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    Giacomo Agostini (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒaːkomo aɡoˈstiːni]; born 16 June 1942) is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Nicknamed Ago...
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    Mike Hailwood, Giacomo Agostini, Phil Read) 1956, 1958 to 1974 350 cc class  (John Surtees, Gary Hocking, Mike Hailwood, Giacomo Agostini) 1958, 1959 to...
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    championships; in the past, only a certain number of results were counted. Giacomo Agostini has won the most championships, with eight, including a record seven...
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  • include: Giacomo Acerbo (1888–1969), Italian economist and Fascist politician Giacomo Agostini (born 1942), Italian motorcycle road racer Giacomo Antonelli...
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    rider in Grand Prix history is Giacomo Agostini with 15 titles and 122 race wins. In the top-flight series, Agostini holds the title record with eight...
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  • 10-time TT race winner and dominant motorcycle racer of his time Giacomo Agostini announced he would never race again at the Isle of Man, declaring it...
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  • 2009. "MOTOGP – ROUND 19 – VALENCIA". amcn.com.au. 17 November 2019. "Giacomo Agostini". www.laureus.com. Cox, Don (14 November 2013). "Who is the greatest...
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    not included here. MotoE gained World Championship status in 2023. Giacomo Agostini, with 15 victories, has won the most world championships. Ángel Nieto...
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  • Anscheidt (Suzuki) Klaus Enders Ralf Engelhardt (BMW) 1968 Giacomo Agostini (MV Agusta) Giacomo Agostini (MV Agusta) Phil Read (Yamaha) Phil Read (Yamaha) Hans-Georg...
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  • Racing World Championship season. MV Agusta teammates Phil Read and Giacomo Agostini battled it out for supremacy of the 500cc class but the season was...
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  • physicist Giacomo Agostini (born 1942), Italian motorcycle racer Getulio Agostini (1943–1990), Venezuelan botanist and professor Agostini Di Bartolomei...
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  • Grand Prix motorcycle racing no point is awarded for the fastest lap. Giacomo Agostini holds the current record for the most fastest laps with 117. In Formula...
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    road racers in the world, having challenged the previously dominant Giacomo Agostini for the 350cc world championship. At the end of the 1972 world championship...
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    racing season Previous 1974 Next 1976 1975 World Champions 500cc – Giacomo Agostini (Yamaha) 350cc - Johnny Cecotto (Yamaha) 250cc – Walter Villa (Aermacchi...
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    this time. The quickest lap was achieved by 15 time World Champion Giacomo Agostini on a MV Agusta with a 180 km/h (110 mph) average. After West German...
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    holds the record for the most race wins in the premier class with 89. Giacomo Agostini is second with 68 wins, and Marc Márquez is third with 59 wins. Dani...
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    Tampere Circuit in 1962 and 1963 before moving to the Imatra Circuit. Giacomo Agostini won the most Finnish Grands Prix with ten 500cc victories and seven...
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  • the 500 cc class for the previous two years, with Kenny Roberts and Giacomo Agostini having run their own works supported teams before him. The team was...
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    competing in the 500cc class the MV Agusta team continued to dominate as Giacomo Agostini won his fifth consecutive 500cc world championship. Kawasaki began...
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    motorcycle races in the world, attracting world champions such as Giacomo Agostini and Barry Sheene. By 1976, the 750cc class had become dominated by...
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    Austrian Grand Prix and ended with Spanish Grand Prix on 26 September. Giacomo Agostini would claim his tenth world championship in 1971, passing Carlo Ubbiali...
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    total of 90 Grand Prix victories ranks him third only to the 122 by Giacomo Agostini, and the 115 for Valentino Rossi. In 2011, Nieto was named an FIM Legend...
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  • Grand Prix on 23 September. Another year, another championship for Giacomo Agostini, claiming a record 11 victories to take his seventh consecutive 500cc...
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    to achieve such a feat in the premier class, after Mick Doohan and Giacomo Agostini. Márquez suffered his first defeat of the season at Brno, but won the...
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    Redman. Hailwood finished second in the championship standings behind Giacomo Agostini on a MV Agusta. The Honda however won the constructor championship...
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    1963, 1964 50cc 1966 Phil Read 500cc 1973 250cc 1965, 1967, 1968 Giacomo Agostini 500cc 1968, 1969 350cc 1969, 1975 Kork Ballington 350cc 1976, 1979...
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    from its earliest years. One of the first was 15-time World Champion Giacomo Agostini, who began racing in Dainese leathers in 1975. Multiple World Championship...
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  • attended by the greatest names in world motorcycling of the time as Giacomo Agostini, Mike Hailwood, Jarno Saarinen and Renzo Pasolini. In 1971 "Mike the...
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    last world championship and their seventeenth 500cc title in a row. Giacomo Agostini switched to the two-stroke Yamahas but was troubled by injuries and...
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    from 1973 through 2002. The YZR500 was ridden by championship winners Giacomo Agostini (1975), Kenny Roberts (1978, 1979, 1980), Eddie Lawson (1984, 1986...
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