2001 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 15 of 16 races in the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||
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| Date | 21 October 2001 | ||
| Official name | Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix | ||
| Location | Sepang International Circuit | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 5.548 km (3.447 mi) | ||
| 500 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider |  Loris Capirossi |
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| Time | 2:05.637 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Valentino Rossi |
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| Time | 2:06.618 on lap 13 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Valentino Rossi |
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| Second | Loris Capirossi |
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| Third |  Garry McCoy |
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| 250 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider |  Daijiro Kato |
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| Time | 2:08.151 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Daijiro Kato |
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| Time | 2:08.920 on lap 2 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Daijiro Kato |
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| Second | Tetsuya Harada |
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| Third |  Fonsi Nieto |
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| 125 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider | Toni Elías |
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| Time | 2:15.358 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Youichi Ui |
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| Time | 2:14.961 on lap 7 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Youichi Ui |
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| Second |  Manuel Poggiali |
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| Third | Lucio Cecchinello |
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The 2001 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 19–21 October 2001 at the Sepang International Circuit.
500 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi |
Honda | 21 | 44:46.652 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 65 | Loris Capirossi |
Honda | 21 | +3.551 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 5 | Garry McCoy |
Yamaha | 21 | +4.722 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 56 | Shinya Nakano |
Yamaha | 21 | +5.005 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa |
Honda | 21 | +8.807 | 12 | 11 |
| 6 | 28 | Àlex Crivillé |
Honda | 21 | +12.192 | 11 | 10 |
| 7 | 4 |  Alex Barros |
Honda | 21 | +15.682 | 5 | 9 |
| 8 | 15 | Sete Gibernau |
Suzuki | 21 | +18.772 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 41 | Noriyuki Haga |
Yamaha | 21 | +27.012 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 7 | Carlos Checa |
Yamaha | 21 | +28.829 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 10 | José Luis Cardoso |
Yamaha | 21 | +29.007 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 14 | Anthony West |
Honda | 21 | +1:02.166 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 6 | Norifumi Abe |
Yamaha | 21 | +1:20.535 | 10 | 3 |
| 14 | 18 | Brendan Clarke |
Honda | 21 | +2:04.455 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 9 |  Leon Haslam |
Honda | 21 | +2:04.500 | 20 | 1 |
| Ret | 19 |  Olivier Jacque |
Yamaha | 12 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 21 |  Barry Veneman |
Honda | 7 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 12 | Haruchika Aoki |
Honda | 6 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 16 |  Johan Stigefelt |
Sabre V4 | 5 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 1 |  Kenny Roberts Jr. |
Suzuki | 3 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 3 | Max Biaggi |
Yamaha | 3 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 80 | Kurtis Roberts |
Proton KR | 2 | Accident | 17 | |
| DNS | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh |
Proton KR | Did not start | |||
| Source: [1] | |||||||
250 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 74 | Daijiro Kato |
Honda | 20 | 43:22.487 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada |
Aprilia | 20 | +14.893 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto |
Aprilia | 20 | +15.892 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli |
Aprilia | 20 | +19.748 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams |
Aprilia | 20 | +35.867 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | 21 | Franco Battaini |
Aprilia | 20 | +46.364 | 13 | 10 |
| 7 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo |
