Bruno Ruffo (December 9, 1920 - February 9, 2007) was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer born in Verona. He won three Grand Prix World Championships.
In 1949 he won the inaugural 250cc World Championship riding for the Italian Moto Guzzi factory. During the 1950 season, Ruffo was annoyed that Moto Guzzi instructed him to let his team-mate win the Championship that year while he finished third. That same year, Ruffo rode a Mondial to claim the 125cc World Championship. In 1951 he once again captured the 250cc World Champion with four victories. Ruffo retired in 1952 after an accident and opened a successful vehicle hire business in Verona. He died at 86 years old.
Motorcycle Grand Prix results
| Year
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Class
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Classification
|
Machine
|
Victories
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| 1949
|
250cc
|
1st
|
Moto Guzzi
|
1
|
| 1950
|
125cc
|
1st
|
Mondial
|
1
|
| 1950
|
250cc
|
3rd
|
Moto Guzzi
|
0
|
| 1951
|
250cc
|
1st
|
Moto Guzzi
|
4
|
| 1951
|
500cc
|
19th
|
Moto Guzzi
|
0
|
| 1952
|
250cc
|
6th
|
Moto Guzzi
|
0
|
| 250 cc Motorcycle World Champions
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| (1949) Bruno Ruffo · (1950) Dario Ambrosini · (1951) Bruno Ruffo · (1952) Enrico Lorenzetti · (1953, 54) Werner Haas · (1955) Hermann Paul Müller · (1956) Carlo Ubbiali · (1957) Cecil Sandford · (1958) Tarquinio Provini · (1959, 60) Carlo Ubbiali · (1961) Mike Hailwood · (1962, 63) Jim Redman · (1964, 65) Phil Read · (1966, 67) Mike Hailwood · (1968) Phil Read · (1969) Kel Carruthers · (1970) Rodney Gould · (1971) Phil Read · (1972) Jarno Saarinen · (1973) Dieter Braun · (1974, 75, 76) Walter Villa · (1977) Mario Lega · (1978, 79) Kork Ballington · (1980, 81) Anton Mang · (1982) Jean-Louis Tournadre · (1983) Carlos Lavado · (1984) Christian Sarron · (1985) Freddie Spencer · (1986) Carlos Lavado · (1987) Anton Mang · (1988, 89) Sito Pons · (1990) John Kocinski · (1991, 92) Luca Cadalora · (1993) Tetsuya Harada · (1994, 95, 96, 97) Max Biaggi · (1998) Loris Capirossi · (1999) Valentino Rossi · (2000) Olivier Jacque · (2001) Daijiro Kato · (2002) Marco Melandri · (2003) Manuel Poggiali · (2004, 05) Dani Pedrosa · (2006, 07) Jorge Lorenzo
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| 125 cc Motorcycle World Champions
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| (1949) Nello Pagani · (1950) Bruno Ruffo · (1951) Carlo Ubbiali · (1952) Cecil Sandford · (1953) Werner Haas · (1954) Rupert Hollaus · (1955, 56) Carlo Ubbiali · (1957) Tarquinio Provini · (1958, 59, 60) Carlo Ubbiali · (1961) Tom Phillis · (1962) Luigi Taveri · (1963) Hugh Anderson · (1964) Luigi Taveri · (1965) Hugh Anderson · (1966) Luigi Taveri · (1967) Bill Ivy · (1968) Phil Read · (1969) Dave Simmonds · (1970) Dieter Braun · (1971, 72) Ángel Nieto · (1973, 1974) Kent Andersson · (1975) Paolo Pileri · (1976, 77) Pier Paolo Bianchi · (1978) Eugenio Lazzarini · (1979) Ángel Nieto · (1980) Pier Paolo Bianchi · (1981, 82, 83, 84) Ángel Nieto · (1985) Fausto Gresini · (1986) Luca Cadalora · (1987) Fausto Gresini · (1988) Jorge Martínez · (1989) Àlex Crivillé · (1990, 91) Loris Capirossi · (1992) Alessandro Gramigni · (1993) Dirk Raudies · (1994) Kazuto Sakata · (1995, 96) Haruchika Aoki · (1997) Valentino Rossi · (1998) Kazuto Sakata · (1999) Emilio Alzamora · (2000) Roberto Locatelli · (2001) Manuel Poggiali · (2002) Arnaud Vincent · (2003) Dani Pedrosa · (2004) Andrea Dovizioso · (2005) Thomas Lüthi · (2006) Álvaro Bautista · (2007) Gábor Talmácsi
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Italian