The 2002 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 3–5 May 2002 at the Circuito de Jerez.
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Race 3 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | 5 May 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official name | Gran Premio Marlboro de España[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Standort | Circuito de Jerez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The race became significantly notable in later years, as it marked the professional debut of future MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo, who reached the legal age limit of 15 years old on the second day of free practice.
MotoGP classification
editPos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 27 | 46:51.843 | 1 | 25 |
2 | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Fortuna Honda Gresini | Honda | 27 | +1.190 | 4 | 20 |
3 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 27 | +2.445 | 6 | 16 |
4 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | West Honda Pons | Honda | 27 | +2.830 | 3 | 13 |
5 | 4 | Alex Barros | West Honda Pons | Honda | 27 | +4.117 | 2 | 11 |
6 | 6 | Norifumi Abe | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | 27 | +18.517 | 10 | 10 |
7 | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 27 | +31.785 | 15 | 9 |
8 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 27 | +33.876 | 9 | 8 |
9 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 27 | +38.762 | 13 | 7 |
10 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Pramac Honda Racing Team | Honda | 27 | +39.975 | 11 | 6 |
11 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 27 | +47.496 | 8 | 5 |
12 | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Kanemoto Racing | Honda | 27 | +47.930 | 17 | 4 |
13 | 21 | John Hopkins | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 27 | +50.249 | 16 | 3 |
14 | 55 | Régis Laconi | MS Aprilia Racing | Aprilia | 27 | +50.684 | 19 | 2 |
15 | 8 | Garry McCoy | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 27 | +53.293[N 1] | 18 | 1 |
16 | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 27 | +54.171[N 1] | 12 | |
17 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 27 | +1:24.014 | 14 | |
Ret | 7 | Carlos Checa | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 26 | Retirement | 5 | |
Ret | 20 | Pere Riba | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | 2 | Retirement | 20 | |
DSQ | 3 | Max Biaggi | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | Black flag[N 2] | 7 | ||
Sources: [3][4][5] |
250 cc classification
editPos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 26 | 46:03.241 | 2 | 25 |
2 | 4 | Roberto Rolfo | Honda | 26 | +1.987 | 5 | 20 |
3 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 26 | +5.355 | 9 | 16 |
4 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 26 | +11.484 | 1 | 13 |
5 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 26 | +11.982 | 11 | 11 |
6 | 27 | Casey Stoner | Aprilia | 26 | +16.476 | 7 | 10 |
7 | 9 | Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 26 | +23.987 | 4 | 9 |
8 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 26 | +33.173 | 8 | 8 |
9 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 26 | +33.473 | 12 | 7 |
10 | 24 | Toni Elías | Aprilia | 26 | +44.011 | 10 | 6 |
11 | 32 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 26 | +47.047 | 17 | 5 |
12 | 11 | Haruchika Aoki | Honda | 26 | +48.583 | 15 | 4 |
13 | 18 | Shahrol Yuzy | Yamaha | 26 | +1:01.097 | 18 | 3 |
14 | 34 | Eric Bataille | Honda | 26 | +1:01.120 | 21 | 2 |
15 | 76 | Taro Sekiguchi | Yamaha | 26 | +1:01.429 | 16 | 1 |
16 | 22 | Raúl Jara | Aprilia | 26 | +1:01.659 | 13 | |
17 | 12 | Jay Vincent | Honda | 26 | +1:06.893 | 19 | |
18 | 25 | Vincent Philippe | Aprilia | 26 | +1:09.713 | 23 | |
19 | 19 | Leon Haslam | Honda | 26 | +1:15.733 | 24 | |
20 | 41 | Jarno Janssen | Honda | 25 | +1 lap | 20 | |
Ret | 3 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | 25 | Retirement | 3 | |
Ret | 17 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 15 | Accident | 6 | |
Ret | 42 | David Checa | Aprilia | 4 | Accident | 14 | |
Ret | 51 | Hugo Marchand | Aprilia | 3 | Accident | 22 | |
Ret | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Aprilia | 0 | Retirement | 25 | |
