Sports season
Franco Uncini (pictured in Assen) became the 1982 500cc world champion The 1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 34th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.
Season summary Italian Franco Uncini on the Roberto Gallina backed Suzuki took a well-earned championship for Roberto Gallina 's Italian Suzuki team in the 500cc class.[1]
Yamaha introduced a new motorcycle with a V4 engine for Kenny Roberts but, suffered from having to develop a new bike during the season.[1] Roberts was also now using Dunlop tires after Goodyear withdrew from motorcycle racing.
Honda abandoned its NR500 four-stroke in favor of a V3 two-stroke NS500 piloted by American newcomer, Freddie Spencer , defending champion Marco Lucchinelli and veteran Takazumi Katayama .[1] Spencer would give Honda its first 500cc win since the 1967 season and its first with a two-stroke.[1]
Kawasaki would continue to campaign its KR500 with rider Kork Ballington but developing a new motorcycle proved to be difficult, and after three years in the 500cc class without being able to recreate the same success they had experienced in the smaller classes, they made the decision to withdraw from world championship competition after the 1982 season leaving Ballington without a job.[2]
Roberts injured a finger and a knee at the British Grand Prix and would miss the remainder of the season.[1] Barry Sheene was lying third in the championship, tied on points with Roberts after eight rounds however, his season was brought to a premature end while testing the new Yamaha V4. He hit the obscured fallen machine of Frenchman Patrick Igoa during practice at Silverstone and badly broke both legs and an arm.[1] Most of the factory sponsored riders boycotted the French round at Nogaro in protest of the unsafe track conditions.[1]
Anton Mang successfully defended his 350 title for Kawasaki despite winning only one race.[1] He would be the final 350 world champion as the class would be discontinued after 1982.[1] Mang lost his 250 crown to Jean-Louis Tournadre by one point despite winning five races.[1] Tournadre's only victory would be at the boycotted French round.[1] The Frenchman would become France's first world champion .[1] Angel Nieto clinched his eleventh title in the 125 class on a Garelli .[1] In the 50cc class, Eugenio Lazzarini and Stefan Dörflinger traded wins, each rider winning three races, but Dörflinger took the title because of his three second-place finishes.[3]
1982 Grand Prix season calendar The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 1982:[4] [5]
Calendar changes Results and standings 1982 Grand Prix season results 500cc riders' standings Scoring system Points are awarded to the top ten finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points 15 12 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1
