The Ulster Grand Prix is a (currently) defunct motorcycle road race which took place on the 7.401 mi (11.911 km) Dundrod Circuit made up entirely of closed-off...
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Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing, which has been divided into four World Championship classes since 2023:...
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1962 F.I.M. Grand Prix motorcycle racing season Previous 1961 Next 1963 The 1962 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 14th F.I.M. Road Racing World...
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Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the highest class of motorcycle road racing events held on road circuits sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de...
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This is a list of all-time Grand Prix motorcycle racing (50cc/80cc, MotoE, 125cc/Moto3, 250cc/Moto2, 350cc, and 500cc/MotoGP classes) rider records, since...
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1962, winning his first world championship race in the 1962 250 class at the Ulster Grand Prix with two further wins at the inaugural Japanese Grand Prix...
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Grands Prix which have been a part of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing championship season since its inception in 1949. As of the 2024 Japanese Grand...
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Circuit Assen has the distinction of holding the most races, holding a Grand Prix every year (with the exception of 2020) since 1949, followed by Brno Circuit...
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1963 F.I.M. Grand Prix motorcycle racing season Previous 1962 Next 1964 The 1963 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 15th F.I.M. Road Racing World...
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1961 F.I.M. Grand Prix motorcycle racing season Previous 1960 Next 1962 The 1961 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 13th F.I.M. Road Racing World...
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the Ulster Grand Prixs were regularly won by Anglophonic (mostly British) riders; in addition to Agostini's successes at the TT he also won 7 Ulster Grand...
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List of 500cc/MotoGP race winners (constructors) (redirect from List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing winners (constructors))
Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing, which has been divided into three classes since 1990; 125cc, 250cc...
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List of 500cc/MotoGP rider records (category Grand Prix motorcycle racing)
This is a list of rider records in the 500cc/MotoGP class of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing, since 1949. Riders that has competed in the 2024 MotoGP...
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Bruce McLaren (section Grand Prix)
Brabham. After a winless 1961 season for Cooper, Brabham won the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix, finishing third in the championship to Graham Hill and Jim Clark...
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Isle of Man TT Mountain Course used for the Isle of Man TT races, Manx Grand Prix and Classic TT races. The TT Course was first used as an automobile road-racing...
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List of 500cc/MotoGP race winners (category Lists of Grand Prix motorcycle racers)
Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing, which has been divided into four classes since 2023: MotoGP, Moto2...
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List of rider deaths in motorcycle racing (section Isle of Man TT, Manx Grand Prix and Southern 100)
5. "Fatal accident on Grand Prix course". The Glasgow Herald. 10 August 1961. p. 16. "Isle of Man Weekly Times". 8 June 1962. p. 1. "Hans Schuld". MotorsportMemorial...
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teammate and friend Peter Collins two months earlier during the German Grand Prix. Three months after retiring, Hawthorn died in a road accident in Guildford...
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Ralph Bryans (section Motorcycle Grand Prix results)
Dick Creith and George Purvis. In 1962, Bryans first entered the Isle of Man TT and later in the Ulster Grand Prix was placed ninth in 350 cc class riding...
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reclaim his team place for the next event, the Ulster GP at Dundrod in August. The Scuderia Duke Gilera Grand Prix team disbanded at the end of 1963. During...
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Giuseppe Farina (category Grand Prix drivers)
Miglia driving an Alfa Romeo 8C. Farina took his maiden Grand Prix win at the Naples Grand Prix in 1937, winning three consecutive Italian Championships...
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Bob McIntyre (motorcyclist) (category 1962 deaths)
Norton in the Senior TT he came second. He won the 1961 250cc Ulster Grand Prix. In the 1962 Isle of Man Lightweight TT, he raised the lap record to 99.61...
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Ernst Degner (section Motorcycle Grand Prix results)
MZ's tuning techniques to Suzuki, and winning Suzuki's first Grand Prix championship in 1962. Degner's father died just before the end of World War II....
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Mike Hailwood (section Motorcycle Grand Prix results)
in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1958 to 1967 and in Formula One between 1963 and 1974. Nicknamed "The Bike", Hailwood was a nine-time Grand Prix motorcycle...
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Reg Armstrong (section Motorcycle Grand Prix results)
Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. Armstrong took fourth in the Swiss Grand Prix, fifth at Belgium, fifth in the Netherlands, third at the Ulster Grand...
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List of 500cc/MotoGP riders who set a fastest lap (category Lists of Grand Prix motorcycle racers)
Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing, which has been divided into four classes since 2023: MotoGP, Moto2...
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North West 200 and the Ulster Grand Prix. In Formula One, street circuits have made a comeback with the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit and the Baku City...
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Graham Walker (motorcyclist) (category 1962 deaths)
1932 Merano in Italy. Road successes included winning the Ulster Grand Prix on a Rudge Ulster in 1928, the first road race win with an average of 80 mph...
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Santiago Herrero (section Grand Prix championship)
race when he was beset by bad luck. He crashed in the rain at the Ulster Grand Prix and suffered a broken left arm. Most observers considered his championship...
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John Surtees (category A1 Grand Prix team owners)
who competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1952 to 1960 and in Formula One from 1960 to 1972. Surtees was a seven-time Grand Prix motorcycle World...
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