In 2009 ranked Rossi as number nine among the world's highest-paid athletes having earned an estimated $35 million in the past year. Reported earnings According to, Rossi is one of the highest earning sports personalities in the world, having earned an estimated $34 million in 2007. In March 2010, the Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini delivered to Valentino Rossi the first Winning Italy Award for his contribution to the promotion of Italy's image in the world. On he received an honorary degree in Communications and Advertising for Organizations. The anarchists considered Rossi 'guilty' because at the time he rode for Honda's MotoGP factory team which have had sponsorship from the oil company since 1994, (For which he filmed a commercial in Spain.) with their logo displayed on both the motorcycle and on his race suits. In 2002 he received threats from an Italian-Spanish anarchist movement, which in those days sent parcel bombs to people it considered targets in either of the two countries. During this time he acquired a villa in which he still owns, and following the tax case has now returned to his main residence to live close to his family in Italy. Personal life After leaving the family home in Tavullia, he moved to Milan, before taking up residency in London, England during his period with Honda. He also gets off the bike in the same way, swinging his right leg over the front of the bike. He also revealed in an interview with that he always puts one boot on before the other, one glove on before the other, and he always gets on the bike the same way. Rossi and his chief engineer, Jeremy Burgess, insisted that they were doing nothing more than what many others had done before when faced with a dirty track. A number of teams, including Gibernau's Team Gresini and the official Repsol Honda factory team, appealed successfully to race direction for Rossi to be sanctioned. Initially they were quite friendly in the paddock and off – Gibernau partied on occasions with Rossi at the Italian's Ibiza villa – but a souring in their relationship began in the 2004 season and culminated in the 'Qatar Incident' that same season when Rossi's team was penalized for 'cleaning' his grid position to aid in traction, along with Honda Pons' Max Biaggi, and both riders were subsequently forced to start from the back of the grid. Rossi's closest rival in the 20 seasons was, riding with Team Gresini's Movistar Honda team on a satellite RC211V in 2004 and then on an all but in name factory RC211V, which Gibernau helped to develop, in 2005. The podium after the, with flanked by and Rossi. However, rain prevented him from posting an accurate lap time, until he next tested the 2013 machine over 5–7 February 2013, in, where he posted a 3rd fastest time of 2:00.542 out of 28 riders, clocking 0.442 seconds from pace setter and just 0.113 seconds off teammate. Rossi riding his MotoGP bike The inaugural year for the MotoGP bikes was 2002, when riders experienced teething problems getting used to the new bikes. In 2002, 500cc two-strokes were still allowed, but saw the beginning of the 990 cc four-stroke MotoGP class, after which the 500 cc machines were essentially obsolete. The pair won the race despite Rossi's lack of experience racing. Also during the season, Rossi teamed up with American rider for the endurance race aboard a, becoming the first Italian rider to win the race. Honda NSR500 used by Rossi in the season Rossi won his first 500 cc World Championship in 2001, winning 11 races in the final year of that class and collected 325 points, 106 points ahead of Biaggi, who became Rossi's main rival during the season, and Rossi was the first and only satellite rider to clinch the title. It would take nine races before Rossi would win on the Honda but, like his previous seasons in 125 and 250, it would bode well for a stronger second season as he finished second to Rossi recorded only two wins during the season, winning in and.
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