Place Rider Team Machine ARG AUT FRA ESP NAT NED BEL YUG GBR SWE SMR GER Points 1 Franco Uncini Gallina -Suzuki RG500 4 1 WD 3 1 1 3 1 1 Ret Ret Ret 103 2 Graeme Crosby Marlboro Agostini -Yamaha YZR500 Ret 4 WD 4 3 4 Ret 2 3 3 3 Ret 76 3 Freddie Spencer HRC -Honda NS500 3 Ret WD Ret 2 Ret 1 4 2 Ret 1 Ret 72 4 Kenny Roberts Yamaha International YZR500 1 3 WD 1 4 2 4 Ret Ret 68 5 Barry Sheene JPS -Yamaha YZR500 2 2 WD 2 Ret 3 2 3 DNS 68 6 Randy Mamola HB-Suzuki RG500 Ret 7 WD Ret Ret 5 5 7 5 2 2 1 65 7 Takazumi Katayama HRC-Honda NS500 6 9 WD 6 7 8 Ret 5 Ret 1 Ret 4 48 8 Marco Lucchinelli HRC-Honda NS500 5 Ret WD 5 5 Ret 6 8 17 5 6 5 43 9 Kork Ballington Team Kawasaki KR500 8 Ret WD 9 6 7 8 10 7 6 7 Ret 31 10 Marc Fontan Sonauto Gauloises -Yamaha YZR500 7 Ret WD 7 9 9 10 Ret 8 4 Ret 6 29 11 Virginio Ferrari HB-Suzuki RG500 Ret 17 Ret 16 6 Ret 4 2 25 12 Boet van Dulmen Hordo Racing YZR500 11 5 WD DNS 6 7 11 DNS 7 Ret 7 23 13 Loris Reggiani Gallina-Suzuki RG500 10 21 WD DNS 18 17 9 4 Ret Ret 3 21 14 Michel Frutschi Sanvenero Sanvenero 500 16 1 Ret Ret 19 9 Ret 12 Ret 11 17 15 Sergio Pellandini RG500 17 Ret 4 Ret Ret 11 Ret 23 Ret 9 9 8 15 16 Jack Middelburg Ergon Suzuki Racing RG500 9 Ret WD Ret Ret Ret 6 5 Ret 13 17 Frank Gross RG500 2 16 13 Ret 17 Ret Ret 12 18 Steve Parrish Mitsui-Yamaha YZR500 16 3 13 14 Ret 22 18 10 Ret 11 19 Leandro Becheroni RG500 8 WD 8 27 18 21 9 8 Ret 11 20 Guido Paci Team MDS Belgarda YZR500 11 6 10 Ret Ret 18 26 Ret 10 12 7 21 Stuart Avant Guan Hoe Suzuki RG500 Ret 5 15 12 21 Ret 6 22 Philippe Coulon Coulon Marlboro Tissot RG500 15 13 10 12 12 Ret 15 14 20 8 13 9 6 23 Seppo Rossi RG500 Ret 6 Ret Ret 17 13 15 Ret 11 Ret Ret 5 24 Philippe Robinet RG500 7 DNQ DNQ Ret 19 16 4 25 Chris Guy Sid Griffiths Racing RG500 Ret 8 25 21 Ret 10 15 Ret 4 26 Victor Palomo RG500 Ret 8 18 21 Ret DNS Ret Ret 3 27 Andreas Hofmann YZR500 10 9 Ret 16 DNQ 11 14 14 Ret 3 28 Peter Sjostrom RG500 13 14 10 26 Ret 19 Ret 16 17 13 1 29 Jon Ekerold YZR500 18 12 18 Ret 16 Ret 13 Ret 10 1 30 Raymond Roche RG500 WD 11 10 Ret 1 Lorenzo Ghiselli RG500 DNQ 12 11 15 Ret DNQ 12 0 Ron Haslam Honda Britain NR500 12 11 15 0 Graziano Rossi Marlboro Agostini Yamaha YZR500 13 14 Ret Ret 13 Ret 28 Ret Ret 11 0 Wolfgang von Muralt RG500 11 Ret 26 13 Ret 0 Hiroyuki Kawasaki HB-Suzuki RG500 20 23 Ret 12 0 Bernard Fau GPA Total RG500 12 Ret WD Ret DNQ 0 Dave Dean Rogersons of Wigan RG500 12 0 Reinhold Roth Wolfgang Kucera FKN 15 Ret 20 13 18 0 Guy Bertin Sanvenero Sanvenero 500 19 DNQ Ret Ret 22 14 Ret Ret 0 Gary Lingham RG500 19 14 0 Fabio Biliotti RG500 14 20 20 27 Ret 0 Roberto Pietri RG500 14 24 0 Borge Nielsen RG500 14 DNQ Ret 0 Ernst Gschwender RG500 14 0 Walter Magliorati RG500 Ret DNQ 15 15 0 Giovanni Pelletier Morbidelli Morbidelli 500 Ret Ret 15 19 DNQ DNQ 20 24 0 Bent Slydal RG500 15 24 DNS Ret 0 Marco Papa RG500 Ret 16 Ret Ret Ret 0 Peter Huber RG500 Ret 16 Ret 0 Corrado Tuzii RG500 16 0 Iwao Ishikawa RG500 16 0 Jean Lafond Claude Fior RG500 Ret 17 Ret Ret 