1955 Dutch TT

The 1955 Dutch TT was the sixth round of the 1955 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 16 July 1955 at the Circuit van Drenthe, Assen.

  1955 Dutch TT

Race details
Race 6 of 8 races in the 1955 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	16 July 1955
Location	Circuit van Drenthe, Assen
Course	Public roads 7.700 km (4.785 mi)
500 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Geoff Duke Reg Armstrong Gilera Gilera Time 3:31.6 Podium First Geoff Duke Gilera Second Reg Armstrong Gilera Third Umberto Masetti MV Agusta
350 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Dickie Dale Moto Guzzi Time 3:34.5 Podium First Ken Kavanagh Moto Guzzi Second Bill Lomas Moto Guzzi Third Dickie Dale Moto Guzzi
250 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Bill Lomas MV Agusta Time 3:42.4 Podium First Luigi Taveri MV Agusta Second Umberto Masetti MV Agusta Third Hermann Paul Müller NSU
125 cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Luigi Taveri MV Agusta Time 3:53.4 Podium First Carlo Ubbiali MV Agusta Second Remo Venturi MV Agusta Third Rudolf Grimas Mondial
Sidecar (B2A)
Rider Fastest lap Rider Cyril Smith Norton Time 3:51.9 Podium First Willi Faust BMW Second Wilhelm Noll BMW Third Bob Mitchell Norton

A new 4.7 mile (7.7 km) circuit had been built at Assen for the Dutch TT; the public road version was no longer used after 1954. This track set the foundation for future Dutch TT's.

500 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Geoff Duke	Gilera	27	1:37:03.9	8
2	Reg Armstrong	Gilera	27	+35.3	6
3	Umberto Masetti	MV Agusta	27	+2:05.3	4
4	Drikus Veer	Gilera			3
5	Bob Brown	Matchless			2
6	Eddie Grant	Norton			1
7	Piet Bakker	Norton
8	Hans-Günter Jäger	Norton
9	Priem Rozenberg	BMW
10	Phil Heath	Norton
11	Robin Fitton	Norton
12	Piet Knijenburg	Matchless
13	Casper Swart	Norton
14	Alfredo Milani	Gilera
15	Gerrit ten Kate	Norton
[1]

350 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Ken Kavanagh	Moto Guzzi	20	1:13:36.2	8
2	Bill Lomas	Moto Guzzi	20	+0.2	6
3	Dickie Dale	Moto Guzzi	20	+0.5	4
4	August Hobl	DKW			3
5	Karl Hofmann	DKW			2
6	Hans Bartl	DKW			1
7	Hans Baltisberger	NSU
8	Siegfried Wünsche	DKW
9	Lo Simons	AJS
10	Heinz Kauert	AJS
[1]

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Luigi Taveri	MV Agusta	17	1:04:22.4	8
2	Umberto Masetti	MV Agusta	17	+41.2	6
3	Hermann Paul Müller	NSU	17	+43.8	4
4	Enrico Lorenzetti	Moto Guzzi			3
5	Cecil Sandford	Moto Guzzi			2
6	Arthur Wheeler	Moto Guzzi			1
7	Günter Beer	Adler
8	Jack Forrest	NSU
9	Kurt Knopf	NSU
10	Piet Knijenburg	NSU
11	Karl-Julius Holthaus	NSU
12	Lo Simons	NSU
13	Ludwig Malchus	NSU
[1]

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Carlo Ubbiali	MV Agusta	14	57:17.2	8
2	Remo Venturi	MV Agusta	14	+0.2	6
3	Rudolf Grimas	Mondial			4
4	Bill Webster	MV Agusta			3
5	Willi Scheidhauer	MV Agusta			2
6	Erich Wünsche	MV Agusta			1
7	Gerrit Dupont	MV Agusta
8	Jasper Kaspers	Sparta
9	Bill Maddrick	MV Agusta
10	Jan Muijlwijk	DKW
11	Jan Rietveld	Eysink
[1]

Sidecar classification

Pos	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Willi Faust	Karl Remmert	BMW	14	55:41.1	8
2	Wilhelm Noll	Fritz Cron	BMW	14	+18.2	6
3	Bob Mitchell	Max George	Norton	14	+1:31.0	4
4	Jean Murit	Francis Flahaut	BMW			3
5	Jacques Drion	Inge Stoll	Norton			2
6	Henk Steman	Mappie de Haas	BMW			1
7	Roland Benz	Jakob Kuchler	Norton
8	Loni Neussner	?	Norton
9	Hans Haldemann	Herbert Läderach	Norton
[1]

References

1. Cook, R. A. B. (ed.). Motor Cycling Sports Yearbook 1956. Temple Press Ltd. p. 177.