2002 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix

  2002 Malaysian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 14 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	13 October 2002
Official name	Gauloises Malaysian Motorcycle GP
Location	Sepang International Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.548 km (3.447 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Alex Barros
Time	2:04.487
Fastest lap
Rider	Max Biaggi
Time	2:04.925
Podium
First	Max Biaggi
Second	Valentino Rossi
Third	Alex Barros
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	2:08.067
Fastest lap
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	2:08.858
Podium
First	Fonsi Nieto
Second	Toni Elías
Third	Roberto Rolfo
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Arnaud Vincent
Time	2:13.563
Fastest lap
Rider	Lucio Cecchinello
Time	2:13.919
Podium
First	Arnaud Vincent
Second	Lucio Cecchinello
Third	Dani Pedrosa

The 2002 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourteenth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 11–13 October 2002 at the Sepang International Circuit.

MotoGP classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	21	44:01.592	2	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	21	+0.542	8	20
3	4	Alex Barros	Honda	21	+1.572	1	16
4	11	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	21	+2.238	6	13
5	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	21	+8.475	3	11
6	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	21	+23.000	16	10
7	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	21	+24.360	5	9
8	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	21	+24.709	12	8
9	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	21	+27.669	4	7
10	6	Norifumi Abe	Yamaha	21	+41.811	11	6
11	33	Akira Ryō	Suzuki	21	+42.603	18	5
12	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton KR	21	+45.761	7	4
13	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	21	+48.316	10	3
14	15	Sete Gibernau	Suzuki	21	+1:01.270	15	2
15	8	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	21	+1:13.096	9	1
16	30	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	21	+1:15.503	21
17	55	Régis Laconi	Aprilia	21	+1:21.513	20
18	21	John Hopkins	Yamaha	21	+1:42.684	19
19	84	Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki	21	+1:48.156	22
Ret	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton KR	18	Retirement	13
Ret	31	Tetsuya Harada	Honda	11	Retirement	14
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	3	Accident	17

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	43:28.624	1	25
2	Toni Elías	Aprilia	+0.412	3	20
3	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	+2.947	6	16
4	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	+7.910	8	13
5	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	+8.581	5	11
6	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	+8.706	7	10
7	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	+19.155	14	9
8	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	+22.459	13	8
9	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	+22.694	12	7
10	David Checa	Aprilia	+29.350	11	6
11	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	+36.502	10	5
12	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	+40.016	15	4
13	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	+46.558	4	3
14	Jay Vincent	Honda	+49.793	18	2
15	Jaroslav Huleš	Yamaha	+57.200	21	1
16	Jakub Smrž	Honda	+1:02.918	23
17	Leon Haslam	Honda	+1:02.950	20
18	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	+1:03.369	16
19	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	+1:13.145	17
Ret	Erwan Nigon	Honda	Retirement	22
Ret	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	Retirement	19
Ret	Alex Debón	Aprilia	Retirement	9
Ret	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	Retirement	24
Ret	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	Retirement	2

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	40:32.656	1	25
2	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	+0.278	7	20
3	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	+0.345	3	16
4	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	+0.813	2	13
5	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	+3.647	10	11
6	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	+6.288	4	10
7	Mika Kallio	Honda	+13.020	14	9
8	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	+13.028	5	8
9	Masao Azuma	Honda	+13.255	9	7
10	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	+21.494	19	6
11	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	+25.209	22	5
12	Youichi Ui	Derbi	+30.511	6	4
13	Joan Olivé	Honda	+36.548	16	3
14	Klaus Nohles	Honda	+45.983	11	2
15	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	+46.435	17	1
16	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	+46.466	15
17	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	+47.101	18
18	Noboru Ueda	Honda	+47.692	26
19	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	+47.724	20
20	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	+48.079	24
21	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	+1:22.654	30
22	Imre Tóth	Honda	+1:22.721	28
23	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	+1:22.867	32
24	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	+1:23.046	29
25	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	+1:36.014	31
26	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	+1:36.792	21
Ret	Christian Pistoni	Italjet	Retirement	33
Ret	Joshua Waters	Honda	Retirement	34
Ret	Gábor Talmácsi	Italjet	Retirement	23
Ret	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	Retirement	27
Ret	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	Retirement	13
Ret	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	Retirement	8
Ret	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	Retirement	12
Ret	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	Retirement	25

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