1950 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix

  1950 Swiss Grand Prix

Race details
Race 4 of 6 races in the 1950 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	23 July 1950
Location	Geneva, Switzerland
Course	Public roads 5.996 km (3.726 mi)
500 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Carlo Bandirola Gilera Time 2:42 Podium First Leslie Graham AJS Second Umberto Masetti Gilera Third Carlo Bandirola Gilera
350 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Bob Foster Velocette Time 2:39 Podium First Leslie Graham AJS Second Bob Foster Velocette Third Geoff Duke Norton
250 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Dario Ambrosini Benelli Time 2:52.2 Podium First Dario Ambrosini Benelli Second Bruno Ruffo Moto Guzzi Third Dickie Dale Benelli
Sidecar (B2A)
Rider Fastest lap Rider Eric Oliver Norton Time 3:04.2 Podium First Eric Oliver Norton Second Gilera Third Norton

The 1950 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth race of the 1950 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 23 July 1950 in Geneva.

500 cc classification[]

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Leslie Graham	AJS	34	1:36:57	8
2	Umberto Masetti	Gilera	34	+1:14	6
3	Carlo Bandirola	Gilera	34	+1:15	4
4	Geoff Duke	Norton	34	+1:44	3
5	Harold Daniell	Norton			2
6	Johnny Lockett	Norton			1
7		Norton
8	Reg Armstrong	Velocette
9		Gilera
10	Nello Pagani	Gilera
11		Norton
12	Arciso Artesiani	MV Agusta
13	Benoît Musy	Moto Guzzi
14		Norton
15		Norton
16		Norton
17	Denis Jenkinson	Norton
18		Norton
[1]

350 cc classification[]

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Leslie Graham	AJS	25	1:11:25	8
2	Bob Foster	Velocette	25	+0:18	6
2	Umberto Masetti	Gilera	34	+1:14	6
3	Geoff Duke	Norton	25	+0:47	4
4	Reg Armstrong	Velocette	25	+1:04	3
5	Ted Frend	AJS	25	+1:12	2
6	Dickie Dale	AJS	25	+1:12	1
7	Harry Hinton	Norton	25	+1:46
8	Bill Lomas	Velocette	25	+1:48
9	Harold Daniell	Norton	25	+1:49
10	Johnny Lockett	Norton
11	Tommy Wood	Velocette
12	Syd Jensen	AJS
13		AJS
14	Fergus Anderson	AJS
15		Norton
16		AJS
17		Velocette
18		Velocette
19		Velocette
20	J. Zuber	Norton
21		Norton
22		AJS
[1]

250 cc classification[]

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Dario Ambrosini	Benelli	21	1:01:48.2	8
2	Bruno Ruffo	Moto Guzzi	21	+47.4	6
3	Dickie Dale	Benelli	21	+57.8	4
4	Benoît Musy	Moto Guzzi	21	+2:42.8	3
5		Moto Guzzi			2
6		Moto Guzzi			1
7	Roberto Colombo	Moto Guzzi
8		Moto Guzzi
9		Moto Guzzi
[1]

Sidecar classification[]

Pos	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Eric Oliver	Lorenzo Dobelli	Norton	17	52:59.8	8
2		Ezio Ricotti	Gilera	17	+40.0	6
3		René Aubert	Norton	17	+2:34.8	4
4		Pierre Dévaud	Gilera			3
5		Fred Schürtenberger	Gilera			2
6		Denis Jenkinson	BMW			1
7		Josef Albisser	Norton
8		?	Norton
9		?	Norton
10		Marie Mühlemann	Norton
[1]

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