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  2. Dudley Perkins (motorcyclist) - Wikipedia

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    Dudley B. Perkins (May 19, 1893 – February 26, 1978 [1]) was an American champion motorcycle hillclimb competitor and Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealer. The American Motorcyclist Association's highest award, the AMA Dud Perkins Lifetime Achievement Award, was named after him in 1970, and he was its first recipient.

  3. Hillclimbing - Wikipedia

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    Hillclimbing, also known as hill climbing, speed hillclimbing, or speed hill climbing, is a branch of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock to complete an uphill course. It is one of the oldest forms of motorsport, since the first known hillclimb at La Turbie near Nice , France, took place as long ago as 31 January 1897.

  4. Pikes Peak International Hill Climb - Wikipedia

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    A time in italics indicates this was a previous motorcycle record, a time in bold indicates the current motorcycle record. On June 30, 2019, four-time Pikes Peak International Hill Climb winner Carlin Dunne was killed in a crash at the race. [ 35 ]

  5. European Hill Climb Championship - Wikipedia

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    The FIA European Hill Climb Championship (FIA EHC) is an FIA-run motorsport competition held across Europe on closed public road courses. [1]Unlike circuit racing, each driver competes alone, starting from a point at the base of a mountain and reaching a finish point near the summit.

  6. Mont Ventoux Hill Climb - Wikipedia

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    Mont Ventoux Hill Climb is a car and motorcycle hillclimbing race course near Avignon in France. The course, up Mont Ventoux, starts from the village of Bédoin and rises 5,289 feet (1,612 m) for 13.4 miles (21.6 km), [1] to the observatory at the summit, for an average gradient of 7.4%.

  7. Motorcycle racing - Wikipedia

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    Superbike racing is the category of motorcycle road racing that employs modified production motorcycles, as with touring cars. Superbike racing motorcycles must have four stroke engines of between 800 cc and 1200 cc for twins , and between 750 cc and 1000 cc for four cylinder machines.

  8. Baconin Borzacchini - Wikipedia

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    After serving in the army artillery during World War I, he began racing motorcycles before turning to automobile competitions in 1926. During the next two years he won six Italian hillclimbing events driving a Salmson.

  9. Hillclimbing in the British Isles - Wikipedia

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    Triangle corner, Loton Park Hillclimbing in Great Britain differs from the style of hillclimb motorsport events staged in many other parts of the world, in that courses are generally short — mostly under one mile (1.6 km) in length — and this means that cars and drivers do not generally cross between British events and the longer hillclimbs found in many other parts of Europe.