2008 review: Back to the good old days
It had been two years since Valentino Rossi last won the championship, but his sixth MotoGP title was well earned in 2008 after he broke the challenge and the resolve of outgoing champion Casey Stoner
Well, Valentino Rossi has done it again. In 2008 he won his eighth world title, his sixth in the big class.
With nine race wins, Rossi utterly blitzed them on tyres he'd had hardly any experience on before 2008. And he turned those Bridgestones into such an 'I Want' item that even Honda dumped Michelin before the end of the season in order to get them.
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