This weekend's FrenchGP will be the 1000th world championship event in history 🍾 While the basic theory of motorcycle racing remains ever-present, almost everything else has changed ⬇️
This weekend’s MotoGP French Grand Prix will mark an important milestone for the series, as it will be the 1000th world championship event to be staged.To instantly clarify confusion that will undoubtedly crop up over this week’s celebrations: no, this is not the 1000th MotoGP – or premier class – race.
In 1948, a meeting of the motorcycle federation – what we know now as the FIM, but was back then known as Federation Internationale des Clubs Motocyclistes – decided that a grand prix world championship should be formed. The first round of this new world championship took place in June of 1949 at the Isle of Man TT, which held world championship status until 1977.
In the 250cc class, Ireland’s Manliff Barrington took the spoils on his Moto Guzzi while top honours in the 350cc race - which was the very first grand prix - went to Freddie Frith of Great Britain, grand prix winner number one of 393 in total across all classes at present. The day before, he was second in a half-distance sprint race, taking his weekend points total to 34 – four more than what won Les Graham the 1949 500cc world championship.
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