Grapevine: Rossi gifted birthday helmet
Valentino Rossi received a special 29th birthday present during testing at Jerez in Spain on Saturday when he was handed a celebratory helmet
Legendary helmet designer Aldo Drudi, who has helped create some of Rossi's most iconic colour schemes, created a special lid for the Italian to run on the first day of this week's official MotoGP test.
Created to look like a birthday cake, it has the words 'Happy Birthday Vale' written across the top of the helmet.
Rossi put the new design to good use in early running as he topped the times in the first morning of the three-day test - that includes the special 40-minute qualifying session on Sunday for a rider to win a new BMW Z4 M roadster.
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