Duilio Agostini Duilio Agostini Duilio Agostini (8 April 1926 – 12 April 2008) was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He had his best year in 1955 when he won the 350cc French Grand Prix and finished the season in seventh place in the 350cc world championship. Duilio Agostini was born to a well off family that owned the hotel restaurant Al Porto, now known as the Giardinetto, at Mandello del Lario on the shores of Lake Como; Guests included many important personalities linked to motorcycling, such as Omobono Tenni, Stanley Woods, Terzo Bandini, Primo Moretti and Ugo Prini. Duilio worked
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