1951 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix

  1951 Swiss Grand Prix

Race details
Race 3 of 8 races in the 1951 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	27 May 1951
Location	Circuit Bremgarten
Course	Permanent racing facility 7.280 km (4.524 mi)
500 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Geoff Duke Norton Time 3:02.0 Podium First Fergus Anderson Moto Guzzi Second Reg Armstrong AJS Third Enrico Lorenzetti Moto Guzzi
350 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Reg Armstrong AJS Time 3:11.9 Podium First Leslie Graham Velocette Second Cecil Sandford Velocette Third Reg Armstrong AJS
250 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Dario Ambrosini Benelli Time 3:29.9 Podium First Dario Ambrosini Benelli Second Bruno Ruffo Moto Guzzi Third Gianni Leoni Moto Guzzi
Sidecar (B2A)
Rider Fastest lap Rider Eric Oliver Norton Time 3:38.9 Podium First Gilera Second Gilera Third Gilera

The 1951 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix was the second race of the 1951 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 27 May 1951 at the Bremgarten circuit.

500 cc classification[]

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Fergus Anderson	Moto Guzzi	28	1:34:44.2	8
2	Reg Armstrong	AJS	28	+1:47.9	6
3	Enrico Lorenzetti	Moto Guzzi	28	+2:07.5	4
4	Carlo Bandirola	MV Agusta			3
5	Benoît Musy	Moto Guzzi			2
6		Norton			1
7	Hans Baltisberger	Norton
8		Gilera
9		Moto Guzzi
10		Norton
11	Tommy Wood	Norton
12		Norton
[1]

350 cc classification[]

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Leslie Graham	Velocette	22	1:10:48.5	8
2	Cecil Sandford	Velocette	22	+1:18.6	6
3	Reg Armstrong	AJS	22	+1:48.6	4
4		Velocette			3
5		Velocette			2
6		AJS			1
7	Hans Baltisberger	AJS
8		AJS
9		AJS
10		Norton
11		Velocette
12		Norton
13		Velocette
14	Denis Jenkinson	Norton
[1]

250 cc classification[]

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Dario Ambrosini	Benelli	18	1:05:32.1	8
2	Bruno Ruffo	Moto Guzzi	18	+1:10.8	6
3	Gianni Leoni	Moto Guzzi	18	+3:00.3	4
4	Benoît Musy	Moto Guzzi			3
5	Cecil Sandford	Velocette			2
6		Parilla			1
7	H. Steffan	Parilla
8	Alano Montanari	Moto Guzzi
9		Parilla
10		Moto Guzzi
11	R. Thiery	Monet-Goyon
12		Moto Guzzi
[1]

Sidecar classification[]

Pos	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1		Ezio Ricotti	Gilera	16	1:01:27.6	8
2		Giuseppe Pizzocri	Gilera	16	+2:03.6	6
3		Dino Magri	Gilera	16	+2:56.4	4
4		Denis Jenkinson	Norton			3
5	Eric Oliver	Lorenzo Dobelli	Norton			2
6		Carlo Musso	Carru			1
7		Gianfranco Zanzi	Eigenbau
8		?	Gilera
9		?	Gilera
10		?	Norton
11		Marino Saguato	Moto Guzzi
12	F. Vaasen	?	Norton
13		?	Carru
[1]

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