2002 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2002 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 31 May – 2 June 2002 at the Mugello Circuit.

  2002 Italian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 5 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	2 June 2002
Official name	Gran Premio Cinzano d'Italia[1][2]
Location	Mugello Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.245 km (3.259 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 1:51.258 Fastest lap Rider Tohru Ukawa Honda Time 1:52.601 on lap 2 Podium First Valentino Rossi Honda Second Max Biaggi Yamaha Third Tohru Ukawa Honda
250cc
Pole position Rider Franco Battaini Aprilia Time 1:54.344 Fastest lap Rider Fonsi Nieto Aprilia Time 1:54.812 on lap 21 Podium First Marco Melandri Aprilia Second Roberto Locatelli Aprilia Third Fonsi Nieto Aprilia
125cc
Pole position Rider Manuel Poggiali Gilera Time 1:59.369 Fastest lap Rider Lucio Cecchinello Aprilia Time 1:59.184 on lap 4 Podium First Manuel Poggiali Gilera Second Youichi Ui Derbi Third Pablo Nieto Aprilia

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	43:40.837	1	25
2	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+2.404	2	20
3	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	+11.289	7	16
4	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+11.408	3	13
5	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	23	+15.371	9	11
6	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	23	+20.010	4	10
7	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	23	+26.447	19	9
8	55	Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	23	+30.333	5	8
9	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	23	+30.428	6	7
10	31	Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	23	+30.759	8	6
11	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	23	+34.162	14	5
12	21	John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	23	+37.715	13	4
13	18	Jean-Michel Bayle	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	23	+1:17.803	17	3
14	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	23	+1:19.800	15	2
Ret (15)	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	18	Retirement	12
Ret (16)	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	14	Retirement	18
Ret (17)	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	9	Retirement	11
Ret (18)	74	Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	9	Accident	16
Ret (19)	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	8	Accident	10
Ret (20)	20	Pere Riba	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	1	Accident	20
Sources: [3][4][5]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	21	40:42.759	5	25
2	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	21	+0.258	6	20
3	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	21	+0.720	4	16
4	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	21	+1.464	3	13
5	17	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	21	+1.718	8	11
6	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	21	+8.606	1	10
7	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	21	+11.864	2	9
8	4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	21	+17.248	14	8
9	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	21	+28.481	7	7
10	42	David Checa	Aprilia	21	+28.490	9	6
11	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	21	+32.113	10	5
12	11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	21	+34.770	13	4
13	25	Vincent Philippe	Aprilia	21	+51.837	18	3
14	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	21	+51.912	12	2
15	12	Jay Vincent	Honda	21	+52.393	17	1
16	32	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	21	+57.112	19
17	22	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	21	+57.198	16
18	19	Leon Haslam	Honda	21	+57.737	20
Ret (19)	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	20	Retirement	15
Ret (20)	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	18	Accident	21
Ret (21)	41	Jarno Janssen	Honda	2	Retirement	23
Ret (22)	51	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	2	Retirement	22
Ret (23)	76	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	1	Accident	11
DNS	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia		Did not start
Source: [6]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	20	40:20.019	1	25
2	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	20	+0.507	14	20
3	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	20	+0.512	26	16
4	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	20	+0.572	2	13
5	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	20	+0.675	6	11
6	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	20	+0.980	8	10
7	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	20	+2.071	3	9
8	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	20	+2.072	4	8
9	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	20	+2.209	5	7
10	50	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	20	+2.255	10	6
11	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	20	+2.432	9	5
12	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	20	+4.047	12	4
13	5	Masao Azuma	Honda	20	+6.296	18	3
14	53	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	20	+12.881	20	2
15	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	20	+36.125	13	1
16	84	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	20	+40.230	17
17	30	Gaspare Caffiero	Honda	20	+43.410	28
18	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	20	+43.717	23
19	19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	20	+1:02.878	33
20	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	20	+1:02.888	30
21	20	Imre Tóth	Honda	20	+1:02.933	32
22	87	Simone Corsi	Honda	20	+1:34.919	31
Ret (23)	33	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	16	Accident	21
Ret (24)	18	Jakub Smrž	Honda	9	Accident	7
Ret (25)	8	Gábor Talmácsi	Italjet	9	Retirement	19
Ret (26)	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	6	Accident	24
Ret (27)	31	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	4	Accident	27
Ret (28)	54	Marco Petrini	Aprilia	4	Accident	25
Ret (29)	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	0	Accident	22
Ret (30)	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	0	Retirement	16
Ret (31)	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Aprilia	0	Retirement	15
Ret (32)	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	0	Accident	11
Ret (33)	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	0	Accident	29
DNS	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia		Did not start
DNS	12	Klaus Nöhles	Honda		Did not start
DNS	9	Noboru Ueda	Honda		Did not start
Source: [7]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.^[8]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 120 2 Tohru Ukawa 77 3 Loris Capirossi 55 4 Norifumi Abe 52 5 Max Biaggi 43

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 125 2 Yamaha 73 3 Suzuki 39 4 / Proton KR 28 5 Aprilia 26

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