2002 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix

  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
Time	1:31.919
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:32.233
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Alex Barros
Third	Tohru Ukawa
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	1:33.904
Fastest lap
Rider	Marco Melandri
Time	1:34.072
Podium
First	Marco Melandri
Second	Fonsi Nieto
Third	Sebastián Porto
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Manuel Poggiali
Time	1:38.632
Fastest lap
Rider	Dani Pedrosa
Time	1:37.983
Podium
First	Manuel Poggiali
Second	Lucio Cecchinello
Third	Pablo Nieto

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.

MotoGP classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	27	42:02.041	7	25
2	4	Alex Barros	Honda	27	+9.782	5	20
3	11	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	27	+11.134	6	16
4	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	27	+11.327	10	13
5	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	27	+11.414	4	11
6	3	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	27	+20.937	8	10
7	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton KR	27	+22.505	3	9
8	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	27	+26.642	17	8
9	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	27	+26.692	12	7
10	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton KR	27	+31.994	1	6
11	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	27	+34.563	20	5
12	15	Sete Gibernau	Suzuki	27	+38.827	15	4
13	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	27	+45.418	16	3
14	31	Tetsuya Harada	Honda	27	+52.542	18	2
15	30	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	27	+52.565	21	1
16	21	John Hopkins	Yamaha	27	+1:12.169	14
17	84	Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki	27	+1:12.196	19
18	8	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	26	+1 lap	2
Ret	72	Shinichi Ito	Honda	11	Retirement	13
Ret	55	Régis Laconi	Aprilia	10	Retirement	11
Ret	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	2	Retirement	9
DNS	6	Norifumi Abe	Yamaha

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	39:44.293	2	25
2	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	+0.007	1	20
3	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	+5.766	3	16
4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	+16.042	9	13
5	Toni Elías	Aprilia	+18.917	4	11
6	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	+18.985	5	10
7	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	+21.349	6	9
8	David Checa	Aprilia	+39.582	12	8
9	Alex Debón	Aprilia	+46.230	8	7
10	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	+50.645	13	6
11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	+55.268	15	5
12	Jaroslav Huleš	Yamaha	+55.288	7	4
13	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	+1:07.391	11	3
14	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	+1:09.565	16	2
15	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	+1:09.973	18	1
16	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	+1:10.270	21
17	Jakub Smrž	Honda	+1:10.368	22
18	Leon Haslam	Honda	+1:10.966	10
19	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	+1:25.241	19
20	Russell Holland	Yamaha	+1 Lap	25
Ret	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	Retirement	23
Ret	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	Retirement	24
Ret	Jay Vincent	Honda	Retirement	17
Ret	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	Retirement	14
Ret	Erwan Nigon	Honda	Retirement	20

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	38:08.028	1	25
2	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	+1.252	5	20
3	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	+1.310	6	16
4	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	+1.414	2	13
5	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	+1.575	10	11
6	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	+5.615	7	10
7	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	+16.861	4	9
8	Masao Azuma	Honda	+21.544	17	8
9	Joan Olivé	Honda	+21.833	16	7
10	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	+22.168	9	6
11	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	+28.012	12	5
12	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	+32.645	13	4
13	Youichi Ui	Derbi	+33.386	14	3
14	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	+39.047	19	2
15	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	+39.117	24	1
16	Gábor Talmácsi	Italjet	+39.282	20
17	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	+55.604	21
18	Klaus Nohles	Honda	+57.689	25
19	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	+57.861	27
20	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	+58.141	28
21	Noboru Ueda	Honda	+58.148	26
22	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	+1:28.678	29
23	Imre Tóth	Honda	+1:32.597	30
24	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	+1:32.853	33
25	Joshua Waters	Honda	+1 Lap	32
26	Peter Holmes	Honda	+1 Lap	35
27	Jeremy Crowe	Honda	+1 Lap	36
Ret	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	Retirement	23
Ret	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	Retirement	22
Ret	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	Retirement	3
Ret	Mika Kallio	Honda	Retirement	11
Ret	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	Retirement	31
Ret	Christian Pistoni	Italjet	Retirement	34
Ret	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	Retirement	15
Ret	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	Retirement	8
Ret	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	Retirement	18