Jan Huberts (12 October 1937 – 19 November 2016) was a

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from the

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. He had his best year in

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wo ...

when he won two Grand Prix races and finished the season in third place behind

Ernst Degner Ernst Degner (born Ernst Eugen Wotzlawek on 22 September 1931 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany - died 10 September 1983 in Arona, Tenerife, Spain) was a professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Eastern Germany. Degner was noted for ...

and

Hans-Georg Anscheidt Hans-Georg Anscheidt (born 23 December 1935 at Königsberg) is a retired German Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion. He won three consecutive FIM 50 cc world championships from 1966 to 1968 as a member of the Suzuki is a Ja ...

. He is holder of the official world speed record for 50cc motorcycles.Jan Huberts
at motorracehistorie.nl. Huberts owned and managed a motorcycle racing team. His team contested the 500cc world championship between

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school s ...

and

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

using

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bikes.

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1937 births 2016 deaths Dutch motorcycle racers 50cc World Championship riders 125cc World Championship riders 250cc World Championship riders Sportspeople from The Hague 20th-century Dutch people {{motorcycle-racing-bio-stub