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• John Kocinski
  ...successes include winning the 1990 250cc World Championship, and the 1997 World Superbike title. He was born on March 20th [[1967]] in [[Little Rock]], [[A ...ook pole for the 1988 250cc US Grand Prix, and finished this and the Japan 250cc race in the top 5.
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• Alex Criville
  ...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.
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• Tadayuki Okada
  ...produced. He was runner-up in the 1994 [[250cc]] and 1997 [[500cc]] World Championship. ...ive years from 1989 to 1991 for [[Honda]], who took him to the 250cc World Championship in 1993. He was runner-up in the series in 1994, and fourth in 1995.
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• Bruno Ruffo
  ! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] | 250cc - [[1949 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1949]], [[1951 Grand Prix moto
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• Kenny Roberts Jr
  ...onship]] in 2000. He is the first son of a World Champion to win the World Championship, as his father is [[Kenny Roberts]]. In total he has 8 wins, 10 poles and 8 ...de his World 250cc debut at the [[Laguna Seca]] event, and was a full-time 250cc racer for 1994 and 1995.
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• Shinya Nakano
  ...rnational competition in 1999, adjusting to [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing|250cc Grand Prix racing]] quickly by finishing 4th overall with five podium finis ...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
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• Yukio Kagayama
  ...ship, finishing 4th in 2001. In 2003 he raced in the [[British Superbike]] Championship for [[Rizla Suzuki]], alongside double British champion John Reynolds, and ...0]], riding on largely unfamiliar circuits against some of the world's top riders.
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• Kent Andersson (motorcyclist)
  ...e]] [[road racing]] [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|World Champion]]. | 250cc
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• Jorge Lorenzo
  {{250cc rider| Championships = 250cc - [[2006 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|2006]], [[2007 Grand Prix moto
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• Fortunato Libanori
  |Last race || [[1957 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1957]] 250cc [[Dutch TT]] ...motorcycle racing season|1956]] when he finished fifth in the 125cc world championship.
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• Alex Barros
  ...ix motorcycle racing|MotoGP]], for 2006 he moved to the [[Superbike racing|World Superbike]] series. ...hip in thirteenth place, scoring 6 points. In 1987, he also raced the 80cc championship, finishing seventeenth, scoring 8 points.
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• Umberto Masetti
  ...win the [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|500cc World Championship]]. ...], in the 125cc class. In the same year he also raced a [[Benelli]] in the 250cc class and a [[Gilera]] in the 500cc class.
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• Luca Cadalora
  ...|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.
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• Carlo Ubbiali
  ...racing season|1958]]-[[1960 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1960]] <br>250cc- [[1956 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1956]], [[1959 Grand Prix motor ...i''' (born [[september 22]] [[1929]]) is an [[italians|Italian]] nine-time World Champion [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing|motorcycle]] [[road racing|road rac
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• Enrico Lorenzetti
  ! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] | 250cc - [[1952 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1952]]
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• Jose Luis Cardoso
  ...World Championship debut in his home round. He combined world and Spanish 250cc racing over the next 2 seasons, finishing as runner-up in his domestic seri ...he next 2 seasons. He doubled up successfully in 1998, winning the Spanish 250cc title and finishing 11th in the international level.
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• Chaz Davies
  ...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
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• Manuel Poggiali
  ...|| 2<br />125cc: [[2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|2001]]<br />250cc: [[2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|2003]] | Last win || [[2004 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|2004]] 250cc [[2004 Brazilian motorcycle Grand Prix|Brazilian Grand Prix]]
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• Sebastián Porto
  ...ircus'' race of 1994, and only two years later he won the 250cc [[European Championship]]. ...championship]] riding a [[Yamaha TZ250]], and in 5th position in the 2002 championship, winning the Brazilian Grand Prix in [[Rio de Janeiro]].
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• Alex Hofmann
  ...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
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• Leon Haslam
  ...00cc [[Honda]] in 2001 (the youngest ever to compete in the series), and a 250cc [[Honda]] in 2002. He gained valuable experience from these years, but few ...of the British [[Supersport]], British [[Superbike]] and [[Superbike World Championship]]s, adjusting quickly to all 3.
