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Giacomo Agostini
Date of Birth 16 June 1942, Brescia, Lombardia, Italy Trivia Most successful Motorcycle Grand Prix rider of all times. Won 15 FIM Motorcycle-Grand Prix Worldchampion titles (8 in 500cc (1966-1972 on MV Agusta, 1975 on Yamaha) and 7 in 350cc (1968-1973 on MV Agusta, 1974 on Yamaha), 122 Motorcycle Grands Prix, 12 Isle of Man TT crowns; Daytona 200 Winner 1974.

Agostini was born on June 16, 1942 in Brescia, Italy, and was raised in Levere near Bergamo.

He was raised in a well-to-do family and his parents discouraged him from taking up motorcycle racing. To start racing he needed a signature from his parents.

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Agostini went to a notary and told him he was going cycle racing. The notary, who was a friend of his father’s, told Agostini’s father that Giacomo was a nice boy and it was a good sport and his father signed.

The notary understood cycle racing to be bicycle racing, not motorcycle racing, but with his father’s signature now in hand he was able