1951 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1951 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1951 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 8 April 1951 at the Montjuïc circuit.

  1951 Spanish Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 8 races in the 1951 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	8 April 1951
Location	Montjuïc circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 6.033 km (3.749 mi)
500 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Enrico Lorenzetti Moto Guzzi Time 3:45 Podium First Umberto Masetti Gilera Second Tommy Wood Norton Third Arciso Artesiani MV Agusta
350 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Tommy Wood Velocette Time 3:47 Podium First Tommy Wood Velocette Second Leslie Graham Velocette Third Bill Petch AJS
125 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Carlo Ubbiali Mondial Time 4:04 Podium First Guido Leoni Mondial Second Carlo Ubbiali Mondial Third Vincenzo Zanzi Moto Morini
Sidecar (B2A)
Rider Fastest lap Rider Eric Oliver Norton Time 4:21 Podium First Eric Oliver Norton Second Ercole Frigerio Gilera Third Albino Milani Gilera

500 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Umberto Masetti	Gilera	34	2:10:56.2	8
2	Tommy Wood	Norton	34	+1:00.8	6
3	Arciso Artesiani	MV Agusta			4
4	Roger Montané	Norton			3
5	Carlo Bandirola	MV Agusta			2
6	Ernesto Vidal	Gilera			1
[1]

350 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Tommy Wood	Velocette	25	1:36:21.7	8
2	Leslie Graham	Velocette	25	+2:30.0	6
3	Bill Petch	AJS			4
4	Fernando Aranda	Moto Guzzi			3
5	Jack Raffeld	AJS			2
6	John Grace	AJS			1
7	Bob Matthews	Velocette
8	Antonio Creus	AJS
9	Juan Buira	AJS
10	Len Parry	Velocette
11	Alfredo Flores	Velocette
12	J. Gomar	AJS
[1]

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Guido Leoni	Mondial	17	1:11:21.8	8
2	Carlo Ubbiali	Mondial	17	+4.6	6
3	Vincenzo Zanzi	Moto Morini	17	+9.0	4
4	Raffaele Alberti	Mondial			3
5	Juan Soler Bultó	Montesa			2
6	Arturo Elizalde	Montesa			1
7	Dick Renooy	Eysink
8	Toon van Zutphen	Eysink
9	Tonnie Heinemann	Eysink
10	"Setroc"	MV Agusta
11	Gianfranco Zanzi	Mondial
12	Jacques Vaque	MV Agusta
[1]

Sidecar classification

Pos	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Eric Oliver	Lorenzo Dobelli	Norton	17	1:16:03.1	8
2	Ercole Frigerio	Ezio Ricotti	Gilera	17	+2:04.1	6
3	Albino Milani	Giuseppe Pizzocri	Gilera	17	+2:27.5	4
4	Giovanni Carru	Carlo Musso	Carru			3
5	Siegfried Vogel	Leo Vinatzer	BMW			2
6	Marcel Masuy	Denis Jenkinson	Norton			1
7	Renato Prati	Marino Saguato	Moto Guzzi
[1]

References

1. Chamberlain, Peter (ed.). Motor Cycling Yearbook 1952. Temple Press Ltd. pp. 111–112.