Pier Paolo Bianchi

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Pier Paolo Bianchi
Motorcycle Grand Prix Career
Nationality 3dflagsdotcom italy2bs.gif Italian
Active years 1973 - 1989
Team(s) Morbidelli
Grands Prix 127
Championships 125 cc - 1976, 1977, 1980
Wins 27
Podium finishes    61
Pole positions 32
Fastest laps 25
First Grand Prix 1973 125 cc Nations Grand Prix
First win 1976 125 cc Austrian Grand Prix
Last win 1983 125 cc Belgian Grand Prix
Last Grand Prix 1989 125 cc West German Grand Prix

Pier Paolo Bianchi (born March 11, 1952) is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion.

He won consecutive FIM 125 cc world championships in 1976 and 1977. He won one more 125 championship in 1980 on a MBA.



125 cc Motorcycle World Champions
(1949) Nello Pagani · (1950) Bruno Ruffo · (1951) Carlo Ubbiali · (1952) Cecil Sandford · (1953) Werner Haas · (1954) Rupert Hollaus · (1955, 56) Carlo Ubbiali · (1957) Tarquinio Provini · (1958, 59, 60) Carlo Ubbiali · (1961) Tom Phillis · (1962) Luigi Taveri · (1963) Hugh Anderson · (1964) Luigi Taveri  · (1965) Hugh Anderson · (1966) Luigi Taveri  · (1967) Bill Ivy · (1968) Phil Read · (1969) Dave Simmonds · (1970) Dieter Braun · (1971, 72) Ángel Nieto · (1973, 1974) Kent Andersson · (1975) Paolo Pileri · (1976, 77) Pier Paolo Bianchi · (1978) Eugenio Lazzarini · (1979) Ángel Nieto · (1980) Pier Paolo Bianchi · (1981, 82, 83, 84) Ángel Nieto · (1985) Fausto Gresini · (1986) Luca Cadalora · (1987) Fausto Gresini · (1988) Jorge Martínez · (1989) Àlex Crivillé · (1990, 91) Loris Capirossi · (1992) Alessandro Gramigni · (1993) Dirk Raudies · (1994) Kazuto Sakata · (1995, 96) Haruchika Aoki · (1997) Valentino Rossi · (1998) Kazuto Sakata · (1999) Emilio Alzamora · (2000) Roberto Locatelli · (2001) Manuel Poggiali · (2002) Arnaud Vincent · (2003) Dani Pedrosa · (2004) Andrea Dovizioso · (2005) Thomas Lüthi · (2006) Álvaro Bautista · (2007) Gábor Talmácsi