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The three-cylinder 500 machine was first raced at the 1966 Dutch TT. The machine was based on the MV Agusta 350 3C that had been used in the previous season (1965). Count Agusta had wanted a 350 cc three-cylinder because he was impressed by the three-cylinder two-stroke DKW RM 350.
The factory machines of the MV AGUSTA racing department "Reparto Corse" in the 500 cc motorcycle world championship. The MV Agusta 500cc road racers were motorcycles that the manufacturer MV Agusta built and which were used to compete in 500cc Grand Prix motorcycle racing series between 1950 and 1976. 18 500cc world championship titles were achieved with these machines ridden by John Surtees ...
MV Agusta had won the championship in the 500, 250 and 125 cc classes of the 1956 season. However, the 1957 season promised stiff competition, especially in the premier 500 class, where the Moto Guzzi V8 and the Gilera 500 4C had shown great potential.
MV Agusta (Italian pronunciation: [ˌɛmmeˈvi aˈgusta], full name: MV AGUSTA Motor S.p.A., original name: Meccanica Verghera Agusta or MV) is an Italian high end motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded by Count Domenico Agusta on 19 January 1945 as one of the branches of the Agusta aircraft company near Milan in Cascina Costa. [ 1 ]
MV Agusta 125 Regolarità; MV Agusta 125 SOHC; MV Agusta 125 Sport SE; MV Agusta 150 Sport RS; MV Agusta 175 series; MV Agusta 203/220 Bialbero; MV Agusta 250 Bicilindrica; MV Agusta 250 Monocilindrica Bialbero; MV Agusta 250B; MV Agusta 350 racers; MV Agusta 350 Six; MV Agusta 350 Ipotesi; MV Agusta 350B; MV Agusta 500 Four; MV Agusta 500 ...
In the 1957 season, the MV Agustas were no match for the Gileras and Surtees battled to a third-place finish aboard a 1957 MV Agusta 500 Quattro. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] [ 7 ] When Gilera and Moto Guzzi withdrew from Grand Prix racing at the end of 1957 , Surtees and MV Agusta went on to dominate the competition in the two larger displacement classes. [ 1 ]
With no other manufacturers competing in the 500cc class the MV Agusta team continued to dominate as Giacomo Agostini won his fifth consecutive 500cc world championship. [1] Kawasaki began to sell the Kawasaki H1R to privateer racing teams. [2] The H1R was the first multi-cylinder two stroke racing motorcycle to be sold commercially. [2]
Gary Stuart Hocking MBE (30 September 1937 – 21 December 1962) was a Rhodesian former professional motorcycle road and car racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1958 to 1962, most prominently as a member of the MV Agusta factory racing team where he won the 1961 250cc and 350cc world championships.