2000 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2000 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourteenth round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 7 October 2000 at the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet. Kenny Roberts Jr sealed the world title at this race by finishing in 6th place. Suzuki's last world championship until the 2020 season with Joan Mir.

  2000 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix

Race details
Race 14 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	7 October 2000
Official name	Cinzano Rio Grand Prix[1]
Location	Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.933 km (3.065 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:51.058 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:52.667 on lap 22 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Alex Barros Third Garry McCoy
250cc
Pole position Rider Marco Melandri Time 1:53.464 Fastest lap Rider Olivier Jacque Time 1:54.394 on lap 2 Podium First Daijiro Kato Second Tohru Ukawa Third Marco Melandri
125cc
Pole position Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:59.011 Fastest lap Rider Mirko Giansanti Time 1:59.368 on lap 3 Podium First Simone Sanna Second Masao Azuma Third Youichi Ui

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	24	45:22.624	4	25
2	10	Alex Barros	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	24	+0.970	2	20
3	24	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	24	+3.446	13	16
4	6	Norick Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	24	+3.568	6	13
5	4	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+3.709	1	11
6	2	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	24	+7.778	7	10
7	5	Sete Gibernau	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	24	+8.260	11	9
8	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	24	+8.518	9	8
9	8	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	24	+17.506	8	7
10	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Rizla Honda	TSR-Honda	24	+23.254	10	6
11	1	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	24	+28.802	12	5
12	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	24	+34.134	15	4
13	31	Tetsuya Harada	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	24	+54.359	16	3
14	68	Mark Willis	Proton Team KR	Modenas KR3	24	+1:03.182	17	2
15	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+1:03.506	3	1
16	25	José Luis Cardoso	Maxon Dee Cee Jeans	Honda	24	+1:21.941	18
17	33	David Tomás	Sabre Sport	Honda	23	+1 lap	19
18	15	Yoshiteru Konishi	FCC TSR	TSR-Honda	23	+1 lap	20
Ret	65	Loris Capirossi	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	2	Accident	5
Ret	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	2	Retirement	14
DNQ	18	Sébastien Le Grelle	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda		Did not qualify
Sources: [2][3][4]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	22	42:14.822	3	25
2	4	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	22	+0.064	6	20
3	35	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	22	+0.190	1	16
4	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	22	+13.788	5	13
5	14	Anthony West	Honda	22	+19.087	13	11
6	6	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	22	+19.236	7	10
7	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	22	+24.786	4	9
8	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	22	+31.874	12	8
9	24	Jason Vincent	Aprilia	22	+41.546	10	7
10	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	22	+45.904	9	6
11	10	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	22	+55.630	15	5
12	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	22	+55.670	16	4
13	11	Ivan Clementi	Aprilia	22	+55.980	18	3
14	22	Sébastien Gimbert	TSR-Honda	22	+56.327	20	2
15	23	Julien Allemand	Yamaha	22	+56.491	24	1
16	25	Vincent Philippe	TSR-Honda	22	+56.713	21
17	26	Klaus Nöhles	Aprilia	22	+1:08.066	14
18	15	Adrian Coates	Aprilia	22	+1:12.784	27
19	41	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	22	+1:23.491	23
20	31	Lucas Oliver	Yamaha	22	+1:39.172	25
21	20	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	22	+1:41.493	17
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	16	Accident	2
Ret	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	11	Accident	19
Ret	42	David Checa	TSR-Honda	7	Retirement	11
Ret	68	Cristiano Vieira	Honda	5	Retirement	29
Ret	77	Jamie Robinson	Aprilia	4	Retirement	22
Ret	67	César Barros	Honda	1	Accident	28
Ret	16	Johan Stigefelt	TSR-Honda	0	Retirement	26
Ret	30	Alex Debón	Aprilia	0	Accident	8
DNS	66	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia		Did not start
Source: [5]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	21	42:14.265	3	25
2	3	Masao Azuma	Honda	21	+0.034	9	20
3	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	21	+5.680	2	16
4	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	21	+14.597	6	13
5	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	21	+14.890	14	11
6	5	Noboru Ueda	Honda	21	+15.056	10	10
7	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	21	+16.677	7	9
8	1	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	21	+17.033	15	8
9	12	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	21	+17.566	11	7
10	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	21	+18.043	13	6
11	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	21	+20.526	8	5
12	26	Ivan Goi	Honda	21	+20.695	20	4
13	17	Steve Jenkner	Honda	21	+26.309	16	3
14	18	Antonio Elías	Honda	21	+50.820	22	2
15	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	21	+1:04.998	21	1
16	51	Marco Petrini	Aprilia	21	+1:05.290	17
17	11	Max Sabbatani	Honda	21	+1:05.753	18
18	35	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	21	+1:27.528	24
Ret	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	20	Retirement	4
Ret	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	16	Retirement	12
Ret	24	Leon Haslam	Italjet	15	Retirement	23
Ret	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Italjet	11	Retirement	19
Ret	4	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	7	Retirement	1
Ret	54	Manuel Poggiali	Derbi	6	Retirement	5
DNS	29	Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda		Did not start
DNS	53	William de Angelis	Aprilia		Did not start
DNQ	90	Leandro Panadés	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	89	Renato Velludo	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	52	Gian Calabrezzi	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	87	Wesley Gutierrez	Honda		Did not qualify
Source: [6]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fourteen has concluded.^[7]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Kenny Roberts Jr. 224 2 Valentino Rossi 173 3 Garry McCoy 150 4 Carlos Checa 142 5 Alex Barros 141

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 277 2 Honda 271 3 Suzuki 230 4 Aprilia 83 5 TSR-Honda 80

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