2001 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2001 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 19–21 October 2001 at the Sepang International Circuit.

  2001 Malaysian Grand Prix
Race details
Race 15 of 16 races in the
2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date21 October 2001
Official nameMalaysian Grand Prix[1]
LocationSepang International Circuit
Course
  • Permanent racing facility
  • 5.548 km (3.447 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider Loris Capirossi
Time 2:05.637
Fastest lap
Rider Valentino Rossi
Time 2:06.618 on lap 13
Podium
First Valentino Rossi
Second Loris Capirossi
Third Garry McCoy
250 cc
Pole position
Rider Daijiro Kato
Time 2:08.151
Fastest lap
Rider Daijiro Kato
Time 2:08.920 on lap 2
Podium
First Daijiro Kato
Second Tetsuya Harada
Third Fonsi Nieto
125 cc
Pole position
Rider Toni Elías
Time 2:15.358
Fastest lap
Rider Youichi Ui
Time 2:14.961 on lap 7
Podium
First Youichi Ui
Second Manuel Poggiali
Third Lucio Cecchinello

500 cc classification
Pos. No. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 46 Valentino Rossi Nastro Azzurro Honda Honda 21 44:46.652 2 25
2 65 Loris Capirossi West Honda Pons Honda 21 +3.551 1 20
3 5 Garry McCoy Red Bull Yamaha WCM Yamaha 21 +4.722 4 16
4 56 Shinya Nakano Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 21 +5.005 6 13
5 11 Tohru Ukawa Repsol YPF Honda Team Honda 21 +8.807 12 11
6 28 Àlex Crivillé Repsol YPF Honda Team Honda 21 +12.192 11 10
7 4 Alex Barros West Honda Pons Honda 21 +15.682 5 9
8 15 Sete Gibernau Telefónica Movistar Suzuki Suzuki 21 +18.772 8 8
9 41 Noriyuki Haga Red Bull Yamaha WCM Yamaha 21 +27.012 14 7
10 7 Carlos Checa Marlboro Yamaha Team Yamaha 21 +28.829 13 6
11 10 José Luis Cardoso Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin Yamaha 21 +29.007 16 5
12 14 Anthony West Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team Honda 21 +1:02.166 18 4
13 6 Norifumi Abe Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin Yamaha 21 +1:20.535 10 3
14 18 Brendan Clarke Shell Advance Honda Honda 21 +2:04.455 22 2
15 9 Leon Haslam Shell Advance Honda Honda 21 +2:04.500 20 1
Ret 19 Olivier Jacque Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 12 Accident 7
Ret 21 Barry Veneman Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team Honda 7 Accident 19
Ret 12 Haruchika Aoki Arie Molenaar Racing Honda 6 Retirement 15
Ret 16 Johan Stigefelt Sabre Sport Sabre V4 5 Retirement 21
Ret 1 Kenny Roberts Jr. Telefónica Movistar Suzuki Suzuki 3 Accident 9
Ret 3 Max Biaggi Marlboro Yamaha Team Yamaha 3 Accident 3
Ret 80 Kurtis Roberts Proton Team KR Proton KR 2 Accident 17
DNS 17 Jurgen van den Goorbergh Proton Team KR Proton KR Did not start
Sources: [1][2][3]

