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Three-time national motorcycle champion
Bart Markel dies
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[FEB.
6, 2007]
Bart Markel, the legendary motorcycle
racer who won the AMA Grand National Championship three times in the
1960s, died Saturday at his home in Flint, Mich. (See
obituary on AMA Flat Track Championship site.)
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"Black Bart" Markel was watched by thousands of fans in this area
and was one of their favorites, according to AMA writer Tor Kovacs.
Markel won these locally contested
Grand National Championship races during his career:
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Lincoln Half-mile, 1962
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Springfield Mile,
1962
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Peoria TT, 1960, '61,
'62, '63, '65, '68
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Hinsdale Santa Fe
Speedway Short Track National, 1966, '70
His complete win record is available on page 58 of the
AMA Media Guide.
[To download Adobe Acrobat Reader for the PDF
file, click here.]
Markel's Hall of Fame
biography is also available on the
AMA Flat Track Championship site.
[Tor Kovacs; LDN]
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