1992 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

  1992 Japanese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 13 races in the 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	29 March 1992
Location	Suzuka
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.821 km (3.618 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Kevin Schwantz
Time	2:20.324
Fastest lap
Rider	Mick Doohan
Time	2:32.090
Podium
First	Mick Doohan
Second	Doug Chandler
Third	Kevin Schwantz
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Nobuatsu Aoki
Time	2:18.696
Fastest lap
Rider	Luca Cadalora
Time	2:35.962
Podium
First	Luca Cadalora
Second	Tadayuki Okada
Third	Nobuatsu Aoki
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Bruno Casanova
Time	2:23.630
Fastest lap
Rider	Ralf Waldmann
Time	2:39.888
Podium
First	Ralf Waldmann
Second	Bruno Casanova
Third	Noboiuki Wakai

The 1992 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 27–29 March 1992 at the Suzuka Circuit.

500 cc race report

Wet race. Wayne Rainey had to ride with an injured hand from a pre-season test (part of his pinky was removed).

John Kocinski was on pole, and took the lead at the start from Doug Chandler and Mick Doohan. Rainey had a bad start.

Àlex Crivillé crashed out of his debut 500cc race; Wayne Gardner crashes out, as did Rainey at the Dunlop Corner.

Chandler took the lead of a 4-man group with Schwantz, Doohan and Kocinski. Kocinski crashed out.

Doohan and Chandler dropped Schwantz. Gardner had remounted and gotten to 5th before crashing out for good a second time and breaking his leg in two places.

500 cc classification

Source:

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Mick Doohan	Honda	+56:21.831	20
2	Doug Chandler	Suzuki	+28.298	15
3	Kevin Schwantz	Suzuki	+55.792	12
4	Shinichi Itoh	Honda	+1:47.802	10
5	Randy Mamola	Yamaha	+2:00.984	8
6	Keiji Ohishi	Suzuki	+2:13.708	6
7	Niall Mackenzie	Yamaha	+2:15.005	4
8	Toshihiko Honma	Yamaha	+2:15.491	3
9	Norihiko Fujiwara	Yamaha	+2:16.591	2
10	Satoshi Tsujimoto	Honda	+2:27.265	1
11	Alex Barros	Cagiva	+1 Lap
12	Juan Garriga	Yamaha	+1 Lap
13	Keiichiro Iwahashi	Honda	+1 Lap
14	Eddie Lawson	Cagiva	+1 Lap
15	Michael Rudroff	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap
16	Corrado Catalano	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap
Ret	Wayne Gardner	Honda	Retirement
Ret	John Kocinski	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Miguel Duhamel	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Wayne Rainey	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Peter Goddard	ROC Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Àlex Crivillé	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Daryl Beattie	Honda	Retirement

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