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    The MV Agusta 500cc road racers were motorcycles that the manufacturer MV Agusta built and which were used to compete in 500cc Grand Prix motorcycle racing...
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    MV Agusta (Italian pronunciation: [ˌɛmmeˈvi aˈgusta], full name: MV AGUSTA Motor S.p.A., original name: Meccanica Verghera Agusta or MV) is an Italian...
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    and Sidecar. The premier class is MotoGP, which was formerly known as the 500cc class. The Grand Prix Road-Racing World Championship was established in...
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    The MV Agusta 500cc Three (1965–1973) or MV Agusta Tre was a road racing motorcycle produced by the Italian manufacturer MV Agusta to compete in the 500 cc...
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    The MV Agusta 500 four-cylinder (1973–1976) was a racing motorcycle manufactured by the Italian company MV Agusta, for competing in the 500 cc series...
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    John Surtees (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    Prix motorcycle World Champion, with four titles in the premier 500cc class with MV Agusta. Surtees won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1964...
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    Mike Hailwood (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    Prix motorcycle World Champion, with four titles in the premier 500cc class with MV Agusta, and won 76 motorcycle Grands Prix across 10 seasons. Hailwood...
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    Giacomo Agostini (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    and MV bikes in the 500cc class, yet raced only once in the 350cc to win in Assen. For the challenging Nürburgring, he chose the 500cc MV Agusta and took...
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    Giacomo Agostini (MV Agusta) wins both the 350cc and 500cc titles. 1969: Godfrey Nash riding a Norton Manx becomes the last rider to win a 500cc Grand Prix riding...
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    Italy during the previous years. MV Agusta reverted their decision several days later. This situation left reigning 500cc champion Libero Liberati and reigning...
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    Italian motorcycle manufacturer Cagiva, and years later became part of MV Agusta. A group of the company's managers and engineers were not willing to move...
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    sidecars. The premier class is MotoGP, which was formerly known as the 500cc class. The Grand Prix Road-Racing World Championship was established in...
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    Leslie Graham (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    held in Wales on an AJS 350. In 1951, Count Domenico Agusta approached Graham to ride for MV Agusta. Frustrated by a lack of development with the AJS, he...
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    Barry Sheene (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    was not an easy decision for Sheene as the powerful MV Agusta team had won the previous 16 500cc World Championships. Sheene was again named to the British...
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    Agusta. Sheene rode the motorcycle to its first Grand Prix race win at the 1975 500cc Dutch TT. Sheene rode an RG 500 to win the 1976 and 1977 500cc world...
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  • The MV Agusta 203 Bialbero and MV Agusta 220 Bialbero were Italian factory racing motorcycles made by MV Agusta to compete in the 1955 250 cc World Motorcycle...
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    Eddie Lawson (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    professional motorcycle racer. He competed in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1981 to 1992. A four-time FIM 500cc road racing world...
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    Phil Read (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    ride for the MV Agusta factory racing team in the 350 World Championship. In 1973, riding in both the 350 and 500 classes, he took the 500cc title, the...
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    Gary Hocking (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    car racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1958 to 1962, most prominently as a member of the MV Agusta factory...
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    1970, Ginger Molloy finished second to Giacomo Agostini on the dominant MV Agusta in the 500 cc world championship. Molloy scored 4 second places during...
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    manufacturers competing in the 500cc class the MV Agusta team continued to dominate as Giacomo Agostini won his fifth consecutive 500cc world championship. Kawasaki...
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  • Piero Remor (category MV Agusta)
    and motorcycle constructor, best known for his work for the Gilera and MV Agusta brands. Piero Remor studied at the Sapienza University of Rome, with,...
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  • Isle of Man TT (redirect from Tt racers)
    races for the 350cc Junior TT motor-cycles and the Blue Riband event the 500cc Senior TT race. The race did not take place from 1915 to 1919 due to the...
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    Umberto Masetti (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    was again in the 500cc class with Gilera. In 1955 he divided his time between the 250cc and 500cc classes, this time for the MV Agusta factory, with whom...
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    Eskil Suter (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    Superbike World Championship but failed to score any points. In the 1998 500cc season, he was a development rider for the MuZ team that used a Swissauto...
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  • Arciso Artesiani (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    motorcycle road racer. Born in Marzabotto, Emilia-Romagna, Artesiani competed from 1949 to 1951 riding a 500cc motorcycle for MV Agusta. In 1949, Artesiani...
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  • Jarno Saarinen (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    2-stroke YZR500 0W20, Yamaha was finally ready to challenge MV Agusta's sixteen-year reign in the 500cc class with a competitive package. Saarinen started the...
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    Angelo Bergamonti (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    road racer. Bergamonti was born in Gussola. His best year was in 1970 when he finished third in the 500cc world championship, behind his MV Agusta teammate...
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    Remo Venturi (category 500cc World Championship riders)
    motorcycle road racer. His best years were in 1959 and 1960 when he finished second in the 500cc world championship to his MV Agusta teammate, John Surtees...
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    frame. Honda NR500 Honda RC181 Honda RC174 Suzuki RG 500 Yamaha YZR500 MV Agusta 500 Four "Kawasaki KR500". Classic Motorbikes. November 19, 2004. Retrieved...
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