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1961 Motocross World Championship
The 1961 Motocross World Championship was the 5th edition of the Motocross World Championship organized by the FIM and reserved for 500cc and 250cc motorcycles. Summary Sten Lundin, riding a Monark motorcycle rebadged as a Lito, took an early championship lead by winning the first three Grand Prix races of the year then, held off a challenge from Husqvarna's Bill Nilsson to claim his second 500cc Motocross World Championship. Dave Curtis swept both races of the 500cc British Grand Prix while Broer Dirkx repeated his 1959 success in the 500cc Dutch Grand Prix. Dave Bickers riding for the Greeves factory racing team claimed his second consecutive 250cc European Motocross Championship over his countrymen, BSA teammates Arthur Lampkin and Jeff Smith. Bickers dominates the season winning 6 out of 13 Grand Prix races and sets a season record with 14 individual race victories. Lampkin actually scored more points overall than did Bickers, but fell victim to FIM scoring rules which o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internationale Motorcross Op Het Circuit De Hoef Te St Anthonis, Bestanddeelnr 912-2074
"The Internationale" is an Proletarian internationalism, international anthem that has been adopted as the anthem of various anarchist, communist, socialist, democratic socialist, and social democratic movements. It has been a standard of the socialism, socialist movement since the late nineteenth century, when the Second International adopted it as its official anthem. The title arises from the "First International", an alliance of workers founded by Karl Marx and others, which held a congress in 1864. The author of the anthem's lyrics, Eugène Edine Pottier, Eugène Pottier, a member of the French branch of the organization, attended this congress. Pottier's text was later set to an original melody composed by Pierre De Geyter, a member of the French Workers' Party, Parti Ouvrier Français (French Workers Party) in Lille in industrial northern France. Lyrics The song in its original French version was written in June 1871 by Eugène Pottier, a member of the First Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |