9°19′13″E / 45.9153669°N 9.32041°E / 45.9153669; 9.32041 Moto Guzzi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmɔːto ˈɡuttsi]) is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer and the...
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Grand Prix motorcycle racing (redirect from Moto GP)
machines remained in the MotoGP field. The 125cc and 250cc classes still consisted exclusively of two-stroke machines. In 2007, the MotoGP class had its maximum...
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such as the well-received Moto Guzzi Le Mans and the Harley-Davidson XLCR. The Japanese domestic market started making cafe racer replicas in the early 1980s...
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Bruno Ruffo (category 250cc World Championship riders)
racer born in Verona. He won three Grand Prix World Championships. In 1949 he won the inaugural 250cc World Championship riding for the Italian Moto Guzzi...
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125cc, 250cc and 500cc. Former classes that have been discontinued include 350cc, 50cc/80cc and Sidecar. 250cc is the intermediate category; the 250cc refers...
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Maurice Cann (category 250cc World Championship riders)
Moto Guzzi. He competed from 1949 to 1952 in the Grand Prix world championships. He won his first time in world championship competition in the 250cc class...
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List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Riders' Champions by year (category Lists of Grand Prix motorcycle racers)
into four classes: MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3, and MotoE. Classes that have been discontinued include Formula 750, 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc, 80cc, 50cc and...
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Bill Lomas (category 250cc World Championship riders)
championship as a member of the Moto Guzzi factory racing team. In the 1956 season, he rode the famous V8 Moto Guzzi Grand Prix race bike. Lomas was also...
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Lino Tonti (category Moto Guzzi designers)
for creating his signature 'Tonti frame' for Moto Guzzi's 1971 V7 Sport, setting his stamp on all Moto Guzzis since. Tonti's first job was at Benelli, where...
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Fergus Anderson (category 250cc World Championship riders)
motorcycles on the European continent, most prominently as a member of the Moto Guzzi factory racing team where he was a two-time Grand Prix World Champion...
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season, many major Italian motorcycle manufacturers including Gilera, Moto Guzzi, and MV Agusta announced that they would pull out of Grand Prix competition...
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Omobono Tenni (category Italian motorcycle racers)
motorcycle road racer. Nicknamed The Black Devil, he was a two-times Grand Prix motorcycle European champion, who raced to 47 victories for Moto Guzzi from 1933...
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Enrico Lorenzetti (category 250cc World Championship riders)
Grand Prix motorcycle road racer who competed in the 1940s and 1950s. He competed in the 1949 season riding a 500 cc Moto Guzzi and finished eighth overall...
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possibly makes it the oldest of Italian motorcycle factories in operation. (Moto Guzzi—the oldest motorcycle factory in non-stop operation—was established in...
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Isle of Man TT (redirect from Tt racers)
place from 1915 to 1919 due to the First World War. It resumed in 1920. A 250cc Lightweight TT race was added to the Isle of Man TT programme in 1922, followed...
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Libero Liberati (category 250cc World Championship riders)
his country, winning the Italian championship in 1948. Two years later Moto Guzzi called him to race in the 500cc World Championship, where he took part...
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Dickie Dale (category 250cc World Championship riders)
in second place in the 350cc world championship, both times behind his Moto Guzzi teammate Bill Lomas. He was also a two-time winner of the prestigious...
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Italy on 14 September. At the end of the 1957 season, Gilera, Mondial, Moto Guzzi and MV Agusta announced a multilateral withdrawal from GP racing, due...
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engine, he also built a 250cc four cylinder. After the war, he based a new 500cc machine on the pre-war designs. The new racer was tested for the first...
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Rupert Hollaus (category 250cc World Championship riders)
125cc class and was runner up to his NSU teammate, Werner Haas, in the 250cc class. On 23 February 1955 he was elected as "Austrian Sportspersonality...
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Arthur Wheeler (motorcyclist) (category 250cc World Championship riders)
and won the Leinster 200 at least twice. His best season was aboard a Moto Guzzi in 1962, when he won the 250 cc Argentine Grand Prix and had a fourth-place...
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Eskil Suter (category 250cc World Championship riders)
Turbenthal, Zürich, Switzerland, Suter finished in second place in the 1991 250cc International Lightweight class at the Daytona International Speedway. Suter...
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Bob McIntyre (motorcyclist) (redirect from Bob McIntyre (motorcycle racer))
and suspension problems forced him to slow, allowing Bill Lomas on a Moto Guzzi to go on to victory, with McIntyre second. In the Senior he managed fifth...
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several European motorcycle marques, including Ducati, J-Be, Matchless, Moto Guzzi, Norton, Sachs and Zündapp, as well as selling Metzeler tires. Berliner...
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Motorcycles: Sport bikes, Star Cruiser bikes, trail bikes, road racers and motocross racers All terrain vehicles Snowmobiles Commuter vehicles, including...
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350cc Junior TT (first with the Moto Guzzi Monocilindrica 350) and the 500cc Senior TT (seventh with the Moto Guzzi Monocilindrica 500). Two wins for...
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of motorcycles produced by Benelli. List of Bimota motorcycles List of Moto Guzzi motorcycles Wikimedia Commons has media related to Benelli motorcycles...
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Duilio Agostini (category 250cc World Championship riders)
Woods, Terzo Bandini, Primo Moretti and Ugo Prini. Duilio worked for Moto Guzzi first in the customer service department, and finally, in 1947, as the...
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MV Agusta (section MotoGP World Championship)
After the 1957 season, the Italian motorcycle manufacturers Gilera, Moto Guzzi and Mondial jointly agreed to withdraw from Grand Prix competition due...
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John Surtees (category 250cc World Championship riders)
third-place finish aboard a 1957 MV Agusta 500 Quattro. When Gilera and Moto Guzzi withdrew from Grand Prix racing at the end of 1957, Surtees and MV Agusta...
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