Temporada 1968 del Campeonato del Mundo de Motociclismo
# Temporada 1968 del Campeonato del Mundo de Motociclismo

La temporada de 1968 del Campeonato del Mundo de Motociclismo fue la 20.º edición del Campeonato Mundial de Motociclismo.

## Desarrollo y resultados

Con la salida de Honda de la escena mundial, MV Agusta siguió dominando en las categorías más potentes con Giacomo Agostini comoc ampeón de las cilindradas de 500 y 350cc. La corona de 250 fue a parar Phil Read con controversia por parte de Yamaha. Se suponía que Read se proclamaría campeón de 125 mientras dejaba la corona de 250 a Bill Ivy. Pero no ocurrió así y Read también se hizo con el entorchado de 250, ignorando las órdenes del equipo. Como resultado, Yamaha despediría a Read y nunca recuperaría un lugar en el equipo de la fábrica. Hans-Georg Anscheidt se proclamaría campeón de 50cc por tercera vez consecutiva.

## Calendario y resultados

| Ronda | Fecha | Gran Premio | Circuito | Ganador 50cc | Ganador 125cc | Ganador 250cc | Ganador 350cc | Ganador 500cc |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 21 de abril | Gran Premio de Alemania | Nürburgring Sudschleife | Hans-Georg Anscheidt | Phil Read | Bill Ivy | Giacomo Agostini | Giacomo Agostini | Artículo |
| 2 | 5 de mayo | Gran Premio de España | Circuito de Montjuïch | Hans-Georg Anscheidt | Salvador Cañellas | Phil Read | | Giacomo Agostini | Artículo |
| 3 | 14 de junio | TT Isla de Man | Snaefell Mountain | Barry Smith | Phil Read | Bill Ivy | Giacomo Agostini | Giacomo Agostini | Artículo |
| 4 | 29 de junio | Gran Premio de los Países Bajos | Circuito de Assen | Paul Lodewijkx | Phil Read | Bill Ivy | Giacomo Agostini | Giacomo Agostini | Artículo |
| 5 | 7 de julio | Gran Premio de Bélgica | Spa-Francorchamps | Hans-Georg Anscheidt | | Phil Read | | Giacomo Agostini | Artículo |
| 6 | 14 de julio | Gran Premio de Alemania del Este | Sachsenring | | Phil Read | Bill Ivy | Giacomo Agostini | Giacomo Agostini | Artículo |
| 7 | 21 de julio | Gran Premio de Checoslovaquia | Masaryk Circuit | | Phil Read | Phil Read | Giacomo Agostini | Giacomo Agostini | Artículo |
| 8 | 4 de agosto | Gran Premio de Finlandia | Imatra | | Phil Read | Phil Read | | Giacomo Agostini | Artículo |
| 9 | 17 de agosto | Gran Premio de Úlster | Dundrod Circuit | | Bill Ivy | Bill Ivy | Giacomo Agostini | Giacomo Agostini | Artículo |
| 10 | 15 de septiembre | Gran Premio de las Naciones | Monza | | Bill Ivy | Phil Read | Giacomo Agostini | Giacomo Agostini | Artículo |

