Keith Campbell (motorcyclist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian motorcycle racer
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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Keith Campbell (motorcyclist)
- Keith Ronald Campbell (2 October 1931 – 13 July 1958) was an Australian professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.Keith Campbell grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran with the ambition to be a champion racing motorcyclist.
- He became Australia's first motorcycling road racing world champion when he won the 1957 FIM 350cc world championship as a member of the Moto Guzzi factory racing team.He married Geraldine, the sister-in-law of Britain's championship rider Geoff Duke and came back to Australia on his honeymoon in December 1957.
- He returned to Europe as the star rider at the 500cc Grand Prix de Cadours near Toulouse in France.
- According to a newspaper report, in trials he had beaten all records for the circuit, lapping at 71.5 miles an hour.
- He was leading the race when he failed to round a bend known as Cox's Corner, crashed and was killed instantly.
- His cause of death was said to be a fractured skull.
- This same corner claimed the life of Frenchman Raymond Sommer in 1950 and the circuit is named in his honour.
- Campbell's wife Geraldine was watching the race from the pits but did not see the accident.
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