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Eight Grand Prix motorcycle racing champions have died while racing or practicing in Grand Prix motorcycle racing: Dario Ambrosini in 1951, Leslie Graham in 1953, Rupert Hollaus in 1954, Tom Phillis in 1962, Bill Ivy in 1969, Jarno Saarinen in 1973, Daijiro Kato in 2003, and Marco Simoncelli in 2011. Hollaus is often credited as the only rider ...
Pages in category "Motorcycle racers who died while racing" The following 175 pages are in this category, out of 175 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
British Motorcycle Racing Club Stocksport 600 49 Henry Surtees: 19 July 2009 Westfield Bend FIA Formula 2 Championship: 2009 Brands Hatch Formula Two round: Williams JPH1 – Audi 50 Karl-Heinz Kalbfell 17 August 2013 Druids British Motorcycle Racing Club: Lansdowne Classic Series Matchless: 51 Frances Fletcher 7 October 2017 Clearways
This is a list alphabetically sorted, and structured after the kind of competition, of the more notable driver deaths, excluding those of motorcycle riders. In addition, several racing drivers have been killed in public road crashes; see List of people who died in road accidents.
Date of death Rider Circuit Meeting Ref 7 April 1927 Tommy Maher Brisbane Exhibition Speedway: Australian National Speedway Championship [1] 21 October 1928 Clifford Mawson Athletic Grounds, Rochdale: Senior race [2] 11 May 1929 Walter Brown Marine Gardens: Consolation handicap [3] 18 May 1929 John Proctor Stockdale Farringdon Park Preston
Motorcycle builder and stuntman Concord, North Carolina: Butch Laswell: March 10, 1996: 37 American Motorcycle stunt rider: Honda CR500 Mesquite, Nevada: Joi Harris: August 14, 2017: 40 American Motorcycle road racer and stuntwoman Vancouver, British Columbia: Killed while filming a motorcycle stunt
This was possibly the first death in the Isle of Man of a person in a motorcycle or road vehicle crash. [3] The deadliest year was 2005, when 10 people died; three riders and one marshal died during the June race, and six riders and one course bystander died during the Manx Grand Prix in August/September 2005.
Driver deaths in motorsport; List of deaths by motorcycle crash; List of people who died in traffic collisions; List of fatal accidents in motorboat racing; List of Formula One fatalities; List of NASCAR fatalities; List of fatal World Rally Championship accidents; List of fatalities at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; List of IndyCar fatalities