Hugh Anderson (motorcyclist)
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Hugh Robertson Anderson is a four-time Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion and a 19-time New Zealand national champion. He is also a two-time Isle of Man TT winner. In 2022, the F.I.M. in
Anderson at the 1963 Dutch TT
The 1961 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 13th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix season. The season consisted of eleven Grand Prix races in five classes: 500cc, 350cc, 250cc,
Hugh Anderson (motorcyclist)
…the Suzuki importer for New Zealand and former Grand Prix racer who won the 1954 Isle of Man Junior TT. He joined the Suzuki factory racing team in 1961, racing the factory's 50cc, 125cc and occasionally 250cc racers. During his team membership, Anderson was double World Champion (50cc and 125cc) in…
Gary Hocking, the 1961 350cc and 500cc World Champion.
Mike Hailwood (pictured in 1967) won his first out of 9 World Championship titles in the 250cc class in 1961.
Tom Phillis won the title in the 125cc class.