Both Mike Hailwood and John Surtees took full advantage of the superiority of the MV against their mainly single-cylinder challengers. Hailwood won 12 successive 500cc races between the 1963 Belgium Grand Prix and East Germany a year later. Surtees made it 11 in a row, including victory in every one of the seven 1959 World Championship races. Another British star, Geoff Duke, was the first rider to win five in a row. Riding the 500cc four-cylinder Gilera, Duke won the 1954 Belgium, Dutch, West German, Swiss and Nations Grands Prix to set the ball rolling.

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