2002 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix

Race details
Race 12 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	22 September 2002
Official name	Cinzano Rio Grand Prix[1]
Location	Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.933 km (3.065 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Yamaha Time 1:50.568 Fastest lap Rider Carlos Checa Yamaha Time 1:59.827 on lap 11 Podium First Valentino Rossi Honda Second Max Biaggi Yamaha Third Kenny Roberts Jr. Suzuki
250 cc
Pole position Rider Randy de Puniet Aprilia Time 1:53.939 Fastest lap Rider Sebastián Porto Yamaha Time 2:04.661 on lap 10 Podium First Sebastián Porto Yamaha Second Roberto Rolfo Honda Third Franco Battaini Aprilia
125 cc
Pole position Rider Manuel Poggiali Gilera Time 1:57.888 Fastest lap Rider Masao Azuma Honda Time 2:10.065 on lap 17 Podium First Masao Azuma Honda Second Arnaud Vincent Aprilia Third Manuel Poggiali Gilera

The 2002 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 20–22 September 2002 at Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	49:09.516	2	25
2	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+1.674	1	20
3	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	24	+18.764	16	16
4	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	24	+24.759	15	13
5	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	24	+32.354	12	11
6	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	24	+34.360	11	10
7	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	24	+44.250	7	9
8	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	24	+57.150	18	8
9	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	24	+1:09.987	8	7
10	8	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	24	+1:17.611	4	6
11	30	José Luis Cardoso	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	24	+1:20.837	20	5
12	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	24	+1:50.774	10	4
13	31	Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	23	+1 lap	19	3
14	21	John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	23	+1 lap	14	2
Ret	55	Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	22	Accident	17
Ret	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	16	Accident	5
Ret	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	4	Accident	3
Ret	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	3	Accident	13
Ret	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	1	Accident	9
Ret	74	Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	0	Accident	6
Sources: [2][3][4]

250cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	22	47:01.307	2	25
2	4	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	22	+14.114	9	20
3	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	22	+15.812	10	16
4	3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	22	+26.998	4	13
5	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	22	+29.533	3	11
6	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	22	+31.868	12	10
7	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	22	+45.373	11	9
8	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	22	+1:11.324	7	8
9	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	22	+1:13.787	13	7
10	19	Leon Haslam	Honda	22	+1:15.478	17	6
11	13	Jaroslav Huleš	Yamaha	22	+1:16.715	14	5
12	42	David Checa	Aprilia	22	+1:50.844	18	4
13	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	22	+1:58.717	15	3
14	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	22	+2:12.040	24	2
15	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	21	+1 lap	23	1
16	22	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	21	+1 lap	25
17	32	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	21	+1 lap	22
Ret	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	15	Accident	5
Ret	17	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	14	Accident	1
Ret	51	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	14	Accident	20
Ret	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	12	Accident	8
Ret	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	12	Retirement	6
Ret	12	Jay Vincent	Honda	4	Accident	16
Ret	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	1	Retirement	21
Ret	11	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	1	Retirement	19
Source: [5]

125cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Masao Azuma	Honda	21	46:28.675	18	25
2	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	21	+1.705	2	20
3	1	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	21	+1.760	1	16
4	8	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	21	+9.177	3	13
5	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	21	+26.596	7	11
6	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	21	+32.745	19	10
7	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	21	+34.150	14	9
8	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	21	+34.488	9	8
9	12	Klaus Nöhles	Honda	21	+36.641	21	7
10	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	21	+40.381	5	6
11	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	21	+40.615	4	5
12	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	21	+41.428	11	4
13	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	21	+41.608	17	3
14	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	21	+41.630	15	2
15	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	21	+45.147	10	1
16	50	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	21	+49.885	23
17	33	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	21	+57.060	20
18	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	21	+1:13.948	6
19	42	Christian Pistoni	Italjet	21	+1:14.061	30
20	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	21	+1:17.495	13
21	37	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	21	+1:23.540	25
22	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	21	+1:24.059	16
23	84	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	21	+1:26.189	26
24	77	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	21	+1:29.225	24
25	9	Noboru Ueda	Honda	21	+1:32.402	22
26	72	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	21	+1:45.091	31
27	31	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	21	+1:52.619	29
28	20	Imre Tóth	Honda	21	+2:01.551	27
29	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	21	+2:04.263	28
Ret	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	12	Accident	12
Ret	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	2	Accident	8
Ret	19	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	1	Accident	32
Source: [6]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round twelve has concluded.^[7]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 270 2 Max Biaggi 164 3 Tohru Ukawa 156 4 Alex Barros 118 5 Carlos Checa 116

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 295 2 Yamaha 210 3 Suzuki 115 4 / Proton KR 68 5 Aprilia 28

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

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