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Roberto 'Roby' Rolfo (born 23 March 1980) is an Italian former professional motorcycle road racing. He had his best season in 2003, when he finished in second place in the 250cc World Championship. Roberto Rolfo career statistics at MotoGP.com Rolfo competed in the MotoGP class for one year before he switched to the Superbike World Championship, where he remained up to the start of .
2001 proved to be a breakthrough year. Riding for the Safilo Aprilia team, he finished fourth in the championship, ahead of the factory Aprilias Riccardo Chiarello and Jeremy McWilliams. After scoring points in the first four races, he scored three podiums in the next four (second at Mugello Circuit and Donington Park and 3rd at Catalunya). He only failed to score points twice all season.
In 2002 he raced for the Fortuna-Honda Gresini Racing team. He scored five second places, three of them behind countryman and champion Marco Melandri. He only failed to score points once, earning him third place overall in the world championship.
Following Fausto Gresini's decision to concentrate in MotoGP class in 2003, Rolfo switched to a team run by Daniel Amatrian, albeit main sponsor Fortuna remains. He went better both in terms of race results and championship finish. He was victorious at Sachsenring and Phillip Island en route to finishing the season in second overall. He went into the final race knowing that victory would give him the title unless Manuel Poggiali finished second, but he was down in seventh. He did beat the series' winningest rider that year, Toni Elías, into third overall however.
2004 was not a success by these standards. Rolfo won in Spain, but was not on the podium again, finishing only eighth overall.
For he joined the HANNspree Ten Kate Honda team, alongside champion James Toseland. Rolfo managed a career-best fourth place at Monza and Silverstone and finished 8th overall, but was overshadowed by his teammate's championship win.
He was not retained by Ten Kate Honda for and signed for Althea Racing, taking Hannspree sponsorship with him. He missed the Monza round due to injury. Axed for 2009, he scored a second-row grid position at contract time at Magny-Cours. He was also quick in the rain at Donington Park before a rash attempt at overtaking Leon Haslam eliminated him and took Haslam out of contention.
For 2009, he joined the new-to-WSBK Johan Stigefelt Honda team, alongside Haslam, but lost the seat following the Qatar round of the season to John Hopkins.
| Aprilia | Racing Factory | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| MotoGP | Aprilia | Speed Master | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
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