Talk:Italian motorcycle Grand Prix
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Name being widely quoted as Nations Grand Prix in infoboxes
[edit]I have tagged this as original research as there is no verification that this was the historic and universally-accepted name. I have checked 1965 and 1966 period UK magazine race reports in the house without any suggestion that it's anything-but Italian Grand Prix - at least in the English language and 'home'-market for news coverage. Similarly a 1969 hard-copy book entitled Motor Cycle Racing by Peter Carrick/Hamlyn publishing gives no clues.
I've sent a talk page message to the originator of the text which can be seen in this edit back in 2006, but this editor is inactive since August 2014. So far I've only found an entry on MotoGP.com and the Italian Wikipedia where it appears the Italian name is Gran Premio delle Nazioni and is formatted on the Monza page (National Autodromo di Monza) as [[Gran Premio motociclistico delle Nazioni 1973|Gran Premio delle Nazioni del 1973}} relating to rider deaths.
The prose implies the name applies back to 1949, and is being pipe-Wikilinked, formatted as [[Italian motorcycle Grand Prix|Nations Grand Prix}} so to continue being used, a better source - a hard-copy - is needed, not a latter-day website or another Wiki. I've spent too much time on this already, without enough success.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 11:21, 17 January 2015 (UTC)