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Moto GP World Champ "Ago" to be Honored
Reigning World Champion To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Giacomo Agostini Lifetime Award Yamaha Pose
San Francisco, 24 January 2008 - Italian legend Giacomo Agostini will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Legend of the Motorcycle Concours.

Agostini, known to millions of fans worldwide as "Ago", is the world's greatest motorcycle grand prix racer with 15 Grand Prix World Championship titles. While fellow Italian and World Champion racer Valentino Rossi is close on his heels in terms of career titles, no one has yet to match Ago's incredible record on the track.

Most closely associated with famed Italian super bike MV Agusta, Agostini actually won his first championship in 1963 astride a Moto Morini. This win caught the attention of Count Domenico Agusta, founder of MV Agusta, who added young Agostini to his race team that included Mike Hailwood. Ago's tenure with Count Agusta's team would result in nearly a decade of successive victories and the cementing of Agostini and MV as one of the greatest racers and machines of all time.

Fittingly, MV Agusta is a featured marque of this year's Legend of the Motorcycle and a history-making assembly is expected. Admirers of this revered motorcycle and fans of Italian performance iron in general will not be disappointed.

Each year a person who has made an invaluable contribution to the world of motorcycling is selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. The distinguished trophy presented to this recipient is the signature God of Speed' bronze sculpture. Last year's recipient was Willie G. Davidson of the eponymous Milwaukee motor company. Agostini will be presented with this award on stage at the Concours on May 3rd.

The third annual Legend of the Motorcycle Concours d'Elegance will take place the first Saturday in May on the breathtaking ocean-side golf course of the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California, just south of San Francisco. For more information on this landmark charitable event, visit http://LegendoftheMotorcycle.com.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (roger-m @ Jan 27 2008, 06:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>much deserved imo.
im privileged to have seen ago race and in person at the beaulieu motorcycle show.

^^^Lucky skunk!
 
fully deserves this award... hes won 8 500cc titles
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He also did what Rossi did changed manufacturers and still won
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (an4rew @ Jan 28 2008, 07:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>fully deserves this award... hes won 8 500cc titles
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He also did what Rossi did changed manufacturers and still won
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If you think Stoner had an advantage in 07 with the Duke , it was nothing to the advantage Ago had with the MV, he could have given everyone a lap start and still have won comfortably,
I hope we never get back to those days of machine superiority, the racing was so boring.
Agostini was a great rider and he did change to yamaha and won the title, but in the MV days it was a joke.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pepik128 @ Jan 28 2008, 06:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>If you think Stoner had an advantage in 07 with the Duke , it was nothing to the advantage Ago had with the MV, he could have given everyone a lap start and still have won comfortably,
I hope we never get back to those days of machine superiority, the racing was so boring.
Agostini was a great rider and he did change to yamaha and won the title, but in the MV days it was a joke.
well i was either to young or not born so dont remember the racing but looking at wiki he can 2nd and even 3rd in the world championships as well as his multi wins so it couldn't have been that one sided.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Agostini
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (roger-m @ Jan 29 2008, 04:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>well i was either to young or not born so dont remember the racing but looking at wiki he can 2nd and even 3rd in the world championships as well as his multi wins so it couldn't have been that one sided.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Agostini
It might not look so bad on paper but in reality the racing was so boring, mind you it wasn't Ago's fault that he had the best equipment.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (katz @ Jan 29 2008, 05:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>True hero & the MV exhaust note a sound to behold
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The exhaust note was superb
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (an4rew @ Jan 28 2008, 08:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>He also did what Rossi did changed manufacturers and still won
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He also dod the exact opposite of Rossi ...... ie. he went from 4 stroke to 2 stroke.
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Fantastic news for Ago!

I had the good fortune of getting his autograph at Laguna Seca this past year and talk to him, absolute great guy.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pepik128 @ Jan 28 2008, 06:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>If you think Stoner had an advantage in 07 with the Duke , it was nothing to the advantage Ago had with the MV, he could have given everyone a lap start and still have won comfortably,
I hope we never get back to those days of machine superiority, the racing was so boring.
Agostini was a great rider and he did change to yamaha and won the title, but in the MV days it was a joke.

Agostini also won 10 Isle of Man TTs... so i don't doubt this guy.

I've been to the TT a couple times and those riders have to have guts and balls of steel... the risk of losing life is so much greater around the street circuit.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (an4rew @ Jan 30 2008, 07:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Agostini also won 10 Isle of Man TTs... so i don't doubt this guy.

I've been to the TT a couple times and those riders have to have guts and balls of steel... the risk of losing life is so much greater around the street circuit.
I'm not denying he was a brilliant rider , all i'm saying is that when he won his 10 TTs ,have a look at the machinery that came 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th all single cylinder machines except when renzo Pasolini came 2nd to him in 1968 on a Benili 4.I saw Ago race many times at the TT and the Ulster GP and in Australia when he was beaten by Brian Hindle on a 350 TZ Yamaha.
His greatest achievement was in 1974 i think ,when he won the 500 title on a Yamaha.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pepik128 @ Jan 30 2008, 10:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I'm not denying he was a brilliant rider , all i'm saying is that when he won his 10 TTs ,have a look at the machinery that came 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th all single cylinder machines except when renzo Pasolini came 2nd to him in 1968 on a Benili 4.I saw Ago race many times at the TT and the Ulster GP and in Australia when he was beaten by Brian Hindle on a 350 TZ Yamaha.
His greatest achievement was in 1974 i think ,when he won the 500 title on a Yamaha.

I talked to my dad about this and you was right.

He also mentioned the 1967 championship Ago vs Hailwood as one of the best hes seen.

I need a recording of it
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (an4rew @ Feb 1 2008, 12:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I talked to my dad about this and you was right.

He also mentioned the 1967 championship Ago vs Hailwood as one of the best hes seen.

I need a recording of it
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yes the 1967 TT with the battle of Hailwood and Ago was a beauty.
You'll find part of the race in the DVD,' The History of the TT 1907 - 2000.
Honda pulled out of racing at the end of 1967.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (skid @ Feb 1 2008, 10:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>i have never heard a 500 mv 'fire engine' in the flesh but my old man always talks fondly of the magical sound they made.

http://londonbikers.com/img.ashx?id=goodwo...gilera.-008.jpg

looks gorgeous doesn't it.
Hey Skid, I was at Mondello Park in 1968 when Ralph Bryans raced the 250cc 6 cylinder honda, talk about a sweet sound, you could have heard it in Dublin, lol.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pepik128 @ Feb 1 2008, 06:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Hey Skid, I was at Mondello Park in 1968 when Ralph Bryans raced the 250cc 6 cylinder honda, talk about a sweet sound, you could have heard it in Dublin, lol.beautiful, i often wondered what one of those things would sound like, 6 tiny pistons going like the clappers. they revved to 18k or something, didn't they?
 

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