The 1971 FIM Motocross World Championship season was the 15th F.I.M.

Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme

The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme is the governing body of motorcycle racing. It represents 103 national motorcycle federations that are divided into six regional continental unions....

 Motocross Racing World Championship season.

Summary

Roger De Coster won his first 500cc world championship for Suzuki

Suzuki

is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines...

 in a tight points battle with Maico

Maico

For the manga series, see Maico 2010.Maicowerk A.G. was founded in 1926, originally assembling 98 and 123 cc Ilo two stroke motors. After World War II the West German motorcycle manufacturer began producing its own unit construction two stroke engines, selling engines and complete motorcycles...

 rider Åke Jonsson

Åke Jonsson

Åke Jonsson born October 5, 1942 in Hammerdal, was a Swedish motocross racer. He was also a very skilled speed skater, and belonged to the Swedish top junior elite, before his racing career took off...

. The championship wasn't decided until the final round of the season when Jonsson suffered a mechanical failure. Joël Robert

Joël Robert

Joël Robert is a Belgian motocross racer who won the 250cc Motocross World Championship six times including five times in a row....

, claimed his fifth 250cc title, and fourth in a row for the Suzuki factory racing team.

500cc

Round	Date	Grand Prix	Location	Winner	Team	Report
1	April 18	Italian Grand Prix	Macerata Macerata Macerata is a city and comune in central Italy, the capital of the province of Macerata in the Marche region.The historical city center is located on a hill between the Chienti and Potenza rivers. It consisted of the Picenes city named Ricina, then, after the romanization, Recina and Helvia Recina...	Roger De Coster	Suzuki Suzuki is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines...	Report
2	May 2	Austrian Grand Prix	Sittendorf	Paul Friedrichs Paul Friedrichs Paul Friedrichs was an East German motocross racer. He won three consecutive FIM 500cc motocross world championships from 1966 to 1968....	ČZ Ceská Zbrojovka Strakonice Česká zbrojovka is a Czech firearms manufacturer also known for making ČZ motorcycles. ČZ was established as a branch of the Škoda Works Armament in Strakonice, Czechoslovakia in September 1919.-History:...	Report
3	May 16	Swedish Grand Prix	Huskvarna Huskvarna Huskvarna constitutes the eastern part of Jönköping, the municipal seat of Jönköping Municipality, Sweden and has a population of about 21,500. The distance to central Jönköping is about 5 km....	Roger De Coster	Suzuki	Report
4	May 23	Finnish Grand Prix	Ruskensanta	Paul Friedrichs	ČZ	Report
5	June 13	Czechoslovakian Grand Prix	Stribro Stríbro Stříbro is a town in the Pilsen Region of the Czech Republic, some to the west from the region capital of Pilsen.Stříbro is also the seat of the Municipality with Extended Competence....	Roger De Coster	Suzuki	Report
6	June 20	Russian Grand Prix	Kishinev	Åke Jonsson Åke Jonsson Åke Jonsson born October 5, 1942 in Hammerdal, was a Swedish motocross racer. He was also a very skilled speed skater, and belonged to the Swedish top junior elite, before his racing career took off...	Maico Maico For the manga series, see Maico 2010.Maicowerk A.G. was founded in 1926, originally assembling 98 and 123 cc Ilo two stroke motors. After World War II the West German motorcycle manufacturer began producing its own unit construction two stroke engines, selling engines and complete motorcycles...	Report
7	June 27	East German Grand Prix	Schwerin Schwerin Schwerin is the capital and second-largest city of the northern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The population, as of end of 2009, was 95,041.-History:...	Bengt Åberg Bengt Åberg Bengt Åberg is a former Swedish motocross racer. He was one of the top riders in the Motocross Grand Prix World Championships during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1968 he was part of the Swedish team that won the Trophée des Nations. He was the F.I.M. 500cc Motocross World Champion in 1969...	Husqvarna Husqvarna Motorcycles Husqvarna Motorcycles, a subsidiary of BMW, is a company manufacturing motocross, enduro and supermoto motorcycles. The company began producing motorcycles in 1903 at Huskvarna, Sweden, as a branch of the Husqvarna armament firm which had supplied the Swedish army with rifles since 1689.-History:As...	Report
8	July 11	British Grand Prix	Farleigh Castle Farleigh Hungerford Castle Farleigh Hungerford Castle, sometimes called Farleigh Castle or Farley Castle, is a medieval castle in Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England. The castle was built in two phases: the inner court was constructed between 1377 and 1383 by Sir Thomas Hungerford, who made his fortune working as a...	Åke Jonsson	Maico	Report
9	July 18	West German Grand Prix	Bielstein	Adolf Weil Adolf Weil (motorcyclist) Adolf Weil was a German motocross racer. He competed in the FIM 250cc and 500cc Motocross Grand Prix world championships as a rider for the Maico factory racing team during the 1960s and 1970s....	Maico	Report
10	August 1	Belgian Grand Prix	Namur Namur (city) Namur is a city and municipality in Wallonia, in southern Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia....	Roger De Coster	Suzuki	Report
11	August 8	Luxembourg Grand Prix	Ettelbruck Ettelbruck Ettelbruck is a commune with city status in central Luxembourg, with a population of approximately 7,500. As of 2005, the town of Ettelbruck itself, which lies in the east of the commune, has a population of 6,191. The town of Warken and Grentzingen are also within the commune...	Åke Jonsson	Maico	Report
12	August 22	Dutch Grand Prix	Sint Anthonis Sint Anthonis Sint Anthonis is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands in the Province of Noord-Brabant.The locals refer to the town as Sint Tunnis. An inhabitant is called a "Sintunnisenaar".As of January 1, 2011 the town has 4,228 inhabitants....	Roger De Coster	Suzuki	Report

