15
Recorded Grand Prix wins
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Kork Ballington
One rider identity across recorded classes and seasons.
28
Recorded podiums
69
Known starts in available matrices
Coverage-limited observations, not certified career totals. Sprints, unrecorded classifications and unknown starts are excluded. Championship source totals retain their historical scoring context.
Rider biography
- Nationality
- South African
- Born
- 1951-04-10
- Birthplace
- Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
Source-reported career summary
Original source labels are retained. A source's premier-class “MotoGP” summary can include 500cc history; it does not mean those victories were on modern MotoGP motorcycles. These reported totals are separate from the partial matrix calculations above.
- Gp Poles
- 8
- Gp Podiums
- 46
- Gp Race Wins
- 31
- Gp Race Starts
- 85
- Gp Active Years
- 1976–1982
- Gp Fastest Laps
- 15
- Gp Championships
- 250cc – 1978, 1979350cc – 1978, 1979
Championship timeline
| Season | Class | Position | Reported points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 500cc | 9 | 31 | Wikipedia revision ↗ |
| 1981 | 500cc | 8 | 43 | Wikipedia revision ↗ |
| 1980 | 250cc | 2 | 87 | Wikipedia revision ↗ |
| 1980 | 500cc | 12 | 13 | Wikipedia revision ↗ |
| 1979 | 250cc | 1 | 141 | Wikipedia revision ↗ |
| 1979 | 350cc | 1 | 99 | Wikipedia revision ↗ |
| 1978 | 250cc | 1 | 124 | Wikipedia revision ↗ |
| 1978 | 350cc | 1 | 134 | Wikipedia revision ↗ |
| 1977 | 250cc | 6 | 49 | Wikipedia revision ↗ |
| 1977 | 350cc | 5 | 46 | Wikipedia revision ↗ |
| 1976 | 250cc | 13 | 15 | Wikipedia revision ↗ |
| 1976 | 350cc | 12 | 20 | Wikipedia revision ↗ |
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