1999 British motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1999 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighth round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 4 July 1999 at Donington Park.

  1999 British Grand Prix

Race details
Race 8 of 16 races in the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	4 July 1999
Official name	British Grand Prix[1][2]
Location	Donington Park
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.023 km (2.500 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Tadayuki Okada Time 1:32.597 Fastest lap Rider Àlex Crivillé Time 1:33.348 on lap 6 Podium First Àlex Crivillé Second Tadayuki Okada Third Tetsuya Harada
250cc
Pole position Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:34.277 Fastest lap Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:34.448 on lap 11 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Loris Capirossi Third Shinya Nakano
125cc
Pole position Rider Gianluigi Scalvini Time 1:39.614 Fastest lap Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:39.103 on lap 8 Podium First Masao Azuma Second Noboru Ueda Third Emilio Alzamora

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	47:06.290	2	25
2	8	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+0.536	1	20
3	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia Grand Prix Racing	Aprilia	30	+0.981	7	16
4	2	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+10.020	3	13
5	5	Alex Barros	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	30	+21.316	10	11
6	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	30	+21.491	4	10
7	14	Juan Borja	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	30	+21.959	6	9
8	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	30	+22.230	5	8
9	19	John Kocinski	Kanemoto Honda	Honda	30	+1:01.073	9	7
10	11	Simon Crafar	Team Biland GP1	MuZ Weber	30	+1:06.969	18	6
11	21	Michael Rutter	Millar Honda	Honda	29	+1 lap	20	5
Ret	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	25	Accident	8
Ret	46	John McGuinness	Team Vimto Honda	Honda	23	Retirement	21
Ret	26	Haruchika Aoki	FCC TSR	TSR-Honda	17	Retirement	13
Ret	24	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	15	Accident	15
Ret	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	13	Retirement	19
Ret	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Team Biland GP1	MuZ Weber	10	Retirement	16
Ret	25	José Luis Cardoso	Team Maxon TSR	TSR-Honda	7	Retirement	17
Ret	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	2	Retirement	11
Ret	69	Jamie Whitham	Proton KR Modenas	Modenas KR3	1	Accident	14
Ret	19	Markus Ober	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	1	Accident	22
Ret	4	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	1	Retirement	12
DNS	15	Sete Gibernau	Repsol Honda Team	Honda		Did not start
Sources:[3][4][5]

Valentino Rossi, riding his Aprilia during the 250cc race, which went on to win.

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	27	42:54.311	3	25
2	1	Loris Capirossi	Honda	27	+1.261	1	20
3	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	27	+8.162	6	16
4	4	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	27	+9.000	4	13
5	7	Stefano Perugini	Honda	27	+14.131	9	11
6	9	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	27	+17.368	8	10
7	34	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	27	+23.720	5	9
8	6	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	27	+25.636	2	8
9	36	Masaki Tokudome	TSR-Honda	27	+46.825	11	7
10	37	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	27	+48.712	14	6
11	14	Anthony West	TSR-Honda	27	+52.790	13	5
12	77	Jamie Robinson	Yamaha	27	+53.854	17	4
13	66	Alex Hofmann	TSR-Honda	27	+1:01.522	18	3
14	11	Tomomi Manako	Yamaha	27	+1:03.660	12	2
15	23	Julien Allemand	TSR-Honda	27	+1:14.867	16	1
16	15	David García	Yamaha	27	+1:30.127	22
17	10	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	27	+1:31.582	21
18	16	Johan Stigefelt	Yamaha	27	+1:57.072	20
19	41	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	27	+2:07.055	26
Ret	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	24	Retirement	7
Ret	17	Maurice Bolwerk	TSR-Honda	20	Accident	23
Ret	58	Matías Ríos	Aprilia	18	Retirement	28
Ret	12	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	11	Accident	15
Ret	24	Jason Vincent	Honda	11	Accident	10
Ret	79	Shane Norval	Honda	9	Retirement	19
Ret	78	Paul Jones	Honda	9	Retirement	25
Ret	80	Adrian Coates	Honda	9	Retirement	24
Ret	22	Lucas Oliver Bultó	Yamaha	1	Retirement	27
Source:[6]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Masao Azuma	Honda	26	43:21.690	7	25
2	6	Noboru Ueda	Honda	26	+1.783	8	20
3	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	26	+2.010	2	16
4	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	26	+2.380	5	13
5	13	Marco Melandri	Honda	26	+10.516	6	11
6	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	26	+10.615	1	10
7	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	26	+11.195	3	9
8	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	26	+20.969	10	8
9	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	26	+27.809	4	7
10	32	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	26	+32.981	13	6
11	26	Ivan Goi	Honda	26	+33.839	14	5
12	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	26	+34.250	24	4
13	1	Kazuto Sakata	Honda	26	+43.194	12	3
14	18	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	26	+44.396	17	2
15	10	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	26	+46.529	15	1
16	44	Alessandro Brannetti	Aprilia	26	+1:11.284	22
17	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Honda	26	+1:11.774	23
18	11	Max Sabbatani	Honda	26	+1:16.580	19
19	72	Leon Haslam	Honda	25	+1 lap	25
20	75	Kenny Tibble	Honda	25	+1 lap	28
Ret	5	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	17	Accident	11
Ret	74	Chris Burns	Honda	17	Retirement	26
Ret	9	Frédéric Petit	Aprilia	11	Accident	18
Ret	73	Andi Notman	Honda	11	Retirement	27
Ret	12	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	9	Accident	16
Ret	16	Simone Sanna	Honda	2	Accident	9
Ret	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	1	Accident	21
Ret	20	Bernhard Absmeier	Aprilia	1	Accident	20
DNS	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia		Did not start
Source:[7]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eight has concluded.^[8]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Àlex Crivillé 154 2 Tadayuki Okada 113 3 Kenny Roberts Jr. 102 4 Sete Gibernau 88 5 Max Biaggi 71

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 186 2 Yamaha 120 3 Suzuki 102 4 Aprilia 66 5 MuZ Weber 34

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.