2002 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

  2002 Valencian Community Grand Prix

Race details
Race 16 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	3 November 2002
Official name	GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana
Location	Circuit de Valencia
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Max Biaggi
Time	1:33.211
Fastest lap
Rider	Alex Barros
Time	1:33.873
Podium
First	Alex Barros
Second	Valentino Rossi
Third	Max Biaggi
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Marco Melandri
Time	1:35.885
Fastest lap
Rider	Marco Melandri
Time	1:36.784
Podium
First	Marco Melandri
Second	Roberto Rolfo
Third	Emilio Alzamora
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Dani Pedrosa
Time	1:39.426
Fastest lap
Rider	Steve Jenkner
Time	1:40.252
Podium
First	Dani Pedrosa
Second	Arnaud Vincent
Third	Pablo Nieto

The 2002 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 1–3 November 2002 at the Circuit de Valencia.

MotoGP classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Alex Barros	Honda	30	47:22.404	2	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	30	+0.230	6	20
3	3	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	30	+15.213	1	16
4	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	30	+22.504	3	13
5	11	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	30	+35.165	7	11
6	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	30	+50.169	9	10
7	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	30	+1:03.814	15	9
8	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton KR	30	+1:05.079	8	8
9	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	30	+1:08.312	11	7
10	6	Norifumi Abe	Yamaha	30	+1:08.312	20	6
11	21	John Hopkins	Yamaha	30	+1:26.241	17	5
12	84	Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki	30	+1:27.427	18	4
13	15	Sete Gibernau	Suzuki	29	+1 lap	10	3
14	31	Tetsuya Harada	Honda	29	+1 lap	22	2
Ret	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	24	Retirement	14
Ret	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	19	Accident	12
Ret	29	David García	Proton KR	13	Retirement	19
Ret	8	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	6	Accident	4
Ret	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton KR	1	Accident	16
Ret	55	Régis Laconi	Aprilia	1	Retirement	13
Ret	30	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	0	Collision	21
Ret	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	0	Collision	5

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	43:57.812	1	25
2	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	+4.318	7	20
3	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	+4.538	4	16
4	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	+18.214	2	13
5	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	+21.990	12	11
6	David Checa	Aprilia	+22.173	11	10
7	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	+26.755	9	9
8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	+26.909	14	8
9	Alex Debón	Aprilia	+26.915	5	7
10	Toni Elías	Aprilia	+32.380	8	6
11	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	+36.294	13	5
12	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	+42.879	16	4
13	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	+42.889	10	3
14	Jay Vincent	Honda	+44.942	18	2
15	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	+47.348	15	1
16	Jaroslav Huleš	Yamaha	+47.849	19
17	Leon Haslam	Honda	+1:06.850	21
18	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	+1:20.276	26
19	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	+1:24.489	22
20	Erwan Nigon	Honda	+1:27.859	23
21	Chuck Sorensen	Aprilia	+1 Lap	27
Ret	Jakub Smrž	Honda	Retirement	20
Ret	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	Retirement	25
Ret	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	Retirement	6
Ret	Eric Bataille	Honda	Retirement	24
Ret	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	Retirement	17
Ret	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	Retirement	3

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	42:13.044	1	25
2	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	+0.100	4	20
3	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	+2.704	3	16
4	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	+3.069	5	13
5	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	+3.136	7	11
6	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	+8.041	6	10
7	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	+8.852	2	9
8	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	+11.879	18	8
9	Joan Olivé	Honda	+12.037	12	7
10	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	+14.757	8	6
11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	+15.167	13	5
12	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	+18.472	9	4
13	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	+18.514	20	3
14	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	+18.804	15	2
15	Gábor Talmácsi	Italjet	+23.694	11	1
16	Mika Kallio	Honda	+23.726	10
17	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	+23.782	14
18	Masao Azuma	Honda	+23.958	19
19	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	+24.110	17
20	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	+54.350	25
21	Klaus Nohles	Honda	+58.575	30
22	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	+58.916	26
23	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	+59.286	28
24	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	+1:10.021	35
25	Imre Tóth	Honda	+1:10.155	33
26	Ruben Catalan	Aprilia	+1:16.125	32
27	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	+1:16.138	34
28	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	+1:20.058	31
29	Vincent Braillard	Honda	+1 Lap	37
Ret	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	Retirement	27
Ret	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	Retirement	23
Ret	Julian Simon	Honda	Retirement	22
Ret	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	Retirement	29
Ret	Youichi Ui	Derbi	Retirement	16
Ret	Christian Pistoni	Italjet	Retirement	36
Ret	Chris Peris	Honda	Retirement	38
Ret	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	Retirement	24
Ret	Noboru Ueda	Honda	Retirement	21