Rider deaths in motorcycle racing

This article lists motorcycle riders who have died competing at motorcycle racing events. This article lists rider deaths in all series, at any level.

Isle of Man TT, Manx Grand Prix and Southern 100

There have been over 270 recorded competitor deaths in the Isle of Man since 1910. Some Isle of Man deaths are included directly below, as the races carried World Championship status until a British Grand Prix was established on short-circuits from 1977.

MotoGP/World Grand Prix Motorcycling Championship

Listed are fatalities of riders in the World Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing Championship races since its foundation in 1949. In total, 103 riders have died from incidents that occurred at a Grand Prix motorcycle racing event, with Ben Drinkwater being the first in 1949. Three riders died in the 1940s; twenty-nine in the 1950s; twenty-seven in the 1960s; twenty-four in the 1970s; fourteen in the 1980s; two in the 1990s; one in the 2000s; and three in the 2010s. The most recent fatal accident occurred in June 2016 when Luis Salom was killed after a crash during Free Practice 2 at the Catalan Grand Prix, while the most recent fatal accident to occur in the 500cc/MotoGP class happened in October 2011, when Marco Simoncelli was killed after he was struck by Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards during the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Eight Grand Prix motorcycle racing champions have died while racing or practicing in Grand Prix motorcycle racing: Dario Ambrosini in 1951, Leslie Graham in 1953, Rupert Hollaus in 1954, Tom Phillis in 1962, Bill Ivy in 1969, Jarno Saarinen in 1973, Daijiro Kato in 2003, and Marco Simoncelli in 2011. While Hollaus is often credited as the only rider to win the championship posthumously, he had mathematically clinched the 1954 125cc world championship title as he had achieved the maximum number of points possible at the time of his death.

