1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 51st F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.

Season summary

The dominant reign of Honda's Mick Doohan came to an end with serious injuries suffered in practice for the Spanish Grand Prix.^[1] In his absence, his Honda team-mate Àlex Crivillé stepped forward and claimed Spain's first-ever 500cc world championship.^[1] Kenny Roberts, Jr. gave a strong performance to finish in second with four victories including an outright victory over Doohan in Japan.^[1]

A young Valentino Rossi continued to impress for Aprilia, winning nine races and claiming his second world championship, this time in the 250 class.^[1] Honda's Emilio Alzamora became the second rider to win a world championship without winning a race when he captured the 125 crown from Marco Melandri and Masao Azuma who split five victories between them.^[1]

Grands Prix

Round	Race	Location	125cc winner	250cc winner	500cc winner	Report
1	Malaysian Grand Prix	Sepang	Masao Azuma	Loris Capirossi	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Report
2	Japanese Grand Prix	Motegi	Masao Azuma	Shinya Nakano	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Report
3	Spanish Grand Prix	Jerez	Masao Azuma	Valentino Rossi	Àlex Crivillé	Report
4	French Grand Prix	Paul Ricard	Roberto Locatelli	Tohru Ukawa	Àlex Crivillé	Report
5	Italian Grand Prix	Mugello	Roberto Locatelli	Valentino Rossi	Àlex Crivillé	Report
6	Catalan Grand Prix	Catalunya	Arnaud Vincent	Valentino Rossi	Àlex Crivillé	Report
7	Dutch TT	Assen	Masao Azuma	Loris Capirossi	Tadayuki Okada	Report
8	British Grand Prix	Donington	Masao Azuma	Valentino Rossi	Àlex Crivillé	Report
9	German Grand Prix	Sachsenring	Marco Melandri	Valentino Rossi	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Report
10	Czech Republic Grand Prix	Brno	Marco Melandri	Valentino Rossi	Tadayuki Okada	Report
11	Imola Grand Prix	Imola	Marco Melandri	Loris Capirossi	Àlex Crivillé	Report
12	Valencia Grand Prix	Valencia	Gianluigi Scalvini	Tohru Ukawa	Régis Laconi	Report
13	Australian Grand Prix	Phillip Island	Marco Melandri	Valentino Rossi	Tadayuki Okada	Report
14	South African Grand Prix	Welkom	Gianluigi Scalvini	Valentino Rossi	Max Biaggi	Report
15	Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix	Rio de Janeiro	Noboru Ueda	Valentino Rossi	Norifumi Abe	Report
16	Argentine Grand Prix	Buenos Aires	Marco Melandri	Olivier Jacque	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Report

Final standings

500cc final standings^[2][3]

