1971 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
- 8.1 Race Results
- 8.2 Drivers' Championship
- 8.3 Constructors' Championship
The motorcycle world championship 1971 season was the 23rd in the history of the FIM motorcycle road racing World Championship.
In the classes to 500 cc to 350 cc to 125 cc and eleven were discharged eight races in the class up to 250 cc twelve in the class up to 50 cc and nine 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. For example, so went six races at four in the championship standings.
- If an odd number of races held, the number of runs was added to one and then halved. Thus, for example went at seven race four in the standings.
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- In the 250 cc race around the Grand Prize of the GDR, there was an uproar. Dieter Braun from Germany had won the race after an exciting battle against Phil Read and Rodney Gould, and had been doing cheered wildly, of the approximately 150,000 spectators. The race director Hans Zacharias was asked during the race by the GDR officials to take brown with the black flag of the race, because they wanted to prevent the national anthem of the Federal Republic of Germany is playing. Zacharias did not according to this demand and then lost his job as race director. The Anthem of West Germany was played at start and finish, but had not heard about the route speaker. As a consequence, the Great Prize of the GDR was announced from 1973 only for riders from the Eastern bloc and thereby lost its world championship status.
Mortality
- The Scot Maurice Jeffery died on June 12 in an accident on the first lap of the race, the Senior TT. He had lost control of his Manx Norton at the section Rhencullen and had hit a wall.
- Christian Ravel from France crashed on July 4 in the 500cc race in Belgium in the BLANCHIMONT curve with about 240 km / h and he died the same day in the hospital.
- The MZ rider Günter Bartusch from the GDR came on July 8 in a fall in training the 350- cc class at the Grand Prix of the GDR killed.
500 cc class
Race Results
Drivers' championship
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Constructors' Championship
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350 cc class
Race Results
Drivers' championship
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 )
50 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
( Points in brackets including void results )
Constructors' Championship
( Points in brackets including void results )