Portal:Motorcycle racing/Did you know management

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[edit] Management of 'Did you knows'

One 'Did you know' is circulated from the list below onto the Motorcycle racing Portal every Wednesday.

If this has not been done, please:

  1. Cut the top 'Did you know' from the list below.
  2. Paste it at the top of the list here.
  3. Cut the bottom 'Did you know' from that list.
  4. And paste it back at the bottom of the list below.

Doing it this way means that all the 'Did you knows' get circulated through on a regular basis.

If the top 'Did you know' doesn't seem suitable (perhaps it is on the same topic as the current selected article or selected picture) then feel free to skip it and use the next one down.

If you have a new Motorcycle racing 'Did you know' the please add it directly to the top of the list below. You do not need to put it in the discussion section below first, unless you wish to. Again, if this means that it is too close to a similar 'Did you know', move it down the list so that it is further away. Please make sure to include all the appropriate wikilinks in your 'Did you know' and above all check that the 'Did you know' is accurate.

[edit] List of 'Did you knows'

  • …that Emilio Alzamora is the only rider to win a 125 cc World Championship title with no Grand Prix wins in 1999.
  • …that the TT Circuit Assen is the only circuit on the MotoGP world championship calendar that has held Grands Prix every year since the championship started in 1949.
  • …that the Dutch TT is always held on Saturday.
  • …that the MotoGP World Championship is the oldest motorsport world championship as it started back in 1949, a year earlier than Formula One.
  • …that Kenny Roberts, Jr. is the only 2nd generation MotoGP World Champion he won the title in 2000 while his father Kenny Roberts won the title in 1978, 1979 and 1980.
  • …that Max Biaggi won both the first 500 GP race and Superbike race he entered.
  • …that Giacomo Agostini is first in all time 500cc/MotoGP world championship wins with 8 world championships. Michael Doohan and Valentino Rossi are joint second with 5 world championships each.
  • …that Giacomo Agostini is first in consecutive 500cc/MotoGP world championship wins with 7 consecutive world championships from 1966 to 1972. Michael Doohan with 5 consecutive world championships from 1994 to 1998 and Valentino Rossi with 5 consecutive world championships from 2001 to 2005 are joint second.
  • …that Giacomo Agostini is first in all time race wins with 68 race wins. Valentino Rossi is second with 62 race wins.
  • …that Valentino Rossi is first in all time podiums standings with 99 podiums followed by Michael Doohan with 95.
  • …that Honda is first in all time world championship wins with 17 world championships. MV Agusta is second with 16.
  • …that Carl Fogarty is first in all time Superbike world championship wins with 4 world championships. Troy Bayliss,Troy Corser,Colin Edwards,Fred Merkel,Doug Polen, and James Toseland have 2 Superbike world championships each.
  • …that except for the Frenchman Raymond Roche, who won the championship in 1990, all other Superbike World Champions were English native speakers.
  • …that Carl Fogarty is first in all time Superbike world championship wins with 59 wins. Troy Bayliss is second with 41.
  • …that Ducati is first in all time Superbike world championship wins with 14 world championships. Honda is second with 4.
  • …that John Surtees is the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels.

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