Pier Paolo Bianchi

Pier Paolo Bianchi

Motorcycle Grand Prix Career
Nationality	Italian
Active years	1973 - 1989
Team(s)	Morbidelli
Grands Prix	127
Championships	125 cc - 1976, 1977, 1980
Wins	27
Podium finishes	61
Pole positions	32
Fastest laps	25
First Grand Prix	1973 125 cc Nations Grand Prix
First win	1976 125 cc Austrian Grand Prix
Last win	1983 125 cc Belgian Grand Prix
Last Grand Prix	1989 125 cc West German Grand Prix

Pier Paolo Bianchi (born March 11, 1952) is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion.

He won consecutive FIM 125 cc world championships in 1976 and 1977. He won one more 125 championship in 1980 on a MBA.

Loosely translated from Italian

Its debut in the world of the motomondiale avvenne in the championship of the Class 125 of the 1973, in saddle to a Yamaha. Wild-card of the Minarelli in the successive year, was engaged first like member and then like main pilot from the Morbidelli, with that began in the octave of liter in the 1975.

The successive year he vinse its first world title in 125 after to have gained you are big prizes (Austria, Germany, Jugoslavia, Holland, Sweden and Finland) and to have precedent of 23 lengths in the general listing the strong Spanish Angel Nieto. In the 1977 the title gave an encore gained the following year in even more net manner: seven victories, two seconds places and 131 points in general listing.

In the 1978 returned at the Minarelli, where ebbe the opportunity of to gain four competitions and of to obtain a third place in listing in 125. Worse still it the year went 1979, where Pier White Paolo dovette to satisfy itself of coupon for first the goal an alone time (in Sweden) and of 10 to arrive° in the general listing. In the 1980 decided passerby to the MBA, where gained the third world laurel in 125.

To this third I triumph they followed long athletics crisis of periods and of technical experimentations, concluded with the two opaque seasons (1982-1983) in saddle to the newborn Sanvenero. In the 1984 replaced themselves in light arriving third in the world one reserved to the category 80 cc (picking also two victories) while in the 1985 seemed ready to win back the world one of 125, but a mechanical problem stopped it in the last competition to Marine San, with Fortunate Gresini that vinse race and rainbow-colored title.

The year 1985 was the last positive season for White: hence to the moment of its withdrawal (the last season athletics avvenne in the 1986 with it Cagiva) dovette to satisfy itself of to win an only big prize, with it Seel, in the category 80 cc.

In the 2003 the president Ciampi conferí the decoration of Commander of the order to the Merit of the Italian Republic to Pier White Paolo and with him other champions of the world one like Giacomo Agostini, Brown Ruffo, Eugenio Lazzarini and Carlo Ubbiali.

Complete Grand Prix motorcycle racing results

Points system from 1969 to 1987:

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Points	15	12	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1

Points system from 1988 to 1992:

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Points	20	17	15	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Points	Rank	Wins
1973	125cc	Yamaha	FRA -	AUT -	GER -	FRA 5	IOM -	YUG -	NED -	BEL -	CZE -	SWE -	FIN -	ESP -		6	22nd	0
1974	125cc	Minarelli	FRA -	GER -	AUT -	FRA 3	NED -	BEL -	SWE -	CZE -	YUG -	ESP -				10	17th	0
1975	125cc	Morbidelli	FRA -	ESP 4	AUT 2	GER 2	FRA 2	NED 2	BEL 2	SWE 2	CZE -	YUG -				72	2nd	0
1976	125cc	Morbidelli	AUT 1	FRA 1	YUG 1	NED 1	BEL -	SWE 1	FIN 1	GER -	ESP 1					90	1st	7
1977	125cc	Morbidelli	VEN -	AUT 2	GER 1	FRA 1	ESP 1	FRA 1	YUG 1	NED 9	BEL 1	SWE 2	FIN 1	GBR -		131	1st	7
1978	125cc	Minarelli	VEN 1	ESP -	AUT 3	FRA 1	FRA -	NED -	BEL 1	SWE 1	FIN -	GBR -	GER -	YUG -		70	3rd	4
1979	125cc	Minarelli	VEN -	AUT -	GER -	FRA -	ESP -	YUG 7	NED -	BEL -	SWE 1	FIN -	GBR 5	CZE -	FRA 3	35	10th	1
1980	125cc	MBA	FRA 1	ESP 1	FRA 2	YUG -	NED 4	BEL 4	FIN 2	GBR 3	CZE 5	GER 7				90	1st	2
1981	125cc	MBA	ARG 5	AUT 3	GER -	FRA -	FRA 3	ESP 3	YUG 2	NED 3	RSM 3	GBR 4	FIN -	SWE 4	CZE -	84	3rd	0
1982	125cc	Sanvenero	ARG 6	AUT 3	FRA -	ESP -	FRA 2	NED -	BEL 3	YUG 2	GBR 3	SWE -	FIN -	CZE -		59	4th	0
1983	125cc	Sanvenero	FRA -	FRA NC	GER 3	ESP 3	AUT 3	YUG NC	NED NC	BEL NC	GBR 13	SWE 7	RSM 5			40	8th	0
1984	80cc	Rieju	FRA 1	ESP 1	AUT 4	GER 2		YUG NC	NED 6	BEL 4			RSM 6			68	3rd	2
	125cc	MBA	FRA NC	ESP -		GER -	FRA -		NED -		GBR -	SWE -	RSM -			0	-	0
1985	125cc	MBA	ESP 1	GER 3	FRA 1	AUT 4	NED 1	BEL 5	FRA 5	GBR 2	SWE 2	RSM NC				99	2nd	3
1986	80cc	Seel	ESP 4	FRA 5	GER NC	AUT 3	YUG 6	NED NC			GBR -		RSM 1	BWU -		44	8th	1
	125cc	Seel	ESP 7	FRA 5	GER 11	AUT 4		NED NC	BEL 7	FRA 7	GBR 10	SWE 9	RSM 6	BWU -		34	8th	0
1987	125cc	MBA	ESP 5	GER 4	FRA 5	AUT NC	NED 5	FRA NC	GBR 2	SWE 6	CZE NC	RSM NC	POR NC			43	7th	0
1988	125cc	Cagiva	ESP -	FRA 4	GER NC	AUT NC	NED 9	BEL 12	YUG NC	FRA NC	GBR NC	SWE NC	CZE 25			24	19th	0
1989	125cc	Seel	JPN -	AUS -	ESP -	FRA -	GER NC	AUT -	NED -	BEL -	FRA -	GBR -	SWE -	CZE -		0	-	0