Pos Rider Bike MAL JPN ESP FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE IMO VAL AUS RSA RIO ARG Pts 1 Alex Criville Honda 3 4 1 1 1 1 Ret 1 2 2 1 Ret 5 3 6 5 267 2 Kenny Roberts, Jr. Suzuki 1 1 13 Ret 5 6 2 8 1 3 6 2 10 22 3 1 220 3 Tadayuki Okada Honda 5 15 4 9 3 2 1 2 Ret 1 4 4 1 4 7 Ret 211 4 Max Biaggi Yamaha Ret 9 2 Ret 2 Ret 5 4 Ret 4 3 7 2 1 2 2 194 5 Sete Gibernau Honda 10 5 3 4 6 3 3 DNS 9 10 10 9 6 2 5 6 165 6 Norick Abe Yamaha Ret 3 5 6 Ret Ret 6 6 3 Ret 11 6 16 9 1 3 136 7 Carlos Checa Yamaha 2 6 10 5 7 7 Ret Ret 4 Ret Ret 5 4 6 Ret 4 125 8 John Kocinski Honda Ret Ret 6 2 8 9 7 9 5 14 8 8 9 10 13 7 115 9 Alex Barros Honda 6 8 Ret 10 Ret Ret 10 5 8 7 2 10 Ret 11 4 8 110 10 Tetsuya Harada Aprilia 13 Ret Ret 3 4 4 11 3 7 5 13 11 Ret 15 12 11 104 11 Régis Laconi Yamaha 7 Ret 7 8 Ret Ret 12 Ret 13 9 5 1 3 14 11 12 103 12 Juan Borja Honda 8 11 9 7 9 5 8 7 10 12 Ret Ret 17 5 Ret 9 92 13 Nobuatsu Aoki Suzuki 9 10 Ret 11 4 Ret Ret 6 7 12 8 7 9 Ret 78 14 Garry McCoy Yamaha 15 Ret 11 8 9 3 7 8 8 13 65 15 Haruchika Aoki TSR-Honda 15 Ret 12 13 11 10 9 Ret 6 13 12 DNQ 11 12 15 15 54 16 Jurgen van den Goorbergh MuZ Weber Ret Ret 11 Ret Ret 8 13 Ret 12 11 14 Ret 12 13 Ret 10 40 17 Mick Doohan Honda 4 2 DNS 33 18 Simon Crafar Yamaha 14 Ret 14 11 12 DNQ 19 MuZ Weber 10 19 Sébastien Gimbert Honda 16 16 Ret 12 13 14 14 Ret 14 Ret 16 13 Ret 19 18 17 16 20 Luca Cadalora MuZ Weber Ret 8 Ret 10 Ret Ret Ret Ret 14 21 Shinichi Ito Honda 7 9 22 Yukio Kagayama Suzuki 11 12 DNS 9 23 José David de Gea TSR-Honda 15 8 Honda Ret Ret Modenas KR3 14 13 20 14 Ret 24 Markus Ober Honda 17 17 15 14 15 13 Ret Ret 17 7 25 Anthony Gobert MuZ Weber Ret 18 10 DNS 6 26 José Luis Cardoso TSR-Honda Ret 14 Ret Ret Ret 12 16 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 17 17 16 6 27 Michael Rutter Honda Ret 18 17 Ret Ret Ret Ret 11 Ret Ret Ret 16 Ret Ret Ret 19 5 28 Jean-Michel Bayle Modenas KR3 12 Ret Ret Ret Ret 4 29 Noriyasu Numata Muz Weber 13 3 30 Mark Willis BSL DNQ 18 DNQ DNQ 3 Modenas KR3 17 16 16 17 Ret 15 16 16 14 31 Mike Hale Modenas KR3 18 19 16 DNS 15 15 15 Ret Ret Ret 18 3 32 James Whitham Modenas KR3 Ret 14 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 2 33 Steve Martin Honda 14 21 Ret 20 2 Pos Rider Bike MAL JPN ESP FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE IMO VAL AUS RSA RIO ARG Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Finished, in points Blue Finished, no points Not classified (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

250cc final standings^[4]

Place	Rider	Number	Team	Machine	Points	Wins	Poles	F.Laps
1	Valentino Rossi	46	Aprilia	RSV250	309	9	5	8
2	Tohru Ukawa	4	Shell-Honda	NSR250	261	2	1	1
3	Loris Capirossi	1	Elf Axo-Honda	NSR250	209	3	2	3
4	Shinya Nakano	56	Chesterfield-Yamaha	YZR250	207	1	2	1
5	Stefano Perugini	7	Fila-Honda	NSR250	151			1
6	Ralf Waldmann	6	Aprilia	RSV250	131		1
7	Olivier Jacque	19	Chesterfield-Yamaha	YZR250	122	1	2	1
8	Franco Battaini	21	FGF-Aprilia	RSV250	121		1	1
9	Sebastian Porto	12	Semprucci Biesse-Yamaha	YZR250	98
10	Jeremy McWilliams	9	QUB-Aprilia	RSV250	83		1
11	Jason Vincent	24	Honda	NSR250	70
12	Anthony West	14	TSR-Honda	NSR250	66
13	Luca Boscoscuro	37	TSR-Honda	NSR250	66
14	Roberto Rolfo	44	Aprilia	RSV250	62
15	Tomomi Manako	11	Yamaha	YZR250	52
16	Alex Hofmann	66	TSR-Honda	NSR250	51
17	Marcellino Lucchi	34	Aprilia	RSV250	49
18	Masaki Tokudome	36	TSR-Honda	NSR250	37
19	Naoki Matsudo	49	Yamaha	YZR250	21
20	Daijiro Kato	51	Honda	NSR250	11
21	Julien Allemand		TSR		11
22	Tatsuya Yamaguchi		Honda		10
23	Fonsi Nieto		Yamaha		10
24	Toshihiko Honma		Yamaha		6
25	Lucas Oliver		Yamaha		6
26	Scott Smart		Aprilia		5
27	Johann Stigefelt		Yamaha		4
28	Jamie Robinson		Yamaha		4
29	David Garcia		Yamaha		4
30	Jarno Janssen		TSR		2
31	Tekkyu Kayo		TSR		1

125cc final standings^[5]

