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2002 South African motorcycle Grand Prix
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The 2002 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 19–21 April 2002 at the Phakisa Freeway.
MotoGP classification
Pos. No. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 11 JPN Tohru Ukawa Repsol Honda Team Honda 28 44:39.467 3 25 2 46 ITA Valentino Rossi Repsol Honda Team Honda 28 +0.932 1 20 3 65 ITA Loris Capirossi West Honda Pons Honda 28 +8.259 2 16 4 74 JPN Daijiro Kato Fortuna Honda Gresini Honda 28 +26.962 14 13 5 7 ESP Carlos Checa Marlboro Yamaha Team Yamaha 28 +27.227 7 11 6 19 FRA Olivier Jacque Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 28 +27.889 9 10 7 6 JPN Norifumi Abe Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín Yamaha 28 +30.215 15 9 8 56 JPN Shinya Nakano Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 28 +30.781 8 8 9 3 ITA Max Biaggi Marlboro Yamaha Team Yamaha 28 +43.796 4 7 10 8 AUS Garry McCoy Red Bull Yamaha WCM Yamaha 28 +45.501 5 6 11 17 NLD Jurgen van den Goorbergh Kanemoto Racing Honda 28 +1:06.938 12 5 12 31 JPN Tetsuya Harada Pramac Honda Racing Team Honda 28 +1:19.560 19 4 13 20 ESP Pere Riba Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín Yamaha 28 +1:19.857 20 3 14 21 USA John Hopkins Red Bull Yamaha WCM Yamaha 28 +1:31.519 17 2 15 55 FRA Régis Laconi MS Aprilia Racing Aprilia 28 +1:32.725 18 1 16 15 ESP Sete Gibernau Telefónica Movistar Suzuki Suzuki 27 +1 lap 10 Ret (17) 4 BRA Alex Barros West Honda Pons Honda 26 Accident 13 Ret (18) 10 USA Kenny Roberts Jr. Telefónica Movistar Suzuki Suzuki 9 Retirement 6 Ret (19) 9 JPN Nobuatsu Aoki Proton Team KR Proton KR 7 Accident 11 Ret (20) 99 GBR Jeremy McWilliams Proton Team KR Proton KR 5 Retirement 16 Sources: https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/2002-south-african-motogp 2002 South African MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database 13 June 2017 Motorsportmagazine.com 29 July 2018http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2002/MotoGP/RSA/RAC/classification.pdf Africa's Grand Prix – MotoGP – Race Classification MotoGP.com Dorna Sports 21 April 2002 24 May 2018http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/2002/RSA/MotoGP/RAC MotoGP Race Classification 2002 Motogp.com 29 July 2018 29 July 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180729112101/http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/2002/RSA/MotoGP/RAC dead
250 cc classification
Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 3 ITA Marco Melandri Aprilia 26 42:52.922 2 25 2 21 ITA Franco Battaini Aprilia 26 +2.962 1 20 3 10 ESP Fonsi Nieto Aprilia 26 +5.213 5 16 4 4 ITA Roberto Rolfo Honda 26 +6.290 3 13 5 15 ITA Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 26 +6.675 7 11 6 17 FRA Randy de Puniet Aprilia 26 +8.102 4 10 7 7 ESP Emilio Alzamora Honda 26 +22.571 11 9 8 9 ARG Sebastián Porto Yamaha 26 +24.171 12 8 9 6 ESP Alex Debón Aprilia 26 +28.161 9 7 10 42 ESP David Checa Aprilia 26 +36.261 14 6 11 8 JPN Naoki Matsudo Yamaha 26 +47.211 10 5 12 12 GBR Jay Vincent Honda 26 +47.886 22 4 13 11 JPN Haruchika Aoki Honda 26 +53.106 13 3 14 28 DEU Dirk Heidolf Aprilia 26 +1:02.767 20 2 15 19 GBR Leon Haslam