Rider	Date of accident	Race	Class	Circuit	Bike	During	Ref
		1949 Isle of Man TT	350 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Norton	Race
		1949 Belgian Grand Prix	Sidecar	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Norton	Race
		1949 Belgian Grand Prix	Sidecar	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Norton	Race
		1950 Belgian Grand Prix	350 cc	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Velocette	Race
		1951 Isle of Man TT	350 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Rudge	Practice
		1951 Isle of Man TT	350 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Norton	Race
		1951 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Norton	Race
		1951 French Grand Prix	250 cc	Circuit d'Albi	Benelli	Practice
		1951 Ulster Grand Prix	250 cc	Clady Circuit	Moto Guzzi	Practice
		1951 Ulster Grand Prix	250 cc	Clady Circuit	Moto Guzzi	Practice
		1952 Swiss Grand Prix	500 cc	Circuit Bremgarten	Norton	Race
		1952 Swiss Grand Prix	Sidecar	Circuit Bremgarten	Gilera	Race
		1952 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Norton	Practice
		1952 Ulster Grand Prix	350 cc	Clady Circuit	Norton	Race
		1953 Isle of Man TT	350 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Norton	Race
		1953 Isle of Man TT	350 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	AJS	Race
		1953 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	MV Agusta	Race
		1953 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Norton	Race
		1953 Belgian Grand Prix	500 cc	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	AJS	Race
		1954 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Velocette	Race
		1954 Belgian Grand Prix	350 cc	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Norton	Race
		1954 German Grand Prix	500 cc	Solitudering	BSA	Race
		1954 Nations Grand Prix	125 cc	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	NSU	Practice
		1955 German Grand Prix	500 cc	Nürburgring	Norton	Practice
		1955 Ulster Grand Prix	350 cc	Dundrod Circuit	Norton	Race
		1956 Ulster Grand Prix	350 cc	Dundrod Circuit	Moto Guzzi	Race
		1957 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	BSA	Race
		1957 Dutch TT	Sidecar	TT Circuit Assen	BMW	Practice
		1957 Belgian Grand Prix	350 cc	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	MV Agusta	Practice
		1958 Isle of Man TT		Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	AJS	Practice
		1958 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Norton	Race
		1959 Nations Grand Prix	500 cc	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	Norton	Race
		1960 Dutch TT	350 cc	TT Circuit Assen	AJS	Race
		1960 German Grand Prix	250 cc	Solitudering	Honda	Practice
		1961 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Norton	Practice
		1961 Isle of Man TT	Sidecar	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	BMW	Race
		1961 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Norton	Race
		1961 Ulster Grand Prix	350 cc	Dundrod Circuit	Norton	Practice
		1962 Isle of Man TT	350 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Honda	Race
		1962 Isle of Man TT	350 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	AJS	Race
		1962 Dutch TT	250 cc	TT Circuit Assen	NSU	Practice
		1963 French Grand Prix	250 cc	Charade Circuit	Moto Morini	Practice
		1964 Isle of Man TT	Sidecar	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Norton	Practice
		1964 Isle of Man TT	Sidecar	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Matchless	Race
		1964 Dutch TT	125 cc	TT Circuit Assen	Honda	Practice
		1964 German Grand Prix	500 cc	Solitudering	Norton	Race
		1964 Finnish Grand Prix	350 cc	Imatra Circuit	AJS	Race
		1966 Dutch TT	Sidecar	TT Circuit Assen	Matchless	Race
		1966 Isle of Man TT	125 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Kawasaki	Practice
		1966 Isle of Man TT	250 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Yamaha	Race
		1967 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Norton	Practice
		1967 East German Grand Prix		Sachsenring	MZ	Practice
		1968 Isle of Man TT	250 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Kawasaki	Race
		1968 Belgian Grand Prix	Sidecar	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	BMW	Race
		1968 Belgian Grand Prix	Sidecar	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	BMW	Race
		1968 Hockenheim Grand Prix	Sidecar	Hockenheimring	BMW	Race
		1969 Isle of Man TT	350 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Velocette	Practice
		1969 East German Grand Prix	350 cc	Sachsenring	Jawa	Practice
		1969 Czechoslovakian Grand Prix	350 cc	Brno Circuit	Jawa	Race
		1970 German Grand Prix	350 cc	Nürburgring	Norton	Practice
		1970 Isle of Man TT	125 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Bultaco	Practice
		1970 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Seeley	Practice
		1970 Isle of Man TT	Sidecar	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	BSA	Practice
		1970 Isle of Man TT	250 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Ossa	Race
		1970 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Norton	Race
		1970 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Seeley	Race
		1971 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Norton	Race
		1971 Belgian Grand Prix	500 cc	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Kawasaki	Race
		1971 East German Grand Prix	350 cc	Sachsenring	MZ	Practice
		1972 Isle of Man TT	125 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Morbidelli	Race
		1972 Czechoslovakian Grand Prix	Sidecar	Brno Circuit	BMW	Race
		1973 Nations Grand Prix	250 cc	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	Harley-Davidson	Race
		1973 Nations Grand Prix	250 cc	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	Yamaha	Race
		1974 Yugoslavian Grand Prix	250 cc	Opatija Circuit	Yamaha	Race
		1975 Isle of Man TT	500 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Yamaha	Race
		1975 Dutch TT	250 cc	TT Circuit Assen	Yamaha	Race
		1976 Nations Grand Prix	350 cc	Mugello Circuit	Yamaha	Race
		1976 Nations Grand Prix	250 cc	Mugello Circuit	Yamaha	Race
		1976 Isle of Man TT	Sidecar	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Yamaha	Race
		1976 Isle of Man TT	250 cc	Isle of Man TT Mountain Course	Yamaha	Race
		1977 Austrian Grand Prix	350 cc	Salzburgring	Yamaha	Race
		1977 Yugoslavian Grand Prix	250 cc	Opatija Circuit	Yamaha	Practice
		1977 Yugoslavian Grand Prix	50 cc	Opatija Circuit	Kreidler	Race
		1980 British Grand Prix	500 cc	Silverstone Circuit	Yamaha	Race
		1980 British Grand Prix	Sidecar	Silverstone Circuit		Race
		1981 Yugoslavian Grand Prix	350 cc	Automotodrom Grobnik	Chevallier	Race
		1981 San Marino Grand Prix	250 cc	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	MBA	Practice
		1981 Czechoslovakian Grand Prix	250 cc	Brno Circuit	Yamaha	Race
		1982 Finnish Grand Prix	Sidecar	Imatra Circuit	Windle	Race
		1983 French Grand Prix	500 cc	Bugatti Circuit	Suzuki	Practice
		1983 French Grand Prix	500 cc	Bugatti Circuit	Honda	Race
		1983 Yugoslavian Grand Prix	125 cc	Automotodrom Grobnik		Race
		1983 British Grand Prix	500 cc	Silverstone Circuit	Suzuki	Race
		1983 British Grand Prix	500 cc	Silverstone Circuit	Suzuki	Race
		1984 Belgian Grand Prix	500 cc	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Suzuki	Practice
		1988 French Grand Prix	Sidecar	Circuit Paul Ricard	LCR	Practice
		1989 German Grand Prix	250 cc	Hockenheimring	Aprilia	Race
		1993 Spanish Grand Prix	250 cc	Circuito de Jerez	Suzuki	Practice
		1994 German Grand Prix	Sidecar	Hockenheimring	LCR	Race
		2003 Japanese Grand Prix	MotoGP	Suzuka Circuit	Honda	Race
		2010 San Marino and Rimini Grand Prix	Moto2	Misano Circuit	Suter	Race
		2011 Malaysian Grand Prix	MotoGP	Sepang International Circuit	Honda	Race
		2016 Catalan Grand Prix	Moto2	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya	Kalex	Practice

