Australia  2002 Australian Grand Prix
Race details
Race 15 of 16 races in the
2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date20 October 2002
Official nameSKYY vodka Australian Grand Prix[1][2][3]
LocationPhillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
Course
  • Permanent racing facility
  • 4.448 km (2.764 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider United Kingdom Jeremy McWilliams Proton KR
Time 1:31.919
Fastest lap
Rider Italy Valentino Rossi Honda
Time 1:32.233 on lap 11
Podium
First Italy Valentino Rossi Honda
Second Brazil Alex Barros Honda
Third Japan Tohru Ukawa Honda
250 cc
Pole position
Rider Spain Fonsi Nieto Aprilia
Time 1:33.904
Fastest lap
Rider Italy Marco Melandri Aprilia
Time 1:34.072 on lap 22
Podium
First Italy Marco Melandri Aprilia
Second Spain Fonsi Nieto Aprilia
Third Argentina Sebastián Porto Yamaha
125 cc
Pole position
Rider San Marino Manuel Poggiali Gilera
Time 1:38.632
Fastest lap
Rider Spain Daniel Pedrosa Honda
Time 1:37.983 on lap 23
Podium
First San Marino Manuel Poggiali Gilera
Second Italy Lucio Cecchinello Aprilia
Third Spain Pablo Nieto Aprilia

The 2002 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the penultimate round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 18–20 October 2002 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit.

MotoGP classification

Pos. No. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 46 Italy Valentino Rossi Repsol Honda Team Honda 27 42:02.041 7 25
2 4 Brazil Alex Barros West Honda Pons Honda 27 +9.782 5 20
3 11 Japan Tohru Ukawa Repsol Honda Team Honda 27 +11.134 6 16
4 74 Japan Daijiro Kato Fortuna Honda Gresini Honda 27 +11.327 10 13
5 17 Netherlands Jurgen van den Goorbergh Kanemoto Racing Honda 27 +11.414 4 11
6 3 Italy Max Biaggi Marlboro Yamaha Team Yamaha 27 +20.937 8 10
7 9 Japan Nobuatsu Aoki Proton Team KR Proton KR 27 +22.505 3 9
8 19 France Olivier Jacque Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 27 +26.642 17 8
9 10 United States Kenny Roberts Jr. Telefónica Movistar Suzuki Suzuki 27 +26.692 12 7
10 99 United Kingdom Jeremy McWilliams Proton Team KR Proton KR 27 +31.994 1 6
11 7 Spain Carlos Checa Marlboro Yamaha Team Yamaha 27 +34.563 20 5
12 15 Spain Sete Gibernau Telefónica Movistar Suzuki Suzuki 27 +38.827 15 4
13 56 Japan Shinya Nakano Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 27 +45.418 16 3
14 31 Japan Tetsuya Harada Pramac Honda Racing Team Honda 27 +52.542 18 2
15 30 Spain José Luis Cardoso Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín Yamaha 27 +52.765 21 1
16 21 United States John Hopkins Red Bull Yamaha WCM Yamaha 27 +1:12.169 14
17 84 Australia Andrew Pitt Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki 27 +1:12.196 19
18 8 Australia Garry McCoy Red Bull Yamaha WCM Yamaha 26 +1 lap 2
Ret 72 Japan Shinichi Ito Kanemoto Racing Honda 11 Retirement 13
Ret 55 France Régis Laconi MS Aprilia Racing Aprilia 10 Retirement 11
Ret 65 Italy Loris Capirossi West Honda Pons Honda 2 Retirement 9
DNS 6 Japan Norifumi Abe Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín Yamaha Did not start
Sources:[4][5][6]

