# Campionat del Món de motociclisme de 1951

La temporada de 1951 del Campionat del món de motociclisme fou la 3a edició d'aquest campionat, organitzat per la FIM. Aquell any se n'amplià el nombre de curses, sent una d'elles el Gran Premi d'Espanya celebrat al circuit de Montjuic. Cal destacar l'aparició de pilots catalans en el campionat, així com de l'equip Montesa.

## Grans Premis

| Cursa | Gran Premi | Circuit | Guanyador 125cc | Guanyador 250cc | Guanyador 350cc | Guanyador 500cc | Resultats |
| 1 | Gran Premi d'Espanya | Montjuïc | Guido Leoni | | Tommy Wood | Umberto Masetti | Resultat |
| 2 | Gran Premi de Suïssa | Bremgarten | | Dario Ambrosini | Leslie Graham | Fergus Anderson | Resultat |
| 3 | TT de l'Illa de Man | Illa de Man | Cromie McCandless | Tommy Wood | Geoff Duke | Geoff Duke | Resultat |
| 4 | Gran Premi de Bèlgica | Spa | | | Geoff Duke | Geoff Duke | Resultat |
| 5 | TT d'Holanda | Assen | Gianni Leoni | | Bill Doran | Geoff Duke | Resultat |
| 6 | Gran Premi de França | Albi | | Bruno Ruffo | Geoff Duke | Alfredo Milani | Resultat |
| 7 | Gran Premi de l'Ulster | Clady | Cromie McCandless | Bruno Ruffo | Geoff Duke | Geoff Duke | Resultat |
| 8 | Gran Premi de les Nacions | Monza | Carlo Ubbiali | Enrico Lorenzetti | Geoff Duke | Alfredo Milani | Resultat |

## Campions del món

| Campió | 125cc | 250cc | 350cc | 500cc |
| Campió | Carlo Ubbiali | Bruno Ruffo | Geoff Duke | Geoff Duke |

## Sistema de puntuació

Barem de puntuació de 1950 a 1968:
| Posició | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Punts | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |

