2002 British motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2002 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 12–14 July 2002 at the Donington Park circuit.

Valentino Rossi, riding his Honda. Eventually he went on to win the MotoGP race.

  2002 British Grand Prix

Race details
Race 8 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	14 July 2002
Official name	Cinzano British Grand Prix[1][2][3]
Location	Donington Park
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.023 km (2.500 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 1:31.563 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 1:32.247 on lap 4 Podium First Valentino Rossi Honda Second Max Biaggi Yamaha Third Alex Barros Honda
250cc
Pole position Rider Fonsi Nieto Aprilia Time 1:33.558 Fastest lap Rider Fonsi Nieto Aprilia Time 1:34.411 on lap 26 Podium First Marco Melandri Aprilia Second Fonsi Nieto Aprilia Third Toni Elías Aprilia
125cc
Pole position Rider Manuel Poggiali Gilera Time 1:38.078 Fastest lap Rider Lucio Cecchinello Aprilia Time 1:38.312 on lap 6 Podium First Arnaud Vincent Aprilia Second Daniel Pedrosa Honda Third Manuel Poggiali Gilera

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	46:32.888	1	25
2	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+2.371	5	20
3	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	30	+5.533	4	16
4	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	30	+22.036	13	13
5	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+28.087	12	11
6	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	30	+28.400	17	10
7	74	Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	30	+28.947	11	9
8	21	John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	30	+31.497	6	8
9	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	30	+31.947	10	7
10	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+41.454	15	6
11	31	Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	30	+49.458	3	5
12	8	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	30	+53.709	18	4
13	33	Akira Ryō	Team Suzuki	Suzuki	30	+54.480	14	3
14	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	30	+54.594	8	2
15	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	30	+54.866	9	1
16	55	Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	30	+55.525	16
17	66	Alex Hofmann	West Honda Pons	Honda	30	+1:05.901	19
Ret (18)	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	19	Retirement	2
Ret (19)	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	6	Retirement	7
DNS	20	Pere Riba	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha		Did not start
WD	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda		Withdrew
Sources:[4][5][6]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	27	42:55.728	2	25
2	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	27	+0.717	1	20
3	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	27	+3.493	5	16
4	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	27	+3.934	8	13
5	4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	27	+4.407	7	11
6	17	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	27	+19.852	12	10
7	11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	27	+21.770	10	9
8	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	27	+24.580	6	8
9	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	27	+25.987	11	7
10	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	27	+26.202	15	6
11	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	27	+31.621	13	5
12	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	27	+36.116	4	4
13	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	27	+45.339	14	3
14	76	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	27	+45.538	9	2
15	42	David Checa	Aprilia	27	+57.476	16	1
16	12	Jay Vincent	Honda	27	+1:00.795	21
17	19	Leon Haslam	Honda	27	+1:03.974	20
18	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	27	+1:05.156	18
19	41	Jarno Janssen	Honda	27	+1:19.402	17
20	32	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	27	+1:22.218	19
21	44	Andrew Whittley	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	25
Ret (22)	25	Vincent Philippe	Aprilia	26	Accident	22
Ret (23)	22	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	17	Retirement	23
Ret (24)	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	12	Retirement	3
Ret (25)	51	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	4	Accident	24
DNQ	43	Christopher Sansome	Honda		Did not qualify
WD	47	Jason Boyce	Honda		Withdrew
Source:[7]

125 cc classification

Arnaud Vincent, celebrating on the podium after winning the 125cc race.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	26	42:57.387	16	25
2	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	26	+0.193	3	20
3	1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	26	+0.699	1	16
4	5	Masao Azuma	Honda	26	+13.482	10	13
5	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	26	+13.643	14	11
6	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	26	+14.073	6	10
7	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	26	+15.650	7	9
8	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	26	+18.608	4	8
9	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	26	+20.761	13	7
10	66	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	26	+21.553	20	6
11	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	26	+41.238	18	5
12	50	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	26	+41.942	8	4
13	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	26	+46.464	21	3
14	75	Fabrizio Lai	Honda	26	+46.699	12	2
15	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	26	+52.816	22	1
16	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	26	+56.261	24
17	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	26	+1:03.435	11
18	19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	26	+1:10.892	29
19	28	Ivan Goi	Aprilia	26	+1:17.003	33
20	20	Imre Tóth	Honda	26	+1:32.295	28
21	69	Christian Elkin	Honda	25	+1 lap	32
22	70	Christopher Martin	Honda	25	+1 lap	34
23	31	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	25	+1 lap	30
24	24	Leon Camier	Italjet	25	+1 lap	31
Ret (25)	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	23	Accident	2
Ret (26)	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	18	Retirement	9
Ret (27)	33	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	16	Retirement	25
Ret (28)	90	Guy Farbrother	Honda	15	Accident	35
Ret (29)	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	7	Accident	5
Ret (30)	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	3	Accident	26
Ret (31)	8	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	3	Accident	19
Ret (32)	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	3	Accident	17
Ret (33)	84	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	2	Accident	23
Ret (34)	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	0	Accident	27
Ret (35)	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	0	Accident	15
Ret (36)	91	Midge Smart	Honda	0	Accident	36
Source:[8]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eight has concluded.^[9]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 195 2 Tohru Ukawa 108 3 Max Biaggi 89 4 Alex Barros 87 5 Carlos Checa 72

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 200 2 Yamaha 125 3 Suzuki 68 4 / Proton KR 39 5 Aprilia 28

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