DNQ | 39 | Luis Castro | Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
Source: [6] |
125 cc classification
editPos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 4 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 23 | 42:08.107 | 6 | 25 |
2 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 23 | +2.274 | 2 | 20 |
3 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 23 | +2.773 | 5 | 16 |
4 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 23 | +8.618 | 8 | 13 |
5 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Honda | 23 | +13.089 | 17 | 11 |
6 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 23 | +13.624 | 11 | 10 |
7 | 16 | Simone Sanna | Aprilia | 23 | +15.181 | 9 | 9 |
8 | 5 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 23 | +19.116 | 19 | 8 |
9 | 25 | Joan Olivé | Honda | 23 | +19.185 | 12 | 7 |
10 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 23 | +24.193 | 7 | 6 |
11 | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Aprilia | 23 | +34.510 | 23 | 5 |
12 | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 23 | +34.563 | 16 | 4 |
13 | 18 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 23 | +37.315 | 20 | 3 |
14 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 23 | +37.950 | 15 | 2 |
15 | 50 | Andrea Ballerini | Honda | 23 | +39.897 | 30 | 1 |
16 | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Italjet | 23 | +57.693 | 13 | |
17 | 9 | Noboru Ueda | Honda | 23 | +1:03.935 | 21 | |
18 | 84 | Michel Fabrizio | Gilera | 23 | +1:03.959 | 32 | |
19 | 33 | Stefano Bianco | Aprilia | 23 | +1:03.971 | 18 | |
20 | 8 | Gábor Talmácsi | Italjet | 23 | +1:05.248 | 22 | |
21 | 19 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 23 | +1:05.515 | 31 | |
22 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Derbi | 23 | +1:11.361 | 33 | |
23 | 31 | Mattia Angeloni | Gilera | 23 | +1:13.117 | 34 | |
24 | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | 23 | +1:17.907 | 28 | |
25 | 51 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 23 | +1:20.614 | 26 | |
26 | 10 | Jarno Müller | Honda | 23 | +1:23.174 | 24 | |
27 | 20 | Imre Tóth | Honda | 23 | +1:50.192 | 35 | |
Ret | 12 | Klaus Nöhles | Honda | 22 | Retirement | 27 | |
Ret | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 21 | Accident | 4 | |
Ret | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 21 | Retirement | 10 | |
Ret | 52 | Julián Simón | Honda | 14 | Accident | 29 | |
Ret | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Aprilia | 8 | Accident | 1 | |
Ret | 39 | Jaroslav Huleš | Aprilia | 7 | Retirement | 25 | |
Ret | 47 | Ángel Rodríguez | Aprilia | 6 | Accident | 14 | |
DNS | 71 | Rubén Catalán | Aprilia | 0 | Did not start | 36 | |
DSQ | 1 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 23 | (+21.674)[N 3] | 3 | |
Source: [7] |
Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
editBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round three has concluded.[8]
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
Notes
edit- ^ a b McCoy and McWilliams both received a 5 second penalty added to their race time for overtaking under yellow flags.
- ^ Biaggi was punished with the black flag for ignoring a stop and go penalty after a jump start.
- ^ Poggiali was excluded from the race results for riding in an irresponsible manner.
References
edit- ^ "2002 Spanish MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 2002". Archive.today. 25 July 2015. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
- ^ "2002 Spanish MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
- ^ "Gran Premio Marlboro de España – MotoGP – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 5 May 2002. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- ^ "SPANISH GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2002". Motogp.com. Archived from the original on 4 September 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
- ^ "Gran Premio Marlboro de España – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 5 May 2002. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- ^ "Gran Premio Marlboro de España – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 5 May 2002. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- ^ "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2002. Retrieved 2019-08-22.