1956 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

Bill Lomas (left) and John Surtees (right), the 1956 350cc and 500cc World Champion respectively.
Carlo Ubbiali, the 1956 125cc and 250cc World Champion.

The 1956 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the eighth F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix season. The season consisted of six Grand Prix races in five classes: 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc and Sidecars 500cc. It began on 8 June, with Isle of Man TT and ended with Nations Grand Prix in Italy on 9 September.

Reigning 500cc champion Geoff Duke had to serve a six months ban at the start of the season for supporting a strike by privateer riders over starting money at the 1955 Dutch TT.[1][2]

  1. ^ "GEOFF DUKE: FIRST GENTLEMAN OF RACING". Australian Motorcycle News. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  2. ^ "Geoff Duke would have been 100 years old today". www.speedweek.com. Retrieved 2023-11-07.