 wins), 250cc Aprilia (14 wins), 500cc Honda (13 wins), 990cc Honda (20 wins), 990cc Yamaha (25 wins) and 800cc Yamaha (16 wins).

 

Rossi has 41 wins for Yamaha, which is more than any other rider. The second most successful Yamaha rider in history is Phil Read with 39 victories.

 

Valentino Rossi has won Grand Prix races at 27 different circuits during his illustrious career. Although the circuits at which he has been most successful at are Mugello and Catalunya with nine wins at each.

 

The most wins that the great Valentino Rossi has had in a single season is 11, he has remarkably achieved this on four occasions: 1997 (125cc), 2001 (500cc), 2002 and 2005 in MotoGP.

 

In 1997 Valentino Rossi had 11 wins a record for most victories in a single season in the 125cc class.

 

The Italian has 74 race victories in the premier class which is more than any other rider in the 61-year history of Grand Prix racing.

 

After his sensational win at the Jerez circuit earlier this year Valentino Rossi became the first rider to achieve at least one Grand Prix victory for 14 successive seasons.

 

In total the length of his winning career from his first win in the 125cc race at the Czech GP in 1996 to his latest victory at Assen, is 12 years 313 days. in the history of Grand Prix racing only four other riders have had a longer winning career, they are Angel Nieto, Loris Reggiani, Loris Capirossi and Phil Read.