2002 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix explained

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

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

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

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)

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

Riders' Championship standings

	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

	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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2002 Italian MotoGP. 13 June 2017. Motorsportmagazine.com. 16 May 2018.
2. Web site: Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 2002. https://archive.today/20150725163743/http://www.jumpingjack.nl/GP-races_2002_heden.htm. dead. 25 July 2015. 25 July 2015. Archive.today. 29 July 2018.
3. Web site: 2002 Italian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database. 13 June 2017. Motorsportmagazine.com. 29 July 2018.
4. Web site: Gran Premio Cinzano d'Italia – MotoGP – Race Classification. MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 2 June 2002. 24 May 2018.
5. Web site: ITALIAN GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2002. Motogp.com. 29 July 2018. 4 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200904050135/https://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/2002/ITA/MotoGP/RAC. dead.
6. Web site: Gran Premio Cinzano d'Italia – 250cc – Race Classification. MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 2 June 2002. 24 May 2018.
7. Web site: Gran Premio Cinzano d'Italia – 125cc – Race Classification. MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 2 June 2002. 24 May 2018.
8. Web site: Standings . 2002. resources.motogp.com . PDF. 2019-08-22.