## 500 cc

| Pos | Pilot | Moto | ESP | CH | IOM | BEL | NED | FRA | ULS | NAT | Pts |
| 1 | Geoff Duke | Norton | | Ret | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 35 |
| 2 | Alfredo Milani | Gilera | Ret | Ret | | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 31 |
| 3 | Umberto Masetti | Gilera | 1 | | | 9 | Ret | 4 | 3 | 2 | 21 |
| 4 | Bill Doran | AJS | | | 2 | Ret | Ret | 2 | 6 | 6 | 14 |
| 5 | Nello Pagani | Gilera | Ret | Ret | | 5 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 10 |
| 6 | Reginald Armstrong | AJS | | 2 | Ret | 4 | | Ret | Ret | | 9 |
| 7 | Fergus Anderson | Moto Guzzi | Ret | 1 | | Ret | Ret | 7 | | | 8 |
| 8 | Enrico Lorenzetti | Norton / Moto Guzzi | Ret | 3 | | 8 | 3 | 9 | | Ret | 8 |
| 9 | Tommy Wood | Norton | 2 | 11 | 14 | | | 16 | | | 6 |
| 10 | Ken Kavanagh | Norton | | | Ret | | | | 2 | Ret | 6 |
| 11 | Johnny Lockett | Norton | | | Ret | 6 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 6 |
| 12 | Carlo Bandirola | MV Agusta | 5 | 4 | | Ret | Ret | | | 9 | 5 |
| 13 | Dorino Geminiani | Moto Guzzi | Ret | Ret | | 3 | Ret | 13 | | | 4 |
| 14 | Arciso Artesiani | MV Agusta | 3 | Ret | | | Ret | | | Ret | 4 |
| = | Cromie McCandless | Norton | | | 3 | | | | | | 4 |
| 16 | Tommy McEwan | Norton | | | 4 | | | | | | 3 |
| = | Roger Montané | Norton | 4 | | | | | | | | 3 |
| 18 | Jack Brett | Norton | | | | 7 | 5 | 6 | Ret | 8 | 3 |
| 19 | Bruno Ruffo | Moto Guzzi | | | | | Ret | | | 5 | 2 |
| 20 | Manliefe Barrington | Norton | | | 5 | | | | | | 2 |
| = | Benoit Musy | Moto Guzzi | | 5 | | | | | | | 2 |
| 22 | Len Perry | Norton | | | | 12 | 6 | Ret | | | 1 |
| 23 | Willy Lips | Norton | | 6 | | | | | | | 1 |
| = | Ashley Parry | Norton | | | 6 | | | | | | 1 |
| = | Ernesto Vidal | Gilera | 6 | | | | | | | | 1 |
| 26 | Arthur Wheeler | Norton | | | Ret | | 7 | 14 | 11 | Ret | 0 |
| 27 | Hans Baltisberger | Norton | | 7 | | | | | | | 0 |
| = | Eric Briggs | Norton | | | 7 | | | | | | 0 |
| = | Louis Carter | Norton | | | | | | | 7 | | 0 |
| = | Libero Liberati | Gilera | | | | | | | | 7 | 0 |
| 31 | Albert Moule | Norton | | | 8 | | | | 9 | | 0 |
| 32 | Bill Petch | AJS/ Norton | Ret | | | | Ret | 8 | Ret | 15 | 0 |
| 33 | Lous van Riswijk | Triumph | | | | Ret | 8 | | | | 0 |
| 34 | Massimo Forster | Gilera | | 8 | | | | | | | 0 |
| 35 | Vaino Hollming | Norton / Moto Guzzi | | 9 | | Ret | | | | | 0 |
| 36 | Cees Fokke-Bosch | Norton | | | | | 9 | | | | 0 |
| 37 | Rod Coleman | Norton / AJS | | | Ret | 10 | | 11 | Ret | Ret | 0 |
| 38 | Sidney Mason | Norton | | 10 | | Ret | | | | | 0 |
| 39 | Ken Armstrong | Norton | | | | | | | | 10 | 0 |
| = | Phil Carter | Norton | | | | | | | 10 | | 0 |
| = | Les Dear | Norton | | | 10 | | | | | | 0 |
| 42 | Ray Amm | Norton | | | 28 | 11 | 11 | 12 | | 12 | 0 |
| 43 | Guy Newman | Norton | | | 11 | | | | | | 0 |
| 44 | Jack Bailey | Norton | | | Ret | | | | 12 | | 0 |
| = | Roy Evans | Norton / AJS | | | 12 | | | | Ret | | 0 |
| 46 | Alexandre Mayer | Norton | | 12 | | | | | | | 0 |
| 47 | Howard Grindley | Norton | | | Ret | | | | 13 | | 0 |
| 48 | Dante Bianchi | Moto Guzzi | | | | | | | | 13 | 0 |
| = | Dennis Lashmar | Norton | | | 13 | | | | | | 0 |
| 50 | M. Acheson | AJS | | | | | | | 14 | | 0 |
| = | Giuseppe Colnago | Gilera | | | | | | | | 14 | 0 |
| = | Auguste Goffin | Norton | | | | 14 | | | | | 0 |
| 53 | Bill Hall | Velocette | | | Ret | | | | 15 | | 0 |
| 54 | Jean Behra | Moto Guzzi | | | | | | 15 | | | 0 |
| = | León Martin | Gilera | | | | 15 | | | | | 0 |
| = | Roy Walker | Velocette | | | 15 | | | | | | 0 |
| 57 | Giulie Galbiati | Moto Guzzi | Ret | | | 17 | | Ret | | 16 | 0 |
| 58 | Felice Benasedo | Moto Guzzi | Ret | | 31 | 16 | Ret | | | Ret | 0 |
| 59 | Robert Ferguson | AJS | | | | | | | 16 | | 0 |
| = | Sid Franklen | AJS | | | 16 | | | | | | 0 |
| 61 | Ernie Barrett | AJS | | | Ret | | | 17 | | | 0 |
| 62 | Syl Anderton | Norton | | | 17 | | | | | | 0 |
| = | Lodovico Facchinelli | Gilera | | | | | | | | 17 | 0 |
| = | Jack Harding | AJS | | | | | | | 17 | | 0 |
| 65 | Georges Houel | Gilera | Ret | | | | | 18 | | | 0 |
| 66 | Charlie Gray | AJS | | | 18 | | | | | | 0 |
| = | George Brockerton | Bitza | | | | | | | 18 | | 0 |
| = | Jaak Delsing | Triumph | | | | 18 | | | | | 0 |
| 69 | Leo Starr | AJS | | | 27 | | | | 19 | | 0 |
| 70 | Ernie Thomas | Velocette / Norton | | Ret | | 19 | | | | Ret | 0 |
| 71 | George Paterson | AJS | | | 19 | | | | | | 0 |
| 72 | Sven Sorensen | Norton | | | 20 | | | | | | 0 |
| = | Albert Vertriest | Triumph | | | | 20 | | | | | 0 |
| 74 | Evert Carlsson | Norton | | | | 21 | | | | | 0 |
| = | Ronald Pike | BSA | | | 21 | | | | | | 0 |
| 76 | Ray Petty | Norton | | | 22 | | | | | | 0 |
| 77 | Arnold Jones | Norton | | | 23 | | | | | | 0 |
| 78 | Achie Fenn | Norton | | | 24 | | | | | | 0 |
| 79 | Jim Kentish | AJS | | | 25 | | | | | | 0 |
| 80 | Humphrey Ranson | AJS / Norton | | | 26 | | | | | Ret | 0 |
| 81 | Eddie Stidolph | Norton | | | 29 | | | | | | 0 |
| 82 | Max Klein | AJS | | | 30 | | | | | | 0 |
| 83 | Leslie Harris | Norton | | | 32 | | | | | Ret | 0 |
| 84 | Ernie Braine | Norton | | | 33 | | | | | | 0 |
| 85 | John Fisher | Velocette | | | 34 | | | | | | 0 |
