2002 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix
Motorcycle race
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The 2002 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 1–3 November 2002 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo.
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| Race 16 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 3 November 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Gran Premio Marlboro de la Comunitat Valenciana[1][2][3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Circuit Ricardo Tormo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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MotoGP classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 4 |  Alex Barros |
West Honda Pons | Honda | 30 | 47:22.404 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 |  Valentino Rossi |
Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | +0.230 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | 3 | Max Biaggi |
Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 30 | +15.213 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 74 |  Daijiro Kato |
Fortuna Honda Gresini | Honda | 30 | +22.504 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa |
Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | +35.165 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 56 | Shinya Nakano |
Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 30 | +50.169 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 17 |  Jurgen van den Goorbergh |
Kanemoto Racing | Honda | 30 | +1:03.814 | 15 | 9 |
| 8 | 99 |  Jeremy McWilliams |
Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 30 | +1:05.079 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 19 |  Olivier Jacque |
Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 30 | +1:08.312 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 6 | Norifumi Abe |
Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | 30 | +1:08.312 | 20 | 6 |
| 11 | 21 |  John Hopkins |
Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 30 | +1:26.241 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 84 |  Andrew Pitt |
Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 30 | +1:27.427 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 15 |  Sete Gibernau |
Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 29 | +1 lap | 10 | 3 |
| 14 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada |
Pramac Honda Racing Team | Honda | 29 | +1 lap | 22 | 2 |
| Ret (15) | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. |
Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 24 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret (16) | 65 | Loris Capirossi |
West Honda Pons | Honda | 19 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret (17) | 29 | David García |
Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 13 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret (18) | 8 | Garry McCoy |
Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 6 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret (19) | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki |
Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 1 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret (20) | 55 | Régis Laconi |
MS Aprilia Racing | Aprilia | 1 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret (21) | 30 | José Luis Cardoso |
Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | 0 | Collision | 21 | |
| Ret (22) | 7 | Carlos Checa |
Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 0 | Collision | 5 | |
| Sources: [4][5][6] | ||||||||
250 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 3 | Marco Melandri |
Aprilia | 27 | 43:57.812 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 | Roberto Rolfo |
Honda | 27 | +4.318 | 7 | 20 |
| 3 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora |
Honda | 27 | +4.538 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 17 | Randy de Puniet |
Aprilia | 27 | +18.214 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli |
Aprilia | 27 | +21.990 | 12 | 11 |
| 6 | 42 | David Checa |
Aprilia | 27 | +22.173 | 11 | 10 |
| 7 | 21 | Franco Battaini |
Aprilia | 27 | +26.755 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo |
Yamaha | 27 | +26.909 | 14 | 8 |
| 9 | 6 | Alex Debón |
Aprilia | 27 | +26.915 | 5 | 7 |
| 10 | 24 | Toni Elías |