250 cc classification

Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 3 Italy Marco Melandri Aprilia 25 39:44.293 2 25
2 10 Spain Fonsi Nieto Aprilia 25 +0.007 1 20
3 9 Argentina Sebastián Porto Yamaha 25 +5.766 3 16
4 4 Italy Roberto Rolfo Honda 25 +16.042 9 13
5 24 Spain Toni Elías Aprilia 25 +18.917 4 11
6 17 France Randy de Puniet Aprilia 25 +18.985 5 10
7 21 Italy Franco Battaini Aprilia 25 +21.349 6 9
8 42 Spain David Checa Aprilia 25 +39.582 12 8
9 6 Spain Alex Debón Aprilia 25 +46.230 8 7
10 27 Australia Casey Stoner Aprilia 25 +50.645 13 6
11 11 Japan Haruchika Aoki Honda 25 +55.268 15 5
12 13 Czech Republic Jaroslav Huleš Yamaha 25 +55.288 7 4
13 7 Spain Emilio Alzamora Honda 25 +1:07.391 11 3
14 8 Japan Naoki Matsudo Yamaha 25 +1:09.565 16 2
15 18 Malaysia Shahrol Yuzy Yamaha 25 +1:09.973 18 1
16 28 Germany Dirk Heidolf Aprilia 25 +1:10.270 21
17 96 Czech Republic Jakub Smrž Honda 25 +1:10.368 22
18 19 United Kingdom Leon Haslam Honda 25 +1:10.966 10
19 32 Spain Héctor Faubel Aprilia 25 +1:25.241 19
20 79 Australia Russell Holland Yamaha 24 +1 lap 25
Ret 22 Spain Raúl Jara Aprilia 19 Retirement 24
Ret 12 United Kingdom Jay Vincent Honda 16 Accident 17
Ret 15 Italy Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 5 Accident 14
Ret 36 France Erwan Nigon Aprilia 3 Retirement 20
DNS 51 France Hugo Marchand Aprilia 0 Did not start 23
DNQ 81 Australia Mark Stanley Honda Did not qualify
DNQ 80 Australia Earl Lynch Yamaha Did not qualify
DNQ 78 Australia Peter Taplin Honda Did not qualify
Source:[7]

125 cc classification

Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 1 San Marino Manuel Poggiali Gilera 23 38:08.028 1 25
2 4 Italy Lucio Cecchinello Aprilia 23 +1.252 5 20
3 22 Spain Pablo Nieto Aprilia 23 +1.310 6 16
4 21 France Arnaud Vincent Aprilia 23 +1.414 2 13
5 26 Spain Daniel Pedrosa Honda 23 +1.575 10 11
6 16 Italy Simone Sanna Aprilia 23 +5.615 7 10
7 17 Germany Steve Jenkner Aprilia 23 +16.861 4 9
8 5 Japan Masao Azuma Honda 23 +21.544 17 8
9 25 Spain Joan Olivé Honda 23 +21.833 16 7
10 34 Italy Andrea Dovizioso Honda 23 +22.168 9 6
11 50 Italy Andrea Ballerini Aprilia 23 +28.012 12 5
12 7 Italy Stefano Perugini Italjet 23 +32.645 13 4
13 41 Japan Youichi Ui Derbi 23 +33.386 14 3
14 80 Spain Héctor Barberá Aprilia 23 +39.047 19 2
15 6 Italy Mirko Giansanti Honda 23 +39.117 24 1
16 8 Hungary Gábor Talmácsi Honda 23 +39.282 20
17 11 Italy Max Sabbatani Aprilia 23 +55.604 21
18 12 Germany Klaus Nöhles Honda 23 +57.689 25
19 31 Italy Mattia Angeloni Gilera 23 +57.861 27
20 19 Italy Alex Baldolini Aprilia 23 +58.141 28
21 9 Japan Noboru Ueda Honda 23 +58.148 26
22 57 United Kingdom Chaz Davies Aprilia 23 +1:28.678 29
23 20 Hungary Imre Tóth Honda 23 +1:32.597 30
24 72 Germany Dario Giuseppetti Honda 23 +1:32.853 33
25 83 Australia Joshua Waters Honda 22 +1 lap 32
26 64 Australia Peter Holmes Honda 22 +1 lap 35
27 82 Australia Jeremy Crowe Honda 22 +1 lap 36
Ret 48 Spain Jorge Lorenzo Derbi 18 Accident 22
Ret 84 Italy Michel Fabrizio Gilera 18 Retirement 23
Ret 15 San Marino Alex de Angelis Aprilia 15 Retirement 3
Ret 36 Finland Mika Kallio Honda 14 Accident 11
Ret 77 Switzerland Thomas Lüthi Honda 7 Accident 31
Ret 23 Italy Gino Borsoi Aprilia 6 Retirement 15
Ret 42 Italy Christian Pistoni Italjet 6 Retirement 34
Ret 33 Italy Stefano Bianco Aprilia 0 Retirement 8
Ret 37 Italy Marco Simoncelli Aprilia 0 Accident 18
DNQ 81 Australia Tim Inkster Honda Did not qualify
Source:[8]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fifteen has concluded.[9]

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

  1. ↑ "2002 Australian MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  2. ↑ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Phillip Island Circuit – The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 2002". 25 July 2015. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "2002 Australian MotoGP – Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "SKYY Vodka Australian Grand Prix – MotoGP – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 20 October 2002. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "motogp.com · AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2002". www.motogp.com. Archived from the original on 4 September 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  7. ↑ "SKYY Vodka Australian Grand Prix – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 20 October 2002. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "SKYY Vodka Australian Grand Prix – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 20 October 2002. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  9. ↑ "Skyy Vodka Australian Grand Prix - World Championship Classification" (PDF). 20 October 2002.
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