2001 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 1 of 16 races in the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||
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| Date | 8 April 2001 | ||
| Official name | Grand Prix of Japan | ||
| Location | Suzuka Circuit | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 5.859 km (3.641 mi) | ||
| 500 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider |  Loris Capirossi |
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| Time | 2:04.777 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider |  Tohru Ukawa |
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| Time | 2:06.805 on lap 11 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Valentino Rossi |
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| Second |  Garry McCoy |
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| Third | Max Biaggi |
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| 250 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider | Daijiro Kato |
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| Time | 2:07.414 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Daijiro Kato |
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| Time | 2:08.658 on lap 7 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Daijiro Kato |
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| Second | Tetsuya Harada |
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| Third | Roberto Locatelli |
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| 125 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider | Youichi Ui |
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| Time | 2:14.686 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Masao Azuma |
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| Time | 2:15.353 on lap 14 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Masao Azuma |
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| Second | Youichi Ui |
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| Third | Simone Sanna |
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The 2001 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 6–8 April 2001 at the Suzuka Circuit.
500 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi |
Honda | 21 | 44:51.501 | 7 | 25 |
| 2 | 5 | Garry McCoy |
Yamaha | 21 | +0.724 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 3 | Max Biaggi |
Yamaha | 21 | +0.956 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 6 | Norifumi Abe |
Yamaha | 21 | +1.176 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 56 | Shinya Nakano |
Yamaha | 21 | +3.256 | 2 | 11 |
| 6 | 4 |  Alex Barros |
Honda | 21 | +14.515 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 1 |  Kenny Roberts, Jr. |
Suzuki | 21 | +22.876 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 65 | Loris Capirossi |
Honda | 21 | +28.732 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | 28 |  Àlex Crivillé |
Honda | 21 | +34.478 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 7 | Carlos Checa |
Yamaha | 21 | +53.765 | 12 | 6 |
| 11 | 17 |  Jurgen vd Goorbergh |
Proton KR | 21 | +58.688 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 12 | Haruchika Aoki |
Honda | 21 | +1:17.338 | 17 | 4 |
| 13 | 9 |  Leon Haslam |
Honda | 21 | +1:17.681 | 20 | 3 |
| Ret | 24 | Jason Vincent |
Pulse | 19 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 11 | Tohru Ukawa |
Honda | 16 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 68 | Mark Willis |
Pulse | 15 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 33 | Akira Ryō |
Suzuki | 12 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 19 |  Olivier Jacque |
Yamaha | 11 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 41 | Noriyuki Haga |
Yamaha | 10 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 15 | Sete Gibernau |
Suzuki | 8 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 21 | Barry Veneman |
Honda | 5 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 16 |  Johan Stigefelt |
Sabre V4 | 3 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 10 | José Luis Cardoso |
Yamaha | 0 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 8 | Chris Walker |
Honda | 0 | Accident | 18 | |
| DNQ | 14 | Marcus Payten |
Honda | Did not qualify | |||
| Source: [1] | |||||||
250 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 74 | Daijiro Kato |
Honda | 19 | 41:03.596 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada |
Aprilia | 19 | +18.763 | 8 | 20 |
| 3 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli |
Aprilia | 19 | +18.835 | 3 | 13 |
| 4 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo |
Yamaha | 19 | +23.135 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo |
Aprilia | 19 | +24.423 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 | Marco Melandri |
Aprilia | 19 | +26.595 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | 21 | Franco Battaini |
Aprilia | 19 | +31.142 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams |
Aprilia | 19 | +43.953 | 5 | 8 |
| 9 | 9 |  Sebastián Porto |
Yamaha | 19 | +45.887 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 46 | Taro Sekiguchi |