| 86 | John Chapman | Rudge | | | 35 | | | | | | 0 |
| 87 | Bill Maddrick | Velocette | | | 36 | | | | | | 0 |
| 88 | J. Gunn | Norton | | | 37 | | | | | | 0 |
| 89 | Bob McDonald | AJS | | | 38 | | | | | | 0 |
| 90 | Bill Beevers | AJS / Norton | Ret | | 39 | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Leslie Graham | MV Agusta / Norton | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Bruno Bertacchini | MV Agusta | Ret | Ret | | | Ret | | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Robert Matthews | Noton | Ret | Ret | | Ret | | | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Eric Oliver | Norton | Ret | | | Ret | | Ret | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Mick Featherstone | AJS | | | Ret | Ret | | | | | 0 |
| - | Charlie Salt | BSA / Velocette | | | Ret | | | | Ret | | 0 |
| - | Edouard Texidor | Norton | | | | Ret | | | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Javier de Ortueta | Norton | NVC | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Fernando Aranda | Moto Guzzi | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Raymond Becquevort | AJS | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Gaetano Biondelli | Gilera | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Charlie Brett | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Charlie Brugiere | AJS | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Florian Camathias | BMW | | Ret | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Bernard Carter | Triumph | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Peter Carter | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Jacques Collot | Norton | | | | | | Ret | | | 0 |
| - | Eugéne Cordang | Triumph | | | | Ret | | | | | 0 |
| - | Georges Cordey | Norton | | Ret | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Firmin Dauwe | Norton | | | | Ret | | | | | 0 |
| - | Julien Deronne | Norton | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Jacques Drion | Norton | | | | | | | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Roger Ergé | Norton | | | | Ret | | | | | 0 |
| - | Lennart Fenning | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Tito Forconi | Gilera | | | | | | | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Frank Fry | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Werner Gerber | Norton | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Francesco Guglielminetti | Gilera | | | | | | | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Eric Hardy | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Philip Heath | Vincent HRD | | | | | Ret | | | | 0 |
| - | Johnny Hodgkin | Vincent HRD | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Chris Horn | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Sid Lawton | AJS | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | George Leigh | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Guido Leoni | Moto Guzzi | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Harry Lindsay | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Monty Lockwod | AJS | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Tony McAlpine | Gilera | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Reg McDonald | Velocette | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Stan Miller | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Georges Monneret | Norton | | | | | | Ret | | | 0 |
| - | George Morgan | Velocette | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Ken Mulford | AJS | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Alan Mullee | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Bill Mundy | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Arthur Pollitt | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Brian Purslow | BSA | | | | | | | Ret | | 0 |
| - | Jacques Raffeld | AJS | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Michael Roche | Triumph | | | | | | | Ret | | 0 |
| - | Elio Scopigno | Moto Guzzi | | Ret | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Oliver Scott | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Ralf Seymour | Velocette | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Cyril Stevens | Triumph | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Heinrich Stamm | Gilera | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Jack Varlow | AJS | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Ernest Walker | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Leonard Williams | Velocette | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| Pos | Pilot | Moto | ESP | CH | IOM | BEL | NED | FRA | ULS | NAT | Pts |
| Color | Resultat |
| Or | Guanyador |
| Argent | 2n lloc |
| Bronze | 3r lloc |
| Verd | Va acabar sumant punts |
| Blau | Va acabar sense sumar punts |
| Blau | No classificat (NC) |
| Porpra | Es retirà (Ret o DNF) |
| Vermell | No qualificat (NQ o DNQ) |
| Vermell | No pre-qualificat (NPQ o DNPQ) |
| Negre | Desqualificat (DSQ) |
| Blanc | No va començar (NVC o DNS) |
| Blanc | Abandonà (AB o WD) |
| Blanc | Retirat per lesió (LES) |
| Blanc | Cursa cancel·lada (C) |
| Gris | No va entrenar (NE o DNP) |
| Gris | No va arribar (NA o DNA) |
| Gris | Exclòs (EX) |