## Resultados

### 500cc

| Pos. | Piloto | Moto | GER | ESP | MAN | HOL | BEL | DDR | CZE | FIN | ULS | NAC | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Giacomo Agostini | MV Agusta | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 48 (80) |
| 2 | Jack Findlay | Matchless / Cardani | Ret | 2 | Ret | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Ret | 34 (36) |
| 3 | Gyula Marsovszky | Matchless / Seeley-Matchless | 4 | 5 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 11 | 3 | 6 | Ret | Ret | 10 |
| 4 | Alberto Pagani | Linto | | | | Ret | Ret | 2 | Ret | | | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | Robin Fitton | Norton | | | | | 4 | | | | 2 | | 9 |
| 6 | Peter Williams | Arter-Matchless | 3 | | Ret | 4 | 7 | 7 | 5 | | 20 | 9 | 9 |
| 7 | Derek Woodman | Seeley | Ret | | 9 | Ret | 3 | Ret | Ret | 3 | Ret | Ret | 8 |
| 8 | John Cooper | Seeley / Norton | | | Ret | 3 | 6 | 4 | Ret | | Ret | | 8 |
| 9 | Dan Shorey | Norton | 2 | | | Ret | Ret | 10 | 6 | | Ret | Ret | 7 |
| 10 | Angelo Bergamonti | Paton | Ret | 4 | Ret | Ret | Ret | | | | | 3 | 7 |
| 11 | Kel Carruthers | Norton / Westlake | Ret | | 6 | 5 | 5 | Ret | Ret | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| 12 | Brian Ball | Seeley-Matchless / Matchless | | | 2 | | | | | | 18 | | 6 |
| 13 | Renzo Pasolini | Benelli | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 6 |
| 14 | John Dodds | Norton | Ret | 3 | Ret | Ret | 10 | Ret | Ret | 5 | | 8 | 6 |
| 15 | Billie Nelson | Paton / Norton | Ret | | 7 | Ret | Ret | 5 | 4 | 7 | Ret | Ret | 5 |
| 16 | John Hartle | Metisse / MV Agusta | Ret | | Ret | 9 | 11 | 9 | Ret | | 3 | | 4 |
| 17 | Barry Randle | Norton | | | 3 | | | | | | | | 4 |
| 18 | Percy Tait | Triumph | | | Ret | | | | | | 4 | | 3 |
| 19 | Bill Smith | Matchless / Paton | | | 4 | | | | | | Ret | Ret | 3 |
| 20 | Nikolai Sevostianov | Vostok | | | | | | | | 4 | | | 3 |
| 21 | Bohumil Stasa | ČZ | 5 | | | Ret | 13 | | | | | Ret | 2 |
| 22 | Silvano Bertarelli | Paton | | | | | | | | | | 5 | 2 |
| = | Bernie Lund | Matchless | | | 5 | | | | | | | | 2 |
| 24 | Rodney Gould | Norton / Triumph | 6 | | Ret | 8 | 8 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 7 | 1 |
| 25 | Ron Chandler | Matchless / Seeley-Matchless | 7 | | | 6 | 9 | Ret | Ret | | | 10 | 1 |
| 26 | Rex Butcher | Norton / Matchless / Seeley | Ret | 6 | 8 | Ret | | Ret | Ret | | Ret | Ret | 1 |
| 27 | Godfrey Nash | Norton | | | | Ret | | 6 | Ret | | | Ret | 1 |
| 28 | Derek Lee | Gazelle / Matchless | | Ret | | | | | 7 | | 9 | | 0 |
| 29 | Walter Scheimann | Norton | 12 | 7 | | 12 | 12 | | | | | 11 | 0 |
| 30 | Malcolm Uphill | Manning-Norton | | | Ret | 7 | | | | | Ret | | 0 |
| 31 | John Blanchard | Metisse | | | | | | | | | 7 | | 0 |
| 32 | Errol Cowan | Matchless / Norton / Metisse | 8 | | | Ret | | 12 | 10 | | | | 0 |
| 33 | Keith Turner | Matchless | 15 | | 10 | Ret | | 8 | Ret | Ret | | | 0 |
| 34 | Bo Granath | Matchless / Seeley | | | | Ret | 14 | 14 | 8 | Ret | Ret | | 0 |
| 35 | Steve Jolly | Higley-Matchless | | | Ret | Ret | | | | | 8 | | 0 |
| 36 | Gordon Keith | Monark | | 8 | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 37 | Paul Eickelberg | Norton | 10 | 9 | | | | | 13 | | 19 | 14 | 0 |
| 38 | Pentti Lehtelä | Matchless | | | | | | 13 | 14 | 9 | | | 0 |
| 39 | Heinrich Rosenbusch | Norton | 9 | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| = | Frantisek Srna | Jawa | | | | | | | 9 | | | | 0 |
| 41 | Theo Louwes | Norton | | | | 10 | | | | | 12 | | 0 |
| 42 | Hannu Kuparinen | Matchless | | | | | | | | 10 | | | 0 |
| = | William McCosh | Matchless | | | | | | | | | 10 | | 0 |
| 44 | György Kurucz | Matchless / Metisse | 18 | | | | 15 | 15 | 11 | | | | 0 |
| 45 | Armand Nerger | Honda | 11 | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| = | Bert Oosterhuis | Norton | | | | 11 | | | | | | | 0 |
| = | Matti Salonen | Yamaha | | | | | | | | 11 | | | 0 |
| = | Ron Wilson | Norton | | | | | | | | | 11 | | 0 |
| = | John Williams | Matchless | | | 11 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 50 | Werner Bergold | Matchless | | | | | | | 12 | | | | 0 |
| = | Paolo Campanelli | Matchless | | | | | | | | | | 12 | 0 |
| = | Tony Godfrey | Norton | | | 12 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| = | Wolfgang Stropek | Norton | | | | | | | | 12 | | | 0 |
| 54 | Karl Hoppe | Matchless | Ret | | | 13 | Ret | Ret | Ret | | | | 0 |
