Flashcards: Motorcycle racers killed while racing

Per Tommy Jansson (2 October 1952 – 20 May 1976) was a motorcycle speedway rider.

Doriano Romboni (8 December 1968 in Lerici, Italy – 30 November 2013 in Latina, Italy) was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

He was born in Ruabon, North Wales.

Raymond 'Ray' Duggan (born 1913 West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia - died 20 January 1950 in Sydney, Australia) was an international Speedway first rode in the UK with the New Cross Lambs.

Richard Britton (1970 – 18 September 2005) was one of Ireland's leading motorcycle road racers before his death at Ballybunion road races.

Manfred Stengl (April 1, 1946 – June 6, 1992) was an Austrian luger who competed from the mid-1960s to 1971.

Vic Harding (5 July 1952 in East Ham, London – 8 June 1979 Whipps Cross, London) was a motorcycle speedway rider.

Wayne Malcolm Garratt (30 October 1968 in Halesowen, England – 28 September 1992) was a speedway rider in the United Kingdom, who started his speedway career with the Cradley Heath Heathens in the British League on his 16th birthday.

Werner Giger (April 17, 1949 - July 31, 1974) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Switzerland.

Sante Geminiani (September 4, 1919 - August 15, 1951) was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Stephen Robert Dunlop (25 November 1960 – 15 May 2008) was a Northern Irish motorcycle racer, the younger brother of fellow road racer, the late Joey Dunlop, and like Joey he died after a crash while racing.

Alessio Perilli was an Italian motorcycle road racer.

Gilberto Parlotti (17 September 1940 – 9 June 1972) was an Italian professional motorcycle racer competing in the FIM World Championship between 1969 and 1972.

Guido Paci (December 27, 1949 - April 10, 1983) was an Italian professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

William Raymond Amm (10 December 1927 – 11 April 1955) was a Rhodesian professional motorcycle racer known for two motorcycle Grand Prix wins and three wins at the Isle of Man TT Races in his career.

Jock Taylor (March 9, 1954 – August 15, 1982) was a Scottish World Champion motorcycle sidecar racer.

John Hartle (22 December 1933 - 31 August 1968) was an English professional road racer who competed in national, international and Grand Prix motorcycle events.

(For other people named John Newbold, see John Newbold (disambiguation).) John Newbold (14 December 1952 - 15 May 1982) was an English professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Kirk Richard McCarthy (18 November 1966 – 15 August 2004), in Melbourne Victoria, Australia, was an Australian motorcycle road racer who competed in several major championships both at home and internationally.

Ramon Torras Figueras (Barcelona, December 22, 1942 – Coma-ruga May 30, 1965) was a Catalan Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Spain.

Guido Leoni (July 14, 1915 - May 6, 1951) was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Gianni Leoni (March 1, 1915 - August 15, 1951) was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Como.

Tommaso Omobono Tenni (July 24, 1905 - June 30, 1948) was an Italian motorcycle road racer.

Daijiro Kato (加藤 大治郎 Katō Daijirō, July 4, 1976 – April 20, 2003) was a Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, the 2001 250cc world champion, and the 2000 and 2002 Suzuka 8 Hours winner.

Brian Steenson was a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

John Crellin (died 12 June 2009, aged 55) was a Manx motorcycle racer from Douglas who died during the 2009 Isle of Man TT on the 5th lap of the Senior race.

Thomas Edward Phillis (9 April 1934 – 6 June 1962) was an Australian professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

(This article is about the Irish motorcylist. For the Bioshock character, see Martin Finnegan (Bioshock).) Martin Finnegan (8 October 1979 – 3 May 2008) was an Irish motorcycle racer.

Billie Nelson (2 November 1941 - 8 September 1974) was a British former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Angelo Bergamonti (March 18, 1939 - April 4, 1971) was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Dario Ambrosini (March 7, 1918 in Cesena - July 14, 1951 in Albi) was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer who competed for the Benelli factory racing team.

Graeme Ritchie (7 December 1957 – 8 August 1997) was a Scottish motorcycle road racer.

Peter Theodore Craven (21 June 1934 – 24 September 1963) was an English motorcycle racer.

Francis James "Ken" Le Breton (15 August 1924 Sydney, New South Wales – 6 January 1951) was an Australian Motorcycle speedway rider who was nicknamed "The White Ghost" due to his wearing white leathers.

Fergus Kenrick Anderson (9 February 1909 – 6 May 1956) was a Scottish professional motorcycle racer.

Richard H. Dale (25 April 1927 – 30 April 1961) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer born in Wyberton near Boston, Lincolnshire, England.

Marco Simoncelli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko simonˈtʃɛlli]; 20 January 1987 – 23 October 2011) was an Italian professional motorcycle racer.

Michel Rougerie (April 21, 1950 in Montreuil-sous-Bois - May 31, 1981 in Rijeka) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from France.

Kim Newcombe (2 January 1944 – 14 August 1973), was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from New Zealand.

Patrick Pons (December 24, 1952 in Paris - August 10, 1980) was a French professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Keith Ronald Campbell (2 October 1931 – 13 July 1958) was an Australian professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Jack Middelburg (30 April 1952, in Naaldwijk – 3 April 1984, in Groningen) was a Dutch professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Paul Dobbs (5 October 1970 – 10 June 2010) was a New Zealand motorcycle road racer and development test rider.

Günter Bartusch (13 April 1943 – 8 July 1971) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from the former East Germany.

Andrea Antonelli (17 January 1988 – 21 July 2013) was an Italian motorcycle racer.

Steve Henshaw (died 7 June, 1989) was an English motorcycle racer and working motorcycle mechanic.

