List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World champions
Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing, which has been divided into three classes since the 1990 season: 125cc, 250cc and MotoGP. Classes that have been discontinued include 350cc and 50cc/80cc.[1] The Grand Prix Road-Racing World Championship was established in 1949 by the sport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), and is the oldest motorsport World Championship.[2]
There were four classes when the championship started in 1949; 500cc, 350cc, 250cc and 125cc. The 50cc class was introduced in the 1962 season. Due to escalating costs that resulted in a number of manufacturers leaving the championship, the FIM limited the 50cc bikes to a single cylinder, the 125cc and 250cc bikes were limited to two cylinders and the 350cc and 500cc bikes were limited to four cylinders. The 350cc class was discontinued in 1982; two years later the 50cc class was replaced with an 80cc class, which was discontinued in 1989. In 2002, 990cc bikes replaced the 500c bikes and the class was renamed as MotoGP.[3] 600cc bikes replaced the 250cc bikes in the 2010 season, with the class re-branded as Moto2.[4]
Giacomo Agostini, with 15 victories, has won the most world championships. Ángel Nieto is second with 13 world championships and Valentino Rossi, Mike Hailwood and Carlo Ubbiali are third with 9 world championships.[5] Agostini holds the record for the most victories in the 500cc/MotoGP and 350cc classes with eight and seven world championships respectively. Phil Read and Max Biaggi have won the most 250cc/Moto2 championships, with four victories each. Nieto won the most championships in the 125cc and 50cc/80cc classes with seven and six victories respectively.[6]
Champions
By rider
Rank | Rider | Country | Winning span | MotoGP/500cc | 350cc | Moto2/250cc | Moto3/125cc | 80cc/50cc | Total |
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1 | Giacomo Agostini | 1966–1975 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
2 | Ángel Nieto | 1969–1984 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 13 | |
3 | Valentino Rossi | 1997–2009 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | |
3 | Mike Hailwood | 1961–1967 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
3 | Carlo Ubbiali | 1951–1960 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 9 | |
6 | John Surtees | 1956–1960 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
6 | Phil Read | 1964–1974 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
8 | Marc Márquez | 2010–2017 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
8 | Geoff Duke | 1951–1955 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
8 | Jim Redman | 1962–1965 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
11 | Mick Doohan | 1994–1998 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
11 | Jorge Lorenzo | 2006–2015 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
11 | Anton Mang | 1980–1987 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
14 | Eddie Lawson | 1984–1989 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
14 | Kork Ballington | 1978–1979 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
14 | Walter Villa | 1974–1976 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
14 | Max Biaggi | 1994–1997 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
14 | Hugh Anderson | 1963–1965 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
14 | Jorge Martínez | 1986–1988 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
14 | Stefan Dörflinger | 1982–1985 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
21 | Kenny Roberts | 1978–1980 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
21 | Wayne Rainey | 1990–1992 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
21 | Freddie Spencer | 1983–1985 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
21 | Bruno Ruffo | 1949–1951 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
21 | Werner Haas | 1953–1954 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
21 | Luca Cadalora | 1986–1992 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
21 | Dani Pedrosa | 2003–2005 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
21 | Loris Capirossi | 1990–1998 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
21 | Luigi Taveri | 1962–1966 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
21 | Pier Paolo Bianchi | 1976–1980 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
21 | Hans Georg Anscheidt | 1966–1968 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
21 | Eugenio Lazzarini | 1978–1980 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
33 | Umberto Masetti | 1950–1952 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Barry Sheene | 1976–1977 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Casey Stoner | 2007–2011 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Gary Hocking | 1961 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Àlex Crivillé | 1989–1999 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Bill Lomas | 1955–1956 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Fergus Anderson | 1953–1954 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Carlos Lavado | 1983–1986 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Sito Pons | 1988–1989 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Johann Zarco | 2015–2016 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Cecil Sandford | 1952–1957 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Tarquinio Provini | 1957–1958 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Dieter Braun | 1970–1973 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Manuel Poggiali | 2001–2003 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Kent Andersson | 1973–1974 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Fausto Gresini | 1985–1987 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Kazuto Sakata | 1994–1998 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Haruchika Aoki | 1995–1996 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | Jan de Vries | 1971–1973 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
33 | Ricardo Tormo | 1978–1981 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
53 | Leslie Graham | 1949 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Libero Liberati | 1957 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Marco Lucchinelli | 1981 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Franco Uncini | 1982 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Wayne Gardner | 1987 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Kevin Schwantz | 1993 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Kenny Roberts, Jr. | 2000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Nicky Hayden | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Freddie Frith | 1949 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Bob Foster | 1950 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Keith Campbell | 1957 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Johnny Cecotto | 1975 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Takazumi Katayama | 1977 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Jon Ekerold | 1980 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Dario Ambrosini | 1950 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Enrico Lorenzetti | 1952 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Hermann Paul Müller | 1955 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Rodney Gould | 1970 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Kel Carruthers | 1969 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Jarno Saarinen | 1972 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Mario Lega | 1977 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Jean-Louis Tournadre | 1982 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Christian Sarron | 1984 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | John Kocinski | 1990 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Tetsuya Harada | 1993 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Olivier Jacque | 2000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Daijiro Kato | 2001 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Marco Melandri | 2002 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Marco Simoncelli | 2008 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Hiroshi Aoyama | 2009 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Toni Elías | 2010 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Stefan Bradl | 2011 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Pol Espargaró | 2013 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Esteve Rabat | 2014 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Franco Morbidelli | 2017 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Nello Pagani | 1949 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Rupert Hollaus | 1954 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Tom Phillis | 1961 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Bill Ivy | 1967 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Dave Simmonds | 1969 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Paolo Pileri | 1975 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Alessandro Gramigni | 1992 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Dirk Raudies | 1993 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Emilio Alzamora | 1999 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Roberto Locatelli | 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Arnaud Vincent | 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Andrea Dovizioso | 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Thomas Lüthi | 2005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Álvaro Bautista | 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Gábor Talmácsi | 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Mike Di Meglio | 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Julián Simón | 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Nicolás Terol | 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Sandro Cortese | 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Maverick Viñales | 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Alex Márquez | 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Danny Kent | 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Brad Binder | 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Joan Mir | 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Ernst Degner | 1962 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Ralph Bryans | 1965 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Henk van Kessel | 1974 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Manuel Herreros | 1989 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
By country
Country | MotoGP/500cc | 350cc | Moto2/250cc | Moto3/125cc | 80cc/50cc | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
20 | 8 | 24 | 23 | 2 | 77 | |
8 | 0 | 10 | 18 | 12 | 48 | |
17 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 45 | |
0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 18 | |
15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | |
1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | |
0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | |
0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
See also
References
Bibliography
- Marshall, Anne (1997). Guinness Book of Knowledge. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-046-6.
General
- "Statistics; The Official MotoGP Website". MotoGP. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
Specific
- ↑ Marshall 1997, p. 289
- ↑ "Basics". MotoGP. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
- ↑ "History". MotoGP. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
- ↑ "2010 Moto2 class to be powered by Honda". MotoGP. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
- ↑ "Rossi's ninth title win: the statistics". MotoGP. 26 October 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
- ↑ "Winners". MotoGP. Retrieved 13 November 2011.