British motorcycle Grand Prix British motorcycle Grand Prix The British motorcycle Grand Prix is a motorcycling event that is part of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. Before 1977, the only British round was the Isle of Man TT, which was part of the FIM championship from its inauguration in 1949 until 1976. The Isle of Man TT was the most prestigious event on the Grand Prix motorcycling calendar from 1949-1972. After the 1972 event, multiple world champion Giacomo Agostini dropped a bombshell on the motorsports world by stating he would never race at the Isle of Man TT again, stating the 37-mile (62
Dave Simmonds world championship with one win at the German Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring. In 1971, he competed in the premier 500cc class with a Kawasaki H1R. He proved to be competitive by finishing second to Giacomo Agostini and the dominant MV Agusta at the Finnish Grand Prix and had third places in Holland and Italy. Simmonds won his first 500cc class victory at the season ending Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama when Agostini sat out the race after already winning the championship. In 1972, seven years after first his first appearance on the 125cc Kawasaki, Simmonds would race the bike