2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix

June 2021 June 2012 South African South Africa Gauloises Africa's Grand Prixhttps://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/2000-south-african-motogp 2000 South African MotoGP 13 June 2017 Motorsportmagazine.com 16 May 2018 Phakisa Freeway, Welkom 2.636 4.242 1 16 19 March 2000 Phakisa Freeway - Road course.svg Sete Gibernau Spain 1:36.273 Valentino Rossi Italy 1:36.933 on lap 5 Garry McCoy Australia Carlos Checa Spain Loris Capirossi Italy Shinya Nakano Japan 1:37.705 Daijiro Kato Japan 1:37.440 on lap 15 Shinya Nakano Japan Daijiro Kato Japan Tohru Ukawa Japan Roberto Locatelli Italy 1:43.464 Arnaud Vincent France 1:42.782 on lap 22 Arnaud Vincent France Mirko Giansanti Italy Emilio Alzamora Spain The 2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 19 March 2000 at Phakisa Freeway. 500cc race report This race was most notable for the shock win of WCM rider Garry McCoy. Initially, many thought that it would be 1999 500cc world champion Àlex Crivillé who would win the race, mainly thanks to the pole he had obtained on Saturday. This race also marked the first ever 500cc race of Valentino Rossi. At the start of the race, Kenny Roberts Jr. on his Suzuki, overtook Gibernau at the start to lead the opening lap, followed by the Yamaha of Carlos Checa. Crivillé would drop down to 7th, whilst Tadayuki Okada moved up to third, closely followed by Loris Capirossi who would swap places with each other a few times on the opening lap. McCoy at that time was only in 8th place, and Rossi in 13th after a bad opening lap. After a few laps, Checa would overtake Kenny Roberts Jr. for the lead, and not long after that Capirossi would follow suit. McCoy dropped to 9th place, with Valentino Rossi behind him.http://www.motorcycledaily.com/2000/03/19march00GP/ Australian Garry McCoy Wins Opening Round of 500 GP in South Africa; Shinya Nakano Takes 250 GP « MotorcycleDaily.com – Motorcycle News, Editorials, Product Reviews and Bike Reviews Motorcycledaily.com 1 January 2019 On the 5th lap, Capirossi overtook Checa to lead the race, and after 12 laps, both Max Biaggi and Valentino Rossi were out of the race; Biaggi because of technical problems, and Rossi because of a crash.https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/892489/1/rossi-i-thought-why-are-they-so-slow-and-crashed Rossi: I thought 'why are they so slow?'… and crashed! 29 March 2018 Crash.net 1 January 2019 With the laps closing down, McCoy overtook multiple people to reach third place. Sete Gibernau also overtook Kenny Roberts to go on and finish in what would be 4th place, but ran wide and eventually retired. Not much later, Crivillé would end up overtaking Roberts Jr. as well. With 5 laps to go, McCoy overtook the Honda of Capirossi and went up into second place. A few corners later, he overtook the other Yamaha of Checa to lead the race. He held off a late charge from Checa and would come home to win the race with 0.366 seconds difference: the first 500cc race of his career.https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/sport/mccoy-holds-on-to-scoop-sa-grand-prix-336194 McCoy holds on to scoop SA Grand Prix - Cape Argus Independent Online South Africa 1 January 2019https://www.yamaha-racing.com/motogp/articles/reports/race/117762/yamaha-s-bullish-season-opener Yamaha s bullish season opener - Yamaha Racing 1 January 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190102094511/https://www.yamaha-racing.com/motogp/articles/reports/race/117762/yamaha-s-bullish-season-opener 2 January 2019 dead This was the first race to be won by an Australian since the 1998 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix who was won by Mick Doohan. 