2001 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

2001 Valencian Community Grand Prix
Race details
Race 12 of 16 races in the; 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	23 September 2001
Official name	Gran Premio Marlboro de la Comunitat Valenciana
Location	Circuit de Valencia
Course	Permanent racing facility; 4.005 km (2.489 mi);
500cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Max Biaggi
Time	1:34.496
Fastest lap
Rider	Sete Gibernau
Time	1:36.792 on lap 30
Podium
First	Sete Gibernau
Second	Alex Barros
Third	Kenny Roberts Jr.
250cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	1:36.379
Fastest lap
Rider	Daijiro Kato
Time	1:36.701 on lap 16
Podium
First	Daijiro Kato
Second	Tetsuya Harada
Third	Fonsi Nieto
125cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Toni Elías
Time	1:40.481
Fastest lap
Rider	Gino Borsoi
Time	1:41.464 on lap 7
Podium
First	Manuel Poggiali
Second	Toni Elías
Third	Daniel Pedrosa

The 2001 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 21–23 September 2001 at the Circuit de Valencia. Ten days after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington D.C., Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) announced that the Valencian Community Motorcycle Grand Prix would go ahead as scheduled. Additionally, the Royal Automobile Club of Spain urged fans and spectators to behave "in keeping with the gravity of the situation and in collective participation in the pain of American citizens".

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	30	54:39.391	12	25
2	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	30	+0.293	11	20
3	1	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	30	+1.241	7	16
4	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+7.052	8	13
5	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+29.809	14	11
6	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	30	+29.863	10	10
7	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+31.093	3	9
8	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	30	+31.609	13	8
9	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	30	+32.783	9	7
10	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+37.774	1	6
11	46	Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	30	+40.512	2	5
12	5	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	30	+1:36.743	5	4
13	14	Anthony West	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	29	+1 lap	18	3
14	16	Johan Stigefelt	Sabre Sport	Sabre V4	29	+1 lap	21	2
15	21	Barry Veneman	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	28	+2 laps	20	1
16	9	Leon Haslam	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	28	+2 laps	19
17	10	José Luis Cardoso	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	26	+4 laps	16
Ret	18	Brendan Clarke	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	14	Retirement	22
Ret	28	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	7	Accident	6
Ret	41	Noriyuki Haga	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	1	Accident	15
Ret	12	Haruchika Aoki	Arie Molenaar Racing	Honda	0	Accident	17
Ret	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	0	Accident	4
DNQ	37	Miguel Tey	By Queroseno Racing	Honda		Did not qualify
Sources: ^[3]^[4]^[5]

250 cc classification

The race was held in two parts as rain caused its interruption; race times from the two heats were added together to determine the final results.^[6]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	27	44:01.853	5	25
2	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	27	+4.943	4	20
3	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	27	+12.371	1	16
4	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	27	+14.972	9	13
5	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	27	+21.045	7	11
6	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	27	+25.817	8	10
7	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	27	+26.623	3	9
8	44	Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	27	+26.776	10	8
9	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	27	+35.372	2	7
10	81	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	27	+46.273	14	6
11	42	David Checa	Honda	27	+47.766	13	5
12	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	27	+47.887	19	4
13	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	27	+49.132	18	3
14	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	27	+51.582	11	2
15	22	José David de Gea	Yamaha	27	+52.052	16	1
16	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	27	+53.057	15
17	46	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	27	+53.108	21
18	20	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	27	+1:17.203	24
19	11	Riccardo Chiarello	Aprilia	27	+1:42.393	22
20	38	Álvaro Molina	Yamaha	27	+1:53.681	27
21	23	César Barros	Yamaha	27	+2:07.720	28
22	16	David Tomás	Honda	27	+2:12.659	23
23	45	Stuart Edwards	Yamaha	27	+2:14.370	30
24	14	Katja Poensgen	Honda	27	+2:23.258	29
Ret	36	Luis Costa	Yamaha	19	Retirement	26
Ret	66	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	16	Retirement	12
Ret	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	13	Retirement	20
Ret	83	Gábor Rizmayer	Honda	9	Retirement	31
Ret	57	Lorenzo Lanzi	Aprilia	6	Retirement	17
Ret	24	Jason Vincent	Yamaha	5	Retirement	25
Ret	5	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	3	Retirement	6
DNQ	41	Dámaso Nácher	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	43	Isaac Martín	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	72	Michael García	Aprilia		Did not qualify
DNQ	12	Klaus Nöhles	Aprilia		Did not qualify
Source: ^[7]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	54	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	25	42:45.422	12	25
2	24	Toni Elías	Honda	25	+0.022	1	20
3	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	25	+0.263	8	16
4	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	25	+0.305	10	13
5	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	25	+0.561	6	11
6	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	25	+0.586	2	10
7	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	25	+0.654	5	9
8	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	25	+1.596	3	8
9	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	25	+2.005	4	7
10	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	25	+2.078	9	6
11	28	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	25	+15.746	11	5
12	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	25	+17.225	29	4
13	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	25	+17.369	18	3
14	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	25	+17.456	14	2
15	31	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	25	+17.709	19	1
16	29	Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	25	+18.686	15
17	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	25	+20.387	13
18	21	Arnaud Vincent	Honda	25	+20.537	16
19	20	Gaspare Caffiero	Aprilia	25	+21.800	28
20	19	Alessandro Brannetti	Aprilia	25	+24.857	24
21	18	Jakub Smrž	Honda	25	+24.946	23
22	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Italjet	25	+38.255	22
23	4	Masao Azuma	Honda	25	+38.692	20
24	77	Adrián Araujo	Honda	25	+42.858	34
25	12	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	25	+43.450	26
26	30	Jascha Büch	Honda	25	+1:01.078	30
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	24	Accident	21
Ret	44	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	18	Retirement	17
Ret	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	14	Retirement	25
Ret	45	Javier Forés	Aprilia	14	Retirement	27
Ret	75	Fabrizio Lai	Rieju	11	Accident	31
Ret	5	Noboru Ueda	TSR-Honda	7	Accident	7
Ret	37	William de Angelis	Honda	6	Retirement	33
Ret	82	Mika Kallio	Honda	4	Accident	32
Source: ^[8]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round twelve has concluded.^[9]

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Valentino Rossi	225
2	Max Biaggi	183
3	Loris Capirossi	147
4	Alex Barros	127
5	Shinya Nakano	116

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	267
2	Yamaha	226
3	Suzuki	126
4	Proton KR	59
5	Sabre V4	6

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

References

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^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Valencia Ricardo Tormo - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
^ "2001 Valencia MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
^ "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 23 September 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
^ "motogp.com · VALENCIA GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 2001". www.motogp.com.
^ "GP Valencia, gara 250: Katoh vola via..." motocorse.com (in Italian). Nexus Web Services. 23 September 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
^ "The 2001 races – Valencia". classic.autosport.com. Autosport. Archived from the original on 26 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
^ "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 23 September 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
^ "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2001. Retrieved 2019-08-21.

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