2002 Dutch TT

The 2002 Dutch TT was the seventh round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 27–29 June 2002 at the TT Circuit Assen located in Assen, Netherlands.

  2002 Dutch Grand Prix

Race details
Race 7 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	29 June 2002
Official name	Gauloises Dutch TT[1][2][3]
Location	TT Circuit Assen
Course	Permanent racing facility 6.027 km (3.745 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 2:01.691 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 2:00.973 on lap 18 Podium First Valentino Rossi Honda Second Alex Barros Honda Third Carlos Checa Yamaha
250cc
Pole position Rider Marco Melandri Aprilia Time 2:04.520 Fastest lap Rider Roberto Rolfo Honda Time 2:04.824 on lap 12 Podium First Marco Melandri Aprilia Second Toni Elías Aprilia Third Roberto Rolfo Honda
125cc
Pole position Rider Daniel Pedrosa Honda Time 2:11.882 Fastest lap Rider Joan Olivé Honda Time 2:11.209 on lap 8 Podium First Daniel Pedrosa Honda Second Manuel Poggiali Gilera Third Joan Olivé Honda

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	19	38:49.425	1	25
2	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	19	+2.233	5	20
3	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	19	+9.682	6	16
4	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	19	+13.308	2	13
5	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	19	+32.386	8	11
6	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	19	+33.278	3	10
7	21	John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	19	+35.463	10	9
8	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	19	+35.619	14	8
9	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	19	+37.443	19	7
10	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	19	+48.100	15	6
11	66	Alex Hofmann	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	19	+48.325	12	5
12	74	Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	19	+49.371	17	4
13	31	Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	19	+51.758	7	3
14	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	19	+1:11.790	20	2
15	33	Akira Ryō	Team Suzuki	Suzuki	19	+3:14.399	21	1
Ret (16)	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	11	Retirement	13
Ret (17)	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	8	Retirement	9
Ret (18)	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	6	Accident	16
Ret (19)	55	Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	6	Retirement	11
Ret (20)	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	4	Accident	4
Ret (21)	20	Pere Riba	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	3	Retirement	18
Sources: [4][5][6]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	18	37:48.960	1	25
2	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	18	+4.957	4	20
3	4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	18	+6.672	17	16
4	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	18	+11.273	5	13
5	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	18	+14.165	3	11
6	11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	18	+16.408	15	10
7	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	18	+23.952	9	9
8	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	18	+26.918	7	8
9	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	18	+27.455	6	7
10	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	18	+27.478	11	6
11	26	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	18	+28.272	8	5
12	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	18	+50.764	12	4
13	22	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	18	+54.831	19	3
14	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	18	+57.956	13	2
15	25	Vincent Philippe	Aprilia	18	+59.220	10	1
16	42	David Checa	Aprilia	18	+59.257	14
17	76	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	18	+1:28.998	26
18	41	Jarno Janssen	Honda	18	+1:29.067	16
19	12	Jay Vincent	Honda	18	+1:29.259	24
20	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	18	+1:40.747	20
21	59	Peter Politiek	Honda	17	+1 lap	28
22	61	Jarno Boesveld	Aprilia	17	+1 lap	27
23	60	Gert Pieper	Aprilia	17	+1 lap	25
Ret (24)	17	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	7	Accident	2
Ret (25)	19	Leon Haslam	Honda	7	Retirement	22
Ret (26)	32	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	4	Accident	23
Ret (27)	51	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	2	Accident	21
Ret (28)	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	2	Retirement	18
DNQ	77	Thierry Van Den Bosch	Aprilia		Did not qualify
DNQ	58	Jan Blok	Honda		Did not qualify
Source: [7]

125 cc classification

Daniel Pedrosa, celebrating on the podium after winning the 125cc race.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	17	37:31.974	1	25
2	1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	17	+2.523	6	20
3	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	17	+2.716	12	16
4	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	17	+2.813	5	13
5	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	17	+2.964	2	11
6	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	17	+3.031	8	10
7	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	17	+15.184	11	9
8	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	17	+15.358	15	8
9	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	17	+15.812	3	7
10	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	17	+16.130	7	6
11	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	17	+17.128	19	5
12	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	17	+17.223	18	4
13	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	17	+17.489	14	3
14	5	Masao Azuma	Honda	17	+19.072	13	2
15	8	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	17	+28.597	20	1
16	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	17	+35.145	16
17	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Aprilia	17	+39.266	23
18	50	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	17	+39.533	17
19	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	17	+39.772	29
20	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	17	+40.010	24
21	19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	17	+42.778	22
22	18	Jakub Smrž	Honda	17	+43.061	21
23	75	Fabrizio Lai	Honda	17	+51.811	26
24	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	17	+59.504	27
25	66	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	17	+1:06.857	31
26	31	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	17	+1:14.521	30
27	20	Imre Tóth	Honda	17	+1:20.557	28
28	24	Leon Camier	Italjet	17	+1:46.306	32
29	33	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	17	+1:46.648	10
30	89	Adri den Bekker	Honda	17	+1:46.679	35
31	60	Randy Gevers	Honda	17	+2:01.813	34
32	62	Gerald Perdon	Honda	16	+1 lap	36
Ret (33)	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	16	Accident	4
Ret (34)	84	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	16	Accident	25
Ret (35)	32	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	15	Retirement	9
Ret (36)	61	Raymond Schouten	Honda	11	Retirement	33
Ret (37)	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	2	Retirement	37
Source: [8]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 170 2 Tohru Ukawa 108 3 Carlos Checa 72 4 Alex Barros 71 5 Max Biaggi 69

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 175 2 Yamaha 105 3 Suzuki 58 4 / Proton KR 32 5 Aprilia 28

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