Honda 26 +1:04.093 18 1 16 24 ESP Toni Elías Aprilia 26 +1:13.435 15 17 41 NLD Jarno Janssen Honda 25 +1 lap 24 Ret (18) 32 ESP Héctor Faubel Aprilia 25 Accident 17 Ret (19) 18 MYS Shahrol Yuzy Yamaha 25 Accident 16 Ret (20) 22 ESP Raúl Jara Aprilia 9 Accident 6 Ret (21) 27 AUS Casey Stoner Aprilia 2 Accident 8 Ret (22) 51 FRA Hugo Marchand Aprilia 1 Retirement 23 Ret (23) 25 FRA Vincent Philippe Aprilia 1 Accident 21 Ret (24) 76 JPN Taro Sekiguchi Yamaha 0 Accident 19 Source: http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2002/250cc/RSA/RAC/classification.pdf Africa's Grand Prix – 250cc – Race Classification MotoGP.com Dorna Sports 21 April 2002 24 May 2018
125 cc classification
Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 SMR Manuel Poggiali Gilera 24 41:26.120 2 25 2 21 FRA Arnaud Vincent Aprilia 24 +0.270 4 20 3 26 ESP Daniel Pedrosa Honda 24 +0.826 1 16 4 17 DEU Steve Jenkner Aprilia 24 +1.098 6 13 5 22 ESP Pablo Nieto Aprilia 24 +1.187 3 11 6 15 SMR Alex de Angelis Aprilia 24 +1.583 12 10 7 23 ITA Gino Borsoi Aprilia 24 +1.830 8 9 8 16 ITA Simone Sanna Aprilia 24 +12.839 16 8 9 5 JPN Masao Azuma Honda 24 +13.942 11 7 10 34 ITA Andrea Dovizioso Honda 24 +19.201 14 6 11 9 JPN Noboru Ueda Honda 24 +19.210 15 5 12 36 FIN Mika Kallio Honda 24 +39.207 19 4 13 11 ITA Max Sabbatani Aprilia 24 +46.560 22 3 14 50 ITA Andrea Ballerini Honda 24 +53.710 26 2 15 84 ITA Michel Fabrizio Gilera 24 +53.868 25 1 16 6 ITA Mirko Giansanti Honda 24 +54.001 21 17 31 ITA Mattia Angeloni Gilera 24 +54.739 30 18 8 HUN Gábor Talmácsi Italjet 24 +54.886 23 19 10 DEU Jarno Müller Honda 24 +54.919 18 20 19 ITA Alex Baldolini Aprilia 24 +1:07.871 28 21 57 GBR Chaz Davies Aprilia 24 +1:08.217 29 22 33 ITA Stefano Bianco Aprilia 24 +1:15.825 10 23 20 HUN Imre Tóth Honda 24 +1:36.139 31 24 7 ITA Stefano Perugini Italjet 24 +1:43.455 24 Ret (25) 47 ESP Ángel Rodríguez Aprilia 11 Accident 7 Ret (26) 39 CZE Jaroslav Huleš Aprilia 6 Retirement 9 Ret (27) 12 DEU Klaus Nöhles Honda 0 Accident 27 Ret (28) 18 CZE Jakub Smrž Honda 0 Accident 20 Ret (29) 25 ESP Joan Olivé Honda 0 Accident 13 Ret (30) 4 ITA Lucio Cecchinello Aprilia 0 Accident 5 Ret (31) 41 JPN Youichi Ui Derbi 0 Accident 17 DNS 80 ESP Héctor Barberá Aprilia Did not start Source: http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2002/125cc/RSA/RAC/classification.pdf Africa's Grand Prix – 125cc – Race Classification MotoGP.com Dorna Sports 21 April 2002 24 May 2018
Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round two has concluded.https://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2002/MotoGP/RSA/world+standing.pdf?v1_96143780 Standings 2002 resources.motogp.com PDF 22 August 2019
Riders' Championship standings
Pos. Position Rider Points 1 ITA Valentino Rossi 45 2 SPA Carlos Checa 27 3 JPN Tohru Ukawa 25 4 ITA Loris Capirossi 23 5 JPN Akira Ryō 20
Constructors' Championship standings
Pos. Position Constructor Points 1 JPN Honda 50 2 JPN Yamaha 27 3 JPN Suzuki 20 4 MYS/USA Proton KR 9 5 ITA Aprilia 9
Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
South African motorcycle Grand Prix 2002 2002 Japanese Grand Prix 2002 Spanish Grand Prix 2001 South African Grand Prix 2003 South African Grand Prix
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