1960 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 motorcycle world championship 1960 season was the twelfth in the history of FIM motorcycle road racing World Championship.

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

Scoring

  • The number gewerteter runs was calculated with an even number of races held by halving this number and then added with one. With six races so four were included in the championship standings.
  • If an odd number of races held, the number of runs was added to one and then halved. With seven races thus four were included in the ranking.

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Mortality

  • The Australian Bob Brown was killed on 23 July 1960 at the 250 - cc - training for the Grand Prix of Germany at the Stuttgart Solitude and died a short time later in a Stuttgart hospital head injury thereby sustained.

500 cc class

Race Results

Drivers' championship

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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

( Points in brackets including void results )

Constructors' Championship

( Points in brackets including void results )

Teams ( 500 cc )

Race Results

Drivers' championship

1 Some sources give the Grand Prix of the Netherlands also Graham Stokes as a passenger of Boddice ( Points in brackets including void results )

Constructors' Championship

( Points in brackets including void results )

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