250cc

Round	Date	Grand Prix	Location	Winner	Team	Report
1	April 18	Spanish Grand Prix	Sabadell Sabadell Sabadell is the second largest city in the comarca of the Vallès Occidental in Catalonia, Spain. It is in the south of the comarca, on the River Ripoll, 20 km north-west of Barcelona...	Joël Robert Joël Robert Joël Robert is a Belgian motocross racer who won the 250cc Motocross World Championship six times including five times in a row....	Suzuki Suzuki is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines...	Report
2	April 25	Swiss Grand Prix	Payerne Payerne Payerne is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was the seat of the district of Payerne, and is now part of the district of Broye-Vully....	Joël Robert	Suzuki	Report
3	May 2	Polish Grand Prix	Szczecin Szczecin Szczecin , is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of June 2009 the population was 406,427....	Kalevi Vehkonen	Husqvarna Husqvarna Motorcycles Husqvarna Motorcycles, a subsidiary of BMW, is a company manufacturing motocross, enduro and supermoto motorcycles. The company began producing motorcycles in 1903 at Huskvarna, Sweden, as a branch of the Husqvarna armament firm which had supplied the Swedish army with rifles since 1689.-History:As...	Report
4	May 9	West German Grand Prix	Beuern	Heikki Mikkola Heikki Mikkola Heikki Antero Mikkola was a four-time World Champion motocross racer. Known as the "Flying Finn", and characterized by a fierce, determined style, he was the first Finn to win a motocross world championship....	Husqvarna	Report
5	May 16	Yugoslavian Grand Prix	Karlovac Karlovac Karlovac is a city and municipality in central Croatia. The city proper has a population of 49,082, while the municipality has a population of 59,395 inhabitants .Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County...	Joël Robert	Suzuki	Report
6	May 23	Italian Grand Prix	Busca Busca Busca is a comune in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 60 km southwest of Turin and about 15 km northwest of Cuneo...	Joël Robert	Suzuki	Report
7	June 20	Dutch Grand Prix	Bergharen Bergharen Bergharen is a village in the Netherlands, in the municipality of Wijchen. It was a separate municipality until 1984.-External links: Map of the former municipality, around 1868....	Sylvain Geboers Sylvain Geboers Sylvain Geboers is a Belgian former professional motocross racer and current motocross team manager.Geboers was one of the top motocross racers of the late 1960s and early 1970s, finishing in the top three of the F.I.M. 250cc motocross World Championships for five consecutive years from 1968 to...	Suzuki	Report
8	July 4	East German Grand Prix	Teutschenthal Teutschenthal Teutschenthal is a municipality in the Saalekreis district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany....	Joël Robert	Suzuki	Report
9	August 8	Finnish Grand Prix	Hyvinkää Hyvinkää Hyvinkää is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in Uusimaa region, approximately north of the capital Helsinki. The town was chartered in 1960. Hyvinkää belongs to the Province of Southern Finland. The population of Hyvinkää is ....	Sylvain Geboers	Suzuki	Report
10	August 15	Swedish Grand Prix	Ulricehamn Ulricehamn Ulricehamn is a locality and the seat of Ulricehamn Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, with 9,250 inhabitants in 2005.-History:Ulricehamn, originally known as Bogesund has been populated at least since the Middle Ages. The town has had city privileges since at least the 15th century...	Joël Robert	Suzuki	Report
11	August 22	British Grand Prix	Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...	Joël Robert	Suzuki	Report
12	October 3	Austrian Grand Prix	Launsdorf	Joël Robert	Suzuki	Report

