2000 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

  2000 Japanese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 3 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	9 April 2000
Official name	Marlboro Grand Prix of Japan
Location	Suzuka Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.864 km (3.644 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Kenny Roberts Jr. Time 2:06.679 Fastest lap Rider Kenny Roberts Jr. Time 2:08.304 on lap 19 Podium First Norick Abe Second Kenny Roberts Jr. Third Tadayuki Okada
250cc
Pole position Rider Daijiro Kato Time 2:07.987 Fastest lap Rider Shinya Nakano Time 2:08.581 on lap 19 Podium First Daijiro Kato Second Tohru Ukawa Third Shinya Nakano
125cc
Pole position Rider Youichi Ui Time 2:14.975 Fastest lap Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 2:15.406 on lap 5 Podium First Youichi Ui Second Noboru Ueda Third Masao Azuma

The 2000 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 9 April 2000 at the Suzuka Circuit.

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	6	Norick Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	21	45:16.657	8	25
2	2	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	21	+0.279	1	20
3	8	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	21	+1.912	7	16
4	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	21	+2.002	12	13
5	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	21	+2.530	9	11
6	1	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	21	+2.678	10	10
7	10	Alex Barros	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	21	+4.213	14	9
8	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia Grand Prix Racing	Aprilia	21	+4.902	5	8
9	24	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	21	+15.471	11	7
10	19	Akira Ryo	Team Suzuki	Suzuki	21	+15.662	3	6
11	46	Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	21	+29.785	13	5
12	65	Loris Capirossi	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	21	+42.069	6	4
13	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Rizla Honda	TSR-Honda	21	+48.774	16	3
14	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	21	+58.022	15	2
15	11	José David de Gea	Proton Team KR	Modenas KR3	21	+1:22.141	19	1
16	15	Yoshiteru Konishi	F.C.C. TSR	TSR-Honda	21	+1:22.247	21
17	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	21	+1:22.523	20
18	12	Shane Norval	Sabre Sport	Honda	20	+1 lap	22
Ret	5	Sete Gibernau	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	20	Accident	4
Ret	4	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	10	Accident	2
Ret	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia Grand Prix Racing	Aprilia	8	Retirement	17
Ret	25	José Luis Cardoso	Maxon Dee Cee Jeans	Honda	4	Retirement	18
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250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	19	41:00.361	1	25
2	4	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	19	+0.129	4	20
3	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	19	+0.231	3	16
4	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	19	+15.009	2	13
5	13	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	19	+41.325	8	11
6	14	Anthony West	Honda	19	+53.261	14	10
7	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	19	+53.627	11	9
8	49	Osamu Miyazaki	Yamaha	19	+53.746	9	8
9	48	Shinichi Nakatomi	Honda	19	+59.737	13	7
10	50	Nobuyuki Ohsaki	Yamaha	19	+1:00.249	5	6
11	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	19	+1:00.344	18	5
12	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	19	+1:04.338	12	4
13	26	Klaus Nöhles	Aprilia	19	+1:12.660	28	3
14	32	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	19	+1:12.899	10	2
15	66	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	19	+1:13.434	23	1
16	24	Jason Vincent	Aprilia	19	+1:14.678	22
17	47	Tekkyu Kayoh	TSR-Honda	19	+1:17.496	21
18	16	Johan Stigefelt	TSR-Honda	19	+1:24.131	19
19	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	19	+1:25.829	15
20	51	Daisaku Sakai	Honda	19	+1:37.117	20
21	41	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	19	+1:45.687	27
22	10	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	19	+1:45.757	26
23	42	David Checa	TSR-Honda	19	+2:08.832	29
Ret	44	Roberto Rolfo	TSR-Honda	9	Retirement	30
Ret	11	Ivan Clementi	Aprilia	7	Accident	24
Ret	6	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	4	Accident	6
Ret	77	Jamie Robinson	Aprilia	3	Retirement	25
Ret	15	Adrian Coates	Aprilia	2	Accident	16
Ret	30	Alex Debón	Aprilia	0	Accident	17
DSQ	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	19	(+49.477)	7
DNS	25	Vincent Philippe	TSR-Honda		Did not start
DNS	54	David García	Aprilia		Did not start
DNS	12	Mike Baldinger	Yamaha		Did not start
Source:

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	18	41:04.264	1	25
2	5	Noboru Ueda	Honda	18	+7.848	2	20
3	3	Masao Azuma	Honda	18	+8.667	12	16
4	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	18	+18.623	5	13
5	1	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	18	+20.881	13	11
6	26	Ivan Goi	Honda	18	+21.329	9	10
7	55	Hideyuki Nakajoh	Honda	18	+22.707	11	9
8	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	18	+22.731	10	8
9	56	Yuzo Fujioka	Honda	18	+22.958	8	7
10	12	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	18	+23.261	7	6
11	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	18	+41.116	21	5
12	51	Marco Petrini	Aprilia	18	+41.157	23	4
13	17	Steve Jenkner	Honda	18	+41.952	28	3
14	57	Hiroyuki Kikuchi	Honda	18	+44.027	20	2
15	58	Katsuji Uezu	Yamaha	18	+48.081	17	1
16	35	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	18	+57.807	29
17	18	Antonio Elías	Honda	18	+58.792	18
18	53	William de Angelis	Aprilia	18	+59.182	27
19	11	Max Sabbatani	Honda	18	+59.503	22
20	10	Adrián Araujo	Honda	18	+1:44.115	30
Ret	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	15	Accident	15
Ret	4	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	15	Accident	3
Ret	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Italjet	12	Retirement	19
Ret	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	8	Accident	4
Ret	59	Shinichi Sugaya	Yamaha	8	Retirement	26
Ret	24	Leon Haslam	Italjet	3	Accident	25
Ret	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	2	Accident	6
Ret	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	2	Retirement	14
Ret	29	Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	1	Retirement	16
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	0	Accident	24
DNQ	54	Manuel Poggiali	Derbi		Did not qualify
Source:

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round three has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Kenny Roberts Jr.	55
2	Carlos Checa	51
3	Garry McCoy	48
4	Norifumi Abe	34
5	Nobuatsu Aoki	32

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Yamaha	70
2	Suzuki	55
3	Honda	42
4	Aprilia	14
5	TSR-Honda	14

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