2001 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix

  2001 Czech Republic Grand Prix

Race details
Race 10 of 16 races in the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	26 August 2001
Official name	Gauloises Grand Prix České republiky[1][2]
Location	Brno Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.403 km (3.357 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Time 2:00.347 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 2:01.461 on lap 7 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Àlex Crivillé Third Loris Capirossi
250cc
Pole position Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 2:02.953 Fastest lap Rider Marco Melandri Time 2:03.836 on lap 5 Podium First Tetsuya Harada Second Marco Melandri Third Daijiro Kato
125cc
Pole position Rider Toni Elías Time 2:09.062 Fastest lap Rider Jaroslav Huleš Time 2:09.648 on lap 8 Podium First Toni Elías Second Lucio Cecchinello Third Steve Jenkner

The 2001 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 24–26 August 2001 at the Masaryk Circuit.

This race was the final podium for 1999 500cc world champion Àlex Crivillé.^[3]

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	22	45:01.044	2	25
2	28	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	22	+3.374	8	20
3	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	22	+3.767	3	16
4	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	22	+4.057	11	13
5	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	22	+6.574	13	11
6	5	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	22	+7.344	5	10
7	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	22	+10.689	7	9
8	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	22	+15.201	10	8
9	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	22	+24.732	9	7
10	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	22	+29.758	1	6
11	41	Noriyuki Haga	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	22	+42.667	15	5
12	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	22	+43.063	12	4
13	10	José Luis Cardoso	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	22	+56.432	14	3
14	12	Haruchika Aoki	Arie Molenaar Racing	Honda	22	+1:13.315	17	2
15	16	Johan Stigefelt	Sabre Sport	Sabre V4	22	+2:03.200	19	1
16	21	Barry Veneman	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	22	+2:07.065	21
Ret	1	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	15	Retirement	6
Ret	14	Anthony West	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	14	Retirement	18
Ret	9	Leon Haslam	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	9	Accident	16
Ret	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	8	Retirement	4
Ret	18	Brendan Clarke	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	5	Retirement	20
Ret	25	Shaun Geronimi	Paton Grand Prix	Paton	5	Retirement	22
DNS	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha		Did not start
Sources:[4][5]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	20	41:32.599	1	25
2	5	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	20	+2.743	4	20
3	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	20	+2.797	2	16
4	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	20	+31.315	5	13
5	44	Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	20	+32.569	11	11
6	81	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	20	+33.823	10	10
7	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	20	+35.171	6	9
8	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	20	+35.386	8	8
9	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	20	+35.663	13	7
10	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	20	+41.559	7	6
11	12	Klaus Nöhles	Aprilia	20	+46.303	18	5
12	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	20	+46.613	9	4
13	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	20	+49.736	19	3
14	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	20	+50.375	12	2
15	57	Lorenzo Lanzi	Aprilia	20	+51.492	22	1
16	46	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	20	+56.553	15
17	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	20	+56.605	14
18	42	David Checa	Honda	20	+1:02.337	16
19	22	José David de Gea	Yamaha	20	+1:17.395	24
20	11	Riccardo Chiarello	Aprilia	20	+1:17.512	26
21	16	David Tomás	Honda	20	+1:17.734	25
22	20	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	20	+1:17.840	23
23	24	Jason Vincent	Yamaha	20	+1:18.157	20
24	36	Luis Costa	Yamaha	20	+1:34.555	27
25	83	Gábor Rizmayer	Honda	20	+1:59.296	28
26	62	Jason DiSalvo	Honda	19	+1 lap	31
27	79	Norman Rank	Honda	19	+1 lap	33
28	23	César Barros	Yamaha	19	+1 lap	29
Ret	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	14	Accident	21
Ret	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	13	Retirement	3
Ret	80	Vladimír Častka	Yamaha	7	Accident	30
Ret	45	Stuart Edwards	Honda	5	Retirement	32
DNS	66	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	0	Did not start	17
DNQ	82	Henrik Voit	Honda		Did not qualify
Source:[6]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	24	Toni Elías	Honda	19	41:27.703	1	25
2	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	19	+0.689	3	20
3	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	19	+1.086	6	16
4	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	19	+1.156	2	13
5	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	19	+3.668	9	11
6	18	Jakub Smrž	Honda	19	+7.804	5	10
7	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	19	+7.817	10	9
8	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	19	+7.985	13	8
9	28	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	19	+8.528	8	7
10	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	19	+13.875	4	6
11	5	Noboru Ueda	TSR-Honda	19	+20.490	7	5
12	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	19	+25.982	21	4
13	4	Masao Azuma	Honda	19	+26.127	12	3
14	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	19	+30.135	22	2
15	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	19	+30.593	23	1
16	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	19	+30.738	15
17	31	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	19	+30.954	17
18	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	19	+31.290	19
19	29	Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	19	+32.111	14
20	19	Alessandro Brannetti	Aprilia	19	+45.231	20
21	20	Gaspare Caffiero	Aprilia	19	+58.341	27
22	77	Adrián Araujo	Honda	19	+1:10.907	33
23	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	19	+1:10.918	28
24	30	Jascha Büch	Honda	19	+1:11.480	30
25	80	Tobias Kirmeier	Honda	19	+1:11.692	31
26	84	Igor Kaláb	Honda	19	+1:11.984	32
27	96	Matěj Smrž	Aprilia	19	+1:12.105	29
28	83	Václav Bittman	Honda	19	+1:12.660	34
29	85	Tomáš Mikšovský	Honda	19	+1:12.749	35
Ret	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	17	Accident	18
Ret	27	Marco Petrini	Honda	13	Retirement	24
Ret	54	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	11	Accident	11
Ret	21	Arnaud Vincent	Honda	11	Accident	16
Ret	12	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	8	Retirement	25
Ret	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Italjet	4	Retirement	26
Source:[7]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round ten has concluded.^[8]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 195 2 Max Biaggi 166 3 Loris Capirossi 127 4 Alex Barros 107 5 Norifumi Abe 100

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 222 2 Yamaha 197 3 Suzuki 91 4 Proton KR 43 5 Pulse 3

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

1. "2001 Czech MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Brno Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
3. "MotoGP Riders". www.motogp.com. Retrieved 2023-07-06.
4. "2001 Czech MotoGP | Motorsport Database".
5. "Gauloises České republiky GP – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 26 August 2001. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
6. "Gauloises České republiky GP – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 26 August 2001. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
7. "Gauloises České republiky GP – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 26 August 2001. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
8. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2001. Retrieved 2019-08-21.

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