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MV Agusta (Italian pronunciation: [ˌɛmmeˈvi aˈgusta], full name: MV AGUSTA Motor S.p.A., original name: Meccanica Verghera Agusta or MV) is a high end motorcycle manufacturer founded by Count Domenico Agusta on 19 January 1945 as one of the branches of the Agusta aircraft company near Milan in Cascina Costa, Italy. [1]
Arturo Magni (24 September 1925 - 2 December 2015) began his career in the motorcycle sector in 1947 in the Gilera Racing Department. In 1950 he moved to MV Agusta's racing department and remained there until MV retired from competitions in 1977, when he had reached the position of Team Manager and Technical coordinator of Reparto Corse.
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 ...
Triton café racer with a Triumph engine in a Norton Featherbed frame. A café racer is a genre of sport motorcycles that originated among British motorcycle enthusiasts of the early 1960s in London. Café racers were standard production bikes that were modified by their owners and optimized for speed and handling for quick rides over short ...
MV Agusta: 3 2 10 5 Luigi Zinzani: Morini: 3 6 4 6 9 6 Werner Haas: NSU: 1 F: 8 7 Angelo Copeta: MV Agusta: 5 5 4 7 8 Bill Lomas: MV Agusta: 2 6 9 Guido Sala: MV Agusta: 4 5 F: 5 10 Len Parry: Mondial: 3 4 10 Charlie Salt: MV Agusta: 3 4 12 Cromie McCandless: Mondial: 4 3 12 Romolo Ferri: Morini: 4 3 14 Hubert Luttenberger: NSU: 5 6 3 15 ...
The MV Agusta 350 cc racers were motorcycles produced by MV Agusta between 1954 and 1976 and raced in the 350 cc motorcycle GP championships. 10 world titles were achieved by riders John Surtees, Gary Hocking and Giacomo Agostini on these machines.
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 ]
After being released by MV Agusta, he then rode for Geoff Duke's privateer Gilera team, alongside Derek Minter. In his early career Hartle was sponsored for non-championship races by Eric W Bowers Coaches [ 5 ] and later Comerfords, a large London retailer of roadgoing and sporting motorcycles, until his retirement in 1964.