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Twenty years ago, on this very day Valentino Rossi etched his name into MotoGP folklore at the first round of the 2004 MotoGP World Championship, hosted at Welkom’s Phakisa Freeway in South Africa. The Italian, fresh from winning his third world championship with Honda, made the shock switch to Yamaha in the offseason. A New […]
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