1955 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix

  1955 Nations Grand Prix

Race details
Race 8 of 8 races in the 1955 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	4 September 1955
Location	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.750 km (3.573 mi)
500 cc
Fastest lap
Rider	Geoff Duke	Gilera
Time	1:54.1
Podium
First	Umberto Masetti	MV Agusta
Second	Reg Armstrong	Gilera
Third	Geoff Duke	Gilera
350 cc
Fastest lap
Rider	Bill Lomas	Moto Guzzi
Time	2:00.4
Podium
First	Dickie Dale	Moto Guzzi
Second	Bill Lomas	Moto Guzzi
Third	Ken Kavanagh	Moto Guzzi
250 cc
Fastest lap
Rider	Hans Baltisberger	NSU
Time	2:04.9
Podium
First	Carlo Ubbiali	MV Agusta
Second	Hans Baltisberger	NSU
Third	Sammy Miller	NSU
125 cc
Fastest lap
Rider	Carlo Ubbiali	MV Agusta
Time	2:11.9
Podium
First	Carlo Ubbiali	MV Agusta
Second	Remo Venturi	MV Agusta
Third	Angelo Copeta	MV Agusta
Sidecars
Fastest lap
Rider	A. Milani	Gilera
Passenger	?
Time	2:12.9
Podium
First	Wilhelm Noll	BMW
	Fritz Cron
Second	Walter Schneider	BMW
	Hans Strauss
Third	Jacques Drion	Norton
	Inge Stoll

The 1955 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighth and final round of the 1955 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 4 September 1955 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.

500 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Umberto Masetti	MV Agusta	35	1:08:04.1	8
2	Reg Armstrong	Gilera	35	+0.5	6
3	Geoff Duke	Gilera	35	+1.6	4
4	Giuseppe Colnago	Gilera			3
5	Alfredo Milani	Gilera			2
6	Ernst Riedelbauch	BMW			1
7	Gerold Klinger	BMW
8	Bill Hall	Norton
9	Enrico Galante	Norton
10	A. Cirelli	Gilera
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350 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Dickie Dale	Moto Guzzi	27	55:21.3	8
2	Bill Lomas	Moto Guzzi	27	+0.1	6
3	Ken Kavanagh	Moto Guzzi	27	+13.1	4
4	Enrico Lorenzetti	Moto Guzzi			3
5	August Hobl	DKW			2
6	Roberto Colombo	Moto Guzzi			1
7	Helmut Hallmeier	NSU
8	Siegfried Wünsche	DKW
9	Arthur Wheeler	AJS
10	Lodovico Facchinelli	AJS
11	Bill Hall	Norton
12	Erwin Aldinger	Horex
13	Sven Andersson	Norton
14	Arthur Wick	AJS
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250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Carlo Ubbiali	MV Agusta	22	46:34.1	8
2	Hans Baltisberger	NSU	22	+0.3	6
3	Sammy Miller	NSU	22	+15.6	4
4	Hermann Paul Müller	NSU			3
5	Bill Lomas	MV Agusta			2
6	Umberto Masetti	MV Agusta			1
7	Roberto Colombo	Moto Guzzi
8	Kurt Knopf	NSU
9	Karl Lottes	DKW
10	Arthur Wheeler	Moto Guzzi
11	Günter Beer	Adler
12	Adelmo Mandolini	Moto Guzzi
13	Lanfranco Baviera	Moto Guzzi
14	Alfredo Flores	Moto Guzzi
15	Dino Fagiolini	Moto Guzzi
16	René Guérin	Moto Guzzi
17	Guido Sala	Moto Guzzi
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125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Carlo Ubbiali	MV Agusta	18	41:03.8	8
2	Remo Venturi	MV Agusta	18	+27.1	6
3	Angelo Copeta	MV Agusta	18	+1:42.2	4
4	August Hobl	DKW			3
5	Siegfried Wünsche	DKW			2
6	Paolo Campanelli	Mondial			1
7	Guido Sala	MV Agusta
8	Karl Lottes	MV Agusta
9	Willi Scheidhauer	MV Agusta
10	Florian Camathias	MV Agusta
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Sidecar classification

Pos	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Wilhelm Noll	Fritz Cron	BMW	18	41:21.6	8
2	Walter Schneider	Hans Strauss	BMW	18	+0.2	6
3	Jacques Drion	Inge Stoll	Norton	18	+58.6	4
4	Florian Camathias	Maurice Büla	BMW			3
5	Jean Murit	Francis Flahaut	BMW			2
6	Fritz Seeber	Franz Heiss	BMW			1
7	Friedrich Staschel	Edgar Perduss	BMW
8	Loni Neussner	?	Norton
9	Alfonso Sammarchi	?	Norton
10	Fritz Mühlemann	K. Tuscher	BSA
11	A. Baldi	?	BSA
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