17 0 Marco Greco RG500 20 17 19 0 Eddy Elias YZR500 17 Ret 0 Peter Skold RG500 17 0 Josef Ragginger RG500 18 0 Carlos Morante RG500 18 0 Benny Mortensen RG500 18 0 Alfons Ammerschlager RG500 18 0 Steve Williams Fowler’s of Bristol/DTR RG500 23 DNQ 19 0 Hans Steinhogel RG500 19 0 Steve Henshaw Harold Coppack Racing RG500 19 0 Luigi Rimoldi RG500 19 0 Henk de Vries Henk de Vries Motoren RG500 24 20 0 Raffaele Pasqual YZR500 20 29 Ret 0 Kjeld Sorensen RG500 20 0 Josef Hage YZR500 Ret 21 0 Esko Kuparinen RG500 21 0 Peter Looijesteijn Dr Egel Banden RG500 Ret 28 DNQ 25 Ret Ret 22 0 Norman Brown Hector Neill Racing RG500 22 0 Cai Hedstrom RG500 22 0 Pauli Freudenlund RG500 23 0 Klaus Klein RG500 23 0 Risto Korhonen RG500 24 0 Bob Smith Dennis Pratt Racing RG500 25 0 Gerhard Treusch RG500 25 0 Alain Roethlisberger YZR500 27 0 Mark Salle RG500 28 0 Rinus van Kasteren RG500 29 0 Gustav Reiner Krauser MDS Racing Team RG500 Ret DNS Ret 0 Keith Huewen Heron -Suzuki RG500 Ret DNQ DNQ Ret 0 Gina Bovaird RG500 Ret DNQ 0 Gary Padgett Padgetts of Batley RG500 DNQ Ret 0 Anton Mang RG500 Ret 0 Eduardo Aleman Venemotos Yamaha YZR500 Ret 0 Vincenzo Cascino YZR500 Ret 0 Fritz Kerschbaumer YZR500 Ret 0 Christian le Liard RG500 Ret 0 Maurice Coq RG500 Ret 0 Louis-Luc Maisto RG500 Ret 0 Angel Nieto Honda-HRC NS500 Ret 0 Guido del Piano RG500 Ret 0 Graham Wood Fowler’s of Bristol/DTR YZR500 Ret 0 Dennis Ireland RG500 Ret 0 Paul Iddon Heron Suzuki RG500 Ret 0 Rob McElnea FJ Gallen RG500 Ret 0 Con Law Millar Racing YZR500 Ret 0 Barry Woodland RG500 Ret 0 Ake Grahn YZR500 Ret 0 Chris Fisker RG500 Ret 0 Kjeil Warz YZR500 Ret 0 Alf Graarud YZR500 Ret 0 Olivieri Cruciani RG500 Ret 0 Maurizio Massimiani LMC Ret 0 Attilio Riondato RG500 Ret 0 Ulrich Lang Sebe Ret 0 Dick Alblas RG500 DNQ 0 Johan van Eijk RG500 DNQ 0 Jan Olof Odeholm Kortedala MK RG500 DNQ 0
350cc standings 250cc standings 125cc standings Place Rider Machine ARG AUT FRA ESP NAT NED BEL YUG GBR SWE FIN CSS Points 1 Angel Nieto Garelli 1 1 WD 1 1 1 5 3 1 6 111 2 Eugenio Lazzarini Garelli 8 Ret WD 2 Ret 2 2 1 4 2 5 1 95 3 Iván Palazzese MBA 5 Ret 21 Ret 3 6 Ret 5 5 1 1 2 75 4 Pier Paolo Bianchi Sanvenero 6 3 Ret Ret 2 Ret 3 2 3 Ret 59 5 Ricardo Tormo Sanvenero 2 Ret WD 8 Ret 5 1 Ret 2 Ret Ret 3 58 6 August Auinger MBA 4 2 Ret Ret Ret Ret 6 Ret 8 3 2 6 55 7 Pier Luigi Aldrovandi MBA 5 Ret 3 4 3 Ret 6 6 Ret 4 Ret 52 8 Hans Müller MBA Ret 4 WD 4 6 4 4 Ret 7 Ret Ret 4 49 9 Jean-Claude Selini MBA 15 DNQ 1 5 Ret 7 7 Ret 17 5 9 9 39 10 Johnny Wickström MBA 15 2 6 8 10 11 Ret 16 9 3 11 33 11 Hugo Vignetti Sanvenero 7 16 3 Ret 5 8 8 Ret Ret 26 12 Willy Perez MBA 3 Ret 4 14 Ret Ret 10 13 10 Ret 12 14 20 13 Maurizio Vitali MBA 10 Ret 9 Ret Ret Ret 4 14 4 Ret Ret 19 14 Gerhard Waibel MBA 9 DNS 7 10 Ret 9 9 9 18 11 Ret 5 19 15 Bruno Kneubühler MBA Ret WD 7 7 Ret 9 7 13 7 18 16 Domenico Brigaglia MBA 9 10 8 6 8 14 17 Alfred Waibel MBA Ret 9 6 11 17 13 Ret 12 23 Ret 