2002 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

  2002 Spanish Grand Prix

Race details
Race 3 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	5 May 2002
Official name	Gran Premio Marlboro de España
Location	Circuito de Jerez, Jerez de la Frontera
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.423 km (2.748 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:42.193
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:42.920
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Daijiro Kato
Third	Tohru Ukawa
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Franco Battaini
Time	1:44.803
Fastest lap
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	1:45.243
Podium
First	Fonsi Nieto
Second	Roberto Rolfo
Third	Emilio Alzamora
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Pablo Nieto
Time	1:49.018
Fastest lap
Rider	Lucio Cecchinello
Time	1:48.620
Podium
First	Lucio Cecchinello
Second	Arnaud Vincent
Third	Steve Jenkner

The 2002 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 3–5 May 2002 at the Circuito Permanente de Jerez.

MotoGP classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	27	46:51.843	1	25
2	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	27	+1.190	4	20
3	11	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	27	+2.445	6	16
4	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	27	+2.830	3	13
5	4	Alex Barros	Honda	27	+4.117	2	11
6	6	Norifumi Abe	Yamaha	27	+18.517	10	10
7	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton KR	27	+31.785	15	9
8	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	27	+33.876	9	8
9	15	Sete Gibernau	Suzuki	27	+38.762	13	7
10	31	Tetsuya Harada	Honda	27	+39.975	11	6
11	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	27	+47.496	8	5
12	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	27	+47.930	17	4
13	21	John Hopkins	Yamaha	27	+50.249	16	3
14	55	Régis Laconi	Aprilia	27	+50.729	19	2
15	8	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	27	+53.293[1]	18	1
16	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton KR	27	+54.171[1]	12
17	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	27	+1:24.014	14
Ret	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	26	Retirement	5
Ret	20	Pere Riba	Yamaha	2	Retirement	20
DSQ	3	Max Biaggi	Yamaha		Disqualified[2]	7

250 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	26	46:03.241	2	25
2	4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	26	+1.987	5	20
3	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	26	+5.355	9	16
4	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	26	+11.484	1	13
5	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	26	+11.982	12	11
6	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	26	+16.476	7	10
7	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	26	+23.987	4	9
8	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	26	+33.173	8	8
9	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	26	+33.473	11	7
10	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	26	+44.011	10	6
11	32	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	26	+47.047	17	5
12	11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	26	+48.583	15	4
13	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	26	+1:01.097	18	3
14	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	26	+1:01.120	21	2
15	76	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	26	+1:01.429	16	1
16	22	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	26	+1:01.659	13
17	12	Jason Vincent	Honda	26	+1:06.893	19
18	25	Vincent Philippe	Aprilia	26	+1:09.713	23
19	19	Leon Haslam	Honda	26	+1:15.733	24
20	41	Jarno Janssen	Honda	25	+1 lap	20
Ret	3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	25	Retirement	3
Ret	17	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	15	Accident	6
Ret	42	David Checa	Aprilia	4	Accident	14
Ret	51	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	3	Accident	22
Ret	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	0	Retirement	25
DNQ	39	Luis Castro	Yamaha

125 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	23	42:08.107	6	25
2	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	23	+2.274	2	20
3	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	23	+2.773	5	16
4	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	23	+8.618	13	13
5	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	23	+13.089	17	11
6	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	23	+13.624	10	10
7	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	23	+15.181	8	9
8	5	Masao Azuma	Honda	23	+19.116	19	8
9	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	23	+19.185	11	7
10	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	23	+24.193	7	6
11	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	23	+34.510	22	5
12	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	23	+34.563	16	4
13	18	Jakub Smrž	Honda	23	+37.315	20	3
14	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	23	+37.950	15	2
15	50	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	23	+39.897	29	1
16	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	23	+57.693	12
17	9	Noboru Ueda	Honda	23	+1:03.935	23
18	84	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	23	+1:03.959	31
19	33	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	23	+1:03.971	18
20	8	Gábor Talmácsi	Italjet	23	+1:05.248	21
21	19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	23	+1:05.515	30
22	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	23	+1:11.361	32
23	31	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	23	+1:13.117	34
24	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	23	+1:17.907	27
25	51	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	23	+1:20.614	26
26	10	Jarno Müller	Honda	23	+1:23.174	24
27	20	Imre Tóth	Honda	23	+1:50.192	35
Ret	12	Klaus Nöhles	Honda	22	Retirement	33
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	21	Accident	4
Ret	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	21	Retirement	9
Ret	52	Julián Simón	Honda	14	Accident	28
Ret	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	8	Accident	1
Ret	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Aprilia	7	Retirement	25
Ret	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	6	Accident	14
DSQ	1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera		Disqualified[3]	3
DNS	71	Rubén Catalán	Aprilia			36

References

1. McCoy and McWilliams both received a 5 second penalty added to their race time for overtaking under yellow flags.
2. Biaggi was punished with the black flag for ignoring a stop and go penalty after a jump start.
3. Poggiali was excluded from the race results for riding in an irresponsible manner.