2002 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix

2002 Malaysian Grand Prix
Race details
Race 14 of 16 races in the; 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	13 October 2002
Official name	Gauloises Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix
Location	Sepang International Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility; 5.543 km (3.444 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Alex Barros
Time	2:04.487
Fastest lap
Rider	Max Biaggi
Time	2:04.925 on lap 5
Podium
First	Max Biaggi
Second	Valentino Rossi
Third	Alex Barros
250cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	2:08.067
Fastest lap
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	2:08.858 on lap 2
Podium
First	Fonsi Nieto
Second	Toni Elías
Third	Roberto Rolfo
125cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Arnaud Vincent
Time	2:13.563
Fastest lap
Rider	Lucio Cecchinello
Time	2:13.919 on lap 4
Podium
First	Arnaud Vincent
Second	Lucio Cecchinello
Third	Daniel Pedrosa

Date13 October 2002

Official nameGauloises Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix^[1]^[2]

Course

The 2002 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourteenth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 11–13 October 2002 at the Sepang International Circuit.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	21	44:01.592	2	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	21	+0.542	8	20
3	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	21	+1.572	1	16
4	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	21	+2.238	6	13
5	74	Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	21	+8.475	3	11
6	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	21	+23.000	16	10
7	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	21	+24.360	5	9
8	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	21	+24.709	12	8
9	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	21	+27.669	4	7
10	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	21	+41.811	11	6
11	33	Akira Ryō	Team Suzuki	Suzuki	21	+42.603	18	5
12	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	21	+45.761	7	4
13	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	21	+48.316	10	3
14	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	21	+1:01.270	15	2
15	8	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	21	+1:13.096	9	1
16	30	José Luis Cardoso	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	21	+1:15.503	21
17	55	Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	21	+1:21.513	20
18	21	John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	21	+1:42.684	19
19	84	Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	21	+1:48.156	22
Ret (20)	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	18	Retirement	13
Ret (21)	31	Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	11	Retirement	14
Ret (22)	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	3	Accident	17
Sources: ^[3]^[4]^[5]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	20	43:28.624	1	25
2	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	20	+0.412	3	20
3	4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	20	+2.947	6	16
4	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	20	+7.910	8	13
5	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	20	+8.581	5	11
6	17	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	20	+8.706	7	10
7	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	20	+19.155	14	9
8	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	20	+22.459	13	8
9	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	20	+22.694	12	7
10	42	David Checa	Aprilia	20	+29.350	11	6
11	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	20	+36.502	10	5
12	11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	20	+40.016	15	4
13	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	20	+46.558	4	3
14	12	Jay Vincent	Honda	20	+49.793	18	2
15	13	Jaroslav Huleš	Yamaha	20	+57.200	21	1
16	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	20	+1:02.918	23
17	19	Leon Haslam	Honda	20	+1:02.950	20
18	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	20	+1:03.369	16
19	51	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	20	+1:13.145	17
Ret (20)	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	14	Retirement	22
Ret (21)	32	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	9	Accident	19
Ret (22)	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	8	Accident	9
Ret (23)	22	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	6	Retirement	24
Ret (24)	3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	2	Retirement	2
Source: ^[6]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	18	40:32.656	1	25
2	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	18	+0.278	7	20
3	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	18	+0.345	3	16
4	1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	18	+0.813	2	13
5	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	18	+3.647	10	11
6	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	18	+6.288	4	10
7	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	18	+13.020	14	9
8	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	18	+13.028	5	8
9	5	Masao Azuma	Honda	18	+13.255	9	7
10	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	18	+21.494	19	6
11	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	18	+25.209	22	5
12	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	18	+30.511	6	4
13	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	18	+36.548	16	3
14	12	Klaus Nöhles	Honda	18	+45.983	11	2
15	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	18	+46.435	17	1
16	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	18	+46.466	15
17	31	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	18	+47.101	18
18	9	Noboru Ueda	Honda	18	+47.690	26
19	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	18	+47.724	20
20	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	18	+48.079	24
21	77	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	18	+1:22.654	30
22	20	Imre Tóth	Honda	18	+1:22.721	28
23	19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	18	+1:22.867	32
24	72	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	18	+1:23.046	29
25	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	18	+1:36.014	31
26	84	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	18	+1:36.792	21
Ret (27)	42	Christian Pistoni	Italjet	16	Retirement	33
Ret (28)	83	Joshua Waters	Honda	15	Accident	34
Ret (29)	8	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	6	Retirement	23
Ret (30)	37	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	5	Accident	27
Ret (31)	50	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	3	Accident	13
Ret (32)	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	2	Accident	8
Ret (33)	33	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	1	Accident	12
Ret (34)	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	1	Retirement	25
Source: ^[7]

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250 cc classification