| 55 | Dieter Dögmann | BMW | 13 | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| = | Gianfranco Domeniconi | Norton | | | | | | | | | | 13 | 0 |
| = | George Fogarty | Matchless | | | 13 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| = | Osmo Hansen | Matchless | | | | | | | | 13 | | | 0 |
| = | Jack Lindh | Seeley | | | | | | | | | 13 | | 0 |
| 60 | Edy Lenz | Matchless | 14 | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| = | Charlie Sanby | Norton | | | 14 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| = | Barry Scully | Norton | | | | | | | | | 14 | | 0 |
| 63 | Peter Humber | Humber-Crescent | | | Ret | | | | | | 15 | | 0 |
| 64 | Peter Darvill | Norton | | | 15 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 65 | Alan Lawton | Norton | | | 16 | | | | | | 16 | | 0 |
| 66 | Ferdinand Kaczor | BMW | 16 | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 67 | Hartmut Allner | Matchless | 17 | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| = | Bob McCurry | Matchless | | | | | | | | | 17 | | 0 |
| = | Jan Strijbis | Norton | | | 17 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 70 | Jim Evans | Norton | | | 18 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 71 | Ralf Engelhardt | Norton | 19 | | | | | | | Ret | | | 0 |
| 72 | Selwyn Griffiths | Matchless | | | 19 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 73 | Norman Price | Norton | | | 20 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 74 | Harris Healey | Norton | | | | | | | | | 21 | | 0 |
| = | Ian Munro | Matchless | | | 21 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 76 | Peter Gibson | Matchless | | | 22 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 77 | George Barnacle | Triumph | | | 23 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 78 | Brian Adams | Norton | | | 24 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 79 | Adrian Cooper | Norton | | | 25 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 80 | Bob Heath | BSA | | | 26 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 81 | Gilbert Argo | Matchless | | | 27 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 82 | Walter Dawson | Norton | | | 28 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 83 | Jim Curry | Aermacchi / Metisse | | | 29 | | | | | | Ret | | 0 |
| 84 | Jim Ashton | Matchless | | | 30 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 85 | John Burgess | Norton | | | 31 | | | Ret | | | | | 0 |
| 86 | Graham Robinson | Read Titan | | | 32 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 87 | Brian Hunter | Matchless | | | 33 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 88 | Chris Neve | Matchless | | | 34 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 89 | Dennis Trollope | Norton | | | 35 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 90 | Reay Mackay | Vincent HRD | | | 36 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 91 | Roy Reid | Norton | | | 37 | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Marty Lunde | Norton | Ret | | | | | Ret | | | Ret | | 0 |
| - | František Šťastný | Jawa | | | | | Ret | | Ret | | Ret | | 0 |
| - | Vincent Duckett | Matchless | | | Ret | | | | | | Ret | | 0 |
| - | Denis Gallagher | Matchless | | | Ret | | | | | | Ret | | 0 |
| - | Silvio Grassetti | Bianchi | | Ret | | Ret | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Maurice Hawthorne | Norton | Ret | | | | | Ret | | | | | 0 |
| - | Ernst Weiss | Seeley | Ret | | | | | | | | Ret | | 0 |
| - | Billy Andersson | Matchless | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Jean Auréal | Aermacchi | | | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Alan Barnett | Kirby-Metisse | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Rupert Bauer | BMW | Ret | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Bob Biscardine | Velocette | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Karel Bojer | ČZ | | | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Ray Breingan | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Bo Brolin | Matchless | | | | | | | | Ret | | | 0 |
