Emblems of a sport? There are very few like Valentino. If Jordan is basketball, Messi is football, Woods is golf, Senna is F1 and Federer is tennis then Rossi is motorcycle racing. Aside from the statistics and wins and titles (9) in every category (including most MotoGP wins and podiums) accrued from a 26-year career in the world championship, Rossi’s personality, theatrics and brand pushed MotoGP and motorcycling as close as it’s been to the mainstream since the 1970s. He was a master of adaptability, of promotion, of competition and conveying that a dangerous and thrilling spectacle could also be fantastic fun. He filled a career full of stories: of spats, achievement, of tragedy, adversity, of glory and adulation. A milestone maker. He also left a more vibrant legacy with the formation of the VR46 Academy; born from the desire to offer help or assistance to the young riders. One of Monster Energy’s original sports and motorsports heroes and ambassadors, Rossi has not slowed down since he stepped away from MotoGP in 2021. He traded leathers for fireproof coveralls, and two wheels for four as Team WRT benefited from one of the sharpest minds and racing spirit of the modern age.
Emblems of a sport? There are very few like Valentino. If Jordan is basketball, Messi is football, Woods is golf, Senna is F1 and Federer is tennis then Rossi is motorcycle racing. Aside from the statistics and wins and titles (9) in every category (including most MotoGP wins and podiums) accrued from a 26-year career in the world championship, Rossi’s personality, theatrics and brand pushed MotoGP and motorcycling as close as it’s been to the mainstream since the 1970s. He was a master of adaptability, of promotion, of competition and conveying that a dangerous and thrilling spectacle could also be fantastic fun. He filled a career full of stories: of spats, achievement, of tragedy, adversity, of glory and adulation. A milestone maker. He also left a more vibrant legacy with the formation of the VR46 Academy; born from the desire to offer help or assistance to the young riders. One of Monster Energy’s original sports and motorsports heroes and ambassadors, Rossi has not slowed down since he stepped away from MotoGP in 2021. He traded leathers for fireproof coveralls, and two wheels for four as Team WRT benefited from one of the sharpest minds and racing spirit of the modern age.
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Marc Marquez, Francesco Bagnaia and the factory Ducati Lenovo team kept cool under relentless Czech Republic sunshine to own round nine of 2026 MotoGP, for what was yet another event of the world championship that throbbed with extreme speed, action, pulse and public. The Monster Energy Grand Prix of Czechia delivered the juice at one of Europe’s prime motorcycle racing spots, while the temperature also raised a notch in the chase for the tower of champions in 2026.
Round eight of 2026 MotoGP pushed the limits of physics at the demanding Balaton Park circuit as Monster Energy delivered more thrills trackside with an all-action FMX show.
184,000 fans kept coming back for more at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and as MotoGP howled into town for round six of the 2026 world championship. The Monster Energy Grand Prix of Catalunya was a show for the speed, sound, athleticism, spectacle and sheers balls-out nature of the globe’s biggest, quickest and most popular motorcycle racing series.