1950 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix

  1950 Swiss Grand Prix

Race details
Race 4 of 6 races in the 1950 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	23 July 1950
Location	Geneva, Switzerland
Course	Public roads 5.996 km (3.726 mi)
500 cc
Fastest lap
Rider	Carlo Bandirola	Gilera
Time	2:42
Podium
First	Leslie Graham	AJS
Second	Umberto Masetti	Gilera
Third	Carlo Bandirola	Gilera
350 cc
Fastest lap
Rider	Bob Foster	Velocette
Time	2:39
Podium
First	Leslie Graham	AJS
Second	Bob Foster	Velocette
Third	Geoff Duke	Norton
250 cc
Fastest lap
Rider	Dario Ambrosini	Benelli
Time	2:52.2
Podium
First	Dario Ambrosini	Benelli
Second	Bruno Ruffo	Moto Guzzi
Third	Dickie Dale	Benelli
Sidecars
Fastest lap
Rider	Eric Oliver	Norton
Passenger	Lorenzo Dobelli
Time	3:04.2
Podium
First	Eric Oliver	Norton
	Lorenzo Dobelli
Second	Ercole Frigerio	Gilera
	Ezio Ricotti
Third	Ferdinand Aubert	Norton
	René Aubert

The 1950 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth race of the 1950 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 23 July 1950 in Geneva.

500 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Leslie Graham	AJS	34	1:36:57	8
2	Umberto Masetti	Gilera	34	+1:14	6
3	Carlo Bandirola	Gilera	34	+1:15	4
4	Geoff Duke	Norton	34	+1:44	3
5	Harold Daniell	Norton			2
6	Johnny Lockett	Norton			1
7	Georges Cordey	Norton
8	Reg Armstrong	Velocette
9	Georges Houel	Gilera
10	Nello Pagani	Gilera
11	Albert Moule	Norton
12	Arciso Artesiani	MV Agusta
13	Benoît Musy	Moto Guzzi
14	Hans Haldemann	Norton
15	Jim Swarbrick	Norton
16	Willy Lips	Norton
17	Denis Jenkinson	Norton
18	Phil Heath	Norton
[1]

350 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Leslie Graham	AJS	25	1:11:25	8
2	Bob Foster	Velocette	25	+0:18	6
2	Umberto Masetti	Gilera	34	+1:14	6
3	Geoff Duke	Norton	25	+0:47	4
4	Reg Armstrong	Velocette	25	+1:04	3
5	Ted Frend	AJS	25	+1:12	2
6	Dickie Dale	AJS	25	+1:12	1
7	Harry Hinton	Norton	25	+1:46
8	Bill Lomas	Velocette	25	+1:48
9	Harold Daniell	Norton	25	+1:49
10	Johnny Lockett	Norton
11	Tommy Wood	Velocette
12	Syd Jensen	AJS
13	Väinö Hollming	AJS
14	Fergus Anderson	AJS
15	Phil Heath	Norton
16	Eric McPherson	AJS
17	Ernie Thomas	Velocette
18	Heinrich Stamm	Velocette
19	Bill Beevers	Velocette
20	J. Zuber	Norton
21	Willy Lips	Norton
22	Arthur Wick	AJS
[1]

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Dario Ambrosini	Benelli	21	1:01:48.2	8
2	Bruno Ruffo	Moto Guzzi	21	+47.4	6
3	Dickie Dale	Benelli	21	+57.8	4
4	Benoît Musy	Moto Guzzi	21	+2:42.8	3
5	Carlo Bellotti	Moto Guzzi			2
6	Onorato Francone	Moto Guzzi			1
7	Roberto Colombo	Moto Guzzi
8	Elio Scopigno	Moto Guzzi
9	Claudio Mastellari	Moto Guzzi
[1]

Sidecar classification

Pos	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Eric Oliver	Lorenzo Dobelli	Norton	17	52:59.8	8
2	Ercole Frigerio	Ezio Ricotti	Gilera	17	+40.0	6
3	Ferdinand Aubert	René Aubert	Norton	17	+2:34.8	4
4	Henri Meuwly	Pierre Dévaud	Gilera			3
5	Willy Wirth	Fred Schürtenberger	Gilera			2
6	Marcel Masuy	Denis Jenkinson	BMW			1
7	Hans Haldemann	Josef Albisser	Norton
8	Heinrich Stamm	?	Norton
9	Edouard Hordelalay	?	Norton
10	Fritz Mühlemann	Marie Mühlemann	Norton
[1]

References

1. Chamberlain, Peter (ed.). Motor Cycling Sports Yearbook 1951. Temple Press Ltd. pp. 116–117.