1962 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

Mike Hailwood (pictured in 1967) won his first 500cc World Championship title in 1962.
Jim Redman, the 1962 250cc and 350cc World Champion.
Ernst Degner (left), the inaugural 50cc World Champion.

The 1962 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 14th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix season. The season consisted of eleven Grand Prix races in six classes: 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc, 50cc and Sidecars 500cc. It began on 6 May, with Spanish Grand Prix and ended with Argentine Grand Prix on 14 October. Defending 350cc and 500cc world champion Gary Hocking was deeply affected by the death of his friend, Tom Phillis at the 1962 Isle of Man TT and, announced his retirement from motorcycle racing after winning the 1962 Senior TT.[1] Hocking's MV Agusta teammate, Mike Hailwood went on to win his first 500cc world championship.[2]

  1. ^ Zuehlke, Jeffrey (2008). Motorcycle Road Racing. ISBN 9780761341970. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  2. ^ Noyes, Dennis; Scott, Michael (1999), Motocourse: 50 Years Of Moto Grand Prix, Hazleton Publishing Ltd, ISBN 1-874557-83-7