2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix

  2000 South African Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	19 March 2000
Official name	Gauloises Africa's Grand Prix
Location	Phakisa Freeway, Welkom
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.242 km (2.636 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Sete Gibernau
Time	1:36.273
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:36.933
Podium
First	Garry McCoy
Second	Carlos Checa
Third	Loris Capirossi
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Shinya Nakano
Time	1:37.705
Fastest lap
Rider	Daijiro Kato
Time	1:37.440
Podium
First	Shinya Nakano
Second	Daijiro Kato
Third	Tohru Ukawa
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Roberto Locatelli
Time	1:43.464
Fastest lap
Rider	Arnaud Vincent
Time	1:42.782
Podium
First	Arnaud Vincent
Second	Mirko Giansanti
Third	Emilio Alzamora

The 2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 19 March 2000 at Phakisa Freeway.

500 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	24	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	28	45:38.775	9	25
2	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	28	+0.366	4	20
3	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	28	+1.590	2	16
4	10	Alex Barros	Honda	28	+9.745	13	13
5	1	Àlex Crivillé	Honda	28	+10.253	7	11
6	2	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	28	+15.853	3	10
7	6	Norick Abe	Yamaha	28	+24.228	15	9
8	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki	28	+26.719	12	8
9	55	Régis Laconi	Yamaha	28	+36.231	16	7
10	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	TSR-Honda	28	+37.613	11	6
11	25	José Luis Cardoso	Honda	28	+1:04.044	20	5
12	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Honda	28	+1:14.912	17	4
13	15	Yoshiteru Konishi	TSR-Honda	28	+1:30.049	21	3
14	12	Shane Norval	Honda	28	+1:32.776	19	2
15	11	José David de Gea	Modenas KR3	27	+1 Lap	18	1
Ret	8	Tadayuki Okada	Honda	21	Accident	6
Ret	5	Sete Gibernau	Honda	20	Retirement	1
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	12	Accident	5
Ret	4	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	12	Retirement	10
Ret	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	7	Retirement	8
Ret	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	2	Retirement	14

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	42:34.085	25
2	Daijiro Kato	Honda	+0.875	20
3	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	+13.813	16
4	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	+30.687	13
5	Anthony West	Honda	+47.621	11
6	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	+47.705	10
7	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	+58.221	9
8	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	+1:02.190	8
9	Jason Vincent	Honda	+1:07.732	7
10	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	+1:09.269	6
11	Jamie Robinson	Aprilia	+1:23.219	5
12	Alex Debón	Aprilia	+1:25.538	4
13	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	+1:29.763	3
14	Klaus Nohles	Aprilia	+1:31.878	2
15	Roberto Rolfo	TSR-Honda	+1 Lap	1
16	David Checa	TSR-Honda	+1 Lap
17	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	+1 Lap
18	Mike Baldinger	Yamaha	+1 Lap
Ret	Lucas Oliver Bultó	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Ivan Clementi	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	David García	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Adrian Coates	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Johan Stigefelt	TSR-Honda	Retirement
Ret	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	Retirement

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	41:35.310	25
2	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	+1.937	20
3	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	+2.057	16
4	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	+2.362	13
5	Noboru Ueda	Honda	+4.566	11
6	Steve Jenkner	Honda	+11.073	10
7	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	+11.187	9
8	Ivan Goi	Honda	+11.504	8
9	Masao Azuma	Honda	+37.723	7
10	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	+39.819	6
11	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	+39.887	5
12	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	+39.964	4
13	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Honda	+40.474	3
14	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	+41.118	2
15	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	+52.411	1
16	Alex de Angelis	Honda	+52.639
17	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	+1:22.243
18	Adrián Araujo	Honda	+1:27.527
19	William de Angelis	Aprilia	+1:27.811
20	Max Sabbatani	Honda	+1:28.093
21	Marco Petrini	Aprilia	+1:28.449
22	Leon Haslam	Italjet	+1:28.648
23	Toni Elías	Honda	+1:47.350
Ret	Jaroslav Huleš	Italjet	Retirement
Ret	Youichi Ui	Derbi	Retirement

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