1999 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1999 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth race of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 6 June 1999 at the Mugello Circuit.

  1999 Italian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 5 of 16 races in the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	6 June 1999
Official name	Gran Premio d'Italia IP[1][2]
Location	Mugello Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.245 km (3.259 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 1:52.454 Fastest lap Rider Kenny Roberts Jr. Time 1:53.889 on lap 2 Podium First Àlex Crivillé Second Max Biaggi Third Tadayuki Okada
250cc
Pole position Rider Marcellino Lucchi Time 1:54.376 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:55.254 on lap 7 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Ralf Waldmann Third Tohru Ukawa
125cc
Pole position Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 2:00.254 Fastest lap Rider Kazuto Sakata Time 2:00.648 on lap 12 Podium First Roberto Locatelli Second Marco Melandri Third Noboru Ueda

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	44:05.522	2	25
2	2	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+0.283	13	20
3	8	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	+6.052	7	16
4	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia Grand Prix Racing	Aprilia	23	+6.849	1	13
5	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	23	+12.674	3	11
6	15	Sete Gibernau	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	+12.714	12	10
7	4	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+21.341	9	9
8	19	John Kocinski	Kanemoto Honda	Honda	23	+29.800	4	8
9	14	Juan Borja	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	23	+29.801	8	7
10	7	Luca Cadalora	Team Biland GP1	MuZ Weber	23	+46.742	6	6
11	26	Haruchika Aoki	FCC TSR	TSR-Honda	23	+1:07.293	17	5
12	11	Simon Crafar	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	23	+1:14.550	19	4
13	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	23	+1:20.353	18	3
14	69	Jamie Whitham	Proton KR Modenas	Modenas KR3	23	+1:27.761	16	2
15	18	Markus Ober	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	23	+1:45.918	20	1
Ret	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	17	Accident	10
Ret	12	Jean-Michel Bayle	Proton KR Modenas	Modenas KR3	7	Retirement	15
Ret	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Team Biland GP1	MuZ Weber	6	Retirement	11
Ret	21	Michael Rutter	Millar Honda	Honda	3	Retirement	22
Ret	5	Alex Barros	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	1	Accident	14
Ret	25	José Luis Cardoso	Team Maxon TSR	TSR-Honda	1	Retirement	21
Ret	43	Paolo Tessari	Team Paton	Paton	0	Accident	23
Ret	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	0	Accident	5
DNQ	68	Mark Willis	Buckley Systems BSL Racing	BSL		Did not qualify
Sources: [3][4][5]

250 cc classification

Loris Capirossi was black-flagged for causing Marcellino Lucchi's crash at the start of the race;^[6] in addition, as he did not return to the pits within one lap after having been shown the flag, he was banned from the following event.^[7]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	21	40:52.837	6	25
2	6	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	21	+2.643	4	20
3	4	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	21	+2.684	9	16
4	9	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	21	+11.333	7	13
5	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	21	+11.684	5	11
6	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	21	+12.447	3	10
7	24	Jason Vincent	Honda	21	+21.184	11	9
8	7	Stefano Perugini	Honda	21	+21.721	12	8
9	12	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	21	+40.911	13	7
10	37	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	21	+45.815	16	6
11	36	Masaki Tokudome	TSR-Honda	21	+53.891	18	5
12	16	Johan Stigefelt	Yamaha	21	+54.066	17	4
13	11	Tomomi Manako	Yamaha	21	+54.096	22	3
14	23	Julien Allemand	TSR-Honda	21	+1:18.330	24	2
15	15	David García	Yamaha	21	+1:21.272	19	1
16	66	Alex Hofmann	TSR-Honda	21	+1:27.000	14
17	10	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	21	+1:33.576	25
18	55	Filippo Cotti	Yamaha	21	+1:33.644	23
19	58	Matías Ríos	Aprilia	20	+1 lap	28
Ret	44	Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	10	Retirement	8
Ret	14	Anthony West	TSR-Honda	10	Retirement	21
Ret	41	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	9	Accident	20
Ret	27	Rob Filart	Honda	3	Accident	26
Ret	48	Ivan Clementi	Aprilia	3	Accident	15
Ret	31	Toshihiko Honma	Yamaha	0	Accident	10
Ret	34	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	0	Accident	1
Ret	47	Ivan Mengozzi	Yamaha	0	Accident	27
DSQ	1	Loris Capirossi	Honda	15	Black flag	2
Source: [8]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	20	40:52.672	1	25
2	13	Marco Melandri	Honda	20	+0.271	5	20
3	6	Noboru Ueda	Honda	20	+0.295	4	16
4	16	Simone Sanna	Honda	20	+0.343	6	13
5	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	20	+0.442	7	11
6	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	20	+0.588	11	10
7	4	Masao Azuma	Honda	20	+0.589	12	9
8	1	Kazuto Sakata	Honda	20	+1.193	13	8
9	5	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	20	+1.260	3	7
10	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	20	+1.338	10	6
11	32	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	20	+1.429	15	5
12	10	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	20	+2.269	8	4
13	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	20	+8.436	14	3
14	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	20	+10.382	17	2
15	26	Ivan Goi	Honda	20	+10.541	18	1
16	11	Max Sabbatani	Honda	20	+10.695	16
17	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Honda	20	+17.572	19
18	9	Frédéric Petit	Aprilia	20	+17.668	9
19	12	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	20	+23.619	21
20	44	Alessandro Brannetti	Aprilia	20	+23.731	20
21	20	Bernhard Absmeier	Aprilia	20	+34.245	24
22	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	20	+41.130	26
23	63	Marco Petrini	Aprilia	20	+42.373	22
24	64	Gaspare Caffiero	Aprilia	20	+42.593	28
25	66	Marco Tresoldi	Honda	20	+42.597	25
Ret	18	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	19	Retirement	23
Ret	62	Riccardo Chiarello	Aprilia	19	Retirement	27
Ret	65	Lorenzo Lanzi	Aprilia	9	Retirement	29
Ret	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	4	Retirement	2
Source: [9]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.^[10]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Àlex Crivillé 104 2 Kenny Roberts Jr. 64 3 Carlos Checa 56 4 Sete Gibernau 56 5 Tadayuki Okada 48

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 111 2 Yamaha 87 3 Suzuki 64 4 Aprilia 32 5 MuZ Weber 17

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