2002 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix

2002 Portuguese Grand Prix
Race details
Race 11 of 16 races in the; 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	8 September 2002
Official name	Grande Prémio Marlboro de Portugal
Location	Autódromo do Estoril
Course	Permanent racing facility; 4.182 km (2.599 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Carlos Checa
Time	1:39.793
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:52.302 on lap 24
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Carlos Checa
Third	Tohru Ukawa
250cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Sebastián Porto
Time	1:41.708
Fastest lap
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	2:00.120 on lap 15
Podium
First	Fonsi Nieto
Second	Marco Melandri
Third	Sebastián Porto
125cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Daniel Pedrosa
Time	1:46.664
Fastest lap
Rider	Steve Jenkner
Time	2:01.050 on lap 8
Podium
First	Arnaud Vincent
Second	Simone Sanna
Third	Steve Jenkner

Date8 September 2002

Official nameGrande Prémio Marlboro de Portugal^[1]^[2]

LocationAutódromo do Estoril

Course

Permanent racing facility
4.182 km (2.599 mi)

The 2002 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 6–8 September 2002 at the Autódromo do Estoril.

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Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	54:12.962	3	25
2	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+22.200	1	20
3	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+24.220	8	16
4	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	28	+40.832	12	13
5	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	28	+42.709	4	11
6	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+44.064	5	10
7	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	28	+1:49.012	13	9
8	21	John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	28	+2:03.101	15	8
9	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	27	+1 lap	6	7
10	31	Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	27	+1 lap	18	6
11	8	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	27	+1 lap	16	5
12	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	27	+1 lap	17	4
Ret (13)	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	24	Accident	9
Ret (14)	74	Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	7	Accident	2
Ret (15)	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	6	Accident	7
Ret (16)	55	Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	3	Accident	14
Ret (17)	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	2	Retirement	11
Ret (18)	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	2	Retirement	10
Ret (19)	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	0	Accident	19
Ret (20)	20	Pere Riba	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	0	Accident	20
Sources: ^[3]^[4]^[5]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	26	53:58.901	3	25
2	3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	26	+0.684	2	20
3	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	26	+7.342	1	16
4	4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	26	+23.576	4	13
5	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	26	+49.234	11	11
6	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	26	+1:00.628	7	10
7	19	Leon Haslam	Honda	26	+1:36.634	14	9
8	42	David Checa	Aprilia	26	+1:39.550	19	8
9	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+2:12.740	21	7
10	32	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	22	6
11	22	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	23	5
12	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	20	4
13	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	23	+3 laps	6	3
Ret (14)	57	Grégory Lefort	Aprilia	23	Retirement	24
Ret (15)	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	22	Accident	12
Ret (16)	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	21	Accident	8
Ret (17)	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	20	Retirement	5
Ret (18)	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	19	Retirement	13
Ret (19)	11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	17	Retirement	15
Ret (20)	12	Jay Vincent	Honda	17	Retirement	18
Ret (21)	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	7	Accident	17
Ret (22)	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	6	Retirement	10
Ret (23)	13	Jaroslav Huleš	Yamaha	2	Accident	16
Ret (24)	17	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	0	Retirement	9
DNQ	30	Rob Filart	Honda		Did not qualify
Source: ^[6]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	24	49:05.300	9	25
2	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	24	+0.867	6	20
3	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	24	+2.600	4	16
4	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	24	+48.520	21	13
5	5	Masao Azuma	Honda	24	+57.972	20	11
6	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	24	+1:10.035	8	10
7	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	24	+1:14.682	15	9
8	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	24	+1:27.994	5	8
9	77	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	24	+1:39.443	29	7
10	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	24	+1:50.519	1	6
11	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	24	+1:54.525	30	5
12	42	Christian Pistoni	Italjet	23	+1 lap	33	4
13	37	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	23	+1 lap	32	3
14	52	Julián Simón	Honda	23	+1 lap	27	2
Ret (15)	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	22	Accident	18
Ret (16)	1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	20	Accident	2
Ret (17)	33	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	20	Retirement	13
Ret (18)	9	Noboru Ueda	Honda	18	Accident	16
Ret (19)	84	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	16	Accident	19
Ret (20)	31	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	15	Accident	23
Ret (21)	20	Imre Tóth	Honda	13	Accident	31
Ret (22)	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	9	Accident	14
Ret (23)	19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	8	Accident	26
Ret (24)	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	7	Accident	28
Ret (25)	8	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	6	Accident	11
Ret (26)	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	6	Accident	25
Ret (27)	50	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	6	Accident	17
Ret (28)	12	Klaus Nöhles	Honda	6	Retirement	22
Ret (29)	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	4	Accident	7
Ret (30)	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	4	Accident	10
Ret (31)	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	4	Retirement	24
Ret (32)	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	3	Accident	3
Ret (33)	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	1	Accident	12
DNQ	78	Pedro Monteiro	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	79	João Pinto	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	94	Filipe Costa	Yamaha		Did not qualify
Source: ^[7]

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2002 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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