2002 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix

2002 Catalan Grand Prix
Race details
Race 6 of 16 races in the; 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	16 June 2002
Official name	Gran Premi Marlboro de Catalunya
Location	Circuit de Catalunya
Course	Permanent racing facility; 4.727 km (2.937 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Max Biaggi
Time	1:44.523
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:45.594 on lap 5
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Tohru Ukawa
Third	Carlos Checa
250cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	1:47.315
Fastest lap
Rider	Franco Battaini
Time	1:48.063 on lap 3
Podium
First	Marco Melandri
Second	Roberto Rolfo
Third	Fonsi Nieto
125cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Manuel Poggiali
Time	1:51.216
Fastest lap
Rider	Youichi Ui
Time	1:51.443 on lap 10
Podium
First	Manuel Poggiali
Second	Daniel Pedrosa
Third	Steve Jenkner

The 2002 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 14–16 June 2002 at the Circuit de Catalunya located in Montmeló, Catalonia, Spain.

Date16 June 2002

Official nameGran Premi Marlboro de Catalunya^[1]^[2]

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Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	25	44:20.679	4	25
2	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	25	+0.880	2	20
3	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	25	+8.531	7	16
4	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	25	+11.918	1	13
5	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	25	+22.382	9	11
6	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	25	+30.096	5	10
7	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	25	+31.525	8	9
8	74	Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	25	+33.912	15	8
9	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	25	+36.847	11	7
10	21	John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	25	+51.580	6	6
11	33	Akira Ryō	Team Suzuki	Suzuki	25	+53.303	17	5
12	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	25	+57.585	12	4
13	31	Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	25	+1:01.823	20	3
14	55	Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	25	+1:03.002	13	2
15	20	Pere Riba	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	25	+1:04.723	21	1
16	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	23	+2 laps	16
Ret (17)	66	Alex Hofmann	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	24	Retirement	19
Ret (18)	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	6	Accident	3
Ret (19)	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	2	Retirement	18
Ret (20)	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	0	Accident	14
Ret (21)	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	0	Accident	10
Sources: ^[3]^[4]^[5]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	23	41:40.377	2	25
2	4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	23	+2.193	6	20
3	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	23	+2.689	1	16
4	17	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	23	+2.950	4	13
5	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	23	+4.538	5	11
6	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	23	+23.101	13	10
7	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	23	+23.215	11	9
8	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	23	+23.374	12	8
9	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	23	+24.586	7	7
10	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	23	+30.721	9	6
11	11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	23	+37.908	14	5
12	42	David Checa	Aprilia	23	+38.456	15	4
13	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	23	+40.607	10	3
14	51	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	23	+1:00.034	19	2
15	22	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	23	+1:02.087	17	1
16	76	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	23	+1:02.410	16
17	25	Vincent Philippe	Aprilia	23	+1:02.643	18
18	19	Leon Haslam	Honda	23	+1:09.785	20
19	12	Jay Vincent	Honda	23	+1:17.851	21
20	32	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	23	+1:30.113	22
21	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	23	+1:31.937	25
22	41	Jarno Janssen	Honda	23	+1:47.797	23
Ret (23)	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	7	Retirement	24
Ret (24)	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	5	Accident	3
Ret (25)	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	4	Retirement	8
Source: ^[6]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	22	41:18.211	1	25
2	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	22	+0.019	4	20
3	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	22	+9.888	3	16
4	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	22	+15.397	5	13
5	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	22	+15.452	8	11
6	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	22	+15.486	21	10
7	33	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	22	+15.549	11	9
8	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	22	+16.218	2	8
9	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	22	+22.762	10	7
10	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	22	+22.839	16	6
11	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	22	+23.067	18	5
12	50	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	22	+23.134	19	4
13	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	22	+43.345	17	3
14	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	22	+43.973	7	2
15	5	Masao Azuma	Honda	22	+47.189	13	1
16	18	Jakub Smrž	Honda	22	+47.333	24
17	32	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	22	+52.000	23
18	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	22	+1:11.358	27
19	31	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	22	+1:11.488	29
20	19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	22	+1:21.603	32
21	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Aprilia	22	+1:21.681	15
22	52	Julián Simón	Honda	22	+1:31.723	26
23	20	Imre Tóth	Honda	22	+1:31.794	31
24	24	Leon Camier	Italjet	21	+1 lap	33
Ret (25)	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	18	Retirement	22
Ret (26)	84	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	14	Accident	20
Ret (27)	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	13	Accident	6
Ret (28)	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	13	Accident	12
Ret (29)	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	4	Retirement	25
Ret (30)	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	0	Accident	9
Ret (31)	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	0	Accident	14
Ret (32)	44	Alessandro Brannetti	Honda	0	Accident	30
Ret (33)	51	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	0	Accident	28
DNQ	55	Javier Machado	Honda		Did not qualify
Source: ^[7]

MotoGP classification