This MedLibrary.org supplementary page on Ángel Nieto is provided directly from the open source Wikipedia as a service to our readers. Please see the note below on authorship of this content, as well as the Wikipedia usage guidelines. To search for other content from our encyclopedia supplement, please use the form below:
Related Sponsors
| Ángel Nieto | |
 |
|
| Nationality | Spain |
|---|---|
|
|
|
| Grand Prix motorcycle racing career | |
| Active years | 1964 - 1986 |
| Teams | Derbi, Morbidelli, Kreidler, Bultaco, Minarelli, Garelli |
| Grands Prix | 186 |
| Championships | 50 cc - 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975-1977 125 cc- 1971, 1972, 1979, 1981-1984 |
| Wins | 90 |
| Podium finishes | 139 |
| Career points | 1782 |
| Pole positions | 34 |
| Fastest laps | 39 |
| First Grand Prix | 1964 50 cc Spanish Grand Prix |
| First win | 1969 50 cc German Grand Prix |
| Last win | 1985 80 cc French Grand Prix |
| Last Grand Prix | 1986 80 cc Baden-Württemberg Grand Prix |
Ángel Nieto Roldán born January 25, 1947 in Zamora, Spain) was a multi-time Grand Prix motorcycle roadracing World Champion. He is considered a national hero in his Spanish homeland.
He specialized in racing small displacement bikes such as in the 50 cc, 80 cc and 125 cc classes but many fellow racers, including former world champion Barry Sheene consider him among the greatest motorcycle racers of all time.
Though he was never successful at the world level racing in the larger displacements, he won Spanish National Championships in the 50 cc, 125 cc, 250 cc, 500 cc and 750 cc classes. He retired in 1986 at the age of 39 with a total of 90 Grand Prix victories and 13 World Championships. His total of 90 Grand Prix victories is third only to the 122 by Giacomo Agostini, and the 92 of Valentino Rossi as of the American Grand Prix.
Later he operated a Grand Prix motorcycle racing team with his son, Ángel Nieto Jr. and Emilio Alzamora, who won the 125 cc title, as riders. He now commentates GP races for Spanish TV. His nephew Fonsi Nieto is also a racer, in World Superbikes in 2006. There is an Ángel Nieto museum in Madrid that displays some of his trophies and racing memorabilia. The FIM named him a Grand Prix "Legend" in 2000.
Nieto is also very superstitious, and he says that he had won 12+1 World Championships instead of 13.
Contents |
Motorcycle Grand Prix results
| Year | Class | Classification | Machine | Victories |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 50 cc | 10th | Derbi | 0 |
| 1965 | 50 cc | 12th | Derbi | 0 |
| 1966 | 50 cc | 9th | Derbi | 0 |
| 1967 | 50 cc | 4th | Derbi | 0 |
| 1968 | 50 cc | 4th | Derbi | 0 |
| 1969 | 50 cc | 1st | Derbi | 2 |
| 1970 | 50 cc | 1st | Derbi | 5 |
| 1970 | 125 cc | 2nd | Derbi | 4 |
| 1971 | 50 cc | 2nd | Derbi | 3 |
| 1971 | 125 cc | 1st | Derbi | 5 |
| 1972 | 50 cc | 1st | Derbi | 3 |
| 1972 | 125 cc | 1st | Derbi | 5 |
| 1973 | 125 cc | 7th | Morbidelli | 0 |
| 1974 | 125 cc | 4th | Derbi | 2 |
| 1975 | 50 cc | 1st | Kreidler | 6 |
| 1976 | 50 cc | 1st | Bultaco | 5 |
| 1976 | 125 cc | 2nd | Bultaco | 1 |
| 1977 | 50 cc | 1st | Bultaco | 3 |
| 1977 | 125 cc | 3rd | Bultaco | 3 |
| 1978 | 50 cc | 11th | Bultaco | 0 |
| 1978 | 125 cc | 2nd | Minarelli | 4 |
| 1979 | 125 cc | 1st | Minarelli | 8 |
| 1980 | 125 cc | 3rd | Minarelli | 4 |
| 1981 | 125 cc | 1st | Minarelli | 8 |
| 1981 | 250 cc | 23rd | Siroko-Rotax | 0 |
| 1982 | 125 cc | 1st | Garelli | 6 |
| 1983 | 125 cc | 1st | Garelli | 6 |
| 1984 | 125 cc | 1st | Garelli | 6 |
| 1985 | 80 cc | 9th | Derbi | 1 |
| 1986 | 80 cc | 7th | Derbi | 0 |
| 1986 | 125 cc | 13th | MBA | 0 |
Honours
Nieto was in the crowd at the French MotoGP at Le Mans on 18 May 2008, dressed to ride with a special shirt congratulating Valentino Rossi for equalling Nieto's 90 wins. Nieto mounted Rossi's bike, and Rossi as a passenger held a flag aloft with "90 + 90", as they took a victory lap1.
External links
- Ángel Nieto career statistics at MotoGP.com
- A trip to the Museum Ángel Nieto in Madrid (Spanish)
- Ángel Nieto documentary film
References
- ^ Rossi wins French MotoGP, AFP, 19 May 2008
|
|||||||||
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 4 January 2009, at 21:00.
Wikipedia Authorship and Review
Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.
Wikipedia Usage Guidelines
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Ángel Nieto".
The URL for this specific entry is:
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.