Yamaha | 19 | +48.496 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto |
Aprilia | 19 | +53.583 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 66 |  Alex Hofmann |
Aprilia | 19 | +1:05.172 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 87 | Hiroshi Aoyama |
Honda | 19 | +1:05.267 | 14 | 3 |
| 14 | 12 | Klaus Nöhles |
Aprilia | 19 | +1:17.422 | 13 | 2 |
| 15 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli |
Aprilia | 19 | +1:18.183 | 25 | 1 |
| 16 | 42 | David Checa |
Honda | 19 | +1:18.602 | 24 | |
| 17 | 57 | Lorenzo Lanzi |
Aprilia | 19 | +1:26.040 | 26 | |
| 18 | 20 | Jerónimo Vidal |
Aprilia | 19 | +1:35.868 | 23 | |
| 19 | 48 | Shinichi Nakatomi |
Honda | 19 | +1:41.647 | 16 | |
| 20 | 47 | Tekkyu Kayoh |
TSR-Honda | 19 | +1:43.891 | 27 | |
| 21 | 55 | Diego Giugovaz |
Yamaha | 19 | +1:49.324 | 28 | |
| 22 | 98 | Katja Poensgen |
Aprilia | 18 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| Ret | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro |
Aprilia | 16 | Retirement | 17 | |
| Ret | 18 |  Shahrol Yuzy |
Yamaha | 15 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 22 | José David de Gea |
Yamaha | 14 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 6 | Alex Debón |
Aprilia | 6 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 11 | Riccardo Chiarello |
Aprilia | 6 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret | 45 | Stuart Edwards |
TSR-Honda | 5 | Retirement | 31 | |
| Ret | 81 | Randy de Puniet |
Aprilia | 4 | Retirement | 10 | |
| Ret | 7 | Emilio Alzamora |
Honda | 1 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 19 | Julien Allemand |
Yamaha | 0 | Accident | 22 | |
| DNS | 49 | Choujun Kameya |
Yamaha | Did not start | |||
| DNQ | 16 | David Tomás |
Honda | Did not qualify | |||
| DNQ | 23 | César Barros |
Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
| Source: [2] | |||||||
125 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Masao Azuma |
Honda | 18 | 40:59.192 | 4 | 25 |
| 2 | 41 | Youichi Ui |
Derbi | 18 | +0.067 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 16 | Simone Sanna |
Aprilia | 18 | +0.604 | 19 | 16 |
| 4 | 23 | Gino Borsoi |
Aprilia | 18 | +0.898 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 54 |  Manuel Poggiali |
Gilera | 18 | +1.151 | 2 | 11 |
| 6 | 9 | Lucio Cecchinello |
Aprilia | 18 | +1.376 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | 17 | Steve Jenkner |
Aprilia | 18 | +14.173 | 5 | 9 |
| 8 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti |
Honda | 18 | +14.632 | 16 | 8 |
| 9 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent |
Honda | 18 | +15.735 | 18 | 7 |
| 10 | 22 | Pablo Nieto |
Derbi | 18 | +16.333 | 22 | 6 |
| 11 | 29 | Ángel Nieto, Jr. |
Honda | 18 | +17.384 | 11 | 5 |
| 12 | 11 | Max Sabbatani |
Aprilia | 18 | +17.992 | 9 | 4 |
| 13 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini |
Italjet | 18 | +18.621 | 12 | 3 |
| 14 | 15 | Alex de Angelis |
Honda | 18 | +18.628 | 14 | 2 |
| 15 | 57 | Hiroyuki Kikuchi |
Honda | 18 | +23.655 | 15 | 1 |
| 16 | 24 | Toni Elías |
Honda | 18 | +34.401 | 17 | |
| 17 | 39 |  Jaroslav Huleš |
Honda | 18 | +34.521 | 13 | |
| 18 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa |
Honda | 18 | +46.838 | 23 | |
| 19 | 25 | Joan Olivé |
Honda | 18 | +47.378 | 34 | |
| 20 | 98 | Masafumi Ono |
Honda | 18 | +48.164 | 25 | |
| 21 | 18 | Jakub Smrž |
Honda | 18 | +58.746 | 26 | |
| 22 | 56 | Yuzo Fujioka |
ERP Honda | 18 | +1:00.982 | 28 | |
| 23 | 28 |  Gábor Talmácsi |
Honda | 18 | +1:01.962 | 31 | |
| 24 | 10 | Jarno Müller |
Honda | 18 | +1:21.581 | 21 | |
| 25 | 14 | Philipp Hafeneger |
Honda | 18 | +1:49.589 | 32 | |
| Ret | 55 | Hideyuki Nakajoh |
Honda | 15 | Retirement | 10 | |
| Ret | 5 | Noboru Ueda |
TSR-Honda | 14 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 31 | Ángel Rodríguez |
Aprilia | 14 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret | 19 | Alessandro Brannetti |
Aprilia | 13 | Retirement | 30 | |
| Ret | 20 | Gaspare Caffiero |
Aprilia | 12 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 34 |  Eric Bataille |
Honda | 11 | Accident | 24 | |
| Ret | 7 | Stefano Perugini |
Italjet | 5 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 12 | Raúl Jara |
Aprilia | 0 | Retirement | 35 | |
| Ret | 27 | Marco Petrini |
Honda | 0 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret | 97 | Naoki Katoh |
Honda | 0 | Accident | 33 | |
| Source: [3] | |||||||
References
- ↑ "Grand Prix of Japan – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 6 April 2001. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- ↑ "Grand Prix of Japan – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 6 April 2001. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- ↑ "Grand Prix of Japan – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 6 April 2001. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
External links
- "MotoGP official website". Retrieved 2011-07-11.
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FIM Grand Prix World Championship 2001 season |
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