500 cc classification Pos. No. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 24 AUS Garry McCoy Red Bull Yamaha WCM Yamaha 28 45:38.775 9 25 2 7 SPA Carlos Checa Marlboro Yamaha Team Yamaha 28 +0.366 4 20 3 65 ITA Loris Capirossi Emerson Honda Pons Honda 28 +1.590 2 16 4 10 BRA Alex Barros Emerson Honda Pons Honda 28 +9.745 13 13 5 1 SPA Àlex Crivillé Repsol Honda Team Honda 28 +10.253 7 11 6 2 USA Kenny Roberts Jr. Telefónica Movistar Suzuki Suzuki 28 +15.853 3 10 7 6 JPN Norick Abe Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin Yamaha 28 +24.228 15 9 8 9 JPN Nobuatsu Aoki Telefónica Movistar Suzuki Suzuki 28 +26.719 12 8 9 55 FRA Régis Laconi Red Bull Yamaha WCM Yamaha 28 +36.231 16 7 10 17 NED Jurgen van den Goorbergh Rizla Honda TSR-Honda 28 +37.613 11 6 11 25 SPA José Luis Cardoso Maxon Dee Cee Jeans Honda 28 +1:04.044 20 5 12 22 FRA Sébastien Gimbert Tecmas Honda Elf Honda 28 +1:14.912 17 4 13 15 JPN Yoshiteru Konishi F.C.C. TSR TSR-Honda 28 +1:30.049 21 3 14 12 RSA Shane Norval Sabre Sport Honda 28 +1:32.776 19 2 15 11 SPA José David de Gea Proton Team KR Modenas KR3 27 +1 lap 18 1 Ret 8 JPN Tadayuki Okada Repsol Honda Team Honda 21 Accident 6 Ret 5 SPA Sete Gibernau Repsol Honda Team Honda 20 Retirement 1 Ret 46 ITA Valentino Rossi Nastro Azzurro Honda Honda 12 Accident 5 Ret 4 ITA Max Biaggi Marlboro Yamaha Team Yamaha 12 Retirement 10 Ret 99 GBR Jeremy McWilliams Aprilia Grand Prix Racing Aprilia 7 Retirement 8 Ret 31 JPN Tetsuya Harada Aprilia Grand Prix Racing Aprilia 2 Retirement 14 Sources: https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/2000-south-african-motogp 2000 South African MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database 13 June 2017 Motorsportmagazine.com 20 July 2018http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2000/500cc/RSA/RAC/classification.pdf Gauloises Africa's Grand Prix – 500cc – Race Classification MotoGP.com Dorna Sports 19 March 2000 20 July 2018http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/2000/RSA/500cc/RAC 500cc Race Classification 2000 Motogp.com 20 July 2018 20 July 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180720195148/http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/2000/RSA/500cc/RAC dead 250 cc classification Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 56 Japan Shinya Nakano Yamaha 26 42:34.085 1 25 2 74 Japan Daijiro Kato Honda 26 +0.875 3 20 3 4 Japan Tohru Ukawa Honda 26 +13.813 2 16 4 19 France Olivier Jacque Yamaha 26 +30.687 5 13 5 14 Australia Anthony West Honda 26 +47.621 4 11 6 21 Italy Franco Battaini Aprilia 26 +47.705 6 10 7 6 Germany Ralf Waldmann Aprilia 26 +58.221 7 9 8 9 Argentina Sebastián Porto Yamaha 26 +1:02.190 11 8 9 24 UK Jason Vincent Aprilia 26 +1:07.732 17 7 10 8 Japan Naoki Matsudo Yamaha 26 +1:09.269 18 6 11 77 UK Jamie Robinson Aprilia 26 +1:23.219 14 5 12 30 Spain Alex Debón Aprilia 26 +1:25.538 10 4 13 13 Italy Marco Melandri Aprilia 26 +1:29.763 8 3 14 26 Germany Klaus Nöhles Aprilia 26 +1:31.878 13 2 15 44 Italy Roberto Rolfo TSR-Honda 25 +1 