Florian Camathias (23 March 1924 – 10 October 1965) was a Swiss professional Grand Prix motorcycle and sidecar racer.

Daniel Rivas Fernández (13 March 1988 – 19 July 2015) was a Spanish motorcycle racer.

Jarno Karl Keimo Saarinen (11 December 1945 – 20 May 1973) was a Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Michel Frutschi (6 January 1953 – 3 April 1983) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Switzerland.

Bernard Laurence Hiett (1909 – 3 May 1930) was an English air pilot who became famous for his exploits in motorcycle racing, where he achieved several world records in the sport.

Edwin Robin Fitton (1928 in Leeds – 12 July 1970 in Nürburg) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Robert Holden (17 December 1958 – 31 May 1996) was a motorcycle road racer from New Zealand.

Bernat Martínez Mas (10 January 1980 – 19 July 2015) was a Spanish motorcycle racer.

Bob Brown (9 May 1930 in Sydney - 23 July 1960 at Solituderennen) was an Australian professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Robert MacGregor McIntyre (28 November 1928 – 15 August 1962) was a Scottish motorcycle racer famous for five motorcycle Grand Prix wins which included three wins at the Isle of Man TT Races, and four victories in the North West 200.

Allan David Jefferies (18 September 1972 – 29 May 2003) was an English professional motorcycle racer.

Zdeněk Kudrna (born 2 September 1946 in Čisovice, Czechoslovakia - died 1 June 1982) was an international speedway rider who reached he Speedway World Championship final in 1979.

Steve Smith (25 November 1989 – 10 May 2016) was a Canadian professional downhill mountain biker.

Ollie Bridewell (Oliver Frederick Bridewell, 10 December 1985 – 20 July 2007), from Etchilhampton, Wiltshire, was a British motorcycle road racer.

Robert Leslie (Les) Graham DFC (14 September 1911 in Wallasey - 12 June 1953) was a British motorcycle road racer who competed in the 1930s and 1940s.

Santiago Herrero (9 May 1943 – 10 June 1970) was a Spanish professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Iván Palazzese (2 January 1962 – 28 May 1989) was an Italian born Venezuelan professional motorcycle racer.

Otello Buscherini (January 19, 1949 in Forlì - May 16, 1976 in Mugello) was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Roberto Colombo (January 5, 1927, in Casatenovo - July 6, 1957, in Francorchamps) was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer who competed for the MV Agusta factory racing team.

Simon Neil Stuart Andrews (14 August 1982 – 19 May 2014) was a British motorcycle racer.

Tom Herron (14 December 1948 – 26 May 1979) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Lisburn, County Antrim in Northern Ireland.

Ulrich Graf (August 15, 1946 - June 19, 1977) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Switzerland.

Ben Drinkwater (Reuben Thomas Drinkwater, 13 February 1910 – 9 June 1949) born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, was a railway signalman and motorcycle racer who competed in the Isle of Man TT races and the Manx Grand Prix.

János Drapál (born February 3, 1948 – August 11, 1985) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Budapest.

William David Ivy (27 August 1942 – 12 July 1969) was an English professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Maidstone, Kent.

Malcolm David Whitworth (1904 — 3 July 1950) was a British motorcycle racer.

William Joseph Dunlop, OBE (25 February 1952 – 2 July 2000), was a world champion motorcyclist from Ballymoney in Northern Ireland.

Archie Birkin (Charles Archibald Cecil Birkin, 30 March 1905 – 7 June 1927) was an English motorcycle racer, brother of Tim Birkin, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s.

Éric Aubijoux (December 8, 1964 – January 20, 2007) was a French motorcycle rider.

Shoya Tomizawa (富沢 祥也 Tomizawa Shōya) (December 10, 1990 – September 5, 2010) was a Japanese motorcycle racer.

Olivier Chevallier (born February 6, 1949 in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher - April 6, 1980) was a French professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

John Williams (born 27 May 1946 – 12 August 1978) was an English motorcycle short-circuit road racer who also entered selected Grands Prix on the near-continent.

Marie-Laure Rosene Lambert (1935, Geneva, Switzerland - 12 June 1961) was a female Swiss motorcycle racer.

Renzo Pasolini (18 July 1938 – 20 May 1973), nicknamed "Paso", was a popular Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Tom Farndon (11 September 1910 – 30 August 1935), was a British speedway rider who won the Star Riders' Championship in 1933 whilst with the Crystal Palace Glaziers.

Ingeborg Stoll-Laforge (11 February 1930, Brand, Germany – 24 August 1958) was a female German motorcycle racer.

Alan Hunt (born 1925 Aston, England - died 2 February 1957) was an international motorcycle speedway rider who qualified for the Speedway World Championship final four times.

Lee Stewart Richardson (25 April 1979 – 13 May 2012) was a British international motorcycle speedway rider.

Robert Charles (Charlie) Appleby (born 10 October 1913 in Saskatchewan, Canada - died 8 October 1946) was a speedway rider.

Luis Jaime Salom Horrach (7 August 1991 – 3 June 2016) was a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer.

Darran Lindsay (1971–2006) was a Northern Irish motorcycle road racer.

Hans Baltisberger (born September 16, 1924, Betzingen, Germany - August 26, 1956 ) was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Germany.

Börje Kenny Olsson (March 6, 1977 in Stockholm, Sweden – June 8, 2007), was a Swedish speedway racer.

John Patrick 'Joe' Abbott (12 April 1902 in Burnley, England – 1 July 1950) was an international motorcycle speedway rider who rode in the World Championship final in 1937.