1979 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
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The 1979 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 31st F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.
Kenny Roberts (pictured in Assen) became the 1979 500cc world champion
Kenny Roberts
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Kenneth Leroy Roberts is an American former professional motorcycle racer and racing team owner. In 1978, he became the first American to win a Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championship. He was also a two-time winner of the A.M.A. Grand National Championship. Roberts is one of only four riders in American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) racing history to win the AMA Grand Slam, representing Grand National wins at a mile, half-mile, short-track, TT Steeplechase and road race events.
Roberts in 1975
Roberts in 1974 competing in an AMA Grand National Championship dirt track event.
Roberts (11) racing in the 1974 250cc Dutch TT, his first world championship Grand Prix race
Roberts in 1978