2002 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2002 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 4–6 October 2002 at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit.

  2002 Pacific Grand Prix

Race details
Race 13 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	6 October 2002
Official name	Gauloises Pacific Grand Prix of Motegi[1][2][3]
Location	Twin Ring Motegi
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.801 km (2.983 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Daijiro Kato Honda Time 1:49.052 Fastest lap Rider Alex Barros Honda Time 1:49.947 on lap 24 Podium First Alex Barros Honda Second Valentino Rossi Honda Third Loris Capirossi Honda
250cc
Pole position Rider Fonsi Nieto Aprilia Time 1:52.389 Fastest lap Rider Toni Elías Aprilia Time 1:53.392 on lap 22 Podium First Toni Elías Aprilia Second Marco Melandri Aprilia Third Yuki Takahashi Honda
125cc
Pole position Rider Daniel Pedrosa Honda Time 1:58.026 Fastest lap Rider Daniel Pedrosa Honda Time 1:58.354 on lap 12 Podium First Daniel Pedrosa Honda Second Manuel Poggiali Gilera Third Steve Jenkner Aprilia

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	24	44:18.913	5	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	+1.641	6	20
3	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	24	+7.672	3	16
4	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	+18.120	7	13
5	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+25.036	4	11
6	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	24	+29.201	8	10
7	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	24	+32.902	9	9
8	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	24	+33.287	14	8
9	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	24	+35.949	13	7
10	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	24	+37.355	10	6
11	55	Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	24	+49.039	12	5
12	45	Wataru Yoshikawa	Yamaha Racing Team	Yamaha	24	+49.181	19	4
13	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	24	+49.589	20	3
14	21	John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	24	+52.071	16	2
15	31	Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	24	+52.180	21	1
16	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	24	+1:00.485	17
17	8	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	24	+1:02.232	15
Ret (18)	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	15	Retirement	2
Ret (19)	74	Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	8	Retirement	1
Ret (20)	48	Akira Yanagawa	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	6	Accident	18
Ret (21)	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	5	Retirement	11
DNS	20	Pere Riba	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	0	Did not start	22
Sources: [4][5][6]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	23	43:52.991	5	25
2	3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	23	+0.175	2	20
3	72	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	23	+4.431	4	16
4	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	23	+8.200	1	13
5	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	23	+8.812	7	11
6	4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	23	+9.826	8	10
7	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	23	+11.828	9	9
8	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	23	+12.726	6	8
9	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	23	+26.167	17	7
10	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	23	+32.236	10	6
11	92	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	23	+32.378	13	5
12	71	Katsuyuki Nakasuga	Yamaha	23	+39.383	19	4
13	11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	23	+39.647	20	3
14	70	Ryuji Yokoe	Yamaha	23	+41.386	16	2
15	13	Jaroslav Huleš	Yamaha	23	+46.952	18	1
16	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	23	+52.179	12
17	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	23	+52.663	21
18	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	23	+54.119	11
19	12	Jay Vincent	Honda	23	+54.765	22
20	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	23	+59.082	25
21	42	David Checa	Aprilia	23	+59.500	24
22	32	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	23	+1:21.658	27
23	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	23	+1:34.406	29
24	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	23	+1:49.925	28
Ret (25)	68	Tekkyu Kayo	Yamaha	19	Retirement	15
Ret (26)	51	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	12	Retirement	23
Ret (27)	19	Leon Haslam	Honda	12	Retirement	26
Ret (28)	22	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	9	Retirement	30
Ret (29)	17	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	3	Retirement	3
Ret (30)	69	Nobuyuki Ohsaki	Yamaha	0	Retirement	14
Source: [7]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	21	41:43.377	1	25
2	1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	21	+8.071	2	20
3	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	21	+8.701	3	16
4	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	21	+15.425	7	13
5	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	21	+24.565	8	11
6	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	21	+29.584	17	10
7	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	21	+33.107	9	9
8	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	21	+34.920	22	8
9	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	21	+36.050	12	7
10	97	Hideyuki Nakajoh	Honda	21	+36.447	26	6
11	66	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	21	+40.056	21	5
12	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	21	+44.663	13	4
13	84	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	21	+49.699	14	3
14	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	21	+50.072	18	2
15	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	21	+52.708	4	1
16	95	Takashi Yasuda	Honda	21	+1:00.232	24
17	33	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	21	+1:00.548	15
18	5	Masao Azuma	Honda	21	+1:01.741	11
19	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	21	+1:04.115	20
20	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	21	+1:07.131	30
21	8	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	21	+1:07.170	25
22	50	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	21	+1:07.781	32
23	20	Imre Tóth	Honda	21	+1:11.559	34
24	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	21	+1:21.111	35
25	12	Klaus Nöhles	Honda	21	+1:27.070	29
26	19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	21	+1:33.030	37
27	9	Noboru Ueda	Honda	21	+1:48.799	23
28	31	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	19	+2 laps	31
Ret (29)	65	Toshihisa Kuzuhara	Honda	20	Accident	27
Ret (30)	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	18	Retirement	6
Ret (31)	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	13	Retirement	16
Ret (32)	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	10	Accident	19
Ret (33)	68	Akira Komuro	Honda	6	Accident	33
Ret (34)	72	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	6	Accident	28
Ret (35)	42	Christian Pistoni	Italjet	4	Retirement	36
Ret (36)	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	1	Accident	5
Ret (37)	67	Hideyuki Ogata	Honda	0	Accident	10
Source: [8]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 290 2 Tohru Ukawa 169 3 Max Biaggi 164 4 Alex Barros 143 5 Carlos Checa 127

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 320 2 Yamaha 221 3 Suzuki 125 4 / Proton KR 75 5 Aprilia 33

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