14 7 18 Matti Kinnunen MBA 12 5 13 14 Ret 14 11 13 Ret Ret Ret 6 19 Hans Hummel Sachs 6 DNQ Ret 5 20 Roberto Ruosi MBA 11 15 Ret 7 Ret Ret 10 5 21 Erich Klein MBA 7 Ret 17 Ret 11 17 Ret 20 12 11 12 4 22 Anton Straver MBA 17 15 Ret 15 14 7 Ret 4 23 Ilkka Jaakkola MBA 10 8 17 4 24 Helmut Lichtenberg MBA 8 23 21 15 31 20 17 18 3 25 Olivier Liégeois Sanvenero 11 8 Ret Ret Ret 23 Ret Ret Ret 13 3 26 Stefan Dörflinger MBA Ret WD Ret Ret Ret Ret 8 11 Ret Ret 3 27 Alex Bedford MBA Ret 17 9 Ret 15 Ret 13 Ret 13 Ret 2 28 Esa Kytölä MBA 10 18 Ret Ret 1 29 Henk van Kessel MBA Ret Ret 13 16 Ret Ret Ret Ret 10 1 30 Per-Edward Carlsson MBA 10 DNS 11 12 Ret 12 Ret Ret Ret Ret 19 Ret 1 31 Libero Piccirillo MBA 10 1 Miguel Gonzales MBA 11 0 Lucio Pietroniro MBA 19 14 19 16 12 0 Jacky Hutteau MBA 12 15 16 16 20 Ret 28 15 Ret 0 Willem Heykoop Sanvenero Ret 12 19 Ret 0 Norberto Gatti MBA 12 0 Stefano Caracchi MBA 12 0 Peter Sommer MBA Ret 13 Ret 18 19 29 Ret 20 0 Oscar Recouso MBA 13 0 Gerard Sanvenero 13 0 Andreas Sanches-Marin Sanvenero Ret DNS 16 Ret 18 14 19 Ret 24 Ret 0 Theo Timmer MBA 14 DNQ 20 Ret 18 0 Jose Luis Sosa MBA 14 0 Zdravko Ljeljak MBA 14 0 Jan Bäckström MBA 15 Ret 18 Ret 16 25 Ret Ret 16 0 Juha Pakkanen MBA Ret 15 0 Peter Balaz MBA 15 0 Frédéric Michel MBA 18 22 21 Ret 16 0 Juan Bocoy MBA 16 0 Håkon Olsson Starol 16 0 Paul Bordes MBA 17 Ret 32 Ret 0 Fabian Gonzales MBA 17 0 Janez Pintar MBA 17 0 Henry Riedel MBA 17 0 Per Larsen MBA Ret 19 Ret DNQ 18 Ret 0 Rolf Rüttimann MBA 34 18 0 Robert Bauer MBA 18 DNQ 0 Antonio Barbosa Honda 18 0 Werner Schmied MBA 20 19 20 33 0 Tore Alexandersson MBA 30 19 Ret 22 0 Giuseppe Ascareggi MBA 19 DNQ Ret 0 Zbynek Havdra MBA 19 0 François Wirtz MBA 20 0 Kees van der Ven MBA 21 23 0 Thomas Pedersen MBA 21 DNQ 0 Marijan Kosic MBA 21 0 Carlo Succi MBA 21 0 Chris Baert MBA DNQ 22 Ret 0 Heinz Pristavnik MBA 22 0 Hans Spaan MBA 22 0 Drago Josipovic MBA 22 0 Patrick Gross Condor 23 0 Reiner Koster MBA DNQ DNQ 24 Ret Ret 0 Jan Huberts Sanvenero 24 0 Serge Julin MBA 24 0 Ray Swann MBA 26 0 Dave Shearer MBA 27 0 Bill Robertson MBA 35 0 Bady Hassaine MBA Ret Ret Ret 0 Joe Genoud MBA Ret Ret DNQ 0 Janos Drapal Bartol Ret Ret 0 Hagen Klein Sanvenero DNQ DNQ Ret 0 Ivan Troisi MBA Ret 0 Franco Incorvaia MBA Ret 0 Dario Casais MBA Ret 0 Jaime Bustamante MBA Ret 0 Miguel Gugliara MBA Ret 0 Jan Eggens EGA Ret 0 Alojz Pavlic MBA Ret 0 Antonio Boronat MBA Ret 0 Fausto Gresini MBA Ret 0 Ezio Mischiatti MBA Ret 0 René Renier MBA Ret 0 Rino Zuliani MBA Ret 0 David Fabian Sanvenero Ret 0 Tony Smith MBA Ret 0 Peter Banks MBA Ret 0 Wolfgang Glawaty MBA Ret 0 Zbynek Havdra Jr. MBA Ret 0 Bedrich Fendrich Juventa Ret 0 Ladislav Polak MBA Ret 0 George Looijesteijn EGA DNQ DNQ 0 Günter Leitner MBA DNQ 0 Pablo Cegarra Sanvenero DNQ 0 Freddy Blaise MBA DNQ 0 Luc Beugnier Honda DNQ 0 Lars Carlsson MBA DNQ 0 Olli Kujansuu MBA DNQ 0
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