(1923-03-29)29 March 1923 St. Helens, Lancashire, England
Died
1 May 2015(2015-05-01) (aged 92) Isle of Man
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Active years
1950–1959
First race
1950 Isle of Man TT
Last race
1959 Nations Grand Prix
First win
1950 500 cc Isle of Man TT
Last win
1958 500 cc Swedish Grand Prix
Team(s)
Benelli, BMW, Gilera, Norton, NSU
Championships
350 cc - 1951, 1952500 cc - 1951, 1953 - 1955
Starts
Wins
Podiums
Poles
F. laps
Points
89
33
50
N/A
29
359 (371)
Isle of Man TT career
TTs contested
9 (1949 – 1955, 1958, 1959)
TT wins
6
First TT win
1949 Clubmans Senior TT
Last TT win
1955 Senior TT
TT podiums
8
Geoffrey Ernest DukeOBE (29 March 1923 – 1 May 2015), born in St. Helens, Lancashire, was a British multiple motorcycle Grand Prix road racing world champion.[1] He raced several brands of motorcycle: Norton, Gilera, BMW, NSU and Benelli.[2] After retirement from competition, he was a businessman based in the Isle of Man.
^"Geoff Duke". Motogp.com. 29 March 1923. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
^Gouinguenet, Hervé (15 October 2015). Pilotes légendaires de la Moto. edi8. ISBN 9791030100938. Retrieved 4 January 2018 – via Google Books.
particular championship round.) Duke Road Racing Rankings All Grand Prix results are taken from Walker, pp. 248–252 "GeoffDuke". Motogp.com. 29 March 1923...
world's fastest rider with record-breaking Senior TT victory". Isle of Man TT. Duke Marketing Limited. 2 June 2018. Retrieved 3 June 2018. Peter Hickman produces...
measure. The 1957 500 cc machines on which former World Champion rider GeoffDuke had much success were resurrected in 1963, but with the benefit of newer...
riders who raced here included: Hans Stärkle [de; nl], Freddie Frith and GeoffDuke. Italian racer Omobono Tenni was killed at Bremgarten during practice...
was founded in the Isle of Man in 1981 by Peter Duke, son of six-time motorcycle World Champion GeoffDuke. Originally a mail-order only service, the company...
apprentice. He first gained prominence in 1951 when he gave Norton star GeoffDuke a strong challenge in an ACU race at the Thruxton Circuit. In 1955, Norton...
public roads. It was the idea of Isle of Man-based Peter Duke, son of former World Champion GeoffDuke, who in conjunction with road-racing journalist Leslie...
victorious Hickman in PokerStars Senior TT". Isle of Man TT. Duke Marketing Ltd. 8 June 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2018. "TT Fact Zone". Duke Marketing Ltd....
William Dunlop Richard Cooper 3 Alan Shepherd Artie Bell Callum Ramsey GeoffDuke Charlie Williams Jim Moodie Eric Fernihough Ralph Bryans Ray McCullough...
Travis. "Duke's Belle Knox trades on porn fame to promote libertarians Ayn Rand and Rand Paul". Raw Story, January 30, 2015. Herbert, Geoff. "Duke University...
and 500cc championships. "GEOFFDUKE: FIRST GENTLEMAN OF RACING". Australian Motorcycle News. Retrieved 2023-11-07. "GeoffDuke would have been 100 years...
leathers', was first used by world champion motorcycle racer GeoffDuke in the 1950s. Duke had the suit made for the purposes of streamlining, not safety...
Giuseppe Farina Alfa Romeo 159M 1:56.200 1951 Italian Grand Prix 500cc GeoffDuke Gilera 500 4C 2:04.600 1954 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix 350cc Fergus...
world championship points. In 1956, the reigning 500 cc world champion, GeoffDuke and thirteen other riders were given six-month suspensions for merely...
Maurice Cann Bob Foster GeoffDuke Report 6 10 September Nations Grand Prix Monza Gianni Leoni Dario Ambrosini GeoffDukeGeoffDuke Oliver / Dobelli Report...
Despite the conditions, GeoffDuke riding the works Gilera and led Amm riding for Norton by 14 seconds on lap 1. On the second lap, Duke lapped in 26 minutes...
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