2001 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2001 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 7–9 September 2001 at the Autódromo do Estoril.

  2001 Portuguese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 11 of 16 races in the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	9 September 2001
Official name	Grande Premio Marlboro de Portugal[1]
Location	Autódromo do Estoril
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.182 km (2.599 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:40.076 Fastest lap Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:40.683 on lap 4 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Loris Capirossi Third Garry McCoy
250cc
Pole position Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 1:41.993 Fastest lap Rider Daijiro Kato Time 1:42.285 on lap 17 Podium First Daijiro Kato Second Marco Melandri Third Tetsuya Harada
125cc
Pole position Rider Manuel Poggiali Time 1:45.923 Fastest lap Rider Youichi Ui Time 1:46.329 on lap 19 Podium First Manuel Poggiali Second Youichi Ui Third Toni Elías

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	28	47:25.357	3	25
2	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	28	+1.756	2	20
3	5	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	28	+14.030	9	16
4	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+24.337	8	13
5	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+31.348	1	11
6	1	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	28	+31.925	11	10
7	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	28	+37.140	5	9
8	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+41.043	15	8
9	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+50.273	14	7
10	10	José Luis Cardoso	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	28	+58.227	16	6
11	12	Haruchika Aoki	Arie Molenaar Racing	Honda	28	+1:27.139	17	5
12	14	Anthony West	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	28	+1:27.459	18	4
13	16	Johan Stigefelt	Sabre Sport	Sabre V4	27	+1 lap	20	3
14	18	Brendan Clarke	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	27	+1 lap	22	2
15	21	Barry Veneman	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	27	+1 lap	21	1
Ret	41	Noriyuki Haga	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	25	Accident	13
Ret	9	Leon Haslam	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	18	Accident	19
Ret	28	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	12	Retirement	12
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	2	Retirement	7
Ret	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	0	Accident	4
Ret	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	0	Accident	6
Ret	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	0	Accident	10
Sources: [1][2][3]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	26	44:38.464	2	25
2	5	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	26	+16.993	5	20
3	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	26	+27.360	1	16
4	44	Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	26	+34.207	11	13
5	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	26	+36.916	3	11
6	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	26	+37.101	7	10
7	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	26	+44.441	4	9
8	42	David Checa	Honda	26	+45.404	8	8
9	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	26	+49.202	17	7
10	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	26	+51.072	19	6
11	12	Klaus Nöhles	Aprilia	26	+55.776	18	5
12	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	26	+59.663	10	4
13	22	José David de Gea	Yamaha	26	+1:19.420	16	3
14	24	Jason Vincent	Yamaha	26	+1:19.835	25	2
15	20	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	26	+1:20.435	22	1
16	16	David Tomás	Honda	26	+1:20.795	23
17	81	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	26	+1:23.776	12
18	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	26	+1:27.354	24
19	36	Luis Costa	Yamaha	25	+1 lap	27
20	14	Katja Poensgen	Honda	25	+1 lap	29
21	71	Javier Díaz	Honda	25	+1 lap	31
22	72	Michael García	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	32
Ret	23	César Barros	Yamaha	20	Retirement	30
Ret	66	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	12	Accident	15
Ret	46	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	12	Accident	14
Ret	11	Riccardo Chiarello	Aprilia	10	Retirement	26
Ret	57	Lorenzo Lanzi	Aprilia	9	Accident	13
Ret	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	5	Accident	6
Ret	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	4	Retirement	9
Ret	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	4	Retirement	21
Ret	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	2	Accident	20
DNS	45	Stuart Edwards	Yamaha	0	Did not start	28
DNQ	41	Dámaso Nácher	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	70	José Estrela	Honda		Did not qualify
Source: [4]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	54	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	24	42:55.454	1	25
2	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	24	+0.011	2	20
3	24	Toni Elías	Honda	24	+8.306	5	16
4	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	24	+8.473	3	13
5	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	24	+26.230	8	11
6	18	Jakub Smrž	Honda	24	+30.439	7	10
7	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	24	+30.513	10	9
8	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	24	+31.500	17	8
9	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	24	+33.982	11	7
10	21	Arnaud Vincent	Honda	24	+35.553	14	6
11	19	Alessandro Brannetti	Aprilia	24	+36.820	18	5
12	28	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	24	+37.344	16	4
13	20	Gaspare Caffiero	Aprilia	24	+50.138	15	3
14	12	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	24	+57.302	26	2
15	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	24	+57.409	22	1
16	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	24	+1:10.035	4
17	77	Adrián Araujo	Honda	24	+1:12.889	29
18	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Italjet	24	+1:24.889	27
19	30	Jascha Büch	Honda	24	+1:40.128	30
20	86	José Leite	Honda	23	+1 lap	32
Ret	90	José Luis Nión	Honda	17	Retirement	31
Ret	29	Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	12	Retirement	25
Ret	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	12	Retirement	21
Ret	27	Marco Petrini	Honda	11	Retirement	28
Ret	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	9	Retirement	20
Ret	5	Noboru Ueda	TSR-Honda	8	Accident	23
Ret	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	5	Retirement	12
Ret	31	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	5	Retirement	6
Ret	4	Masao Azuma	Honda	4	Retirement	24
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	2	Accident	9
Ret	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	1	Accident	13
DNS	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	0	Did not start	19
DNQ	88	João Pinto	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	89	Ricardo Tomé	Aprilia		Did not qualify
DNQ	87	José Monteiro	Honda		Did not qualify
Source: [5]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eleven has concluded.^[6]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 220 2 Max Biaggi 177 3 Loris Capirossi 147 4 Alex Barros 107 5 Shinya Nakano 107

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 247 2 Yamaha 213 3 Suzuki 101 4 Proton KR 52 5 Sabre V4 4

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