Yamaha | 20 | +46.408 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 66 |  Alex Hofmann |
Aprilia | 20 | +46.731 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli |
Aprilia | 20 | +56.513 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo |
Aprilia | 20 | +58.914 | 4 | 6 |
| 11 | 5 | Marco Melandri |
Aprilia | 20 | +1:00.301 | 8 | 5 |
| 12 | 81 | Randy de Puniet |
Aprilia | 20 | +1:00.689 | 5 | 4 |
| 13 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro |
Aprilia | 20 | +1:09.730 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 6 | Alex Debón |
Aprilia | 20 | +1:09.953 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 42 | David Checa |
Honda | 20 | +1:10.810 | 18 | 1 |
| 16 | 16 | David Tomás |
Honda | 20 | +1:10.847 | 23 | |
| 17 | 11 | Riccardo Chiarello |
Aprilia | 20 | +1:12.008 | 16 | |
| 18 | 24 | Jason Vincent |
Yamaha | 20 | +1:26.290 | 22 | |
| 19 | 20 | Jerónimo Vidal |
Aprilia | 20 | +1:30.098 | 24 | |
| 20 | 22 | José David de Gea |
Yamaha | 20 | +1:37.261 | 21 | |
| 21 | 55 | Diego Giugovaz |
Aprilia | 20 | +1:37.635 | 25 | |
| 22 | 36 | Luis Costa |
Yamaha | 20 | +1:49.118 | 26 | |
| 23 | 27 | Shaun Geronimi |
Yamaha | 19 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| Ret | 57 | Lorenzo Lanzi |
Aprilia | 11 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 14 | Katja Poensgen |
Honda | 9 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret | 7 | Emilio Alzamora |
Honda | 8 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 9 |  Sebastián Porto |
Yamaha | 6 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 18 |  Shahrol Yuzy |
Yamaha | 2 | Accident | 10 | |
| DNS | 23 | César Barros |
Yamaha | Did not start | |||
| DNQ | 45 | Stuart Edwards |
Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
| Source: [2] | |||||||
125 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 41 | Youichi Ui |
Derbi | 19 | 43:21.269 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali |
Gilera | 19 | +2.078 | 8 | 20 |
| 3 | 9 | Lucio Cecchinello |
Aprilia | 19 | +2.196 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa |
Honda | 19 | +3.161 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 23 | Gino Borsoi |
Aprilia | 19 | +3.987 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 24 | Toni Elías |
Honda | 19 | +4.265 | 1 | 10 |
| 7 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent |
Honda | 19 | +4.468 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 4 | Masao Azuma |
Honda | 19 | +5.123 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti |
Honda | 19 | +30.026 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 11 | Max Sabbatani |
Aprilia | 19 | +30.292 | 7 | 6 |
| 11 | 5 | Noboru Ueda |
TSR-Honda | 19 | +30.417 | 13 | 5 |
| 12 | 25 | Joan Olivé |
Honda | 19 | +30.684 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 7 | Stefano Perugini |
Italjet | 19 | +30.860 | 27 | 3 |
| 14 | 15 | Alex de Angelis |
Honda | 19 | +31.433 | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 39 |  Jaroslav Huleš |
Honda | 19 | +31.802 | 12 | 1 |
| 16 | 16 | Simone Sanna |
Aprilia | 19 | +33.406 | 9 | |
| 17 | 31 | Ángel Rodríguez |
Aprilia | 19 | +36.162 | 23 | |
| 18 | 12 | Raúl Jara |
Aprilia | 19 | +36.542 | 26 | |
| 19 | 20 | Gaspare Caffiero |
Aprilia | 19 | +37.248 | 22 | |
| 20 | 28 |  Gábor Talmácsi |
Honda | 19 | +41.564 | 19 | |
| 21 | 10 | Jarno Müller |
Honda | 19 | +41.660 | 20 | |
| 22 | 37 | William de Angelis |
Honda | 19 | +1:11.823 | 29 | |
| 23 | 77 | Adrián Araujo |
Honda | 19 | +1:34.039 | 30 | |
| Ret | 29 | Ángel Nieto Jr. |
Honda | 17 | Retirement | 6 | |
| Ret | 34 |  Eric Bataille |
Honda | 7 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini |
Italjet | 7 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 17 | Steve Jenkner |
Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 28 | |
| Ret | 18 | Jakub Smrž |
Honda | 0 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 19 | Alessandro Brannetti |
Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 25 | |
| Ret | 22 | Pablo Nieto |
Derbi | 0 | Accident | 18 | |
| Source: [3] | |||||||
References
- ↑ "Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 21 October 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ↑ "Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 21 October 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ↑ "Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 21 October 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
External links
- "MotoGP official website". Retrieved 2009-09-08.
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FIM Grand Prix World Championship 2001 season |
Next race: 2001 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix |
| Previous race: 2000 Malaysian Grand Prix |
Malaysian Grand Prix | Next race: 2002 Malaysian Grand Prix |
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