2002 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

  2002 Italian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 5 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	2 June 2002
Official name	Gran Premio Cinzano d'Italia
Location	Mugello Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.245 km (3.259 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:51.258
Fastest lap
Rider	Tohru Ukawa
Time	1:52.601
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Max Biaggi
Third	Tohru Ukawa
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Franco Battaini
Time	1:54.344
Fastest lap
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	1:54.812
Podium
First	Marco Melandri
Second	Roberto Locatelli
Third	Fonsi Nieto
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Manuel Poggiali
Time	1:59.369
Fastest lap
Rider	Lucio Cecchinello
Time	1:59.184
Podium
First	Manuel Poggiali
Second	Youichi Ui
Third	Pablo Nieto

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	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	23	43:40.837	1	25
2	3	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	23	+2.404	2	20
3	11	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	23	+11.289	7	16
4	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	23	+11.408	3	13
5	4	Alex Barros	Honda	23	+15.371	9	11
6	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	23	+20.010	4	10
7	6	Norifumi Abe	Yamaha	23	+26.447	19	9
8	55	Régis Laconi	Aprilia	23	+30.333	5	8
9	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	23	+30.428	6	7
10	31	Tetsuya Harada	Honda	23	+30.759	8	6
11	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	23	+34.162	14	5
12	21	John Hopkins	Yamaha	23	+37.715	13	4
13	18	Jean-Michel Bayle	Yamaha	23	+1:17.803	17	3
14	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	23	+1:19.800	15	2
Ret	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton KR	18	Retirement	12
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Suzuki	14	Retirement	18
Ret	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton KR	9	Retirement	11
Ret	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	9	Accident	16
Ret	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	8	Accident	10
Ret	20	Pere Riba	Yamaha	1	Accident	20

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	Jason 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

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	Dani 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	Aprilia	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
DNS	12	Klaus Nöhles	Honda
DNS	9	Noboru Ueda	Honda