;Footnotes:

By circuit

Endurance Series

Year	Rider	Circuit	Race	Ref
1936	René Bourra	Saint-Germain-en-Laye	Bol d'Or
1959	Conrado Cadirat	Montjuïc	24 Horas de Montjuïc
1966	Pedro Bernaus	Montjuïc	24 Horas de Montjuïc
1970	Franz Huber	Circuit Maashaven	24 Hours of Oss
1970	Gerald Bunting	Montjuïc	24 Horas de Montjuïc
1970	Peter Strauss	Montjuïc	24 Horas de Montjuïc
1970	Satoru Takashima	Suzuka	Suzuka 10 Hours Production
1971	Herman Hertsens	Circuit Maashaven	24 Hours of Oss
1971	Lambert Schuurmans	Circuit Maashaven	24 Hours of Oss
1972	Claude Romain	Zolder	24 Hours of Liège
1973	Francisco Cufí	Montjuïc	24 Horas de Montjuïc
1975	Hans Hutten	Circuit Maashaven	24 Hours of Oss
1976	Francisco Teixeira	Interlagos	24 Horas de Interlagos
1976	Gilbert Lavelle	Bugatti	Bol d'Or
1983	Kunio Katsumata	Suzuka	Suzuka 8 Hours
1985	Dominique Litaudon	Bugatti	24 Hours of Le Mans
1985	Nickolaus Ruck	Montjuïc	24 Horas de Montjuïc
1985	Jean-Pierre Haemisch	Spa-Francorchamps	24 Hours of Liège
1985	Harald Layher	Spa-Francorchamps	24 Hours of Liège
1986	Erwin Loichinger	Hockenheim	1000 km Hockenheim
1986	Domingo Parés	Montjuïc	24 Horas de Montjuïc
1990	Jean-Michel Besozzi	Paul Ricard	Bol d'Or
1990	Horst Lotz	Paul Ricard	Bol d'Or
1991	Steve Caya	Road Atlanta	WERA 6 Hours
1996	Lee Pullan	Spa-Francorchamps	24 Hours of Liège
1999	Luc Van Haver	Spa-Francorchamps	24 Hours of Liège
1999	Tadashi Oshima	Motegi	Motegi 7 Hours
2000	Salvador Ferrando	Catalunya	24 Horas de Catalunya
2000	Mamoru Yamakawa	Suzuka	Suzuka 8 Hours
2001	Herbert Graf	Magny-Cours	Bol d'Or
2005	Xavier Fabra	Catalunya	24 Horas de Catalunya
2007	Holger Turni	Hockenheim	ADAC 1000 km Hockenheim
2007	Carlos Vargas	Catalunya	24 Horas de Catalunya
2008	Adrien Nicolas	Spa-Francorchamps	Spa 8 Hours
2017	Anthony Delhalle	Nogaro	Tests
2017	Enric Sauri	Catalunya	24 Horas de Catalunya
2018	Julie Brøndum Mortensen	Hockenheim	1000 km Hockenheim

