1956 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
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Sports season
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The 1956 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the eighth F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix season. The season consisted of six Grand Prix races in five classes: 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc and Sidecars 500cc. It began on 8 June, with Isle of Man TT and ended with Nations Grand Prix in Italy on 9 September.
Reigning 500cc champion Geoff Duke had to serve a six months ban at the start of the season for supporting a strike by privateer riders over starting money at the 1955 Dutch TT.[1] [2]
1956 Grand Prix season calendar
[edit ]Standings
[edit ]Scoring system
[edit ]Points were awarded to the top six finishers in each race. Only the four best races were counted in all five classes: the Sidecars, 125cc, 250cc, 350cc and 500cc championships.
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
500cc final standings
[edit ]350cc Standings
[edit ]| Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom Bill Lomas | United Kingdom | Moto Guzzi | 24 | 3 | |
| 2 | United Kingdom Dickie Dale | United Kingdom | Moto Guzzi | 17 | 0 | |
| = | West Germany August Hobl | Germany | DKW | 17 | 0 | |
| 4 | United Kingdom John Surtees | United Kingdom | MV Agusta | 14 | 1 | |
| 5 | United Kingdom Cecil Sandford | United Kingdom | DKW | 13 | 0 | |
| 6 | Australia Ken Kavanagh | Australia | Moto Guzzi | 10 | 1 | |
| 7 | Italy Libero Liberati | Italy | Gilera | 8 | 1 | |
| 8 | United Kingdom John Hartle | United Kingdom | Norton | 8 | 0 | |
| 9 | United Kingdom Derek Ennett | United Kingdom | AJS | 6 | 0 | |
| 10 | West Germany Karl Hofmann | Germany | DKW | 6 | 0 | |
| 11 | Italy Roberto Colombo | Italy | MV Agusta | 4 | 0 | |
| 12 | United Kingdom Jack Brett | United Kingdom | Norton | 3 | 0 | |
| 13 | Netherlands Hans Bartl | Netherlands | DKW | 3 | 0 | |
| 14 | Italy Umberto Masetti | Italy | MV Agusta | 2 | 0 | |
| = | New Zealand Peter Murphy | New Zealand | AJS | 2 | 0 | |
| = | South Africa Eddie Grant | South Africa | Norton | 2 | 0 | |
| 17 | Australia Bob Brown | Australia | AJS | 1 | 0 | |
| = | United Kingdom Bob Matthews | United Kingdom | Norton | 1 | 0 | |
| = | United Kingdom Alan Trow | United Kingdom | Norton | 1 | 0 |
250cc Standings
[edit ]| Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy Carlo Ubbiali | Italy | MV Agusta | 32 | 5 | |
| 2 | Switzerland Luigi Taveri | Switzerland | MV Agusta | 26 | 1 | |
| 3 | Italy Enrico Lorenzetti | Italy | Moto Guzzi | 10 | 0 | |
| 4 | Italy Roberto Colombo | Italy | MV Agusta | 9 | 0 | |
| = | West Germany Horst Kassner | Germany | NSU | 9 | 0 | |
| 6 | Italy Remo Venturi | Italy | MV Agusta | 8 | 0 | |
| 7 | United Kingdom Sammy Miller | United Kingdom | NSU | 7 | 0 | |
| 8 | West Germany Hans Baltisberger | Germany | NSU | 7 | 0 | |
| 9 | United Kingdom Arthur Wheeler | United Kingdom | Moto Guzzi | 5 | 0 | |
| 10 | New Zealand Bob Coleman | New Zealand | NSU | 3 | 0 | |
| = | Netherlands Kees Koster | Netherlands | NSU | 3 | 0 | |
| 12 | Czechoslovakia František Bartoš | Czechoslovakia | ČZ | 2 | 0 | |
| = | United Kingdom Bill Maddrick | United Kingdom | Moto Guzzi | 2 | 0 | |
| = | Netherlands Lo Simons | Netherlands | NSU | 2 | 0 | |
| = | Italy Alano Montanari | Italy | Moto Guzzi | 2 | 0 | |
| = | Australia Bob Brown | Australia | NSU | 2 | 0 | |
| 17 | France Jean-Pierre Bayle | France | NSU | 1 | 0 | |
| = | Switzerland Maurice Büla | Switzerland | NSU | 1 | 0 | |
| = | West Germany Roland Heck | Germany | NSU | 1 | 0 | |
| = | Czechoslovakia Jiří Koštíř | Czechoslovakia | ČZ | 1 | 0 |
125cc
[edit ]Riders' standings
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Constructors' standings
[edit ]Each constructor is awarded the same number of points as their best placed rider in each race.
| Pos. | Constructor | MAN United Kingdom |
NED Netherlands |
BEL Belgium |
GER Germany |
ULS Ulster |
NAT Italy |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy MV Agusta | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 32 (46) |
| 2 | Italy Gilera | 3 | 1 | 2 | 18 | |||
| 3 | Italy Mondial | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | |||
| 4 | West Germany DKW | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 9 | ||
| 5 | Spain Montesa | 2 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| 6 | LEF | 5 | 2 | |||||
| 6 | Italy Ducati | 5 | 2 | |||||
| 8 | Czechoslovakia ČZ | 6 | 6 | 2 | ||||
| Pos. | Constructor | MAN United Kingdom |
NED Netherlands |
BEL Belgium |
GER Germany |
ULS Ulster |
NAT Italy |
Pts |
Sources
[edit ]- ^ "GEOFF DUKE: FIRST GENTLEMAN OF RACING". Australian Motorcycle News. Retrieved 2023年11月07日.
- ^ "Geoff Duke would have been 100 years old today". www.speedweek.com. Retrieved 2023年11月07日.
References
[edit ]- Haefliger, Werner. "Lightweight class". FIM MotoGP Results 1949–2023 Guide (2024 ed.). pp. 25–27. ISBN 978-2-9701086-8-9.
- Büla, Maurice & Schertenleib, Jean-Claude (2001). Continental Circus 1949-2000. Chronosports S.A. ISBN 2-940125-32-5
- "The Official MotoGP website" . Retrieved 2010年07月06日.
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