2002 German motorcycle Grand Prix

  2002 German Grand Prix

Race details
Race 9 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
File:Sachsenring (Schaltung).svg
Date	21 July 2002
Official name	Cinzano Motorrad GP Deutschland
Location	Sachsenring
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.704 km (2.302 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Olivier Jacque
Time	1:25.758
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:26.226
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Max Biaggi
Third	Tohru Ukawa
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	1:26.874
Fastest lap
Rider	Roberto Rolfo
Time	1:27.234
Podium
First	Marco Melandri
Second	Roberto Rolfo
Third	Sebastián Porto
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Arnaud Vincent
Time	1:29.097
Fastest lap
Rider	Steve Jenkner
Time	1:29.486
Podium
First	Arnaud Vincent
Second	Alex de Angelis
Third	Steve Jenkner

The 2002 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 19–21 July 2002 at the Sachsenring.

MotoGP classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	30	43:32.783	6	25
2	3	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	30	+0.730	3	20
3	11	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	30	+1.100	5	16
4	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	30	+2.330	10	13
5	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	30	+2.743	2	11
6	6	Norifumi Abe	Yamaha	30	+2.780	14	10
7	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton KR	30	+15.438	7	9
8	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton KR	30	+18.980	13	8
9	8	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	30	+19.269	8	7
10	66	Alex Hofmann	Honda	30	+34.533	18	6
11	33	Akira Ryō	Suzuki	30	+34.592	20	5
12	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	30	+45.404	17	4
13	30	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	30	+1:16.460	19	3
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	27	Accident	1
Ret	4	Alex Barros	Honda	27	Accident	4
Ret	55	Régis Laconi	Aprilia	25	Accident	15
Ret	31	Tetsuya Harada	Honda	16	Retirement	16
Ret	51	Yukio Kagayama	Suzuki	10	Accident	11
Ret	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	10	Accident	9
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Suzuki	10	Accident	12
DNS	21	John Hopkins	Yamaha

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	32:12.725	6	25
2	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	+0.181	3	20
3	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	+2.150	8	16
4	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	+8.471	1	13
5	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	+15.565	2	11
6	Toni Elías	Aprilia	+29.543	10	10
7	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	+29.857	9	9
8	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	+29.890	4	8
9	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	+38.653	17	7
10	Alex Debón	Aprilia	+40.533	7	6
11	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	+42.231	15	5
12	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	+59.989	14	4
13	Leon Haslam	Honda	+1:00.304	16	3
14	Jay Vincent	Honda	+1:00.434	18	2
15	David Checa	Aprilia	+1:00.569	20	1
16	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	+1:01.011	25
17	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	+1:02.851	21
18	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	+1:24.583	26
19	Max Neukirchner	Honda	+1 Lap	27
Ret	Vincent Philippe	Aprilia	Retirement	19
Ret	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	Retirement	11
Ret	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	Retirement	5
Ret	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	Retirement	23
Ret	Thierry vd Bosch	Aprilia	Retirement	24
Ret	Nico Kehrer	Honda	Retirement	29
Ret	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	Retirement	13
Ret	Jarno Janssen	Honda	Retirement	22
Ret	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	Retirement	12
Ret	Christian Gemmel	Honda	Retirement	28

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	40:40.023	1	25
2	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	+0.108	4	20
3	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	+9.995	7	16
4	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	+9.996	2	13
5	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	+10.160	6	11
6	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	+16.018	3	10
7	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	+16.826	8	9
8	Youichi Ui	Derbi	+23.921	11	8
9	Mika Kallio	Honda	+24.004	10	7
10	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	+24.263	12	6
11	Joan Olivé	Honda	+24.807	15	5
12	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	+24.858	16	4
13	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	+40.540	13	3
14	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	+40.695	9	2
15	Masao Azuma	Honda	+40.943	21	1
16	Klaus Nohles	Honda	+48.829	22
17	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	+48.856	19
18	Gábor Talmácsi	Italjet	+49.181	14
19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	+1:01.949	17
20	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	+1:03.125	23
21	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	+1:09.270	29
22	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	+1:09.710	18
23	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	+1:10.104	25
24	Ivan Goi	Aprilia	+1:24.892	28
25	Imre Tóth	Honda	+1:24.940	26
26	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	+1:28.884	33
27	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	+1:31.361	34
28	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	+1:31.627	24
29	Claudius Klein	Honda	+1:32.292	30
30	Patrick Unger	Honda	+1:32.384	31
31	Jascha Buch	Honda	+1 Lap	35
32	Matej Smrž	Honda	+1 Lap	37
33	Manuel Mickan	Honda	+1 Lap	32
Ret	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	Retirement	20
Ret	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	Retirement	27
Ret	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	Retirement	5
Ret	Christian Pistoni	Italjet	Retirement	36

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