1999 South African motorcycle Grand Prix

  1999 South African Grand Prix

Race details
Race 14 of 16 races in the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	10 October 1999
Location	Welkom
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.242 km (2.613 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Tadayuki Okada
Time	1:35.930
Fastest lap
Rider	Sete Gibernau
Time	1:36.554
Podium
First	Max Biaggi
Second	Sete Gibernau
Third	Àlex Crivillé
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Loris Capirossi
Time	1:38.287
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:37.624
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Shinya Nakano
Third	Olivier Jacque
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Gianluigi Scalvini
Time	1:43.404
Fastest lap
Rider	Gianluigi Scalvini
Time	1:43.284
Podium
First	Gianluigi Scalvini
Second	Arnaud Vincent
Third	Marco Melandri

The 1999 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourteenth round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 10 October 1999 at Phakisa Freeway.

500 cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	2	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	28	45:24.602	2	25
2	15	Sete Gibernau	Honda	28	+4.822	3	20
3	3	Àlex Crivillé	Honda	28	+5.138	6	16
4	8	Tadayuki Okada	Honda	28	+10.432	1	13
5	14	Juan Borja	Honda	28	+14.187	5	11
6	4	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	28	+14.282	7	10
7	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki	28	+22.636	14	9
8	24	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	28	+33.224	13	8
9	6	Norick Abe	Yamaha	28	+41.357	11	7
10	19	John Kocinski	Honda	28	+44.052	9	6
11	5	Alex Barros	Honda	28	+56.083	8	5
12	26	Haruchika Aoki	TSR-Honda	28	+56.443	15	4
13	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Muz-Weber	28	+57.117	10	3
14	55	Régis Laconi	Yamaha	28	+59.166	12	2
15	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	28	+59.290	17	1
16	68	Mark Willis	Modenas	28	+1:06.003	16
17	25	José Luis Cardoso	TSR-Honda	28	+1:11.108	24
18	35	Anthony Gobert	Muz-Weber	28	+1:17.861	19
19	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Honda	28	+1:18.332	20
20	52	José David de Gea	Modenas	28	+1:25.564	18
21	37	Steve Martin	Honda	28	+1:25.971	22
22	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	27	+1 Lap	4
Ret	21	Michael Rutter	Honda	9	Retirement	23
Ret	20	Mike Hale	Modenas	5	Retirement	21

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	42:57.870	25
2	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	+1.913	20
3	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	+3.862	16
4	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	+4.131	13
5	Loris Capirossi	Honda	+19.739	11
6	Sebastian Porto	Yamaha	+23.224	10
7	Stefano Perugini	Honda	+26.461	9
8	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	+28.366	8
9	Anthony West	TSR-Honda	+37.644	7
10	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	+42.837	6
11	Jason Vincent	Honda	+45.558	5
12	Tomomi Manako	Yamaha	+51.489	4
13	Alex Hofmann	TSR-Honda	+57.309	3
14	Masaki Tokudome	TSR-Honda	+57.544	2
15	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	+1:35.573	1
16	Shane Norval	Honda	+1:42.183
17	Johann Stigefelt	Yamaha	+1 Lap
18	Maurice Bolwerk	TSR-Honda	+1 Lap
19	Adrian Coates	Aprilia	+1 Lap
20	Markus Barth	Yamaha	+1 Lap
Ret	Scott Smart	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Alfredo Rios	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Julien Allemand	TSR-Honda	Retirement
Ret	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	Retirement
Ret	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	Retirement

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	41:41.665	25
2	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	+0.660	20
3	Marco Melandri	Honda	+0.844	16
4	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	+8.084	13
5	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	+17.277	11
6	Simone Sanna	Honda	+17.667	10
7	Youichi Ui	Derbi	+22.769	9
8	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	+23.794	8
9	Alessandro Brannetti	Aprilia	+24.187	7
10	Jeronimo Vidal	Aprilia	+35.785	6
11	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	+39.000	5
12	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	+39.264	4
13	Angel Nieto Jr	Honda	+50.228	3
14	Masao Azuma	Honda	+53.917	2
15	Kazuto Sakata	Honda	+54.458	1
16	Max Sabbatani	Honda	+54.733
17	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	+56.884
18	Frederic Petit	Aprilia	+1:00.750
19	Beaumont Levy	Honda	+1:39.377
Ret	Robbin Harms	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Manuel Poggiali	Derbi	Retirement
Ret	Ivan Goi	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Noboru Ueda	Honda	Retirement