With no other manufacturers competing in the 500cc class theMV Agusta team continued to dominate asGiacomo Agostini won his fifth consecutive 500cc world championship.[1]Kawasaki began to sell theKawasaki H1R toprivateer racing teams.[2] The H1R was the first multi-cylinder two stroke racingmotorcycle to be sold commercially.[2]Ginger Molloy rode one of the Kawasakis to a second-place finish behind Agostini in the championship.[1]
Life was a bit tougher for Agostini in the 350 class asKel Carruthers andRenzo Pasolini on Benellis andRod Gould on a factoryYamaha gave him a battle on more than one occasion.[1] Gould would take the 250 title for Yamaha, battling Carruthers for the entire season.[1] GermanDieter Braun would giveSuzuki the 125 crown whileDerbi mountedAngel Nieto claimed the 50cc class for the second year in a row.
There were six fatalities among the competitors at theIsle of Man TT races, including world championship contenderSantiago Herrero, making 1970 the deadliest year in the history of the event.[3][4]
Points were awarded to the top ten finishers in each race. Only the best of six races were counted on 50cc, 125cc, 350cc and 500cc championships, best of seven in 250cc, while in the Sidecars, the best of five races were counted.
^abcdNoyes, Dennis; Scott, Michael (1999),Motocourse: 50 Years Of Moto Grand Prix, Hazleton Publishing Ltd,ISBN1-874557-83-7
^abCathcart, Alan (2019),"Eric Offenstadt's Monocoque Triple",Classic Racer, Mortons Motorcycle Media Group Ltd,ISSN1470-4463,But for 1970 he decided to take advantage of the arrival of the world's first multi-cylinder two stroke 500 GP customer racer, the Kawasaki H1R triple
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Giacomo Agostini
Kel Carruthers
Kent Andersson
Martti Pesonen
Rodney Gould
Günter Bartusch
Gyula Marsovsky
Santiago Herrero
Dieter Braun
László Szabó
Aalt Toersen
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