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Giacomo Agostini
This paperback reprint - back due to popular demand. Mick Walkers expert account recalls the extraordinary era from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s when Agostini was without doubt the man to beat at the top level of motorcycle sport. It is fully illustrated and includes a race-by-race record of all Agostinis achievements. Fifteen world titles - eight at 500cc and twelve Isle of Man TT victories in an extraordinary 17 year career make Giacomo Agostini the most successful racing motorcyclist in the history of the sport. His precocious talent and the courage and flair he demonstarted as a rider throughout his long career marked him out from all his comtemporaries. Yet until now no full-length study of his spectacular career has been published in English. Mick Walkers expert account recalls the
extraordinary era from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s when Agostini was without doubt the man to beat at the top level of motorcycle sport. Agostinis great races and his fierce rivalry with riders like Mike Hailwood Jarno Saarinen and Phil Read are vividly recreated and his world-beating motorcycles are analyzed in detail including the legendary MV Agustas. In this fully illustrated and in-depth new study Mick Walker reassesses Agostinis remarkable record and explores the personal and technical background to his achievement. He writes of Agostinis birth in Northern Italy his success as a teenager in hillclimbs and other local events and his sudden appearance on the world stage as Mike Hailwoods teammate at MV in 1965. No one could have predicted the matchless run of success that followed -
no less than 122 Grand Prix wins. Agostini turned briefly to motor racing after he retired from motor cycles then went into motorcycle team management with Yamaha and Cagiva and was closely involved in the design of the MV Agusta F4 superbike. Mick Walker covers this less-known side of Agostinis career but he concentrates on the racing years and on the motorcycles themselves. There is a technical analysis of the bikes Agostini rode and developed in particular the 350cc and 500cc MVs he used at his peak. There is also a full race-by-race record of his achievements.
extraordinary era from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s when Agostini was without doubt the man to beat at the top level of motorcycle sport. Agostinis great races and his fierce rivalry with riders like Mike Hailwood Jarno Saarinen and Phil Read are vividly recreated and his world-beating motorcycles are analyzed in detail including the legendary MV Agustas. In this fully illustrated and in-depth new study Mick Walker reassesses Agostinis remarkable record and explores the personal and technical background to his achievement. He writes of Agostinis birth in Northern Italy his success as a teenager in hillclimbs and other local events and his sudden appearance on the world stage as Mike Hailwoods teammate at MV in 1965. No one could have predicted the matchless run of success that followed -
no less than 122 Grand Prix wins. Agostini turned briefly to motor racing after he retired from motor cycles then went into motorcycle team management with Yamaha and Cagiva and was closely involved in the design of the MV Agusta F4 superbike. Mick Walker covers this less-known side of Agostinis career but he concentrates on the racing years and on the motorcycles themselves. There is a technical analysis of the bikes Agostini rode and developed in particular the 350cc and 500cc MVs he used at his peak. There is also a full race-by-race record of his achievements.
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