List of rider deaths in motorcycle racing
This article lists motorcycle riders who have died competing at motorcycle racing events. This article lists rider deaths in all series, at any level.
Isle of Man TT, Manx Grand Prix and Southern 100
There have been over 275 recorded competitor deaths in the Isle of Man since 1910. Some Isle of Man deaths are included directly below, as the races carried World Championship status until a British Grand Prix was established on short-circuits from 1977.MotoGP/World Grand Prix Motorcycling Championship
Listed are fatalities of riders in the World Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing Championship races since its foundation in 1949. In total, 104 riders have died from incidents that occurred at Grand Prix motorcycle racing events, with Ben Drinkwater being the first in 1949. Three riders died in the 1940s; twenty-nine in the 1950s; twenty-seven in the 1960s; twenty-four in the 1970s; fourteen in the 1980s; two in the 1990s; one in the 2000s; three in the 2010s; and one in the 2020s. Twenty-six of the fatalities occurred on permanent circuits; seventy-eight fatalities took place on street circuits, with 36 fatalities at the Isle of Man TT, which was removed from the championship after 1976. The most recent fatal accident occurred in May 2021 when Jason Dupasquier was killed after a crash during qualifying at the Italian Grand Prix, while the most recent fatal accident to occur in the 500 cc/MotoGP class happened in October 2011, when Marco Simoncelli was killed after he was struck by Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards during the Malaysian Grand Prix.Eight Grand Prix motorcycle racing champions have died while racing or practicing in Grand Prix motorcycle racing: Dario Ambrosini in 1951, Leslie Graham in 1953, Rupert Hollaus in 1954, Tom Phillis in 1962, Bill Ivy in 1969, Jarno Saarinen in 1973, Daijiro Kato in 2003, and Marco Simoncelli in 2011. Hollaus is often credited as the only rider to win the championship posthumously, he had mathematically clinched the 1954 125 cc world championship title, as he had achieved the maximum number of points possible at the time of his death.
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| 1949 Belgian Grand Prix | Sidecar | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | Norton | Race | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 "Hurst"|UK#tag:ref|"Hurst" was racing under a nom de course, and his full name was not released publicly at the time of his death. Archives of the municipality of Francorchamps indicate that his full name was Keeth Hurst, although Keeth may have been a misspelling of Keith.|group="N"dts|July 17, 1949flagathlete||UKdts|July 2, 1950flagathlete||UKdts|May 31, 1951flagathlete||UKdts|June 4, 1951flagathlete||UKdts|June 8, 1951flagathlete||ITAdts|July 14, 1951flagathlete||ITAdts|August 15, 1951flagathlete||ITAdts|August 15, 1951flagathlete||UKdts|May 18, 1952sortname|Frank|Frysortname|Norman|Stewart|dab=motorcyclistsortname|Harry|Stephen|Harry Stephen sortname|Thomas|Swarbrick|Thomas Swarbrick sortname|Leslie|Grahamsortname|Geoffrey|Walker|Geoffrey Walker sortname|Ernie|Ringsortname|Simon|Sandys-Winschsortname|Gordon|Laing|Gordon Laing sortname|Dennis|Lashmarsortname|Rupert|Hollaussortname|Ricardo|Galvagnisortname|Julian|Crossleysortname|Derek|Ennettsortname|Charlie|SaltEndurance Series
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