Sanvenero

Sanvenero 500cc square four GP

Sanvenero was a Italian motorcycle company founded by Emilio Sanvenero, building Tuscan already sponsors of the MBA.

The birth of Sanvenero occurred in the '80s, in order to prepare two bikes to be deployed in the competition next season, in the Class 125 with a cylinder 2T and Class 500 with a quadricilindrica 2T, whose propeller was strongly inspired architecture and components, the Γ Suzuki RG 500 that the 1976 to 1982 won 7 titles iridium.

The debut in Motomondiale took place in the season 1981, with the French Guy Bertin and Spanish Ricardo Tormo for the class 125 and the Italian Carlo Perugini for the 500 class. If participation in the eighth-liter was, after all, decent (Bertin winning a Monza and Tormo to Anderstorp), the motion of an engine capacity greater showed obvious limits development, precluding the pilot scoring each class.

In 1982, the department runs the MBA closed and Emilio Sanvenero convinced all staff in the factory Sant'Angelo in Vado moved to Follonica ( GR), with ambitious projects .

For the Season'82 in 125 pilots were Pier Paolo Bianchi and Ricardo Tormo; 500 in the 4-cylinder 2 times was Sanvenero entrusted to the Swiss Michel Frutschi. Also in 1982, the House managed to win toscana two races, the Belgian GP of 125 with Tormo and French GP of 500, on Nogaro circuit. The race was boycotted by most pilots to the danger of the path.

The projects were too ambitious and, as early as 1982, the Sanvenero closed. Pier Paolo Bianchi was able to obtain from the administrator some motion, in which a dispute the season 1983, getting appreciable placings.

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