500cc

Pos	Rider	Team	Points
1	Roger De Coster	Suzuki Suzuki is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines...	97
2	Åke Jonsson Åke Jonsson Åke Jonsson born October 5, 1942 in Hammerdal, was a Swedish motocross racer. He was also a very skilled speed skater, and belonged to the Swedish top junior elite, before his racing career took off...	Maico Maico For the manga series, see Maico 2010.Maicowerk A.G. was founded in 1926, originally assembling 98 and 123 cc Ilo two stroke motors. After World War II the West German motorcycle manufacturer began producing its own unit construction two stroke engines, selling engines and complete motorcycles...	93
3	Adolf Weil Adolf Weil (motorcyclist) Adolf Weil was a German motocross racer. He competed in the FIM 250cc and 500cc Motocross Grand Prix world championships as a rider for the Maico factory racing team during the 1960s and 1970s....	Maico	81
4	Paul Friedrichs Paul Friedrichs Paul Friedrichs was an East German motocross racer. He won three consecutive FIM 500cc motocross world championships from 1966 to 1968....	ČZ Ceská Zbrojovka Strakonice Česká zbrojovka is a Czech firearms manufacturer also known for making ČZ motorcycles. ČZ was established as a branch of the Škoda Works Armament in Strakonice, Czechoslovakia in September 1919.-History:...	70
5	Bengt Åberg Bengt Åberg Bengt Åberg is a former Swedish motocross racer. He was one of the top riders in the Motocross Grand Prix World Championships during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1968 he was part of the Swedish team that won the Trophée des Nations. He was the F.I.M. 500cc Motocross World Champion in 1969...	Husqvarna Husqvarna Motorcycles Husqvarna Motorcycles, a subsidiary of BMW, is a company manufacturing motocross, enduro and supermoto motorcycles. The company began producing motorcycles in 1903 at Huskvarna, Sweden, as a branch of the Husqvarna armament firm which had supplied the Swedish army with rifles since 1689.-History:As...	52
6	Christer Hammargren	Husqvarna	45

250cc

Pos	Rider	Team	Points
1	Joël Robert Joël Robert Joël Robert is a Belgian motocross racer who won the 250cc Motocross World Championship six times including five times in a row....	Suzuki Suzuki is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines...	105
2	Håkan Andersson Håkan Andersson (motorcyclist) Håkan Andersson was a Swedish motocross racer. He won the F.I.M. 250cc Motocross World Championship in 1973.Andersson began racing in the motocross world championships for the Husqvarna factory, finishing second behind Suzuki's Joël Robert in the 1971 250cc motocross world championship...	Husqvarna Husqvarna Motorcycles Husqvarna Motorcycles, a subsidiary of BMW, is a company manufacturing motocross, enduro and supermoto motorcycles. The company began producing motorcycles in 1903 at Huskvarna, Sweden, as a branch of the Husqvarna armament firm which had supplied the Swedish army with rifles since 1689.-History:As...	72
3	Sylvain Geboers Sylvain Geboers Sylvain Geboers is a Belgian former professional motocross racer and current motocross team manager.Geboers was one of the top motocross racers of the late 1960s and early 1970s, finishing in the top three of the F.I.M. 250cc motocross World Championships for five consecutive years from 1968 to...	Suzuki	66
4	Heikki Mikkola Heikki Mikkola Heikki Antero Mikkola was a four-time World Champion motocross racer. Known as the "Flying Finn", and characterized by a fierce, determined style, he was the first Finn to win a motocross world championship....	Husqvarna	63
5	Ollie Petterson	Suzuki	59
6	Uno Palm	Husqvarna	53
7	Miroslav Halm	ČZ	46
8	Vladimir Kavinov	ČZ	41
9	Jaroslav Falta Jaroslav Falta Jaroslav Falta is a former motocross racer from the former Czechoslovakia. As a member of the CZ factory racing team, Falta was one of the top motocross racers of the early 1970s in the F.I.M. 250cc motocross World Championships...	ČZ	36
10	Kalevi Vehkonen	Husqvarna	33