2002 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2002 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 1–3 November 2002 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo.

  2002 Valencian Community Grand Prix

Race details
Race 16 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	3 November 2002
Official name	Gran Premio Marlboro de la Comunitat Valenciana[1][2][3]
Location	Circuit Ricardo Tormo
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Yamaha Time 1:33.211 Fastest lap Rider Alex Barros Honda Time 1:33.873 on lap 5 Podium First Alex Barros Honda Second Valentino Rossi Honda Third Max Biaggi Yamaha
250cc
Pole position Rider Marco Melandri Aprilia Time 1:35.885 Fastest lap Rider Marco Melandri Aprilia Time 1:36.784 on lap 4 Podium First Marco Melandri Aprilia Second Roberto Rolfo Honda Third Emilio Alzamora Honda
125cc
Pole position Rider Daniel Pedrosa Honda Time 1:39.426 Fastest lap Rider Steve Jenkner Aprilia Time 1:40.252 on lap 21 Podium First Daniel Pedrosa Honda Second Arnaud Vincent Aprilia Third Pablo Nieto Aprilia

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	30	47:22.404	2	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+0.230	6	20
3	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+15.213	1	16
4	74	Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	30	+22.504	3	13
5	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+35.165	7	11
6	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+50.169	9	10
7	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	30	+1:03.814	15	9
8	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	30	+1:05.079	8	8
9	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+1:08.312	11	7
10	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	30	+1:08.312	20	6
11	21	John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	30	+1:26.241	17	5
12	84	Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	30	+1:27.427	18	4
13	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	29	+1 lap	10	3
14	31	Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	29	+1 lap	22	2
Ret (15)	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	24	Retirement	14
Ret (16)	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	19	Accident	12
Ret (17)	29	David García	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	13	Retirement	19
Ret (18)	8	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	6	Accident	4
Ret (19)	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	1	Accident	16
Ret (20)	55	Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	1	Retirement	13
Ret (21)	30	José Luis Cardoso	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	0	Collision	21
Ret (22)	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	0	Collision	5
Sources: [4][5][6]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	27	43:57.812	1	25
2	4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	27	+4.318	7	20
3	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	27	+4.538	4	16
4	17	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	27	+18.214	2	13
5	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	27	+21.990	12	11
6	42	David Checa	Aprilia	27	+22.173	11	10
7	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	27	+26.755	9	9
8	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	27	+26.909	14	8
9	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	27	+26.915	5	7
10	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	27	+32.380	8	6
11	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	27	+36.294	13	5
12	11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	27	+42.879	16	4
13	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	27	+42.889	10	3
14	12	Jay Vincent	Honda	27	+44.942	18	2
15	32	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	27	+47.348	15	1
16	13	Jaroslav Huleš	Yamaha	27	+47.849	19
17	19	Leon Haslam	Honda	27	+1:06.850	21
18	74	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	27	+1:20.276	26
19	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	27	+1:24.489	22
20	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	27	+1:27.859	23
21	90	Chuck Sorensen	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	27
Ret (22)	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	26	Accident	20
Ret (23)	22	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	15	Retirement	25
Ret (24)	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	7	Accident	6
Ret (25)	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	4	Accident	24
Ret (26)	51	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	2	Retirement	17
Ret (27)	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	1	Retirement	3
DNQ	39	Luis Castro	Yamaha		Did not qualify
Source: [7]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	25	42:13.044	1	25
2	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	25	+0.100	4	20
3	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	25	+2.704	3	16
4	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	25	+3.069	5	13
5	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	25	+3.136	7	11
6	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	25	+8.041	6	10
7	1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	25	+8.852	2	9
8	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	25	+11.879	18	8
9	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	25	+12.037	12	7
10	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	25	+14.757	8	6
11	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	25	+15.167	13	5
12	50	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	25	+18.472	9	4
13	33	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	25	+18.514	20	3
14	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	25	+18.804	15	2
15	8	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	25	+23.694	11	1
16	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	25	+23.726	10
17	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	25	+23.782	14
18	5	Masao Azuma	Honda	25	+23.958	19
19	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	25	+24.110	17
20	84	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	25	+54.350	25
21	12	Klaus Nöhles	Honda	25	+58.575	30
22	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	25	+58.916	26
23	51	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	25	+59.286	28
24	77	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	25	+1:10.021	35
25	20	Imre Tóth	Honda	25	+1:10.155	33
26	71	Rubén Catalán	Aprilia	25	+1:16.125	32
27	72	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	25	+1:16.138	34
28	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	25	+1:20.058	31
29	59	Vincent Braillard	Honda	24	+1 lap	37
Ret (30)	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	22	Retirement	27
Ret (31)	31	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	20	Accident	23
Ret (32)	52	Julián Simón	Honda	18	Retirement	22
Ret (33)	19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	13	Retirement	29
Ret (34)	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	10	Accident	16
Ret (35)	42	Christian Pistoni	Italjet	9	Accident	36
Ret (36)	98	Chris Peris	Aprilia	9	Retirement	38
Ret (37)	9	Noboru Ueda	Honda	3	Accident	21
Ret (38)	37	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	3	Accident	24
Source: [8]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 355 2 Max Biaggi 215 3 Tohru Ukawa 209 4 Alex Barros 204 5 Carlos Checa 141

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 390 2 Yamaha 272 3 Suzuki 143 4 / Proton KR 96 5 Aprilia 33

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