Yugoslavian motorcycle Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Yugoslavia for motorcycles was a motorcycle race, which was held between 1960 and 1990 30 times and 1969-1990 21 times belonged to the motorcycle world championship.
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History
The precursor of the Grand Prix of Jugowlawien 1946 held on the street circuit Preluk in a sports complex in Opatija as a round of the Croatian Cup. 1947 was one of the race for the first time the Yugoslav Championship. In 1950, the race was called the price of the Adriatic Sea ( Nagrada Jadrana ) and was first advertised for foreign starter. In 1960 it became the Grand Prize of the Adriatic Sea ( Velika Nagrada Jadrana ). In the 1950s and 1960s, internationally successful pilots such as Nello Pagani, František Šťastný Alano Montanari, Alfredo Milani, Florian Camathias, Fritz Hillebrand, Renzo Pasolini, Silvio Grassetti or Luigi Taveri contributed into the winners' lists.
In 1969, the Grand Prix of the Adriatic for the first time received world championship status. In 1971 the race was not held after a change of the organizer because of bureaucratic difficulties in 1972 it was named the Grand Prix of Yugoslavia. In 1973, the Grand Prix after several serious accidents in the previous World Championship races and because of the force as a dangerous stretch of Opatija boycotted by the works teams of Yamaha, Harley- Davidson and MV Agusta.
After the fatal accident of Ulrich Graf and Giovanni Zigiotto in 1977, the race was held at Grobnik Rijeka from 1978 built on the nearby, especially for the preservation of the Grand Prix Automotodrome.
In 1991 the end for the Grand Prix of Yugoslavia followed. The planned for 16 June of the year race was canceled because of the outbreak of war in Yugoslavia and replaced by the European Grand Prix in Jarama, Spain. Since then, never a Grand Prix Yugoslavia was discharged again.
Statistics of the Grand Prix of Yugoslavia
From 1960 to 1968 ( not in the Motorcycle World Championship )
( colored background = race in the Motorcycle Championship )