This weekend's British Grand Prix, which will take place on the Silverstone track, will be an opportunity to celebrate... Álvaro Bautista's 250 career starts. Unfortunately for the Spanish driver, who renewed his lease with the Aspar team for 2018, this celebration will go unnoticed because it is largely overshadowed by another: that of the 300rd Valentino Rossi Grand Prix in the premier category.
Valentino Rossi will take a little more place in the history of Grands Prix with this new milestone that he will reach this Sunday on the Silverstone circuit. This twelfth round of a season, which he hopes will be that of his tenth coronation, will in fact be his 300rd start in a premier category which has 851 launched since its birth in 1949. Which means that the Doctor will have been involved in a little more than 35% of the best of all races in the modern era of motorcycle speed.
Vale has surveyed twenty-seven different routes spread across nineteen countries. He completed twenty-three of these routes. The only ones who resisted him were Austin, the Red Bull Ring, Aragon and Istanbul. On the other hand, he only missed the podium once: in Austria.
The rest of the hierarchy in statistics is composed as follows:
- Valentino Rossi 299
- Daniel Pedrosa 245
- Jorge Lorenzo 218
- Mick Doohan 217
- Giacomo Agostini 196
- Eddie Lawson 194
7..Casey Stoner 192
- Wayne Rainey 171
=9. Max Biaggi 167
=9. Jorge Lorenzo 167
