European motorcycle championship 1929

The titles of the European motorcycle championship in 1929 were at the VI. Awarded the FICM Grand Prize , which was held on October 19 and 20, 1929 in L'Ametlla del Vallès , about 30 kilometers north of Barcelona in Spain .

For the first time, the European Grand Prix did not take place as part of a national Grand Prix, but was held because of the annual FICM congress, which this time took place in Spain, and the 1929 World Exhibition in Barcelona, ​​Spain, which at that time had no national motorcycle Grand Prix fought.

The approximately 16-kilometer route led through the towns of L'Ametlla del Vallès, Granollers , Caldes de Montbui and Sant Feliu de Codines .

Race courses

Ten pilots started in the 175 cm³ class. The DKW - factory driver Josef Klein from Merzig dueled of racing beginning with the Italians Riccardo Brusi ( Benelli ). Around the middle of the run, Klein pulled away and kept the lead until the finish. As in the previous year , Brusi was vice-European champion and the French Albert Sourdot was third on Monet et Goyon .

Briton Frank Longman won the quarter liter class on OK-Supreme ahead of Mario Ghersi from Italy, who started for Moto Guzzi , and his compatriot George Himing on Zenith . For Longman it was already the second European title after 1926 .

In the 350 cc class race, which ran over a distance of 330 kilometers, only four pilots reached the finish. Josef Klein started again, but had to park his DKW on the first lap with a damaged chain. It won Leo Davenport from England on Norton .

In the half-liter class, British Rudge pilot Percy Hunt won ahead of his team-mate Graham Walker .

For the second time in the history of the European Motorbike Championship, races were held for teams . In the 350 cm³ category, in which only one team saw the checkered flag, the Briton Freddie Hicks won on a Velocette . In the 600s, Dennis Mansell on Norton won ahead of Scott driver Edgar d'Eternod from Switzerland and the local Vicente Naure .

Race results

class	winner	Second	Third
175 cc	Josef Klein ( DKW )	Riccardo Brusi ( Benelli )	Albert Sourdot ( Monet et Goyon )
250 cc	Frank Longman ( OK-Supreme )	Mario Ghersi ( Moto Guzzi )	George Himing ( Zenith )
350 cc	Leo Davenport ( Norton )	George Rowley ( AJS )	Fernando Aranda ( New Imperial )
500 cc	Percy Hunt ( Rudge )	Graham Walker ( Rudge )	Charlie Dodson ( Sunbeam )
Carriages (350 cm³)	Freddie Hicks / unknown ( Velocette )	only one team reached the goal
Carriages (600 cm³)	Dennis Mansell / unknown ( Norton )	Edgar d'Eternod / unknown ( Scott )	Vicente Naure / unknown ( Scott )

References

literature

• Steffen Ottinger: DKW motorcycle sport 1920–1939 . From the first victories of the Zschopau two-stroke model at track races to the European championship successes. 1st edition. HB-Werbung und Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Chemnitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028611-7 , p. 44 .

Web links

• Vincent Glon: L'Histoire de la course moto - Palmarès des Championnats d'Europe (1924–1937 et 1947–1948). racingmemo.free.fr, accessed on February 22, 2015 (French). 
• Vincent Glon: L'Histoire de la course moto; 5th partie: Les Grand Prix d'Europe. (1924-1937); 1929. racingmemo.free, accessed February 22, 2015 (French). 
• Statistics and photos at riutat.suntuubi.com (Finnish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ El circuit de Catalunya, regreso a las raíces. especiales.ideal.es, June 12, 2009, accessed February 22, 2015 (Spanish).