...before the odds were stacked
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MotoGP's last four-stroke win - before the odds were stacked in its favour
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It’s fifty years since Giacomo Agostini became the last rider to win a MotoGP race aboard a 500cc four-stroke, in the face of racing against 500cc two-strokes.
Fifty years ago – August 29, 1976, to be exact – Giacomo Agostini rode his booming MV Agusta 500cc four-stroke to victory in the West German Grand Prix at Nürburgring, beating a grid full of ring-ding-dinging 500cc two-strokes.
The 500cc MotoGP class survived for another 25 years – roughly 220 races – but this was last victory by a four-stroke on equal engine-capacity terms.
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50 years ago: USA’s first MotoGP victory and Sheene’s first crown
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Pat Hennen’s first MotoGP win and Barry Sheene’s first title were the start of the USA’s MotoGP empire and the beginning of the end of Britain’s, so what explains these generational changes?
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Growing local opposition threatens MotoGP’s Adelaide street circuit
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Fifteen months from now, MotoGP plans to host the 2027 Australian Grand Prix in an Adelaide park, but growing local resistance has triggered a parliamentary inquiry into the project
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Growing local opposition threatens MotoGP’s Adelaide street circuit
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Fifteen months from now, MotoGP plans to host the 2027 Australian Grand Prix in an Adelaide park, but growing local resistance has triggered a parliamentary inquiry into the project
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