The 1958 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the tenth th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix season. The season consisted of seven Grand Prix races in five classes: 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc and Sidecars 500cc. It began on June 6, with Isle of Man TT and ended with Nations Grand Prix in Italy on September 14.
Read more about 1958 Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing Season: 1958 Grand Prix Season Calendar
Famous quotes containing the words grand, motorcycle, racing and/or season:
“The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Kicking the heart
with pain’s big boots running up and down
the intestines like a motorcycle racer.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“The art of medicine in the season lies:
Wine given in season oft will benefit,
Which out of season injures.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)