lap 28 1 16 42 Spain David Checa TSR-Honda 25 +1 lap 24 17 41 Netherlands Jarno Janssen TSR-Honda 25 +1 lap 19 18 12 Germany Mike Baldinger Yamaha 25 +1 lap 26 Ret 10 Spain Fonsi Nieto Yamaha 21 Retirement 23 Ret 31 Spain Lucas Oliver Yamaha 20 Retirement 27 Ret 18 Malaysia Shahrol Yuzy Yamaha 19 Retirement 12 Ret 16 Sweden Johan Stigefelt TSR-Honda 17 Retirement 20 Ret 11 Italy Ivan Clementi Aprilia 14 Retirement 22 Ret 54 Spain David García Aprilia 12 Accident 21 Ret 37 Italy Luca Boscoscuro Aprilia 10 Retirement 9 Ret 66 Germany Alex Hofmann Aprilia 8 Retirement 15 Ret 15 UK Adrian Coates Aprilia 3 Accident 16 DNS 25 FRA Vincent Philippe TSR-Honda 0 Did not start 25 Source: http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2000/250cc/RSA/RAC/classification.pdf Gauloises Africa's Grand Prix – 250cc – Race Classification MotoGP.com Dorna Sports 19 March 2000 20 July 2018 125 cc classification Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 21 France Arnaud Vincent Aprilia 24 41:35.310 6 25 2 32 Italy Mirko Giansanti Honda 24 +1.937 4 20 3 1 Spain Emilio Alzamora Honda 24 +2.057 11 16 4 4 Italy Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 24 +2.362 1 13 5 5 Japan Noboru Ueda Honda 24 +4.566 7 11 6 17 Germany Steve Jenkner Honda 24 +11.073 5 10 7 8 Italy Gianluigi Scalvini Aprilia 24 +11.187 3 9 8 26 Italy Ivan Goi Honda 24 +11.504 8 8 9 3 Japan Masao Azuma Honda 24 +37.723 12 7 10 23 Italy Gino Borsoi Aprilia 24 +39.819 9 6 11 9 Italy Lucio Cecchinello Honda 24 +39.887 18 5 12 16 Italy Simone Sanna Aprilia 24 +39.964 10 4 13 29 Spain Ángel Nieto Jr. Honda 24 +40.474 14 3 14 12 France Randy de Puniet Aprilia 24 +41.118 13 2 15 22 Spain Pablo Nieto Derbi 24 +52.411 16 1 16 15 San Marino Alex de Angelis Honda 24 +52.639 15 17 35 Germany Reinhard Stolz Honda 24 +1:22.243 20 18 10 Spain Adrián Araujo Honda 24 +1:27.527 24 19 53 San Marino William de Angelis Aprilia 24 +1:27.811 21 20 11 Italy Max Sabbatani Honda 24 +1:28.093 17 21 51 Italy Marco Petrini Aprilia 24 +1:28.449 19 22 24 UK Leon Haslam Italjet 24 +1:28.648 22 23 18 Spain Antonio Elías Honda 24 +1:47.350 23 Ret 39 Czech Republic Jaroslav Huleš Italjet 4 Retirement 25 Ret 41 Japan Youichi Ui Derbi 0 Accident 2 DNS 54 SMR Manuel Poggiali Derbi Did not start Source: http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2000/125cc/RSA/RAC/classification.pdf Gauloises Africa's Grand Prix – 125cc – Race Classification MotoGP.com Dorna Sports 19 March 2000 20 July 2018 Championship standings after the race (500cc) Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded.https://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2000/500cc/RSA/world+standing.pdf?v1_96143780 Standings 2000 resources.motogp.com 2019-08-20 Riders' Championship standings Pos. Position Rider Points 1 AUS Garry McCoy 25 2 SPA Carlos Checa 20 3 ITA Loris Capirossi 16 4 BRA Alex Barros 13 5 SPA Àlex Crivillé 11 Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Position Constructor Points 1 JPN Yamaha 25 2 JPN Honda 16 3 JPN Suzuki 10 4 JPN TSR-Honda 6 5 MYS Modenas KR3 1 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. References South African Grand Prix 2000 1999 Argentine Grand Prix 2000 Malaysian Grand Prix 1999 South African Grand Prix 2001 South African Grand Prix Category:South African motorcycle Grand Prix South African Motorcycle Grand Prix Category:March 2000 sports events in Africa