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• Grand Prix motorcycle racing
  ...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.
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• Mike Hailwood
  ! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] ...on|1967]] 350cc - 1966, [[1967 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1967]]. 500cc -1962,1963,1964,1965.
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• Benelli
  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]]
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• Suzuka 8 Hours
  ...the race runs for eight hours consecutively and teams are composed of two riders and one alternate. ...ng bodies set a race date that avoids conflict with any of the other major championship races.
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• Valentino Rossi
  ...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]].
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• Supercross
  [[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
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• John Surtees
  ...racing season|1959]],[[1960 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1960]]{{-}}500cc- [[1956 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1956]],[[1958 Grand Prix motorc |First race || [[1952 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1952]] 500cc [[Ulster Grand Prix]]
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• Husqvarna
  ...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
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• MV Agusta
  ...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
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• List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions
  List of World Champions '''[[Grand Prix motorcycle racing]]''', from 1949 to 2005, in ord ...d Prix motorcycle racing [[Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme|FIM]] World Champions''', from [[1949 in sports|1949]] to [[2007 in sports|2007]], in o
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• Villa
  ...and second place in the 100cc class, he went on to win the Italian Senior Championship in 1961, '62, '63 and '64 on a 125cc [[Mondial]]. His career has been based ...prepared several machines to be sold to private individuals or to trusted riders, such as Francesco and his brother Walter. The Modenese rider-technician, a
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• Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
  ...ck has hosted USRRC, [[Can Am]], [[Trans-Am]], [[Formula 5000]], [[IMSA GT Championship|IMSA GT]], [[Champ Car]], [[American Le Mans Series]], [[Grand American]], ...' at the top of the Rahal Straight was flattened to accommodate the MotoGP riders, though some claim that this increases the wind effects that can perturb a
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• Motobi
  ...by freelance engineer [[Piero Prampolini]]. His later credits included the 500cc four-cylinder ''GP Benelli'', which [[Jarno Saarinen]] took to victory at i ...he infield circuit at [[Daytona]] to win the 1962 US GP - not then a world championship event, bur still a prestige race.One of the men Benelli sent to America lat
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