Aprilia | 27 | +32.380 | 8 | 6 |
| 11 | 18 |  Shahrol Yuzy |
Yamaha | 27 | +36.294 | 13 | 5 |
| 12 | 11 | Haruchika Aoki |
Honda | 27 | +42.879 | 16 | 4 |
| 13 | 27 | Casey Stoner |
Aprilia | 27 | +42.889 | 10 | 3 |
| 14 | 12 | Jay Vincent |
Honda | 27 | +44.942 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 32 | Héctor Faubel |
Aprilia | 27 | +47.348 | 15 | 1 |
| 16 | 13 |  Jaroslav Huleš |
Yamaha | 27 | +47.849 | 19 | |
| 17 | 19 | Leon Haslam |
Honda | 27 | +1:06.850 | 21 | |
| 18 | 74 | Ángel Rodríguez |
Aprilia | 27 | +1:20.276 | 26 | |
| 19 | 28 |  Dirk Heidolf |
Aprilia | 27 | +1:24.489 | 22 | |
| 20 | 36 | Erwan Nigon |
Aprilia | 27 | +1:27.859 | 23 | |
| 21 | 90 | Chuck Sorensen |
Aprilia | 26 | +1 lap | 27 | |
| Ret (22) | 96 | Jakub Smrž |
Honda | 26 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret (23) | 22 | Raúl Jara |
Aprilia | 15 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret (24) | 10 | Fonsi Nieto |
Aprilia | 7 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret (25) | 34 | Eric Bataille |
Honda | 4 | Accident | 24 | |
| Ret (26) | 51 | Hugo Marchand |
Aprilia | 2 | Retirement | 17 | |
| Ret (27) | 9 |  Sebastián Porto |
Yamaha | 1 | Retirement | 3 | |
| DNQ | 39 | Luis Castro |
Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
| Source: [7] | |||||||
125 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa |
Honda | 25 | 42:13.044 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent |
Aprilia | 25 | +0.100 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 22 | Pablo Nieto |
Aprilia | 25 | +2.704 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 15 |  Alex de Angelis |
Aprilia | 25 | +3.069 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 17 | Steve Jenkner |
Aprilia | 25 | +3.136 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 80 | Héctor Barberá |
Aprilia | 25 | +8.041 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 1 | Manuel Poggiali |
Gilera | 25 | +8.852 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | 4 | Lucio Cecchinello |
Aprilia | 25 | +11.879 | 18 | 8 |
| 9 | 25 | Joan Olivé |
Honda | 25 | +12.037 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 23 | Gino Borsoi |
Aprilia | 25 | +14.757 | 8 | 6 |
| 11 | 11 | Max Sabbatani |
Aprilia | 25 | +15.167 | 13 | 5 |
| 12 | 50 | Andrea Ballerini |
Aprilia | 25 | +18.472 | 9 | 4 |
| 13 | 33 | Stefano Bianco |
Aprilia | 25 | +18.514 | 20 | 3 |
| 14 | 16 | Simone Sanna |
Aprilia | 25 | +18.804 | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 8 |  Gábor Talmácsi |
Honda | 25 | +23.694 | 11 | 1 |
| 16 | 36 |  Mika Kallio |
Honda | 25 | +23.726 | 10 | |
| 17 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso |
Honda | 25 | +23.782 | 14 | |
| 18 | 5 | Masao Azuma |
Honda | 25 | +23.958 | 19 | |
| 19 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti |
Honda | 25 | +24.110 | 17 | |
| 20 | 84 | Michel Fabrizio |
Gilera | 25 | +54.350 | 25 | |
| 21 | 12 | Klaus Nöhles |
Honda | 25 | +58.575 | 30 | |
| 22 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo |
Derbi | 25 | +58.916 | 26 | |
| 23 | 51 | Álvaro Bautista |
Aprilia | 25 | +59.286 | 28 | |
| 24 | 77 |  Thomas Lüthi |
Honda | 25 | +1:10.021 | 35 | |
| 25 | 20 | Imre Tóth |
Honda | 25 | +1:10.155 | 33 | |
| 26 | 71 | Rubén Catalán |
Aprilia | 25 | +1:16.125 | 32 | |
| 27 | 72 | Dario Giuseppetti |
Honda | 25 | +1:16.138 | 34 | |
| 28 | 57 | Chaz Davies |
Aprilia | 25 | +1:20.058 | 31 | |
| 29 | 59 | Vincent Braillard |
Honda | 24 | +1 lap | 37 | |
| Ret (30) | 7 | Stefano Perugini |
Italjet | 22 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret (31) | 31 | Mattia Angeloni |
Gilera | 20 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret (32) | 52 | Julián Simón |
Honda | 18 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret (33) | 19 | Alex Baldolini |
Aprilia | 13 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret (34) | 41 | Youichi Ui |
Derbi | 10 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret (35) | 42 | Christian Pistoni |
Italjet | 9 | Accident | 36 | |
| Ret (36) | 98 |  Chris Peris |
Aprilia | 9 | Retirement | 38 | |
| Ret (37) | 9 | Noboru Ueda |
Honda | 3 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret (38) | 37 | Marco Simoncelli |
Aprilia | 3 | Accident | 24 | |
| Source: [8] | |||||||
Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.[9]
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.