1953 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

  • 3.1 Race Results
  • 3.2 Drivers' Championship
  • 3.3 Constructors' Championship
  • 4.1 Race Results
  • 4.2 Drivers' Championship
  • 4.3 Constructors' Championship
  • 5.1 Race Results
  • 5.2 Drivers' Championship
  • 5.3 Constructors' Championship
  • 6.1 Race Results
  • 6.2 Drivers' Championship
  • 6.3 Constructors' Championship
  • 7.1 Race Results
  • 7.2 Drivers' Championship
  • 7.3 Constructors' Championship

The World Motorcycle Championship season in 1953 was the fifth in the history of FIM motorcycle road racing World Championship.

³ In the class up to 500 cm, eight were discharged five races in the classes up to 350 cc and 250 cc of seven, in the class up to 125 cc and six in the sidecars.

Scoring

In the score came with less than eight races held the top four results, eight or more races were held the five best results obtained were included in the championship standings.

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  • The Briton Fergus Anderson won the 500cc race in Spain on a 350 cc engine.
  • With Werner Haas won for the first time in the history of the Motorcycle World Championship, a German a world title. The Augsburg succeeded at the same time, the title in the 125 - cm ³ - and the 250 cc class in a season retract.
  • As in the constructors 'championship of the 125 - cc class the two manufacturers MV Agusta and NSU same number of points, victories, and all other placements had the constructors' world championship was determined by adding all the race times of each best pilots of the manufacturer for the individual Grands Prix. The Italian brand MV Agusta had awarded it 36.1 seconds ahead of NSU and got the title.

Mortality

  • The British 500 cc World Champion Season 1949, Leslie Graham, came on Friday, June 12, 1953 in an accident in the 500 cc race of the Tourist Trophy killed. He was lying in third place, at high speed lost control of his motorcycle in a difficult stretch Bray Hill, had come to overthrow and still died at the accident site.

500 cc class

Race Results

Drivers' championship

( Points in brackets including void results )

Constructors' Championship

( Points in brackets including void results )

350 cc class

Race Results

Drivers' championship

( Points in brackets including void results )

Constructors' Championship

( Points in brackets including void results )

250 cc class

Race Results

Drivers' championship

( Points in brackets including void results )

Constructors' Championship

( Points in brackets including void results )

125 cc class

Race Results

Drivers' championship

Constructors' Championship

( Points in brackets including void results )

Teams ( 500 cc )

Race Results

Drivers' championship

( Points in brackets including void results )

Constructors' Championship

( Points in brackets including void results )

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