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Race details
Race 1 of 8 races in the 1951 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	8 April 1951
Location	Montjuïc circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 6.033 km (3.749 mi)
500cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Enrico Lorenzetti Moto Guzzi Time 3:45 Podium First Umberto Masetti Gilera Second Tommy Wood Norton Third Arciso Artesiani MV Agusta
350cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Tommy Wood Velocette Time 3:47 Podium First Tommy Wood Velocette Second Leslie Graham Velocette Third Bill Petch AJS
125cc
Rider Fastest lap Rider Carlo Ubbiali Mondial Time 4:04.0 Podium First Guido Leoni Mondial Second Carlo Ubbiali Mondial Third Vincenzo Zanzi Moto Morini
Sidecar (B2A)
Rider Fastest lap Rider Eric Oliver Norton Time 4:21 Podium First Eric Oliver Norton Second Ercole Frigerio Gilera Third Albino Milani Gilera

The 1951 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1951 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 8 April 1951 at the Montjuïc circuit.

500 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Umberto Masetti	Gilera	34	2:10:56.2	8
2	Tommy Wood	Norton	34	+1:00.8	6
3	Arciso Artesiani	MV Agusta			4
4	Roger Montané	Norton			3
5	Carlo Bandirola	MV Agusta			2
6	Ernesto Vidal	Gilera			1

350 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Tommy Wood	Velocette	25	1:36:21.7	8
2	Leslie Graham	Velocette	25	+2:30.0	6
3	Bill Petch	AJS			4
4	Fernando Aranda	Moto Guzzi			3
5	Jack Raffeld	AJS			2
6	John Grace	AJS			1
7	Bob Matthews	Velocette
8	Antonio Creus	AJS
9	Juan Buira	AJS
10	Len Parry	Velocette
11	Alfredo Flores	Velocette
12	J. Gomar	AJS

125cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Points
1	Guido Leoni	Mondial	17	1:11:21.8	8
2	Carlo Ubbiali	Mondial	17	+4.6	6
3	Vincenzo Zanzi	Moto Morini	17	+9.0	4
4	Raffaele Alberti	Mondial	17	+1:50.2	3
5	Juan Soler Bultó	Montesa	17	+3:00.7	2
6	Arturo Elizalde	Montesa	17	+3:40.4	1
7	Dick Renooy	Eysink
8	Toon van Zutphen	Eysink
9	Tonnie Heinemann	Eysink
10	"Setroc"	MV Agusta
11	Gianfranco Zanzi	Mondial
12	Jacques Vaque	MV Agusta
21 starters, 12 finishers
Source:

Sidecar classification

Pos	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Points
1	Eric Oliver	Lorenzo Dobelli	Norton	17	1:16:03.1	8
2	Ercole Frigerio	Ezio Ricotti	Gilera	17	+2:04.1	6
3	Albino Milani	Giuseppe Pizzocri	Gilera	17	+2:27.5	4
4	Giovanni Carru	Carlo Musso	Carru			3
5	Siegfried Vogel	Leo Vinatzer	BMW			2
6	Marcel Masuy	Denis Jenkinson	Norton			1
7	Renato Prati	Marino Saguato	Moto Guzzi

References

1. ^ Chamberlain, Peter (ed.). Motor Cycling Yearbook 1952. Temple Press Ltd. pp. 111–112.
2. Haefliger, Werner. FIM MotoGP Results 1949–2023 Guide (2024 ed.). p. 9. ISBN 978-2-9701086-8-9.

• Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix
• 1951 MotoGP race reports
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