2002 South African motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2002 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 19–21 April 2002 at the Phakisa Freeway.

  2002 South African Grand Prix

Race details
Race 2 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	21 April 2002
Official name	Africa's Grand Prix[1][2]
Location	Phakisa Freeway
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.242 km (2.636 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 1:34.660 Fastest lap Rider Tohru Ukawa Honda Time 1:34.834 on lap 18 Podium First Tohru Ukawa Honda Second Valentino Rossi Honda Third Loris Capirossi Honda
250cc
Pole position Rider Franco Battaini Aprilia Time 1:37.604 Fastest lap Rider Fonsi Nieto Aprilia Time 1:37.860 on lap 24 Podium First Marco Melandri Aprilia Second Franco Battaini Aprilia Third Fonsi Nieto Aprilia
125cc
Pole position Rider Daniel Pedrosa Honda Time 1:42.522 Fastest lap Rider Manuel Poggiali Gilera Time 1:42.605 on lap 23 Podium First Manuel Poggiali Gilera Second Arnaud Vincent Aprilia Third Daniel Pedrosa Honda

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	44:39.467	3	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+0.932	1	20
3	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	28	+8.259	2	16
4	74	Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	28	+26.962	14	13
5	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+27.227	7	11
6	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+27.889	9	10
7	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	28	+30.215	15	9
8	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+30.781	8	8
9	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+43.796	4	7
10	8	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	28	+45.501	5	6
11	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	28	+1:06.938	12	5
12	31	Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	28	+1:19.560	19	4
13	20	Pere Riba	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	28	+1:19.857	20	3
14	21	John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	28	+1:31.519	17	2
15	55	Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	28	+1:32.725	18	1
16	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	27	+1 lap	10
Ret (17)	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	26	Accident	13
Ret (18)	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	9	Retirement	6
Ret (19)	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	7	Accident	11
Ret (20)	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	5	Retirement	16
Sources: [3][4][5]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	26	42:52.922	2	25
2	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	26	+2.962	1	20
3	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	26	+5.213	5	16
4	4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	26	+6.290	3	13
5	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	26	+6.675	7	11
6	17	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	26	+8.102	4	10
7	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	26	+22.571	11	9
8	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	26	+24.171	12	8
9	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	26	+28.161	9	7
10	42	David Checa	Aprilia	26	+36.261	14	6
11	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	26	+47.211	10	5
12	12	Jay Vincent	Honda	26	+47.886	22	4
13	11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	26	+53.106	13	3
14	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+1:02.767	20	2
15	19	Leon Haslam	Honda	26	+1:04.093	18	1
16	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	26	+1:13.435	15
17	41	Jarno Janssen	Honda	25	+1 lap	24
Ret (18)	32	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	25	Accident	17
Ret (19)	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	25	Accident	16
Ret (20)	22	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	9	Accident	6
Ret (21)	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	2	Accident	8
Ret (22)	51	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	1	Retirement	23
Ret (23)	25	Vincent Philippe	Aprilia	1	Accident	21
Ret (24)	76	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	0	Accident	19
Source: [6]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	24	41:26.120	2	25
2	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	24	+0.270	4	20
3	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	24	+0.826	1	16
4	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	24	+1.098	6	13
5	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	24	+1.187	3	11
6	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	24	+1.583	12	10
7	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	24	+1.830	8	9
8	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	24	+12.839	16	8
9	5	Masao Azuma	Honda	24	+13.942	11	7
10	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	24	+19.201	14	6
11	9	Noboru Ueda	Honda	24	+19.210	15	5
12	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	24	+39.207	19	4
13	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	24	+46.560	22	3
14	50	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	24	+53.710	26	2
15	84	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	24	+53.868	25	1
16	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	24	+54.001	21
17	31	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	24	+54.739	30
18	8	Gábor Talmácsi	Italjet	24	+54.886	23
19	10	Jarno Müller	Honda	24	+54.919	18
20	19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	24	+1:07.871	28
21	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	24	+1:08.217	29
22	33	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	24	+1:15.825	10
23	20	Imre Tóth	Honda	24	+1:36.139	31
24	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	24	+1:43.455	24
Ret (25)	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	11	Accident	7
Ret (26)	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Aprilia	6	Retirement	9
Ret (27)	12	Klaus Nöhles	Honda	0	Accident	27
Ret (28)	18	Jakub Smrž	Honda	0	Accident	20
Ret (29)	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	0	Accident	13
Ret (30)	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	0	Accident	5
Ret (31)	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	0	Accident	17
DNS	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia		Did not start
Source: [7]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 45 2 Carlos Checa 27 3 Tohru Ukawa 25 4 Loris Capirossi 23 5 Akira Ryō 20

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 50 2 Yamaha 27 3 Suzuki 20 4 / Proton KR 9 5 Aprilia 9

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