Place	Rider	Number	Machine	Points	Wins	Poles	F.Laps
1	Emilio Alzamora	7	Via Digital-Honda	227			3
2	Marco Melandri	13	Benetton Playlife-Honda	226	5	3	4
3	Masao Azuma	4	Benetton Playlife-Honda	190	5	2	1
4	Roberto Locatelli	15	Vasco Rossi-Aprilia	173	2	3	2
5	Noboru Ueda	6	Givi-Honda LCR	171	1	1	2
6	Gianluigi Scalvini	8	Inoxmacel-Aprilia	163	2	2	2
7	Arnaud Vincent	21	Valencia III Milenio-Aprilia	155	1	2
8	Simone Sanna	16	Polini-Honda	123
9	Lucio Cecchinello	5	Givi-Honda LCR	108		3
10	Gino Borsoi	23	Semprucci Biesse-Aprilia	106
11	Youichi Ui		Derbi	84
12	Mirko Giansanti		Aprilia	66
13	Ivan Goi		Honda	61
14	Kazuto Sakata		Honda	56
15	Steve Jenkner		Aprilia	54
16	Jeronimo Vidal		Aprilia	47
18	Randy De Puniet		Aprilia	26
19	Max Sabbatani		Honda	21
20	Hideyuki Nakajoh		Honda	20
21	Alessandro Brannetti		Aprilia	20
22	Angel Nieto Jr.		Honda	16
23	Pablo Nieto		Derbi	15
24	Katsuji Uezu		Yamaha	11
25	Frederic Petit		Aprilia	9
26	Reinhard Stolz		Honda	9
27	Kazuhiro Kubo		Yamaha	7
28	David Mico		Aprilia	7
29	Minoru Nakamura		Honda	6
30	Klaus Nöhles		Honda	5
31	William De Angelis		Honda	4
32	Robbin Harms		Aprilia	3
33	Toni Elias		Honda	2

500 cc participants

Team Constructor Motorcycle No Rider Rounds Repsol Honda Team Honda Honda NSR500 1 Mick Doohan 1–3 3 Àlex Crivillé all 8 Tadayuki Okada all Honda NSR500V Honda NSR500 15 Sete Gibernau all Marlboro Yamaha Team Yamaha Yamaha YZR500 (OWK1) 2 Max Biaggi all 4 Carlos Checa all MoviStar Honda Pons Honda Honda NSR500 5 Alex Barros all 14 Juan Borja all Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin Yamaha Yamaha YZR500 6 Norick Abe all Team Biland GP1 MuZ MuZ-Weber 500 7 Luca Cadalora 1, 3–7, 9–10 11 Simon Crafar 8 17 Jurgen van den Goorbergh all 27 Bernard Garcia 11–12 35 Anthony Gobert 13–16 71 Noriyasu Numata 2 Suzuki Grand Prix Team Suzuki Suzuki RGV500 (XR89) 9 Nobuatsu Aoki 1–3, 6–16 10 Kenny Roberts, Jr. all 16 Yukio Kagayama 1–2 4 Red Bull Yamaha WCM Yamaha Yamaha YZR500 11 Simon Crafar 1–6 24 Garry McCoy 7–16 21 Régis Laconi all Proton KR Modenas Modenas Modenas KR3 12 Jean-Michel Bayle 1–2, 4–6 20 Mike Hale 1–4, 10–16 52 David De Gea 12–16 68 Mark Willis 7, 9 69 Jamie Whitham 3, 5–10 Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team Honda Honda NSR500V 18 Markus Ober 1–9 32 Marc Garcia 12 37 Steve Martin 13–16 52 David De Gea 10–11 Kanemoto Honda Honda Honda NSR500 19 John Kocinski all Millar Honda Honda Honda NSR500V 21 Micheal Rutter all Tecmas Honda Elf Honda Honda NSR500V 22 Sebastien Gimbert all Technical Maxon TSR TSR TSR-Honda AC50M 25 José Luis Cardoso 1–8, 10–16 52 David De Gea 9 F.C.C. TSR TSR TSR-Honda AC50M 26 Haruchika Aoki all Aprilia Grand Prix Racing Aprilia Aprilia RSW-2 500 31 Tetsuya Harada all Lucky Strike Honda Racing Honda Honda NSR500 36 Shinichi Itoh 2 Team Paton Paton Paton V70 C10/5 43 Paolo Tessari 5–6 Raceline Malaysia Honda Honda NSR500V 45 John Allen 1 Team Vimto Honda Honda Honda NSR500V 46 John McGuinness 8 Buckley Systems BSL Racing BSL BSL 500 V3 68 Mark Willis 1, 3–5 Modenas Modenas KR3 10–16

Key Regular Rider Wildcard Rider Replacement Rider

References

• Büla, Maurice & Schertenleib, Jean-Claude (2001). Continental Circus 1949-2000. Chronosports S.A. ISBN 2-940125-32-5
• "The Official MotoGP website". http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/1999/NAT/500cc/World+Standing. Retrieved 2010-07-06. 

v t e Grand Prix motorcycle racing seasons 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013