Superbike World Championship

The following riders have been killed in the Superbike World Championship

Year	Rider	Circuit	Ref
1995	Yasutomo Nagai	Assen
1997	Graeme Ritchie	Brands Hatch

Other international events

British National or Club Series

There have been over 120 recorded deaths in British motorcycle racing series since 1930.

North West 200 and Irish Road Racing

American National Series

Year	Rider	Series	Circuit	Ref
1912	Eddie Hasha	Board Track Race	New Jersey Motordome
1924	Ray Weishaar	Speedway	Legion Ascot Speedway
1971	Rusty Bradley	AMA	Daytona
1988	Randy Glenn	CCS	Daytona
1992	Larry Schwarzbach	AMA Superbike Championship	Mid-Ohio
1993	Jimmy Adamo	AMA Superbike Championship	Daytona
2000	Chris Tatro	Championship Cup Series	Daytona
2001	Stuart Stratton	Championship Cup Series	Daytona
2003	Trent Dailey	WERA National Challenge Series	Talladega Gran Prix Raceway
2004	Jason Ciarletta	AMA Supercross Championship	Qualcomm Stadium
2010	Peter Lenz	US Grand Prix Riders Union	Indianapolis
2013	Kenny Anderson	AFM	Buttonwillow Raceway
2015	Bernat Martinez	MotoAmerica	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
2015	Dani Rivas	MotoAmerica	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca

National Series in Continental Europe

Asian National Series

National Series in South America

Speedway

Year 1956	Rider Ernie Rawlins	Circuit Southampton	Series British Speedway Championship - National League	Ref
1927	Tommy Maher	Brisbane Exhibition Speedway	Australian National Speedway Championship
1927	Eddie Brinck	Eastern States Expo Speedway	American Motorcyclist Association National
1929	Dennis Atkinson	Cleveland Park Stadium	English Dirt Track League
1930	Eddie Reynolds	Glasgow White City Speedway	British Speedway Championship - Northern League
1931	Indian Allen	Hyde Road Stadium	British Speedway Championship - Southern League
1934	Arij Poldervaart	Pardubice	Golden Helmet of Czechoslovakia
1935	Tom Farndon	New Cross Stadium	Speedway World Championship
1935	Herbert Haigh	Hackney Wick Stadium	Auto-Cycle Union Cup
1937	Stan Hart	Hall Green Speedway	Provincial Championship
1937	Reg Vigor	Wimbledon Stadium	British Speedway Championship - National League
1937	Neil Schiller	Claremont Speedway	Speedway International Tournament
1938	Roy Noble	Warragul	Victorian Auto Cycle Union's Grass-track Championship
1946	Aussie Rosenfeld	Bradford Odsal Speedway	British Speedway Championship - National League
1946	Charlie Appleby	Brough Park Stadium	British Speedway Championship - Northern League
1947	Nelson Wilson	Harringay	Speedway National Trophy
1947	Martin Schneeweiß	Trabrennbahn Graz	Speedway Austrian Championship
1948	Reg Craven	Poole	Speedway National Trophy
1948	Eric Dunn	Eastbourne Speedway	British Speedway Championship
1948	Billy Wilson	Norwich	British Speedway Championship - National League
1950	Oscar Wessman	Johannesburg	Internationals South Africa versus England
1950	Joe Abbott	Odsal Speedway	British Speedway Championship - National League
1951	Erich Berghöfer	Stadion am Zoo	German Concrete Track Championship
1951	Bob Howes	Norwich	British Speedway Championship - National League
1952	Willi Thorn	Bamberger Zementbahn	German Concrete Track Championship
1952	Ernie Roccio	Custom House Stadium	British Speedway Championship - National League
1952	Letium Platton	Stanthorpe	Queensland Grass Track Championship
1953	Mike Rogers	Monmore Green	British Speedway Championship - National League
1956	Malcolm Flood	Poole	British Speedway Championship - National League
1956	Zbigniew Raniszewski	Oberhausen-Trabrennbahn	Speedway Austria & Germany versus Poland
1956	Fritz Dirtl	Oberhausen-Trabrennbahn	Speedway World Championship
1958	Erkki Ala-Sippola	Helsinki Velodrome	Finnish Speedway Championship
1959	Jerzy Grochowski	Polonia Piła	Polish Speedway Team Championship
1960	Tink Maynard	Norwich Speedway	National Trophy
1960	Witold Świątkowski	Rybnik Municipal Stadium	Polish Speedway Championship, 1st Division
1961	Erich Stieglmeier	Pardubice	Golden Helmet of Czechoslovakia
1961	Libor Dušánek	Pardubice	Golden Helmet of Czechoslovakia
1961	Bronisław Idzikowski	Włókniarz Częstochowa	Polish Speedway Team Championship
1962	Stanislaw Domaniecki	Stal Gniezno Speedway Circuit	Polish Speedway Team Championship
1962	Des Simon	Brisbane Exhibition Speedway	Queensland Speedway Championship
1963	Antonín Vilde	Pardubice	Golden Helmet of Czechoslovakia
1963	Peter Craven	Meadowbank Stadium	Speedway National Test Match
1964	Tad Teodorowicz	Custom House Stadium	National Trophy
1966	Ivor Hughes	Dudley Wood Stadium	British Speedway Championship - National League
1967	Andrzej Walicki	Polonia Piła	Polish Speedway Team Championship
1967	Harry Denton	Rowley Park Speedway	Rowley Park Speedway Season
1968	Luboš Tomíček	Pardubice	Golden Helmet of Czechoslovakia
1970	Sven Renlund	Örnsköldsvik	Swedish Ice Racing Championship
1970	Marian Rose	Stal Rzeszów Speedway Circuit	Polish Speedway Team Championship
1971	Jerzy Bildziukiewicz	Polonia Bydgoszcz	Polish Speedway Championship, 1st Division
1972	Marek Czerny	Stal Rzeszów Speedway Circuit	Silver Helmet Tournament
1972	Svein Kaasa	Hampden Park	British Speedway Championship - National League
1974	Zbigniew Malinowski	Chorzów	Polish Speedway Championship, 1st Division
1974	Jerzy Białek	Stal Rzeszów Speedway Circuit	Polish Speedway Club Pairs Championship
1976	Tommy Jansson	Gubbængens Idrottsplads	Speedway World Championship
1976	Roger Parker	Elberton	Bristol Grass Racing Combine's Wessex Centre Championship
1977	Kevin Holden	Poole	Speedway Star Knockout Cup
1977	Marcin Rożak	Unia Tarnów Speedway Circuit	Silver Helmet Tournament
1977	Tom Albery	Sherfield English	Southern Centre Grass Track Riders Association
1977	Jay Ridgeway	DuQuoin State Fairgrounds	American Motorcyclist Association National

Enduro

Year	Rider	Circuit	Ref
2011‡	Mika Ahola	Girona, Spain

‡ Ahola's accident happened in 2011. He died in 2012, as a result of injuries sustained.

Dakar Rally

Other rallying events

2001 John Deacon Rally France/Jordan
2004 Richard Sainct Rallye des Pharaons
2020 Ismael Bonilla, 41, crashed at Circuito de Jerez

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