| - | Mick Burns | BSA-Metisse | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Hans-Otto Butenuth | BMW | Ret | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Heiner Butz | Bianchi | Ret | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Salvador Cañellas | Bultaco | | Ret | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Doug Cash | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Bert Clark | Rickman-Metisse | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Roger Corbett | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Conway Chivers | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Herbert Denzler | Matchless | | | | | | | Ret | | | | 0 |
| - | Tom Dickie | Petty-Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Hugh Evans | BSA | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Rolf Fenker | Norton | Ret | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Derek Filler | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Bill Fulton | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Roger Fursman | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Manfred Gäckle | Matchless | Ret | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Albert Haddock | Triton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Mike Hailwood | Benelli | | | | | | | | | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Peter Hampe | Norton | Ret | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Mick Hatherill | Matchless-Metisse | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Keith Heckles | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Oliver Howe | Norton | | | | | | Ret | | | | | 0 |
| - | Griff Jenkins | Matchless | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | John Jones | Triumph | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Brian Kemp | Triumph | | | | | | | | | Ret | | 0 |
| - | Willi Kern | Norton | Ret | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Endel Kiisa | Vostok | | | | | | | | Ret | | | 0 |
| - | Stanislav Klatil | Jawa | | | | | | | Ret | | | | 0 |
| - | Ray Knight | Hughes-Triumph | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Udo Konchanski | BMW | Ret | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Toivo Lehtinen | Norton | | | | | | | | Ret | | | 0 |
| - | Taneli Lepo | Matchless | | | | | | | | Ret | | | 0 |
| - | Vasco Loro | Norton | | | | | | | | | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Pat Mahoney | Oakley-Matchless | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Emanuele Maugliani | Norton | | | | | | | | | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Dennis May | Petty-Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Tony McGurk | Matchless | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Hans-Jürgen Melcher | Honda | Ret | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | David Menzies | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Gilberto Milani | Linto | | | | | | | | | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Ginger Molloy | Bultaco | | Ret | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Stephen Murray | Matchless | | | | | | | | | Ret | | 0 |
| - | Gart Neveling | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Ilari Pekkinen | Norton | | | | | | | | Ret | | | 0 |
| - | Giovanni Perrone | Matchless | | | | | | | | | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Harry Reynolds | Matchless-Metisse | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Tony Rutter | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Brian Sapsford | Lyster-Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Jack Saunders | Matchless | | | | | | Ret | | | | | 0 |
| - | Peter Sheppard | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Bruno Spaggiari | Ducati | | Ret | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Steve Spencer | Norton | Ret | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Malcolm Stanton | Norton | | | | | Ret | | | | | | 0 |
| - | John Taylor | Kirby-Matchless | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Rolf Thiemig | Norton | Ret | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Colin Thompson | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Franco Trabalzini | Norton | | | | | | | | | | Ret | 0 |
| - | Harry Turner | Norton | | | | | | | | | Ret | | 0 |
| - | Tom Walker | Triumph | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Brian Walmsley | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | John Wetherall | Norton | | | Ret | | | | | | | | 0 |
| - | Lewis Young | Matchless | | | | | | | Ret | | | | 0 |
| - | Benedetto Zambotti | Bianchi | | | | | | | | | | Ret | 0 |
| Pos | Piloto | Moto | GER | ESP | MAN | HOL | BEL | DDR | CZE | FIN | ULS | NAC | Pts |
