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The Honda RC174 was a racing motorcycle built by Honda for the 350 cc class of Grand Prix motorcycle racing in the 1967 season. Based on the 250 cc class Honda RC166, it had less than 300 cc, yet won seven out of the eight races in the championship that year. Mike Hailwood won the world championship and Honda won the constructors title.
The Honda RC181 was a road racing motorcycle built by Honda which raced in the 500cc class of Grand Prix motorcycle racing in the 1966 and 1967 seasons. The bike debuted in 1966 and won five out of nine races that season, three with Mike Hailwood and two with Jim Redman .
Nevertheless, Honda would go out with a bang, with Mike Hailwood taking the 250 cc and 350 cc crowns and coming within a whisker of dethroning Giacomo Agostini for the 500 cc title. Honda decided to concentrate on the larger classes leaving Suzuki to dominate the 50 cc class with Anscheidt again the champion. [ 1 ]
Riding a four-stroke, four-cylinder 250 cc Honda, Hailwood won the 1961 250cc world championship. [ 9 ] In 1962 , Hailwood signed with MV Agusta and went on to become the first rider to win four consecutive 500cc World Championships .
Yamaha would battle Honda all season for the 125 crown, each factory taking five wins, with Honda's Taveri taking the title from Yamaha's Bill Ivy. Mike Hailwood , having left the MV Agusta team to ride for Honda, stormed to the 250 crown, winning the first eight races of the season, as Phil Read struggled with Yamaha's new v-four race bike.
Hailwood's Honda 500. The 1967 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy was a motorcycle road racing event held on the 37-mile Snaefell Mountain course on the Isle of Man.Five races, in different engine capacity classes of 50, 125, 250, 350 and the 500 cc Senior TT, made up the second round of the FIM World Grand Prix motorcycling championship season (now known as MotoGP).
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Hailwood won again in Assen, at the Sachsenring and at Brno securing the world title. [33] In Ulster, Hailwood concentrated on the classes in which he was not yet a world champion, the 250 and 500 cc, and Ralph Bryans rode his six-cylinder Honda. Bryans led for five laps, but was passed by Agostini, who quickly established a lead.