1999 Catalan Grand Prix

Race details
Race 6 of 16 races in the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	20 June 1999
Official name	Gran Premi Marlboro de Catalunya[1]
Location	Circuit de Catalunya
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.727 km (2.937 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Jurgen vd Goorbergh Time 1:46.076 Fastest lap Rider Sete Gibernau Time 1:46.858 on lap 7 Podium First Àlex Crivillé Second Tadayuki Okada Third Sete Gibernau
250 cc
Pole position Rider Tohru Ukawa Time 1:48.199 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:48.278 on lap 2 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Tohru Ukawa Third Franco Battaini
125 cc
Pole position Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:52.491 Fastest lap Rider Noboru Ueda Time 1:52.813 on lap 13 Podium First Arnaud Vincent Second Emilio Alzamora Third Marco Melandri

The 1999 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 20 June 1999 at the Circuit de Catalunya.

Tadayuki Okada, Àlex Crivillé and Sete Gibernau, celebrating an all-Honda podium after finishing second, first and third in the 500cc race.

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	25	44:55.701	4	25
2	8	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	25	+0.061	8	20
3	15	Sete Gibernau	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	25	+4.467	3	16
4	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia Grand Prix Racing	Aprilia	25	+20.216	12	13
5	14	Juan Borja	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	25	+21.087	17	11
6	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	25	+22.006	7	10
7	4	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	25	+23.637	11	9
8	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Team Biland GP1	MuZ Weber	25	+23.711	1	8
9	19	John Kocinski	Kanemoto Honda	Honda	25	+23.899	10	7
10	26	Haruchika Aoki	FCC TSR	TSR-Honda	25	+29.845	15	6
11	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	25	+37.387	16	5
12	25	José Luis Cardoso	Team Maxon TSR	TSR-Honda	25	+1:08.539	18	4
13	18	Markus Ober	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	25	+1:08.712	21	3
14	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	25	+1:08.840	19	2
Ret	12	Jean-Michel Bayle	Proton KR Modenas	Modenas KR3	24	Accident	5
Ret	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	21	Accident	12
Ret	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	17	Accident	6
Ret	2	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	11	Accident	2
Ret	5	Alex Barros	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	8	Accident	9
Ret	21	Michael Rutter	Millar Honda	Honda	8	Retirement	22
Ret	69	James Whitham	Proton KR Modenas	Modenas KR3	8	Retirement	20
Ret	43	Paolo Tessari	Team Paton	Paton	7	Retirement	23
Ret	7	Luca Cadalora	Team Biland GP1	MuZ Weber	6	Retirement	14
WD	11	Simon Crafar	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha		Withdrew
Sources: [1][2][3]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	23	41:47.806	2	25
2	4	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	23	+0.258	1	20
3	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	23	+12.755	4	16
4	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	23	+13.085	3	13
5	44	Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	23	+25.429	7	11
6	9	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	23	+29.320	11	10
7	7	Stefano Perugini	Honda	23	+45.343	9	9
8	49	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	23	+45.563	10	8
9	12	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	23	+50.947	12	7
10	37	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	23	+51.482	16	6
11	66	Alex Hofmann	TSR-Honda	23	+51.673	13	5
12	11	Tomomi Manako	Yamaha	23	+51.742	14	4
13	36	Masaki Tokudome	TSR-Honda	23	+1:11.473	15	3
14	22	Lucas Oliver	Yamaha	23	+1:26.093	18	2
15	41	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	23	+1:37.071	19	1
16	58	Matías Ríos	Aprilia	22	+1 lap	27
17	59	Jesús Pérez	Honda	22	+1 lap	29
18	69	Daniel Ribalta	Yamaha	22	+1 lap	28
Ret	34	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	17	Retirement	5
Ret	60	Alex Debón	Honda	15	Retirement	21
Ret	62	Álvaro Molina	Honda	11	Retirement	25
Ret	15	David García	Yamaha	6	Retirement	24
Ret	24	Jason Vincent	Honda	4	Retirement	8
Ret	23	Julien Allemand	TSR-Honda	3	Retirement	22
Ret	16	Johan Stigefelt	Yamaha	1	Retirement	17
Ret	10	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	0	Retirement	23
Ret	14	Anthony West	TSR-Honda	0	Retirement	20
Ret	6	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	0	Retirement	6
Ret	70	Iván Silva	Honda	0	Retirement	26
Source: [4]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	22	41:47.749	6	25
2	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	22	+0.011	12	20
3	13	Marco Melandri	Honda	22	+0.340	4	16
4	6	Noboru Ueda	Honda	22	+0.547	11	13
5	5	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	22	+1.262	2	11
6	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	22	+1.625	1	10
7	1	Kazuto Sakata	Honda	22	+2.097	13	9
8	16	Simone Sanna	Honda	22	+20.426	3	8
9	12	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	22	+20.595	16	7
10	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	22	+20.859	15	6
11	44	Alessandro Brannetti	Aprilia	22	+20.959	14	5
12	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	22	+22.768	9	4
13	9	Frédéric Petit	Aprilia	22	+22.812	21	3
14	32	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	22	+29.025	19	2
15	26	Ivan Goi	Honda	22	+42.860	22	1
16	18	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	22	+49.937	25
17	56	Adrián Araujo	Honda	22	+1:00.610	26
18	57	Luis Costa	Honda	22	+1:32.793	29
Ret	20	Bernhard Absmeier	Aprilia	21	Retirement	23
Ret	55	Antonio Elías	Honda	21	Retirement	27
Ret	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	10	Retirement	24
Ret	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	8	Accident	17
Ret	53	Emilio Delgado	Honda	8	Retirement	30
Ret	4	Masao Azuma	Honda	7	Retirement	8
Ret	10	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	6	Retirement	7
Ret	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	5	Retirement	5
Ret	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	5	Accident	10
Ret	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Honda	5	Accident	20
Ret	11	Max Sabbatani	Honda	2	Accident	18
Ret	43	Víctor Carrasco	Honda	2	Accident	28
Source: [5]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Àlex Crivillé 129 2 Kenny Roberts Jr. 74 3 Sete Gibernau 72 4 Tadayuki Okada 68 5 Carlos Checa 65

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 136 2 Yamaha 96 3 Suzuki 74 4 Aprilia 45 5 MuZ Weber 25

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

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