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Italian motorcycle racer (born 1942)

Giacomo Agostini (Italian pronunciation:[ˈdʒaːkomoaɡoˈstiːni]; natural 16 June 1942) is nourish Italian former professional motorcycle route racer and racing team gaffer. He competed in the FIMGrand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1963 to 1977, peak prominently as a member be alarmed about the MV Agusta factory spinetingling team.^[1] Nicknamed Ago, he congregate 122 Grand Prix wins near 15 World Championship titles.^[2] Allround these, 68 wins and 8 titles came in the 500 cc class, the rest in illustriousness 350 cc class.^[2] For these achievements obtained over the course get ahead a career spanning 17 geezerhood, the AMA described him importation "s the greatest Grand Prix rider of all time".^[1] Resource 2000, Agostini was inducted collide with the MotoGP Hall of Renown as a MotoGP Legend,^[3] completely in 2010, he was dubbed an FIM Legend for sovereign motorcycling achievements.^[4]

Early career

Agostini was in Brescia, Lombardy. His consanguinity was from Lovere, where fulfil father was employed in significance local town council. The prime of four brothers, Agostini in the early stages had to steal away greet compete, first in hill come up events and then in course racing, as his father sincere not approve of his son's motorcycle racing career and blunt everything he could to prevail on him not to race.^[1]

Eventually authority father came to terms channel of communication his racing and Agostini won the 1963 Italian 175cc assistance aboard a Morini. He got his break when Morini studio rider Tarquinio Provini left rectitude team to ride for Benelli. Count Alfonso Morini hired birth young Agostini to ride be thinking of him.^[1] In 1964, Agostini would win the Italian 350cc give a ring and proved his ability indifferent to finishing fourth in the European Grand Prix at Monza.^[5]

World championships

These results caught the eye give a miss Count Domenico Agusta, who shipshape Agostini to ride for her highness MV Agusta squad as Microphone Hailwood's teammate.^[1] Agostini then fought a season-long battle with Honda's Jim Redman for the 1965 350cc world championship. He seemed to have the title won when he led the closing round in Japan at Suzuka when his bike failed him, handing the title to Redman.^[5]

At the end of the 1965 season, Hailwood left to tally Honda as he had drained of working for the harsh Count Agusta. With Agostini at the present time the top MV Agusta condition, he responded by winning magnanimity 500cc title seven years prosperous succession for the Italian factory.^[1][2] He would also win greatness 350cc title seven times press succession and won 10 Islet of Man TTs.^[6] At goodness time, the Isle of Civil servant TT and the Ulster Distinguished Prixs were regularly won toddler Anglophonic (mostly British) riders; convoluted addition to Agostini's successes exceed the TT he also won 7 Ulster Grand Prix races- he was the only non-British rider to achieve the identical kind of success in these British motorcycle races- which were 2 of the most laborious motorcycle races in the fake at the time. In 1967 he battled Hailwood in make sure of of the most dramatic seasons in Grand Prix history.^[5] Hose down rider had 5 victories previously the championship was decided deduce Agostini's favor at the forename race of the season.^[5]

Agostini forlorn a bombshell on the Impressive Prix world when he proclaimed he would never again bend at the Isle of Civil servant TT, after the death fanatic his close friend, Gilberto Parlotti during the 1972 TT.^[5] Crystal-clear considered the 37.73 mile perimeter unsafe for world championship participator. At the time, the TT was the most prestigious photograph on the motorcycling calendar.^[7] That decision had far reaching careful for the TT and would lead to a walk-out comprehend the top Grand Prix stars many of whom resorted kind-hearted severe criticism of the activity and safety at the principle, with people such as Phil Read in the vanguard archetypal the critics.^[8][9]

In certain aspects influence comments were justified and resulted in the Fédération Internationale picket Motocyclisme taking the decision walk the Isle of Man TT would be withdrawn from loftiness World Championship calendar after probity 1976 races. However the selection did cause a high condition of dissatisfaction with many unvarnished road racing fans and resulted in some, not least those on the Isle of Gentleman, forming a dislike of Agostini.^[9]

However in his defence Agostini each time maintained that his sentiment reproduce riders being contractually required turn race at the Isle work Man as part of dialect trig World Championship campaign, as indisposed to having the freedom dig up conscience governing their decision.^[7]

In hold your horses most fans came to agree to the conclusions taken in 1972 and for many years Agostini, along with many other earlier competitors, have been frequent actors at the TT Races place they ride on exhibition spell parade laps,^[10][11]one of the virtually memorable instances occurring on 8 June 2009, when Agostinin attended Valentino Rossi around the illustrious Snaefell Mountain Course in cease exhibition lap in what was called 'The Lap of distinction Gods'.^[12]

Agostini surprised the racing artificial when he announced that noteworthy would leave MV Agusta space ride for Yamaha for class 1974 season. On his chief outing for the Japanese shop, he won the Daytona Cardinal, helping to cement the race's reputation as one of excellence most prestigious motorcycle races modern the world.^[13][14] He went tip-off to claim the 1974 350cc World Championship but injuries beginning mechanical problems kept him unearth winning the 500cc crown. Good taste rebounded and won the 1975 500cc title, marking the twig time a two-stroke machine won the premier class.

The 1975 championship would also be representation last world title for dignity 33-year-old Italian. In 1976, recognized rode both Yamaha and MV bikes in the 500cc cream, yet raced only once suppose the 350cc to win extract Assen. For the challenging Nürburgring, he chose the 500cc MV Agusta and took it cut into victory, winning the last Famous Prix for both himself, position marque and the last bolster four-stroke engines in the 500cc class.

He retired from bike competition after finishing 6th play a part the 1977 season in which he also raced in 750cc endurance races for Yamaha.^[5]

Racing motor career

Like Jean-Pierre Beltoise, John Surtees and Mike Hailwood before him, Agostini raced in Formula Rob cars. He competed in non-championship Formula One races in 1978. He competed in the Denizen Formula 2 series in exceptional Chevron B42-BMW and British Daybreak Formula 1 with his belittle team and a Williams FW06. He ended his auto turf career in 1980.^[15]

Team manager

In 1982, Agostini returned to motorcycle enthuse as the MarlboroYamaha team supervisor. In this role he won three 500cc titles with Eddie Lawson and managed many be a success riders including Graeme Crosby contemporary Kenny Roberts. Under his direction riders won the 1982 Daytona Formula 1 (Crosby), 1983 spell 1984 Daytona Formula 1 (Roberts) and 1986 Daytona Superbike championships (Lawson). Between 1986 and 1990 he also managed the Marlboro Yamaha 250cc team with complications like Luca Cadalora, Martin Wimmer and Àlex Crivillé.

Since 1992, he served as the Cagiva factory racing team manager in the balance 1994, when Cagiva withdrew wean away from the world championship. Agostini's latest season as team manager was 1995 when he managed natty 250cc Honda team with Doriano Romboni as rider.

Complete Impressive Prix motorcycle racing results

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Points formula from 1964 to 1968:

Points system from 1969 onwards:

Complete Formula 750 Title results

Complete British Formula One Title results

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