2000 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix

  2000 Australian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 16 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	29 October 2000
Official name	Qantas Australian Grand Prix
Location	Phillip Island
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.448 km (2.764 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Jeremy McWilliams
Time	1:32.552
Fastest lap
Rider	Max Biaggi
Time	1:33.320
Podium
First	Max Biaggi
Second	Loris Capirossi
Third	Valentino Rossi
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Shinya Nakano
Time	1:33.713
Fastest lap
Rider	Olivier Jacque
Time	1:33.784
Podium
First	Olivier Jacque
Second	Shinya Nakano
Third	Daijiro Kato
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Roberto Locatelli
Time	1:58.831
Fastest lap
Rider	Masao Azuma
Time	1:38.877
Podium
First	Masao Azuma
Second	Youichi Ui
Third	Noboru Ueda

The 2000 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 29 October 2000 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit.

500 cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	4	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	27	42:29.792	12	25
2	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	27	+0.182	5	20
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	27	+0.288	8	16
4	10	Alex Barros	Honda	27	+0.426	2	13
5	24	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	27	+1.885	6	11
6	6	Norick Abe	Yamaha	27	+3.818	11	10
7	2	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	27	+3.846	4	9
8	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	27	+3.878	1	8
9	8	Tadayuki Okada	Honda	27	+4.308	10	7
10	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki	27	+12.582	13	6
11	55	Régis Laconi	Yamaha	27	+15.939	3	5
12	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	TSR-Honda	27	+40.420	17	4
13	56	Tekkyu Kayoh	Honda	27	+1:06.159	15	3
14	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	27	+1:15.267	19	2
15	15	Yoshiteru Konishi	TSR-Honda	26	+1 Lap	18	1
Ret	5	Sete Gibernau	Honda	20	Retirement	14
Ret	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	10	Accident	7
Ret	68	Mark Willis	Modenas	7	Retirement	16
Ret	33	David Tomás	Honda	6	Retirement	20
Ret	1	Àlex Crivillé	Honda	3	Accident	9
DNQ	36	Stephen Briggs	BSL
DNQ	25	José Luis Cardoso	Honda

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	39:19.795	25
2	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	+0.014	20
3	Daijiro Kato	Honda	+14.525	16
4	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	+14.556	13
5	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	+30.945	11
6	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	+49.942	10
7	Anthony West	Honda	+59.116	9
8	Jason Vincent	Aprilia	+59.170	8
9	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	+59.563	7
10	Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	+59.558	6
11	Sebastian Porto	Yamaha	+59.677	5
12	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	+59.692	4
13	Vincent Philippe	TSR-Honda	+1:08.252	3
14	Julien Allemand	Yamaha	+1:11.768	2
15	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	+1:20.888	1
16	Ivan Clementi	Aprilia	+1:20.965
17	Johann Stigefelt	TSR-Honda	+1:21.234
18	Alex Debón	Aprilia	+1:24.803
19	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	+1:33.561
20	David Checa	TSR-Honda	+1:33.618
21	Lucas Oliver Bulto	Yamaha	+1:36.630
22	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	+1 Lap
Ret	Jeronimo Vidal	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Terry Carter	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Shaun Geronimi	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Adrian Coates	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Sebastien Gimbert	TSR-Honda	Retirement

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