250 cc classification
Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 74 Daijiro Kato Honda 20 43:22.487 1 25
2 31 Tetsuya Harada Aprilia 20 +14.893 6 20
3 10 Fonsi Nieto Aprilia 20 +15.892 2 16
4 15 Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 20 +19.748 7 13
5 99 Jeremy McWilliams Aprilia 20 +35.867 9 11
6 21 Franco Battaini Aprilia 20 +46.364 13 10
7 8 Naoki Matsudo Yamaha 20 +46.408 12 9
8 66 Alex Hofmann Aprilia 20 +46.731 11 8
9 50 Sylvain Guintoli Aprilia 20 +56.513 14 7
10 44 Roberto Rolfo Aprilia 20 +58.914 4 6
11 5 Marco Melandri Aprilia 20 +1:00.301 8 5
12 81 Randy de Puniet Aprilia 20 +1:00.689 5 4
13 37 Luca Boscoscuro Aprilia 20 +1:09.730 15 3
14 6 Alex Debón Aprilia 20 +1:09.953 17 2
15 42 David Checa Honda 20 +1:10.810 18 1
16 16 David Tomás Honda 20 +1:10.847 23
17 11 Riccardo Chiarello Aprilia 20 +1:12.008 16
18 24 Jason Vincent Yamaha 20 +1:26.290 22
19 20 Jerónimo Vidal Aprilia 20 +1:30.098 24
20 22 José David de Gea Yamaha 20 +1:37.261 21
21 55 Diego Giugovaz Aprilia 20 +1:37.635 25
22 36 Luis Costa Yamaha 20 +1:49.118 26
23 27 Shaun Geronimi Yamaha 19 +1 lap 28
Ret 57 Lorenzo Lanzi Aprilia 11 Retirement 19
Ret 14 Katja Poensgen Honda 9 Accident 27
Ret 7 Emilio Alzamora Honda 8 Accident 3
Ret 9 Sebastián Porto Yamaha 6 Retirement 20
Ret 18 Shahrol Yuzy Yamaha 2 Accident 10
DNS 23 César Barros Yamaha Did not start
DNQ 45 Stuart Edwards Yamaha Did not qualify
Source: [4]

125 cc classification
Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 41 Youichi Ui Derbi 19 43:21.269 2 25
2 54 Manuel Poggiali Gilera 19 +2.078 8 20
3 9 Lucio Cecchinello Aprilia 19 +2.196 3 16
4 26 Dani Pedrosa Honda 19 +3.161 4 13
5 23 Gino Borsoi Aprilia 19 +3.987 5 11
6 24 Toni Elías Honda 19 +4.265 1 10
7 21 Arnaud Vincent Honda 19 +4.468 11 9
8 4 Masao Azuma Honda 19 +5.123 10 8
9 6 Mirko Giansanti Honda 19 +30.026 16 7
10 11 Max Sabbatani Aprilia 19 +30.292 7 6
11 5 Noboru Ueda TSR-Honda 19 +30.417 13 5
12 25 Joan Olivé Honda 19 +30.684 14 4
13 7 Stefano Perugini Italjet 19 +30.860 27 3
14 15 Alex de Angelis Honda 19 +31.433 15 2
15 39 Jaroslav Huleš Honda 19 +31.802 12 1
16 16 Simone Sanna Aprilia 19 +33.406 9
17 31 Ángel Rodríguez Aprilia 19 +36.162 23
18 12 Raúl Jara Aprilia 19 +36.542 26
19 20 Gaspare Caffiero Aprilia 19 +37.248 22
20 28 Gábor Talmácsi Honda 19 +41.564 19
21 10 Jarno Müller Honda 19 +41.660 20
22 37 William de Angelis Honda 19 +1:11.823 29
23 77 Adrián Araujo Honda 19 +1:34.039 30
Ret 29 Ángel Nieto Jr. Honda 17 Retirement 6
Ret 34 Eric Bataille Honda 7 Retirement 24
Ret 8 Gianluigi Scalvini Italjet 7 Retirement 21
Ret 17 Steve Jenkner Aprilia 0 Accident 28
Ret 18 Jakub Smrž Honda 0 Accident 17
Ret 19 Alessandro Brannetti Aprilia 0 Accident 25
Ret 22 Pablo Nieto Derbi 0 Accident 18
Source: [5]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fifteen has concluded.[6]

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
gollark: IIRC it can be proven that no polynomial makes infinitely many primes like that.
gollark: It generates primes for a while then doesn't.
gollark: If it was not for knowing that it didn't always produce primes we may have been fooled.
gollark: Being highly efficient, everyone just put in increasing values until a composite number came out.
gollark: Once in a maths lesson we were doing (dis)proof by counterexample and got the traditional x²+x+41 thing.

References
  1. "2001 Malaysian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  2. "Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 21 October 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  3. "MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 2001". Motogp.com. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  4. "Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 21 October 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  5. "Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 21 October 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  6. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2001. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
Previous race:
2001 Australian Grand Prix		 FIM Grand Prix World Championship
2001 season		 Next race:
2001 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix
Previous race:
2000 Malaysian Grand Prix		 Malaysian Grand Prix Next race:
2002 Malaysian Grand Prix
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.