Eugenio Lazzarini

**Eugenio Lazzarini**
Motorcycle Grand Prix Career
Nationality	Italian
Active years	1969 - 1984
Team(s)	Morbidelli, Garelli
Grands Prix	132
Championships	50cc- 1979, 1980 125cc- 1978
Wins	27
Podium finishes	81
Pole positions	35
Fastest laps	15
First Grand Prix	1969 250cc French Grand Prix
First win	1973 125cc Dutch TT
Last win	1983 125cc Belgian Grand Prix
Last Grand Prix	1984 125cc South African Grand Prix

Eugenio Lazzarini on a Bultaco Piovaticci

Eugenio Lazzarini (born March 26, 1945) is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion.

Lazzarini began his Grand Prix career in 1969 in the 250 class on a Benelli. He won his first Grand Prix at the 1973 Dutch TT on a Maico. He captured the FIM 1978 125cc world championship riding an MBA. He followed that up with two 50cc world championships in 1979 and 1980 riding a Kreidler. His riding career spanned 15 seasons.

Loosly tranlated from Italian

His career in the Motomondiale began in 1969 with 2 Big Prizes with the Morbidelli 50cc class and 1 with the Benelli class 250. In the first years he participated in little world wide races and in 1973 he wins his first Big Prize in Holland at the Maico class 125.

After he left the 50cc class in 1970, Lazzarini from 1975 competes moderately is for the class 50cc that 125cc, in the years 1981 and in 1984 he only ran in the 125cc class.

In 1975 he wins his first Big Prize in the class 50cc in Sweden on a Piovaticci. In 1978 crown its dream awarding itself the Championship 125 in saddle to the MBA, winning 4 races on the 10 disputed. Itself ripete the successive year 1979 in the class 50cc on Kreidler, 5 victories on 5 competitions, in the same class in 1980 arriving first on 2 big prizes of 6 disputed is still first, winning things' its last world (in saddle to an Iprem, movement built from the friend I Drive Lefthanded, since had been dismissed from the Kreidler). It will continue its career with high and low until 1984.

In 2003 the president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi the decoration of Commander of the order gave the Merit of the Italian Republic to Eugenio Lazzarini as with other champions of the world one like Giacomo Agostini, Pier Paolo Bianchi, Bruno Ruffo and Carlo Ubbiali.

The son Ivan at present runs in the Championship of theWorld Supermoto with Aprilia.

Race History

1969	-- 50 Morbidelli	-- 250 Benelli
1970	-- 50 Morbidelli	-- 125 Morbidelli
1971		-- 125 Maico
1972		-- 125 Maico
1973		-- 125 Piovaticci/Maico
1974		-- 125 Piovaticci
1975	-- 50 Piovaticci	-- 125 Piovaticci
1976	-- 50 Morbidelli	-- 125 Morbidelli
1977	-- 50 Kreidler	-- 125 Morbidelli
1978	-- 50 Kreidler	1° - 125 MBA
1979	1° 50 Kreidler	-- 125 MBA
1980	1° 50 Van Veen-Kreidler	-- 125 Iprem
1981		-- 125 Iprem
1982	-- 50 Garelli	-- 125 Garelli
1983	-- 50 Garelli	-- 125 Garelli
1984		-- 125 Garelli