1999 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix

  1999 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix

Race details
Race 15 of 16 races in the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	24 October 1999
Official name	Telefonica Celular Rio Grand Prix
Location	Rio de Janeiro
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.933 km (3.065 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Kenny Roberts, Jr.
Time	1:52.227
Fastest lap
Rider	Max Biaggi
Time	1:52.869
Podium
First	Norick Abe
Second	Max Biaggi
Third	Kenny Roberts, Jr.
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Olivier Jacque
Time	1:54.072
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:54.230
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Tohru Ukawa
Third	Loris Capirossi
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Marco Melandri
Time	1:59.490
Fastest lap
Rider	Marco Melandri
Time	1:59.801
Podium
First	Noboru Ueda
Second	Marco Melandri
Third	Emilio Alzamora

The 1999 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 24 October 1999 at the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet.

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	6	Norick Abe	Yamaha	24	45:24.308	12	25
2	2	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	24	+0.161	6	20
3	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	24	+0.257	1	16
4	5	Alex Barros	Honda	24	+4.442	3	13
5	15	Sete Gibernau	Honda	24	+4.631	2	11
6	3	Àlex Crivillé	Honda	24	+21.254	11	10
7	8	Tadayuki Okada	Honda	24	+21.525	5	9
8	24	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	24	+22.394	10	8
9	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki	24	+23.089	9	7
10	35	Anthony Gobert	Muz-Weber	24	+30.275	8	6
11	55	Régis Laconi	Yamaha	24	+41.314	14	5
12	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	24	+41.648	18	4
13	19	John Kocinski	Honda	24	+42.757	15	3
14	52	José David de Gea	Modenas	24	+43.380	16	2
15	26	Haruchika Aoki	TSR-Honda	24	+45.652	19	1
16	68	Mark Willis	Modenas	24	+48.740	21
17	25	José Luis Cardoso	TSR-Honda	24	+1:14.209	17
18	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Honda	24	+1:27.360	23
Ret	14	Juan Borja	Honda	7	Retirement	13
Ret	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Muz-Weber	4	Retirement	7
Ret	20	Mike Hale	Modenas	4	Retirement	20
Ret	4	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	1	Accident	4
Ret	21	Michael Rutter	Honda	1	Retirement	24
Ret	37	Steve Martin	Honda	0	Retirement	22

250 cc classification

Pos.	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	42:17.893	25
2	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	+1.328	20
3	Loris Capirossi	Honda	+1.944	16
4	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	+2.342	13
5	Stefano Perugini	Honda	+2.395	11
6	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	+13.031	10
7	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	+15.483	9
8	Tomomi Manako	Yamaha	+16.222	8
9	Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	+41.230	7
10	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	+43.002	6
11	Jason Vincent	Honda	+43.012	5
12	Alex Hofmann	TSR-Honda	+54.010	4
13	Julien Allemand	TSR-Honda	+1:12.641	3
14	Scott Smart	Aprilia	+1:12.746	2
15	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	+1:12.791	1
16	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	+1:32.120
17	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	+1:32.440
18	Matías Ríos	Aprilia	+1:42.432
19	Johan Stigefelt	Yamaha	+1:44.838
Ret	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Anthony West	TSR-Honda	Retirement
Ret	David García	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Markus Barth	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	Retirement

125 cc classification

Pos.	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Noboru Ueda	Honda	42:14.547	25
2	Marco Melandri	Honda	+0.131	20
3	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	+0.977	16
4	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	+1.055	13
5	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	+1.297	11
6	Masao Azuma	Honda	+1.457	10
7	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	+1.589	9
8	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	+2.025	8
9	Simone Sanna	Honda	+2.280	7
10	Youichi Ui	Derbi	+20.740	6
11	Ivan Goi	Honda	+24.150	5
12	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	+24.424	4
13	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	+29.529	3
14	Max Sabbatani	Honda	+30.710	2
15	Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	+30.755	1
16	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	+49.281
17	Kazuto Sakata	Honda	+52.716
18	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	+52.850
19	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	+52.955
20	Frédéric Petit	Aprilia	+53.422
21	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	+1:06.648
22	Robbin Harms	Aprilia	+1:21.345
23	César Barros	Honda	+1:30.684
24	Cristiano Irias-Vieira	Honda	+1:31.895
25	Jason DiSalvo	Honda	+1:50.098
26	Renato Velludo	Honda	+1 Lap
Ret	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	Retirement
Ret	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	Retirement