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• Dario Ambrosini
  |Championships || 250cc - [[1950 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1950]] |First race || [[1949 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix|1949 250cc Swiss Grand Prix]]
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• Takazumi Katayama
  ...n]]. He was the first Japanese rider to win a motorcycle road racing world championship when he claimed the 1977 350cc title aboard a [[Yamaha Motor Company|Yamaha | 250cc
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• Duilio Agostini
  ...h Grand Prix]] and finished the season in seventh place in the 350cc world championship. *[http://www.motogp.com/en/motogp/motogp_riders.htm?menu=riders&rider_id=1808&from=archive Duilio Agostini statistics at MotoGP website]
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• Wayne Rainey
  ...90 in sports|1990s]] he won the [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing|500cc World Championship]] three times and the [[Daytona 200]] once. He was characterized by his smo ...circuit and Rainey took over, earning the [[1983 in sports|1983]] National Championship for Kawasaki.
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• Jarno Saarinen
  ! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] | 250cc - [[1972 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1972]]
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• Phil Read
  ...ships || 125cc - [[1968 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1968]]{{-}}250cc - [[1964 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1964]],[[1965 Grand Prix motor ...Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|world championships]] in the 125cc, 250cc and 500cc classes.
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• Franco Uncini
  ...e]] [[road racing]] [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|World Champion]]. ...n 250cc (Grand Prix of Nations and Czechoslovakia) and finishing second in championship behind [[Mario Lega]]. However, his quarrelsome relantionship with teammate
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• Eugenio Lazzarini
  ! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] | [[1969 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1969]] 250cc [[French motorcycle Grand Prix|French Grand Prix]]
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• Tarquinio Provini
  ! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] | 125cc - [[1957 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1957]]{{-}}250cc - [[1958 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1958]]
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• Freddie Spencer
  ...y the nickname '''Fast Freddie''', is an [[United States|American]] former World Champion [[motorcycle racing|motorcycle racer]]. Spencer is regarded as on ...versus Britain Trans-Atlantic Match races when he won two legs, defeating World Champions [[Kenny Roberts]] and [[Barry Sheene]] in the process. In [[1981
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• Randy Mamola
  ...to have won a [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|world championship]]. ...]. He went on to win a total of 13 Grands Prix, and finished second in the championship four times: in [[1980]], [[1981]], [[1984]] and [[1987]]. During his Grand
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• Libero Liberati
  ...|500cc Grand Prix]] [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|World Champion]]. ...lowing year with [[Gilera]]. Liberati scored his first points in the World Championship in 1953, and his first race victory came in 1956 in the 350cc class.
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• Wayne Gardner
  ...tired [[motorcycle]] road racer and touring car racer. His success on the world motorcycle racing circuit earned him the nickname ''The Wollongong Whiz''. ...areer in 1977 at age 18, riding a second-hand 250cc bike in the Australian championship and finishing second on debut at [[Amaroo Park]]. He went on to record his
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• Marco Simoncelli
  | Championships || 250cc - {{MGP|2008}} ...torcycle]] [[road racing|road racer]]. A top rider of the Italian Minimoto Championship from 1996 to 2000, Marco Simoncelli moved to 125cc bikes after taking two c
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• Makoto Tamada
  ...series in 1999. He came to international fame as a [[wild card]] in the [[World Superbike]] series at [[Sugo]], upsetting the regulars to win all 4 races a ...en [[wrist]] sustained early in the season prevented him from reaching the championship top 10, and he has been short of top results in the first half of 2006. At
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• Daijiro Kato
  ...st of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|World Champion]] in the 250cc class. ...ge, becoming a four-time national champion in the Japanese [[pocket-bike]] championship.
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• Kenny Roberts
  ! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] | 1974 250cc [[Dutch TT]]
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• Carlos Checa
  ...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 the blue ri [[Category:MotoGP riders|Checa, Carlos]]
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• Rubén Xaus
  ...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.
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• Leslie Graham
  ...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
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• Eddie Lawson
  ...e]] [[road racing]] [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|World Champion]]. His penchant for consistently finishing in the points earned hi ...rbike Series 1981 and 1982. He also won the AMA 250cc road racing National Championship in 1980 and 1981 for Kawasaki.
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• Geoff Duke
  ...Helens, Merseyside|St. Helens]], [[Lancashire]]) was a British multi-time world champion [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing|Grand Prix]] [[motorcycle]] [[road ...1950s, winning [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|six world championships]] and five [[Isle of Man TT]] races. Duke came to prominence
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• Johnny Cecotto
  ! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] | [[1975 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1975]] 250cc [[French motorcycle Grand Prix|French Grand Prix]]
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• Loris Capirossi
  | 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]].
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• Grasstrack
  ...ike Speedway, which has 4 riders per race, Grasstrack racing can have many riders in each heat and the circuit is normally longer allowing higher speeds. Gra ...|Peter Collins]] started their racing careers in Grasstrack. Some Speedway riders continue to take part in national Grasstrack meetings when their schedule p
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