1954 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
1954 F.I.M. Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||
Previous: | 1953 | Next: | 1955 |
The 1954 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the sixth F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix season. The season consisted of nine Grand Prix races in five classes: 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc and Sidecars 500cc. It began on 30 May, with French Grand Prix and ended with Spanish Grand Prix on 3 October.
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1954 Grand Prix season calendar
† The 500 cc race was stopped by bad weather, and the FIM excluded the race from the World Championship.
†† The Sidecars and 125cc races were held on the 10.6-mile (17.364) km long Clypse Course other than the usual 37 mile (62 km) Snaefell mountain course.
Standings
Scoring system
Points were awarded to the top six finishers in each race. Only the four best races counted in the Sidecars, 125cc and 250cc, while in the 350cc and 500cc championships, the five best results were counted.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
500cc final standings
350cc Standings
Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Fergus Anderson | United Kingdom | Moto Guzzi | 38 | 4 | |
2 | Ray Amm | Rhodesia | Norton | 22 | 2 | |
3 | Rod Coleman | 33 | New Zealand | AJS | 20 | 1 |
4 | Ken Kavanagh | Australia | Moto Guzzi | 18 | 1 | |
5 | Enrico Lorenzetti | Italy | Moto Guzzi | 15 | 0 | |
6 | Jack Brett | United Kingdom | Norton | 14 | 0 | |
7 | Duilio Agostini | Italy | Moto Guzzi | 9 | 0 | |
8 | Bob McIntyre | United Kingdom | AJS | 9 | 0 | |
9 | Leo Simpson | New Zealand | AJS | 9 | 0 | |
10 | Pierre Monneret | France | AJS | 8 | 1 | |
11 | Auguste Goffin | Belgium | Norton | 7 | 0 | |
12 | Derek Farrant | United Kingdom | AJS | 6 | 0 | |
13 | Bob Matthews | United Kingdom | Velocette | 6 | 0 | |
14 | Johnny Grace | Gibraltar | Norton | 4 | 0 | |
= | Sigfried Wünsche | Germany | DKW | 4 | 0 | |
= | Bob Keeler | United Kingdom | Norton | 4 | 0 | |
17 | Georg Braun | Germany | NSU | 4 | 0 | |
= | Maurice Quincey | Australia | Norton | 4 | 0 | |
19 | Jacques Collot | France | Norton | 3 | 0 | |
= | Gordon Laing | Australia | Norton | 3 | 0 | |
21 | Karl Hoffmann | Germany | DKW | 2 | 0 | |
= | Peter Davey | United Kingdom | Norton | 2 | 0 | |
= | Barry Stormont | New Zealand | BSA | 2 | 0 | |
24 | Alano Montanari | Italy | Moto Guzzi | 1 | 0 | |
= | John Clark | United Kingdom | AJS | 1 | 0 | |
= | Firmin Dauwe | Belgium | Norton | 1 | 0 |
250cc Standings
Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Werner Haas | Germany | NSU | 32 | 5 | |
2 | Rupert Hollaus | Austria | NSU | 26 | 1 | |
3 | Hermann Paul Müller | Germany | NSU | 17 | 0 | |
4 | Arthur Wheeler | United Kingdom | Moto Guzzi | 15 | 1 | |
5 | Hans Baltisberger | Germany | NSU | 14 | 0 | |
6 | Georg Braun | Germany | NSU | 6 | 0 | |
= | Romolo Ferri | Italy | Moto Guzzi | 6 | 0 | |
8 | Roberto Colombo | Italy | Moto Guzzi | 5 | 0 | |
9 | Reg Armstrong | United Kingdom | NSU | 4 | 0 | |
= | Helmut Hallmeier | Germany | Adler | 4 | 0 | |
= | Kurt Knopf | Germany | NSU | 4 | 0 | |
12 | Tommy Wood | United Kingdom | Moto Guzzi | 4 | 0 | |
13 | Ken Kavanagh | Australia | Moto Guzzi | 3 | 0 | |
= | Luigi Taveri | Switzerland | Moto Guzzi | 3 | 0 | |
15 | Fergus Anderson | United Kingdom | Moto Guzzi | 2 | 0 | |
= | Walter Reichert | Germany | NSU | 2 | 0 | |
= | JG Horne | United Kingdom | Rudge | 2 | 0 | |
18 | Walter Vogel | Germany | Adler | 2 | 0 | |
19 | Lanfranco Baviera | Italy | Moto Guzzi | 1 | 0 | |
= | Bob Geeson | United Kingdom | REG | 1 | 0 | |
= | Angelo Marelli | Italy | Moto Guzzi | 1 | 0 |
125cc Standings
Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rupert Hollaus | Austria | NSU | 32 | 4 | |
2 | Carlo Ubbiali | Italy | MV Agusta | 18 | 0 | |
3 | Hermann Paul Müller | Germany | NSU | 15 | 0 | |
4 | Tarquinio Provini | Italy | Mondial | 14 | 1 | |
5 | Werner Haas | Germany | NSU | 11 | 0 | |
6 | Hans Baltisberger | Germany | NSU | 10 | 0 | |
7 | Guido Sala | Italy | MV Agusta | 8 | 1 | |
8 | Cecil Sandford | United Kingdom | MV Agusta | 8 | 0 | |
9 | Roberto Colombo | Italy | MV Agusta | 6 | 0 | |
10 | 23x15px José Antonio Elizalde | Spain | Montesa | 4 | 0 | |
11 | 23x15px Juan Bertrand | Spain | Montesa | 3 | 0 | |
= | Massimo Genevini | Italy | MV Agusta | 3 | 0 | |
13 | Franco Bertoni | Italy | MV Agusta | 2 | 0 | |
= | 23x15px Arturo Paragues | Spain | Lube | 2 | 0 | |
= | Ivor Lloyd | Canada | MV Agusta | 2 | 0 | |
16 | Karl Lottes | Germany | MV Agusta | 2 | 0 | |
17 | Angelo Copeta | Italy | MV Agusta | 1 | 0 | |
= | 23x15px Gabriel Corsin | Spain | MV Agusta | 1 | 0 | |
= | Brian Purslow | United Kingdom | MV Agusta | 1 | 0 | |
= | Willi Scheidhauer | Germany | MV Agusta | 1 | 0 |
References
- Büla, Maurice & Schertenleib, Jean-Claude (2001). Continental Circus 1949–2000. Chronosports S.A. ISBN 2-940125-32-5
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