2001 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix

  2001 Pacific Grand Prix

Race details
Race 13 of 16 races in the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	7 October 2001
Official name	Pacific Grand Prix of Motegi[1][2]
Location	Twin Ring Motegi
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.801 km (2.983 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:49.800 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:51.030 on lap 13 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Alex Barros Third Loris Capirossi
250cc
Pole position Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 1:52.789 Fastest lap Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 1:53.767 on lap 12 Podium First Tetsuya Harada Second Emilio Alzamora Third Jeremy McWilliams
125cc
Pole position Rider Youichi Ui Time 1:58.603 Fastest lap Rider Youichi Ui Time 1:59.010 on lap 9 Podium First Youichi Ui Second Manuel Poggiali Third Daniel Pedrosa

The 2001 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 5–7 October 2001 at the Twin Ring Motegi.

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	25	46:32.600	4	25
2	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	25	+2.607	3	20
3	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	25	+9.765	1	16
4	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	25	+13.951	16	13
5	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	25	+21.994	9	11
6	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	25	+22.279	5	10
7	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	25	+27.332	11	9
8	1	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	25	+27.607	6	8
9	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	25	+33.822	7	7
10	64	Yukio Kagayama	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	25	+38.139	14	6
11	28	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	25	+41.866	12	5
12	5	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	25	+50.419	13	4
13	10	José Luis Cardoso	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	25	+56.204	17	3
14	14	Anthony West	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	25	+1:05.286	18	2
15	9	Leon Haslam	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	24	+1 lap	20	1
16	21	Barry Veneman	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	24	+1 lap	22
17	18	Brendan Clarke	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	24	+1 lap	23
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	18	Retirement	8
Ret	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	8	Retirement	10
Ret	12	Haruchika Aoki	Arie Molenaar Racing	Honda	7	Accident	19
Ret	41	Noriyuki Haga	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	6	Accident	15
Ret	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	5	Accident	2
Ret	16	Johan Stigefelt	Sabre Sport	Sabre V4	4	Retirement	21
Sources: [3][4][5]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	23	43:59.587	1	25
2	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	23	+7.559	5	20
3	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	23	+8.024	4	16
4	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	23	+11.462	6	13
5	44	Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	23	+11.733	8	11
6	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	23	+13.498	9	10
7	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	23	+19.937	10	9
8	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	23	+24.789	13	8
9	46	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	23	+26.671	16	7
10	88	Nobuyuki Ohsaki	Yamaha	23	+33.671	17	6
11	81	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	23	+37.114	7	5
12	42	David Checa	Honda	23	+40.478	15	4
13	89	Osamu Miyazaki	Yamaha	23	+41.670	20	3
14	16	David Tomás	Honda	23	+42.139	23	2
15	57	Lorenzo Lanzi	Aprilia	23	+42.568	22	1
16	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	23	+42.806	24
17	66	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	23	+43.379	21
18	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	23	+45.790	11
19	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	23	+46.181	12
20	90	Daisaku Sakai	Honda	23	+48.361	26
21	92	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	23	+48.507	19
22	24	Jason Vincent	Yamaha	23	+1:16.106	29
23	11	Riccardo Chiarello	Aprilia	23	+1:33.167	30
24	36	Luis Costa	Yamaha	23	+1:53.607	31
25	55	Diego Giugovaz	Aprilia	22	+1 lap	33
26	14	Katja Poensgen	Honda	22	+1 lap	35
Ret	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	13	Retirement	18
Ret	23	César Barros	Yamaha	11	Retirement	32
Ret	5	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	5	Accident	3
Ret	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	5	Accident	2
Ret	45	Stuart Edwards	Yamaha	4	Accident	34
Ret	22	José David de Gea	Yamaha	3	Retirement	25
Ret	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	3	Retirement	14
Ret	20	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	2	Retirement	28
Ret	91	Takayuki Onodera	Yamaha	0	Retirement	27
Source: [6]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	21	42:01.711	1	25
2	54	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	21	+1.004	2	20
3	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	21	+1.129	7	16
4	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	21	+12.109	5	13
5	4	Masao Azuma	Honda	21	+23.147	3	11
6	28	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	21	+28.345	9	10
7	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	21	+28.387	6	9
8	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	21	+29.678	17	8
9	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Italjet	21	+29.898	13	7
10	19	Alessandro Brannetti	Aprilia	21	+30.026	20	6
11	12	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	21	+30.268	15	5
12	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	21	+35.692	31	4
13	29	Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	21	+35.894	21	3
14	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	21	+36.170	29	2
15	31	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	21	+45.438	28	1
16	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	21	+45.543	27
17	20	Gaspare Caffiero	Aprilia	21	+45.997	16
18	65	Toshihisa Kuzuhara	Honda	21	+1:10.144	33
19	10	Jarno Müller	Honda	21	+1:14.335	34
20	37	William de Angelis	Honda	21	+1:14.887	30
21	77	Adrián Araujo	Honda	21	+1:29.415	35
Ret	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	13	Retirement	24
Ret	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	11	Retirement	32
Ret	56	Yuzo Fujioka	Honda	6	Accident	18
Ret	64	Yuki Takahashi	E-NER	5	Accident	11
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	5	Accident	12
Ret	24	Toni Elías	Honda	4	Accident	4
Ret	5	Noboru Ueda	TSR-Honda	4	Accident	8
Ret	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	4	Accident	10
Ret	55	Hideyuki Nakajoh	Honda	2	Retirement	19
Ret	21	Arnaud Vincent	Honda	1	Accident	22
Ret	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	0	Accident	14
Ret	18	Jakub Smrž	Honda	0	Accident	23
Ret	66	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	0	Accident	26
Ret	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	0	Accident	25
Source: [7]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 250 2 Max Biaggi 183 3 Loris Capirossi 163 4 Alex Barros 147 5 Shinya Nakano 126

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 292 2 Yamaha 239 3 Suzuki 134 4 Proton KR 59 5 Sabre V4 6

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

References

1. "2001 Pacific MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Twin Ring Motegi - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
3. "2001 Pacific MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
4. "Pacific Grand Prix of Motegi – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 7 October 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
5. "PACIFIC GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 2001". Motogp.com. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
6. "Pacific Grand Prix of Motegi – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 7 October 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
7. "Pacific Grand Prix of Motegi – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 7 October 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
8. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2001. Retrieved 2019-08-21.

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