GP WORLD CHAMPION AGOSTINI TO RECEIVE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

GP World Champ "Ago" to be Honored
May 3rd
Half Moon Bay

JohnA


GP WORLD CHAMPION TO RECEIVE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

For immediate release. San Francisco, 24 January 2008 –

Italian legend Giacomo Agostini will receive the Lifetime Achievement
Award at this year’s Legend of the Motorcycle Concours.

Agostini, known to millions of fans worldwide as “Ago”, is the world’s
greatest motorcycle grand prix racer with 15 Grand Prix World
Championship titles. While fellow Italian and World Champion racer
Valentino Rossi is close on his heels in terms of career titles, no one
has yet to match Ago’s incredible record on the track.

Most closely associated with famed Italian super bike MV Agusta,
Agostini actually won his first championship in 1963 astride a Moto
Morini. This win caught the attention of Count Domenico Agusta, founder
of MV Agusta, who added young Agostini to his race team that included
Mike Hailwood. Ago’s tenure with Count Agusta’s team would result in
nearly a decade of successive victories and the cementing of Agostini
and MV as one of the greatest racers and machines of all time.

Fittingly, MV Agusta is a featured marque of this year’s Legend of the
Motorcycle and a history-making assembly is expected. Admirers of this
revered motorcycle and fans of Italian performance iron in general will
not be disappointed.

Each year a person who has made an invaluable contribution to the world
of motorcycling is selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The distinguished trophy presented to this recipient is the signature
God of Speed™ bronze sculpture. Last year’s recipient was Willie G.
Davidson of the eponymous Milwaukee motor company. Agostini will be
presented with this award on stage at the Concours on May 3rd.

The third annual Legend of the Motorcycle Concours d’Elegance will take
place the first Saturday in May on the breathtaking ocean-side golf
course of the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California, just south of
San Francisco. For more information on this landmark charitable event,
visit http://LegendoftheMotorcycle.com.


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