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2002 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

  2002 Italian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 5 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	2 June 2002
Official name	Gran Premio Cinzano d'Italia[1][2]
Location	Mugello Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.245 km (3.259 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 1:51.258 Fastest lap Rider Tohru Ukawa Honda Time 1:52.601 on lap 2 Podium First Valentino Rossi Honda Second Max Biaggi Yamaha Third Tohru Ukawa Honda
250 cc
Pole position Rider Franco Battaini Aprilia Time 1:54.344 Fastest lap Rider Fonsi Nieto Aprilia Time 1:54.812 on lap 21 Podium First Marco Melandri Aprilia Second Roberto Locatelli Aprilia Third Fonsi Nieto Aprilia
125 cc
Pole position Rider Manuel Poggiali Gilera Time 1:59.369 Fastest lap Rider Lucio Cecchinello Aprilia Time 1:59.184 on lap 4 Podium First Manuel Poggiali Gilera Second Youichi Ui Derbi Third Pablo Nieto Aprilia

The 2002 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 31 May – 2 June 2002 at the Mugello Circuit.

MotoGP classification[edit]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	43:40.837	1	25
2	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+2.404	2	20
3	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	+11.289	7	16
4	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+11.408	3	13
5	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	23	+15.371	9	11
6	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	23	+20.010	4	10
7	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	23	+26.447	19	9
8	55	Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	23	+30.333	5	8
9	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	23	+30.428	6	7
10	31	Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	23	+30.759	8	6
11	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	23	+34.162	14	5
12	21	John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	23	+37.715	13	4
13	18	Jean-Michel Bayle	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	23	+1:17.803	17	3
14	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	23	+1:19.800	15	2
Ret	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	18	Retirement	12
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	14	Retirement	18
Ret	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	9	Retirement	11
Ret	74	Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	9	Accident	16
Ret	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	8	Accident	10
Ret	20	Pere Riba	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	1	Accident	20
Sources: [3][4][5]

250 cc classification[edit]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	21	40:42.759	5	25
2	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	21	+0.258	6	20
3	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	21	+0.720	4	16
4	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	21	+1.464	3	13
5	17	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	21	+1.718	8	11
6	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	21	+8.606	1	10
7	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	21	+11.864	2	9
8	4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	21	+17.248	14	8
9	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	21	+28.481	7	7
10	42	David Checa	Aprilia	21	+28.490	9	6
11	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	21	+32.113	10	5
12	11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	21	+34.770	13	4
13	25	Vincent Philippe	Aprilia	21	+51.837	18	3
14	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	21	+51.912	12	2
15	12	Jay Vincent	Honda	21	+52.393	17	1
16	32	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	21	+57.112	19
17	22	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	21	+57.198	16
18	19	Leon Haslam	Honda	21	+57.737	20
Ret	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	20	Retirement	15
Ret	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	18	Accident	21
Ret	41	Jarno Janssen	Honda	2	Retirement	23
Ret	51	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	2	Retirement	22
Ret	76	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	1	Accident	11
DNS	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia		Did not start
Source: [6]

125 cc classification[edit]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	20	40:20.019	1	25
2	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	20	+0.507	14	20
3	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	20	+0.512	26	16
4	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	20	+0.572	2	13
5	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	20	+0.675	6	11
6	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	20	+0.980	8	10
7	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	20	+2.071	3	9
8	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	20	+2.072	4	8
9	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	20	+2.209	5	7
10	50	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	20	+2.255	10	6
11	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	20	+2.432	9	5
12	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	20	+4.047	12	4
13	5	Masao Azuma	Honda	20	+6.296	18	3
14	53	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	20	+12.881	20	2
15	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	20	+36.125	13	1
16	84	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	20	+40.230	17
17	30	Gaspare Caffiero	Honda	20	+43.410	28
18	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	20	+43.717	23
19	19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	20	+1:02.878	33
20	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	20	+1:02.888	30
21	20	Imre Tóth	Honda	20	+1:02.933	32
22	87	Simone Corsi	Honda	20	+1:34.919	31
Ret	33	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	16	Accident	21
Ret	18	Jakub Smrž	Honda	9	Accident	7
Ret	8	Gábor Talmácsi	Italjet	9	Retirement	19
Ret	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	6	Accident	24
Ret	31	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	4	Accident	27
Ret	54	Marco Petrini	Aprilia	4	Accident	25
Ret	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	0	Accident	22
Ret	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	0	Retirement	16
Ret	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Aprilia	0	Retirement	15
Ret	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	0	Accident	11
Ret	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	0	Accident	29
DNS	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia		Did not start
DNS	12	Klaus Nöhles	Honda		Did not start
DNS	9	Noboru Ueda	Honda		Did not start
Source: [7]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)[edit]

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.^[8]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 120 2 Tohru Ukawa 77 3 Loris Capirossi 55 4 Norifumi Abe 52 5 Max Biaggi 43

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 125 2 Yamaha 73 3 Suzuki 39 4 / Proton KR 28 5 Aprilia 26

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

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