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No photomontage - Valentino Rossi on a Yamaha R1 is chasing Toprak Razgatlioglu here with the BMW M1000-R, which is still fairly new for him. If we had known this,…
GP year 1957 – Part 3
Ernst Degner in front of Horst Fügner in the rain on their fully boarded MZ from Tschopau in Saxony. This image would finally disappear at the end of the 1957…
GP year 1957 – Part 2
Carlo Ubbiali (MV Agusta) was of course the man to beat in the smaller classes in 1957 after two 125cc titles in a row (1955 and 1956), as well as…
Anthony Gobert – RIP
WorldSBK star Anthony Gobert on a Kawasaki in 1996 - after an impressive career, the highly talented Australian never fully got his life back under control. After a life in…
GP year 1957 – Part 1
Horst Fügner with his IFA 125 (later MZ) at the field mountain race in the Taunus Mountains in 1955. Coming almost from nowhere, the man from Chemnitz won the 125…
GP year 1956 – part 3
An MV Agusta single-cylinder machine from the early years of racing, photographed by us at the Rupert Hollaus Memorial Race at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg. The 1956 season…
GP year 1956 – part 2
Hans Baltisberger on his NSU Sportmax 250 - after the resignation of H.P. Müller as world champion and a year before that of Werner Haas, as well as the tragic…
GP year 1956 – part 1
During this time, there were almost only critical comments among experts and a very clear majority of manufacturers about the voluminous full casings, such as those used by 250cc world…
Nothing learned
We photographed the almost empty spectator seats after the double Curva Rivazza, one of the key points of the Autodromo Dino e Enzo Ferrari, a traditional route, shortly before the…
GP year 1955 – part 4
Photographed by us in the NSU Museum - the cockpit of the NSU Sportmax 250. Officially the first series-production racing motorcycle used by a private driver, with which H.P. Müller…