Alfredo Milani
Alfredo Milani ( born January 6, 1924 in Garbagnate Milanese) is a former Italian motorcycle racer.
Throughout his career, he was a Gilera factory driver on the road.
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Career
Alfredo Milani comes from a motor sport-loving family. His older brother was also albino motorcycle racer and has been called Gilera factory driver in 1952, together with Giuseppe Pizzocri behind the British Cyril Smith Vice World Champion in the sidecar class. Rossano brother took in the 1950s, for years the place of the passenger in a sidecar albinos. Together, the three operated in Milan a successful repair and restoration business for motorcycles.
His debut in the World Motorcycle Championship gave Alfredo Milani with fourth place in the 500cc race at the Grand Prix of Nations 1950 in Monza. The following season was the most successful in Milani's career. He played five of the eight discharged Grand Prix, won the French Grand Prix, which was held this year in Albi, and the Nations Grand Prix. In Belgium and the Netherlands, the Italian was behind the British Norton pilots Geoff Duke each second, the Ulster Grand Prix in Northern Ireland, he finished fourth. In the overall standings Milani won so second place behind Duke and became Vice World Champion.
In the 1952 season Milani played no World Cup races. Instead, he focused on the Italian Championship, which he won this year in the half-liter class. 1953, Alfredo Milani, continue starting for the Manufacturers of Arcore, with three 500cc Grands Prix at. He won in Belgium, placed third in France and finished in Switzerland in second place. These rankings helped him to third world place behind his team mate Geoff Duke and Reg Armstrong.
Between 1954 and 1957, for Gilera five world championship races in which he scored two podiums.