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...win the [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|500cc World Championship]]. ...the 125cc series, which he raced fulltime in 1989. He won the 125cc World Championship in his first attempt riding for the JJ Cobas team, claiming 5 victories.

|First race || [[1956 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1956]] 125cc [[Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix|Belgian Grand Prix]] ...motorcycle racing season|1956]] when he finished fifth in the 125cc world championship.

|Championships ||125cc - [[1951 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1951]], [[1955 Grand Prix moto |First race || [[1949 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1949]] 125cc Swiss Grand Prix

...e]] [[road racing]] [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|World Champion]]. | 125cc

! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] ...acing season|1949]], [[1951 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1951]]{{-}}125cc - [[1950 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1950]]

! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] ...acing season|1979]], [[1980 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1980]]{{-}}125cc- [[1978 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1978]]

| Championships || 2<br />125cc: [[2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|2001]]<br />250cc: [[2003 Grand | First race || [[1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1998]] 125cc [[1998 City of Imola motorcycle Grand Prix|Imola Grand Prix]]

...ar’. He stayed with the series for a second year, and was runner up in the championship ...ars 5 months. Davies also contested all rounds of the Spanish National 125 Championship with the [[Telefonica]] [[Movistar]] team under the management of [[Alberto

...|1992]] [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|250cc World Championship]] aboard an [[Erv Kanemoto]] tuned [[Honda]]. ...he world during a period in Grand Prix history that was rich with talented riders.

...s All-Japan 250cc champion in 1998, the highlight of a long career in both 125cc and 250cc Japanese national championships. He moved to international compet ...in 2002. Despite semi-works machinery Shinya managed to finish 5th in the championship. He started 2002 on a 500cc [[two-stroke]] machine, but the team got him up

...and made his 125cc World Championship debut in his home round. He combined world and Spanish 250cc racing over the next 2 seasons, finishing as runner-up in ...cing for the first time in 1996, but did not match his 16th overall in the world series over the next 2 seasons. He doubled up successfully in 1998, winning

...n had to settle with second place. In 1983, she also finished first in the championship but was disqualified from the last race due to illegal fuel. Thus the title ...n as MotoGP, in 1988. With her [[Honda]] bike she qualified second for the 125cc class GP at [[Hockenheimring|Hockenheim]] in 1989 and managed to lead the r

...as runner-up in the German series, and also started the German 125cc World Championship race as a [[wild card]]. ...the European title, as well as coming 10th in a one-off in the 250cc World Championship. From 1999 to 2001 Hofmann was a regular in this series, although without t

...ole 2000 season with the underprepared [[ItalJet]] team in the 125cc world championship, then racing a 500cc [[Honda]] in 2001 (the youngest ever to compete in the ...of the British [[Supersport]], British [[Superbike]] and [[Superbike World Championship]]s, adjusting quickly to all 3.

...season|2006]] and [[2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|2007]] 250cc World Champion. ...o his sponsor [[Chupa Chups]]. Lorenzo is again dominating the 250cc World Championship during 2007. His first six poles of the season have all lead to victories.

...win the [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|500cc World Championship]]. ...rand Prix motorcycle racing season|1949]] aboard a [[Moto Morini]], in the 125cc class. In the same year he also raced a [[Benelli]] in the 250cc class and

|Championships || 125cc - [[1968 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1968]]{{-}}250cc - [[1964 Gran ...Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|world championships]] in the 125cc, 250cc and 500cc classes.

! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] | 125cc - [[1957 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1957]]{{-}}250cc - [[1958 Gran

...rld Championships]] in 1949, (This was 1 year before the [[Formula 1]] Car World championships began) Les was the 1st winner of the prestigious [[500cc]] cl ...final round was in Italy where local hero Nello Pagani on a Gilera won. A riders best 3 finishes counted. Les had 2 wins & a second, Pagani had 2 wins & a 3

...a]]) is a [[Catalonia|Catalan]] motorcycle racer, presently competing in [[World Superbike]] ...terium, and that same year he took victory in the 80cc Catalonia Supermoto Championship.

...damentals for managing a successful team. He did his first [[125cc]] world championship races in 1992, and his first full season the year after. He won the 1995 Ma ...ally suited to it. There were 2 further wins that year, and 5th in the 500 championship. 2001 was ruined by a broken wrist sustained at Le Mans, and 2002 was not a

...omising first season in the 125 Honda Trophy, Simoncelli took the European 125cc title in 2002 and had a first taste of Grand Prix racing the same year. In 2003 he undertook his first full season in the World Championship with the Matteoni Racing team. A consistent point-scorer in his rookie seas

...s for [[Red Bull]] [[KTM (motorcycle manufacturer)|KTM]] in the [[MotoGP]] 125cc class. For the 2007 season, he will move up to 250cc. == Achievements in MotoGP 125cc ==

...Prix]] [[motorcycle]] [[road racing|road racer]]. Checa made his debut in 125cc and 250cc motorcycle racing in 1993 for [[Honda]]. In 1995 he moved up to t [[Category:MotoGP riders|Checa, Carlos]]

...o won the 2000 [[Superbike|British Superbike]] championship and the 2003 [[World Superbike]] crown. ...d Championship with Team Burnett. He took part in two [[MotoGP|500cc World Championship]] races for the Harris-Yamaha team.

! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] ...road racing]] [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|World Championship]].

...in|British]] former [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|World Champion]] [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing|Grand Prix]] [[motorcycle]] [[roa ...5[[Cubic centimetre|cc]] champion aged just 20, and finished second in the World Championships for that class a year later. A spectacular crash at the [[Day

| Championships || 125cc - {{MGP|1990}}, {{MGP|1991}}<br>250cc - {{MGP|1998}} ...e is a former [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|250cc World Champion]] for [[Aprilia]].

! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] ...e]] [[road racing]] [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|World Champion]].

...th the various production categories of racing, such as [[Superbike racing|World Superbike]], that feature modified versions of motorcycles available to the ...The 350cc class vanished in the 1980s. Sidecars were dropped from World Championship events in the 1990s, reducing the field to 125s, 250s, and 500s.

! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] | 1959 125cc Ulster Grand Prix

...ell called [[Castellar del Vallès]]. He is the youngest world champion in 125cc and 250cc Grands Prix. Pedrosa stands 1.58m (5ft, 2in) tall and weighs 51k ...in the second race of the season. The next year, Pedrosa entered the same championship, but health problems prevented him from improving his results and he ended

Aprilia was founded immediately after the [[Second World War]] by Cavaliere Alberto Beggio, as a bicycle production factory at [[Noa ...son with two third places in individual races and sixth place in the World Championship.

[[Image:Supercross-0118.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Supercross riders from the 2006 series in Anaheim]] ...rodigious cycle racing organization, or the [[THQ]] series of Supercross [[Championship]] events that are in part the work of [[Clear Channel]], who in 2004 contr

...ships in [[Britain]] and [[Spain]] before moving full time to the 250cc GP World Championships in 2002. ...llo and Aprilia, he met with considerable success, scoring his first world championship win and three second places, finishing 8th overall at the season's end.

...Via Nirone in 1885. Bianchi was a prominent name in the motorcycle racing world from 1925 to 1930. ...ikes for the next five years. During this time the bike was ridden by such riders as [[Tazio Nuvolari]], Amilcare Moretti, Mario Ghersi, Karl Kodric, Gino Za

...e racing|motorcycle racer]] and multiple [[Grand Prix motorcycles|MotoGP]] World Champion. ...ck-to-back championships by winning the [[2004]] and [[2005]] MotoGP World Championship after leaving Honda to join [[Yamaha Motor Corporation|Yamaha]].

...e MV stood for Meccanica Verghera) at the end of the [[World War II|Second World War]] as a means to save the jobs of employees of the Agusta firm and also ...ing motorcycles ever created and the 2008 F4 312R model is known to be the world's fastest production motorcycle. Claimed power of the new F4 312R model is

Riding a Benelli 175, Tonino Benelli won 4 Italian championship titles almost consecutively, in 1927, 1928 and 1930 with the single overhea As World war 2 loomed, the Benelli company debuted their 4 cylinder [[supercharged]]

...cing|Ten Kate]] [[Honda]], who also won the {{SBK|2004}} [[Superbike World Championship]] on a [[Ducati Motor Holding|Ducati]]. Toseland is currently competing in ...through the ranks becoming 1995 Junior Road Race Champion and moving on to 125cc racing in the UK Superteen series and sprang to prominence in the late nine

...motorcycle history is very much associated with the long series of [[World Championship]] victories in motocross that Husqvarna enjoyed in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. ...c engine. It soon becomes very popular. During the years before the Second World War, thousands upon thousands of machines are produced, which means that Sw

...ritain, Canadian and Italian Championships. As with the Villa 250 G.P, the 125cc was also equipped with Ceriani forks and Fontana front brake, Marzocchi dam ...of his own motorcycles. It was mainly light crossers and racers. The first 125cc two-wegrace was developed on behalf of [[Mondial]], which Villa himself beg

...rouwbaarheids_(--Enduro--)-motor.jpg|right|thumb|250px|'''Ancilotti Scarab 125cc Enduro''']] Shortly after the 2nd world war he opens his own workshop in space reclaimed in the cloisters of the ex

...[[dragstrip]] with a signaled starting line. Upon the starting signal, the riders accelerate down a straight, quarter-mile long paved track where their elaps ...ad traffic laws (not to be confused with car rallies such as [[World Rally Championship|WRC]]).

...articipants|53]] (250 cc) <br />[[2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season#125cc participants|78]] (125 cc) |Champion riders || {{flagiconAustralia}} [[Casey Stoner]] (MotoGP) <br />{{flagiconESP}} [[

[[File:1959 Motobi Ardiio 125cc.jpg|thumb|right|300px|'''1959 Motobi Ardiio 125cc''']] At the end of 1955, the company's first fourstroke models appeared, a pushrod 125cc and 175cc duo bearing the [[Catria]] name and designed by freelance enginee

From their first post-[[World War II|Second World War]] bicycle-like low-displacement motorbikes Ducati has gained prominence ...ng as a sign of respect and admiration for [[Francesco Baracca]], a heroic World War I fighter pilot that died during an air raid in 1918.

...(right), riding for the Blusens Aprilia Team during the warm up lap of the 125cc Czech Republic Grand Prix at Brno.]] ...Internationale de Motocyclisme|F.I.M.]] [[Road racing|Road Racing]] World Championship season. The 2007 season was significant as it introduced a new regulation w