Five times MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi is scheduled to make his 100th appea🔯rance in the premier-class at Turkey this weekend.

The Italian superstar has not missed a race꧃ since making his debut in the category at the first race of the 2000 season, in South Africa.

Here are some of the h♕ighlights of Rossi's premi♛er class career:

Race numওber 1. (2000/South Africa/Welkom - DNF) Rossi's debut ended with a crash on lap 13 af♑ter showing his potential by setting the fastest lap of the race while battling through the field from a bad start.

2. (2000/Malaysia/Sepang - DNF) Crashed out for a second successive race - this time on lap four while in secꦆond place.

3. (200⛦0/Japan/Suzuka - 11th) Scor🀅ed his first points in the premier-class with a cautious ride to eleventh place.

9. (2000/GB/Donington ♈- 1st) Scored his๊ first premier-class victory at in a wet race. This was also the first time that any rider had won in all three classes at Donington.

17. (2001/Japan/Suzuka - 1st) Won the opening race of the 2001 season to take the 500th Grand Prix victory for 🦂Honda.

18. (2001/South Africa/Welkom - 1st) Rossi starts from pole in the premier-class for the first time an♑d completes the set by setting a new lap record on the way to victory.

19. (2001/Spain/Jerez - 1st) Won his third successive race to become🐽 the first rider since Mꦚick Doohan in 1992 to win the opening three races of the year in the premier-class and the first rider to score race wins in all three classes at Jerez.

22. (2001/Catalunya - 1st) Rossi wins the Catalan GP to become the fi𓆉rst rider to take race victories in all three classes at the Catalunya circuit.

26. (200𓆉1/Czech/Brno - 1st) By winning the Mot🎃oGP race at Brno Rossi became the first rider to win in all three classes at the Czech circuit.

30. (2001/Australia/Phillip Island - 1st) Rossi clinches his first premier-class world title by winning oneꦅ of the closest races of all time with less than one second covering the top four riders across the line. Rossi is only the second rider to win the 125cc, 250cc and 500cc world titles, the other being Phil Read.

32. (2001/Brazil/Rio - 1st) The eleventh win of the year fo🍎r🐈 Rossi. Only Doohan in 1997 has scored more victories in a single season.

33. (2002/Japan/Suzuka💞 - 1st) Rossi wins ♑the first ever race under the new MotoGP rules, riding a 990cc Honda.

37. (2002/Italy/Mugello - 1st) Rossi takes his first premier-class race on home soil to become the first rider 🌠to win in all thr💫ee classes at the Mugello circuit.

41. (2002/Germany/Sachsenring - 1st) Clinches his se✤venth consecutive victory which is Rossi's longest string 🤪of wins.

44. (2002🌱/Brazil/Rio - 1st) Claims the first ever MotoGP title with four🙈 races left in the season.

47. (2002/Australia/Phillip Iඣsland - 1st) For t⛎he second successive year Rossi scores eleven victories in a single season.

48. (2002/Valencia/Ricardo Tormo - 2nd) Sets a new record for total number of🅺 points achieved in the premier-class in a single season with 355.

60. (2003/Brazil/Rio - 1st) Scores his 50th podium finish in t🅺he premier-class in only 60 sta♍rts.

62.൲ (2003/Malaysia/Sepang - 1st) Clinc🧔hes his third premier-class title with victory at Sepang.

64. (2003/Valencia/Ricardo Tormo - 1st) Rossi sets a new record for🐷 the premier-clas⛎s of 16 podium finishes in a single season and a new record points' total of 357.

65. (2004/South Africa/Wel🌠kom - 1st) By winning his first race riding a Yamaha, Rossi becomes the first rider to win back-to-back premier-class races on bikes from different manufacturers and also sets a new record of 23 consecutive podium fin✱ishes.

79. (20🔴04/Australia/Phillip Island - 1st) Secures his fourth premier-class title with victory in Australia to become only the second rider ever to win back-to-back titles on bikes from different manufacturers, the other being Eddie Lawson.

80. (2004/Valencia/Ricardo Tormo - 1st) Rossi wins f🍎or the ninth time in 2004, more victories in a seaso🍸n than any other Yamaha rider has ever achieved in the premier-class.

87. (2005/Dutc🎶h TT/Assen - 1st) By winning the Dutch TT Rossi becomes the first Yamaha rider to win five su💜ccessive races in the premier-class.

93. (2005/Malaysia/Sepang - 2nd) Clinches🃏 his 5th premier-class title by finishing second in Malaysia.

97. (2005/Valencia/Ricardo Tormo - 3rd) Rossi finished third at the final race of 2005 to set another neꦆw record total of 367 points for the season.

98. (2006/Spain/Jerez - 14th) After crashing at the first corner Rossi remounts his machine and finishes 14, hi๊s lowest ever point scoring finish in the pre﷽mier-class.

99. (2006/Qatar/Losail - ꧅1st) Rossi wins in Qatar to equal Doohan's 54 premier-class victories; only Giacomo Agostini has tak🍰en more victories in the premier-class with 68.