Umberto Masetti

Umberto Masetti

Nation:	Italy
Motorcycle world championship
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR 31 6th - -
World title:	2
World Cup points:	154
Podiums:	21st
According to class (es): 125 cc class First start: Swiss Grand Prix 1949 Last start: Grand Prix of Nations 1949 Constructors 1949  Morini World Cup balance World Cup third ( 1949 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 2 - - - World Cup points: 13 Podiums: 1 250 cc class First start: Grand Prix of Nations 1949 Last start: Grand Prix of Nations 1955 Constructors 1949  Benelli  • 1953  NSU  • 1955  MV Agusta World Cup balance World Cup fifth ( 1955 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 5 - - - World Cup points: 19th Podiums: 3 350 cm³ class First start: 1956 Belgian Grand Prix Last start: 1957 German Grand Prix Constructors 1956-1957  MV Agusta World Cup balance World Cup tenth ( 1957 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 2 - - - World Cup points: 5 Podiums: - 500 cc class First start: Belgian Grand Prix 1950 Last start: Grand Prix of Nations 1958 Constructors 1950–1952, 1954  Gilera  • 1955–1958  MV Agusta World Cup balance World Champion ( 1950 , 1952 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 22nd 6th - - World Cup points: 117 Podiums: 17th

Masetti (r.) Together with Nello Pagani after his victory at the Dutch TT 1950

Umberto Masetti (born May 4, 1926 in Parma , † May 28, 2006 in Maranello ) was an Italian motorcycle and automobile racer .

In 1950 and 1952 he became motorcycle world champion in the 500 cm³ class, thus establishing the great tradition of his country in motorcycle road racing, which later greats such as Giacomo Agostini and Valentino Rossi continued.

Life

For the first time Masetti competed in the first year of the motorcycle world championship in 1949 (125 cm³ class) with a Morini . In the 1950 season , he won the world championship in the class up to 500 cm³ with a Gilera with a narrow margin over Geoff Duke ( Norton ) . The following year he won the Grand Prix of Spain and in 1952 again the half-liter World Cup. In the 1953 season Masetti started for NSU in the class up to 250 cm³, but had an accident in Imola , so that he could no longer participate in the season. The following year he again competed with Gilera in the 500cc class and came in second behind his old rival Geoff Duke. From 1955 Masetti drove for MV Agusta and retired from motorsport in 1958 after a less than successful season.

Umberto Masetti then lived in Maranello and died there on May 28, 2006 at the age of 80 from a respiratory disease.

statistics

title

• 1950 - 500 cm³ world champion on Gilera
• 1952 - 500 cc world champion on Gilera
• 6 Grand Prix victories

In the motorcycle world championship

season	class	motorcycle	run	Victories	Podiums	Points	position
1949	125 cc	Morini	2	-	1	13	3.
	250 cc	Benelli	1	-	1	7th	10.
1950	500 cc	Gilera	5	2	4th	28	World Champion
1951	500 cc	Gilera	4th	1	3	21st	3.
1952	500 cc	Gilera	4th	2	4th	28	World Champion
1953	250 cc	NSU	1	-	-	1	15th
1954	500 cc	Gilera	1	-	1	6th	10.
1955	250 cc	MV Agusta	3	-	2	11	5.
	500 cc	MV Agusta	4th	1	3	19th	3.
1956	350 cc	MV Agusta	1	-	-	2	14th
	500 cc	MV Agusta	2	-	1	9	6th
1957	350 cc	MV Agusta	1	-	-	3	10.
	500 cc	MV Agusta	1	-	-	2	15th
1958	500 cc	MV Agusta	1	-	1	4th	13.
total			31	6th	21st	154	2 world titles

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1957	Equipo Montecarlo	Osca MT4	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
									11

Web links

Commons : Umberto Masetti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Umberto Masetti on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).
• Umberto Masetti. www.motorsportmemorial.org, accessed on August 2, 2019 .