2002_Spanish_motorcycle_Grand_Prix

2002 Spanish Grand Prix
Race details
Race 3 of 16 races in the; 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	5 May 2002
Official name	Gran Premio Marlboro de España
Location	Circuito de Jerez
Course	Permanent racing facility; 4.423 km (2.748 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:42.193
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:42.920 on lap 4
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Daijiro Kato
Third	Tohru Ukawa
250 cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Franco Battaini
Time	1:44.803
Fastest lap
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	1:45.243 on lap 22
Podium
First	Fonsi Nieto
Second	Roberto Rolfo
Third	Emilio Alzamora
125 cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Pablo Nieto
Time	1:49.018
Fastest lap
Rider	Lucio Cecchinello
Time	1:48.620 on lap 4
Podium
First	Lucio Cecchinello
Second	Arnaud Vincent
Third	Steve Jenkner

2002 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

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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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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.

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McCoy and McWilliams both received a 5 second penalty added to their race time for overtaking under yellow flags.

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Biaggi was punished with the black flag for ignoring a stop and go penalty after a jump start.

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Poggiali was excluded from the race results for riding in an irresponsible manner.

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Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
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
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Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
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
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Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
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
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2002_Spanish_motorcycle_Grand_Prix

2002 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

MotoGP classification

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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