## 350 cc

| Posició | Pilot | Moto | Punts | Victòries |
| 1 | Geoff Duke | Norton | 40 | 5 |
| 2 | Bill Doran | AJS | 19 | 1 |
| 3 | John Lockett | Norton | 19 | 0 |
| 4 | Ken Kavanagh | Norton | 16 | 0 |
| 5 | Jack Brett | Norton | 15 | 0 |
| 6 | Leslie Graham | Velocette | 14 | 1 |
| 7 | Reg Armstrong | AJS | 11 | 0 |
| 8 | Bill Petch | AJS | 10 | 0 |
| 9 | Cecil Sandford | Velocette | 9 | 0 |
| 10 | Tommy Wood | Velocette | 8 | 1 |
| 11 | Bill Lomas | Velocette | 6 | 0 |
| 12 | Rod Coleman | AJS | 5 | 0 |
| 13 | Mick Featherstone | AJS | 4 | 0 |
| 14 | Fernando Aranda | Velocette | 3 | 0 |
| = | Paul Fuhrer | Velocette | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | Sid Mason | Velocette | 2 | 0 |
| = | Jack Raffeld | Velocette | 2 | 0 |
| = | Simon Sandys-Winsch | Velocette | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | Johnny Grace | Norton | 1 | 0 |
| = | Bob Matthews | Velocette | 1 | 0 |
| = | Bob Foster | Velocette | 1 | 0 |
| = | Leonhardt Faßl | AJS | 1 | 0 |

## 250 cc

| Posició | Pilot | Moto | Punts | Victòries |
| 1 | Bruno Ruffo | Moto Guzzi | 22 | 2 |
| 2 | Tommy Wood | Moto Guzzi | 18 | 1 |
| 3 | Dario Ambrosini | Benelli | 14 | 1 |
| 4 | Enrico Lorenzetti | Moto Guzzi | 12 | 1 |
| 5 | Gianni Leoni | Moto Guzzi | 10 | 0 |
| 6 | Maurice Cann | Moto Guzzi | 6 | 0 |
| = | Arthur Wheeler | Velocette | 6 | 0 |
| 8 | Fergus Anderson | Moto Guzzi | 3 | 0 |
| = | Wilf Hutt | Moto Guzzi | 3 | 0 |
| = | Alano Montanari | Moto Guzzi | 3 | 0 |
| = | Benoit Musy | Moto Guzzi | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | Bill Lomas | Velocette | 2 | 0 |
| = | Cecil Sandford | Velocette | 2 | 0 |
| = | Douglas Beasley | Velocette | 2 | 0 |
| = | Bruno Francisci | Moto Guzzi | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | Fron Purslow | Norton | 1 | 0 |
| = | Norman Blemings | Excelsior | 1 | 0 |
| = | Werner Gerber | Moto Guzzi | 1 | 0 |
| = | Nino Grieco | Parilla | 1 | 0 |
| = | Guido Paciocca | Moto Guzzi | 1 | 0 |

## 125 cc

| Posició | Pilot | Moto | Punts | Victòries |
| 1 | Carlo Ubbiali | Mondial | 20 | 1 |
| 2 | Gianni Leoni | Mondial | 12 | 1 |
| 3 | Cromie McCandless | Mondial | 11 | 1 |
| 4 | Luigi Zinzani | Morini | 10 | 0 |
| 5 | Guido Leoni | Mondial | 8 | 1 |
| 6 | Vittorio Zanzi | Morini | 7 | 0 |
| 7 | Romolo Ferri | Mondial | 6 | 0 |
| 8 | Leslie Graham | MV Agusta | 4 | 0 |
| 9 | Joan Soler | Montesa | 4 | 0 |
| 10 | Nello Pagani | Mondial | 3 | 0 |
| = | Raffaele Alberti | Mondial | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | Franco Bertoni | MV Agusta | 2 | 0 |
| = | Otello Spadoni | Mondial | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | Emilio Mendogni | Morini | 1 | 0 |
| = | Arturo Elizalde | Montesa | 1 | 0 |
| = | Josep Maria Llobet | Montesa | 1 | 0 |
| = | Giuseppe Matucci | MV Agusta | 1 | 0 |

## Referències

* Büla, Maurice; Schertenleib, Jean-Claude. Continental Circus 1949–2000 (en anglès, francès i alemany). Chronosports S.A., 2001. ISBN 2-940125-32-5.
* «The Official MotoGP website» (en anglès). Arxivat de l'original el 18/9/2012. [Consulta: 6 juliol 2010].