What If I Had Never Tried It: The Autobiography

What If I Had Never Tried It: The Autobiography
by Valentino Rossi

What If I Had Never Tried It: The Autobiography
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Author: Valentino Rossi
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-09
ISBN: 0760326827
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Motorbooks

Book Reviews of What If I Had Never Tried It: The Autobiography

Book Review: Great candid autobiography...Rossi let's us in his head!
Summary: 4 Stars

I don't read too many autobiography's but really wanted to get an insight into the head of probably the greatest motorcycle racer of all time (and his career isn't over yet!) The book delivers and lets the reader understand a little bit of how Vale thinks, not only about racing and motorcycles, but about life in general. Excellent read!

Summary of What If I Had Never Tried It: The Autobiography

What If I had Never Tried It is the first autobiography of arguably the world's greatest motorcycle road racing champion, Valentino Rossi. Certainly he is the greatest in modern times and similarly the best loved. This is the official, personal story: fast paced yet insightful.

Rossi's record in the motorcycle road racing World Championship is supreme. 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. 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. Rossi rides for Honda and wins. He wins on a Honda the next year and then switches to Yamaha, to every race fans' surprise, and wins against all odds. He wins again in 2005. No one is close. No one is faster. And all at speeds which approach 200 mph.

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. 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. Rossi has become the 21st Century face of motorcycle road racing. 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.

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