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| Race 2 of 6 races in the 1956 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 30 June 1956 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Circuit van Drenthe, Assen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1956 Dutch TT was the second race of the 1956 Motorcycle Grand Prix season. It took place on the weekend of 30 June 1956 at the Assen circuit.
| Pos | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Points |
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| 1 |  John Surtees | MV Agusta | 27 | 1:34:05.1 | 8 |
| 2 |  Walter Zeller | BMW | 27 | +25.5 | 6 |
| 3 |  Eddie Grant | Norton | 26 | +1 lap | 4 |
| 4 |  Keith Bryen | Norton | 26 | +1 lap | 3 |
| 5 |  Paul Fahey | Matchless | 26 | +1 lap | 2 |
| 6 | Ernst Hiller | BMW | 26 | +1 lap | 1 |
| 7 |  Gerald Robarts | Norton | 26 | +1 lap | |
| 8 |  Piet Bakker | Norton | 26 | +1 lap | |
| 9 | Priem Rozenberg | BMW | 26 | +1 lap | |
| 10 | Fred Cook | Matchless | 25 | +2 laps | |
| 11 | Casper Swart | Norton | 24 | +3 laps | |
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| Pos | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Points |
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| 1 | Bill Lomas | Moto Guzzi | 20 | 1:11:21.8 | 8 |
| 2 | John Surtees | MV Agusta | 20 | +13.6 | 6 |
| 3 | August Hobl | DKW | 20 | +18.5 | 4 |
| 4 | Cecil Sandford | DKW | 20 | 3 | |
| 5 | Ken Kavanagh | Moto Guzzi | 20 | 2 | |
| 6 | Dickie Dale | Moto Guzzi | 20 | 1 | |
| 7 |  Duilio Agostini | Moto Guzzi | 20 | ||
| 8 | Karl Hofmann | DKW | 20 | ||
| 9 | Eddie Grant | Norton | 20 | ||
| 10 | Paul Fahey | AJS | 20 | ||
| 11 | Barry Hodgkinson | Norton | 19 | +1 lap | |
| 12 |  Gustav Havel | Jawa | 19 | +1 lap | |
| 13 | Gerald Robarts | AJS | 19 | +1 lap | |
| 14 | Keith Bryen | Norton | 19 | +1 lap | |
| 15 |  H. Wieland | Norton | 19 | +1 lap | |
| 16 | Ken Tostevin | Norton | 19 | +1 lap | |
| 17 | Adelmo Mandolini | Moto Guzzi | 19 | +1 lap | |
| 18 | Leen Rehorst | AJS | 18 | +2 laps | |
| 19 | Lo Simons | Norton | 18 | +2 laps | |
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| Pos | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Points |
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| 1 | Carlo Ubbiali | MV Agusta | 17 | 1:02:26.5 | 8 |
| 2 |  Luigi Taveri | MV Agusta | 17 | +22.6 | 6 |
| 3 | Enrico Lorenzetti | Moto Guzzi | 17 | +1:59.0 | 4 |
| 4 | Roberto Colombo | MV Agusta | 17 | 3 | |
| 5 | Horst Kassner | NSU | 16 | +1 lap | 2 |
| 6 | Jiří Koštíř | ČZ | 16 | +1 lap | 1 |
| 7 | Lo Simons | NSU | 16 | +1 lap | |
| 8 | Kees Koster | NSU | 16 | +1 lap | |
| 9 | Hubert Attenberger | Adler | 16 | +1 lap | |
| 10 | Karl-Julius Holthaus | NSU | 16 | +1 lap | |
| 11 | Florian Camathias | NSU | 16 | +1 lap | |
| 12 | B. Giannini | Moto Guzzi | 16 | +1 lap | |
| 13 | Jasper Kaspers | ČZ | 15 | +2 laps | |
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| Pos | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Points |
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| 1 | Carlo Ubbiali | MV Agusta | 14 | 53:40.2 | 8 |
| 2 | Luigi Taveri | MV Agusta | 14 | +16.1 | 6 |
| 3 | August Hobl | DKW | 14 | +54.5 | 4 |
| 4 | Cecil Sandford | Mondial | 14 | +1:10.2 | 3 |
| 5 | Karl Hofmann | DKW | 14 | +2:14.1 | 2 |
| 6 | František Bartoš | ČZ | 14 | +3:06.0 | 1 |
| 7 |  Francisco González | Montesa | 14 | ||
| 8 |  John Grace | Montesa | 14 | ||
| 9 | Marcelo Cama | Montesa | 13 | +1 lap | |
| 10 | Bill Webster | MV Agusta | 13 | +1 lap | |
| 11 | Lo Simons | Mondial | 13 | +1 lap | |
| 12 | Florian Camathias | MV Agusta | 12 | +2 laps | |
| 13 | Václav Parus | ČZ | 12 | +2 laps | |
| 14 | Jasper Kaspers | Sparta | 12 | +2 laps | |
| 15 | Gerrit Dupont | NSU | 11 | +3 laps | |
| 22 starters, 15 finishers | |||||
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| Pos | Rider | Passenger | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Points |
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| 1 | Fritz Hillebrand | Manfred Grunwald | BMW | 14 | 54:46.5 | 8 |
| 2 | Wilhelm Noll | Fritz Cron | BMW | 14 | +6.4 | 6 |
| 3 | Cyril Smith | Stanley Dibben | Norton | 14 | +27.9 | 4 |
| 4 | Bob Mitchell | Eric Bliss | Norton | 14 | 3 | |
| 5 | Florian Camathias | Maurice Büla | BMW | 14 | 2 | |
| 6 |  Jacques Drion | Inge Stoll | BMW | 14 | 1 | |
| 7 | Helmut Fath | Emil Ohr | BMW | 14 | ||
| 8 | Loni Neussner | Dieter Hess | BMW | 14 | ||
| 9 | Fritz Seeber | Franz Heiß | BMW | 13 | +1 lap | |
| 10 | Arthur Lang | Donald Maxwell | Norton | 13 | +1 lap | |
| 11 | Harmen van der Wal | ? | Norton | 12 | +2 laps | |
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