2002 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2002 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the penultimate round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 18–20 October 2002 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit.

  2002 Australian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 15 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	20 October 2002
Official name	SKYY vodka Australian Grand Prix
Location	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.448 km (2.764 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Jeremy McWilliams Proton KR Time 1:31.919 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 1:32.233 on lap 11 Podium First Valentino Rossi Honda Second Alex Barros Honda Third Tohru Ukawa Honda
250cc
Pole position Rider Fonsi Nieto Aprilia Time 1:33.904 Fastest lap Rider Marco Melandri Aprilia Time 1:34.072 on lap 22 Podium First Marco Melandri Aprilia Second Fonsi Nieto Aprilia Third Sebastián Porto Yamaha
125cc
Pole position Rider Manuel Poggiali Gilera Time 1:38.632 Fastest lap Rider Daniel Pedrosa Honda Time 1:37.983 on lap 23 Podium First Manuel Poggiali Gilera Second Lucio Cecchinello Aprilia Third Pablo Nieto Aprilia

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	27	42:02.041	7	25
2	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	27	+9.782	5	20
3	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	27	+11.134	6	16
4	74	Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	27	+11.327	10	13
5	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	27	+11.414	4	11
6	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	27	+20.937	8	10
7	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	27	+22.505	3	9
8	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	27	+26.642	17	8
9	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	27	+26.692	12	7
10	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	27	+31.994	1	6
11	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	27	+34.563	20	5
12	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	27	+38.827	15	4
13	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	27	+45.418	16	3
14	31	Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	27	+52.542	18	2
15	30	José Luis Cardoso	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	27	+52.765	21	1
16	21	John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	27	+1:12.169	14
17	84	Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	27	+1:12.196	19
18	8	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	26	+1 lap	2
Ret	72	Shinichi Ito	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	11	Retirement	13
Ret	55	Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	10	Retirement	11
Ret	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	2	Retirement	9
DNS	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha		Did not start
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	25	39:44.293	2	25
2	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	25	+0.007	1	20
3	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	25	+5.766	3	16
4	4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	25	+16.042	9	13
5	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	25	+18.917	4	11
6	17	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	25	+18.985	5	10
7	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	25	+21.349	6	9
8	42	David Checa	Aprilia	25	+39.582	12	8
9	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	25	+46.230	8	7
10	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	25	+50.645	13	6
11	11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	25	+55.268	15	5
12	13	Jaroslav Huleš	Yamaha	25	+55.288	7	4
13	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	25	+1:07.391	11	3
14	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	25	+1:09.565	16	2
15	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	25	+1:09.973	18	1
16	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	25	+1:10.270	21
17	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	25	+1:10.368	22
18	19	Leon Haslam	Honda	25	+1:10.966	10
19	32	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	25	+1:25.241	19
20	79	Russell Holland	Yamaha	24	+1 lap	25
Ret	22	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	19	Retirement	24
Ret	12	Jay Vincent	Honda	16	Accident	17
Ret	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	5	Accident	14
Ret	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	3	Retirement	20
DNS	51	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	0	Did not start	23
DNQ	81	Mark Stanley	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	80	Earl Lynch	Yamaha		Did not qualify
DNQ	78	Peter Taplin	Honda		Did not qualify
Source:

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	23	38:08.028	1	25
2	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	23	+1.252	5	20
3	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	23	+1.310	6	16
4	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	23	+1.414	2	13
5	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	23	+1.575	10	11
6	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	23	+5.615	7	10
7	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	23	+16.861	4	9
8	5	Masao Azuma	Honda	23	+21.544	17	8
9	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	23	+21.833	16	7
10	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	23	+22.168	9	6
11	50	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	23	+28.012	12	5
12	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	23	+32.645	13	4
13	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	23	+33.386	14	3
14	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	23	+39.047	19	2
15	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	23	+39.117	24	1
16	8	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	23	+39.282	20
17	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	23	+55.604	21
18	12	Klaus Nöhles	Honda	23	+57.689	25
19	31	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	23	+57.861	27
20	19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	23	+58.141	28
21	9	Noboru Ueda	Honda	23	+58.148	26
22	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	23	+1:28.678	29
23	20	Imre Tóth	Honda	23	+1:32.597	30
24	72	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	23	+1:32.853	33
25	83	Joshua Waters	Honda	22	+1 lap	32
26	64	Peter Holmes	Honda	22	+1 lap	35
27	82	Jeremy Crowe	Honda	22	+1 lap	36
Ret	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	18	Accident	22
Ret	84	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	18	Retirement	23
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	15	Retirement	3
Ret	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	14	Accident	11
Ret	77	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	7	Accident	31
Ret	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	6	Retirement	15
Ret	42	Christian Pistoni	Italjet	6	Retirement	34
Ret	33	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	0	Retirement	8
Ret	37	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	0	Accident	18
DNQ	81	Tim Inkster	Honda		Did not qualify
Source:

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fifteen has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Valentino Rossi	335
2	Max Biaggi	199
3	Tohru Ukawa	198
4	Alex Barros	179
5	Carlos Checa	141

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	365
2	Yamaha	256
3	Suzuki	140
4	/ Proton KR	88
5	Aprilia	33

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