2002 British motorcycle Grand Prix

  2002 British Grand Prix

Race details
Race 8 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	14 July 2002
Official name	Cinzano British Grand Prix
Location	Donington Park
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.023 km (2.5 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:31.563
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:32.247
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Max Biaggi
Third	Alex Barros
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	1:33.558
Fastest lap
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	1:34.411
Podium
First	Marco Melandri
Second	Fonsi Nieto
Third	Toni Elías
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Manuel Poggiali
Time	1:38.078
Fastest lap
Rider	Lucio Cecchinello
Time	1:38.312
Podium
First	Arnaud Vincent
Second	Dani Pedrosa
Third	Manuel Poggiali

The 2002 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 12–14 July 2002 at the Donington Park circuit.

MotoGP classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	30	46:32.888	1	25
2	3	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	30	+2.371	5	20
3	4	Alex Barros	Honda	30	+5.533	4	16
4	6	Norifumi Abe	Yamaha	30	+22.036	12	13
5	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	30	+28.087	11	11
6	15	Sete Gibernau	Suzuki	30	+28.400	17	10
7	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	30	+28.947	10	9
8	21	John Hopkins	Yamaha	30	+31.497	6	8
9	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton KR	30	+31.947	9	7
10	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	30	+41.454	16	6
11	31	Tetsuya Harada	Honda	30	+49.458	3	5
12	8	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	30	+53.709	18	4
13	33	Akira Ryo	Suzuki	30	+54.480	13	3
14	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	30	+54.594	14	2
15	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	30	+54.866	8	1
16	55	Régis Laconi	Aprilia	30	+55.525	15
17	66	Alex Hofmann	Honda	30	+1:05.901	19
Ret	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	19	Retirement	2
Ret	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton KR	6	Retirement	7
DNS	20	Pere Riba	Yamaha
DNQ	11	Tohru Ukawa	Honda

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	42:55.728	2	25
2	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	+0.717	1	20
3	Toni Elías	Aprilia	+3.493	6	16
4	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	+3.934	8	13
5	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	+4.407	7	11
6	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	+19.852	12	10
7	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	+21.770	10	9
8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	+24.580	5	8
9	Alex Debón	Aprilia	+25.987	11	7
10	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	+26.202	15	6
11	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	+31.621	13	5
12	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	+36.116	4	4
13	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	+45.339	14	3
14	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	+45.538	9	2
15	David Checa	Aprilia	+57.476	24	1
16	Jay Vincent	Honda	+1:00.795	20
17	Leon Haslam	Honda	+1:03.974	19
18	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	+1:05.156	17
19	Jarno Janssen	Honda	+1:19.402	16
20	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	+1:22.218	18
21	Andrew Whittley	Aprilia	+1 Lap	25
Ret	Vincent Philippe	Aprilia	Retirement	22
Ret	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	Retirement	21
Ret	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	Retirement	3
Ret	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	Retirement	23
DNQ	Christopher Sansome	Honda
DNQ	Jason Boyce	Honda

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	42:57.387	20	25
2	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	+0.193	5	20
3	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	+0.699	2	16
4	Masao Azuma	Honda	+13.482	10	13
5	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	+13.643	14	11
6	Joan Olivé	Honda	+14.073	4	10
7	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	+15.650	6	9
8	Youichi Ui	Derbi	+18.608	7	8
9	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	+20.761	13	7
10	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	+21.553	19	6
11	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	+41.238	17	5
12	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	+41.942	8	4
13	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	+46.464	21	3
14	Fabrizio Lai	Honda	+46.699	12	2
15	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	+52.816	23	1
16	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	+56.261	26
17	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	+1:03.435	11
18	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	+1:10.892	28
19	Ivan Goi	Aprilia	+1:17.003	34
20	Imre Tóth	Honda	+1:32.295	27
21	Christian Elkin	Honda	+1 Lap	32
22	Chris Martin	Honda	+1 Lap	35
23	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	+1 Lap	29
24	Leon Camier	Italjet	+1 Lap	31
Ret	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	Retirement	1
Ret	Mika Kallio	Honda	Retirement	9
Ret	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	Retirement	24
Ret	Guy Fairbrother	Honda	Retirement	33
Ret	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	Retirement	3
Ret	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	Retirement	25
Ret	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	Retirement	16
Ret	Gábor Talmácsi	Italjet	Retirement	18
Ret	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	Retirement	22
Ret	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	Retirement	15
Ret	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	Retirement	30
Ret	Midge Smart	Honda	Retirement	36

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