20 May 1973(1973-05-20) (aged 27) Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Active years
1968, 1970 – 1973
First race
1968 125cc Finnish Grand Prix
Last race
1973 250cc Nations Grand Prix
First win
1971 350cc Czechoslovakian Grand Prix
Last win
1973 250cc West German Grand Prix
Team(s)
Yamaha
Championships
250cc – 1972
Starts
Wins
Podiums
Poles
F. laps
Points
46
15
32
N/A
15
Jarno Karl Keimo Saarinen (11 December 1945 – 20 May 1973) was a Finnish professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.[1] In the early 1970s, he was considered one of the most promising and talented motorcycle racers of his era until he was killed during the 1973 Nations Grand Prix in Italy.[2][3][4] Saarinen's death led to increased demands for better safety conditions for motorcycle racers competing in the world championships.[2] He remains the only Finn to have won a solo motorcycle road racing world championship. Saarinen was inducted into the F.I.M. MotoGP Hall of Fame in 2009.[5]
Jarno Karl Keimo Saarinen (11 December 1945 – 20 May 1973) was a Finnish professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. In the early 1970s, he was considered...
Trulli. His parents were motorsport fans and named their son after JarnoSaarinen, the Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racing champion who was killed at...
500cc crown for MV Agusta. Things were tighter in the 350cc class with JarnoSaarinen giving Agostini a strong challenge by winning three races, including...
of the 500cc class but the season was overshadowed by the deaths of JarnoSaarinen and Renzo Pasolini at the Italian round at Monza. The 500cc title runner-up...
narrowly lost the 1972 250cc world championship to JarnoSaarinen by a single point. He died along with Saarinen in an accident at the start of the 1973 Nations...
Jan de Vries was so heated, that the Kreidler team hired Sheene and JarnoSaarinen in support of de Vries, while the Derbi factory hired Gilberto Parlotti...
and Carlo Ubbiali, as well as champions who had died young such as JarnoSaarinen and Daijiro Kato. The latest inductee is Hans-Georg Anscheidt. Out of...
and Valtteri Bottas. On two wheels, the most famous Flying Finn was JarnoSaarinen, also known as The Baron, who won the 250cc road racing World Championship...
Pyynikki Circuit were banned in 1971 for safety reasons, but in the final year the future World Champion JarnoSaarinen won two classes. v t e v t e v t e...
determination. He finished the season ranked fourth in the country. In 1972, JarnoSaarinen was considered one of the top road racers in the world, having challenged...
fourth year in a row but a newcomer served notice when young Finn, JarnoSaarinen, won his first Grand Prix at the Czechoslovakian round then won again...
as personal sponsor of riders like Giacomo Agostini, Angel Nieto and JarnoSaarinen. In 1976, Marlboro backed Agostini's team, who raced MV Agusta bikes...
serious accidents resulted in five deaths, including Renzo Pasolini and JarnoSaarinen, in 1973, and motorcycle racing did not return to Monza until 1981....
consecutive 500cc championship, all with MV Agusta. 1973: Deaths of JarnoSaarinen and Renzo Pasolini at the Italian round at Monza and cancelled. 1974:...
Grand Prix when a racing accident claimed the lives of world champion JarnoSaarinen and Renzo Pasolini. After the von Trips accident in 1961, the Monza...
track in the rain and was killed. The official race lap records at the JarnoSaarinen Imatranajo Circuit are listed as: (Coloured background = the race was...
1953, Rupert Hollaus in 1954, Tom Phillis in 1962, Bill Ivy in 1969, JarnoSaarinen in 1973, Daijiro Kato in 2003, and Marco Simoncelli in 2011. Hollaus...
won from the outset at the first round of the 1973 season, ridden by JarnoSaarinen. 2nd 1974 0W23: Yamaha’s first machine created specifically for 500cc...
Formula One driver, World Champion in 2007; rally driver; NASCAR driver JarnoSaarinen – motorcycle racer (1945–1973) Juha Salminen – enduro rider Mika Salo...
the Italian motorcycle Grand Prix it saw a double fatal accident for JarnoSaarinen and Renzo Pasolini in 1973 after a pile-up through the dauntingly fast...
racing, which reached its peak in the early 1970s before the death of JarnoSaarinen. In enduro, 7 and 13-time World Enduro Champions Kari Tiainen and Juha...
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