2001 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

  2001 Spanish Grand Prix

Race details
Race 3 of 16 races in the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	May 6, 2001
Location	Circuito de Jerez
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.423 km (2.748 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:42.739
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:43.779
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Norick Abe
Third	Álex Crivillé
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Daijiro Kato
Time	1:43.959
Fastest lap
Rider	Daijiro Kato
Time	1:44.444
Podium
First	Daijiro Kato
Second	Tetsuya Harada
Third	Marco Melandri
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Youichi Ui
Time	1:48.002
Fastest lap
Rider	Masao Azuma
Time	1:48.385
Podium
First	Masao Azuma
Second	Lucio Cecchinello
Third	Gino Borsoi

The 2001 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of May 4–6, 2001 at the Circuito de Jerez.

500cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	27	47:15.126	1	25
2	6	Norick Abe	Yamaha	27	+2.307	3	20
3	28	Àlex Crivillé	Honda	27	+2.845	12	16
4	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	27	+4.157	4	13
5	11	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	27	+5.932	6	11
6	4	Alex Barros	Honda	27	+7.577	7	10
7	1	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	27	+14.459	8	9
8	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	27	+18.970	2	8
9	5	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	27	+19.725	11	7
10	15	Sete Gibernau	Suzuki	27	+20.239	14	6
11	3	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	27	+20.621	5	5
12	41	Noriyuki Haga	Yamaha	27	+29.891	10	4
13	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Proton KR	27	+42.838	9	3
14	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	27	+45.530	13	2
15	14	Anthony West	Honda	27	+45.848	19	1
16	9	Leon Haslam	Honda	27	+1:02.358	16
17	16	Johann Stigefelt	Sabre V4	27	+1:13.081	18
18	24	Jason Vincent	Pulse	27	+1:23.194	20
19	68	Mark Willis	Pulse	26	+1 Lap	22
Ret	8	Chris Walker	Honda	5	Accident	17
Ret	10	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	4	Retirement	15
Ret	21	Barry Veneman	Honda	3	Accident	21
DNS	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha		Did not start
DNS	12	Haruchika Aoki	Honda		Did not start
DNQ	26	Vladimir Častka	Paton

250cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	25	43:49.748	1	25
2	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	25	+11.789	5	20
3	5	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	25	+17.335	6	16
4	34	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	25	+17.870	2	13
5	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	25	+23.696	4	11
6	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	25	+24.979	11	10
7	44	Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	25	+25.757	12	9
8	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	25	+32.201	3	8
9	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	25	+39.404	9	7
10	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	25	+39.510	8	6
11	66	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	25	+53.435	18	5
12	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	25	+53.471	7	4
13	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	25	+1:02.113	10	3
14	12	Klaus Nöhles	Aprilia	25	+1:02.437	14	2
15	57	Lorenzo Lanzi	Aprilia	25	+1:07.791	24	1
16	42	David Checa	Honda	25	+1:12.964	16
17	20	Jeronimo Vidal	Aprilia	25	+1:16.192	19
18	81	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	25	+1:35.023	13
19	19	Julien Allemand	Yamaha	25	+1:35.337	23
20	55	Diego Giugovaz	Yamaha	25	+1:37.041	27
21	39	Ismael Bonilla	Honda	24	+1 lap	26
22	38	Álvaro Molina	Yamaha	24	+1 lap	25
23	98	Katja Poensgen	Aprilia	24	+1 lap	29
24	23	Cesar Barros	Yamaha	24	+1 lap	28
25	16	David Tomas	Honda	24	+1 lap	30
26	45	Stuart Edwards	Honda	24	+1 lap	31
27	41	Damaso Nacher	Honda	24	+1 lap	32
Ret	22	David de Gea	Yamaha	24	Accident	22
Ret	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	18	Accident	15
Ret	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	12	Retirement	20
Ret	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	7	Retirement	17
Ret	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	5	Accident	21

125cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	4	Masao Azuma	Honda	23	42:09.849	8	25
2	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	23	+4.923	3	20
3	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	23	+5.723	9	16
4	5	Noboru Ueda	TSR-Honda	23	+10.197	7	13
5	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Honda	23	+10.384	20	11
6	31	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	23	+10.604	15	10
7	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	23	+10.747	16	9
8	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	23	+15.231	14	8
9	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	23	+15.798	23	7
10	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	23	+19.497	12	6
11	21	Arnaud Vincent	Honda	23	+24.705	18	5
12	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	23	+27.712	4	4
13	24	Toni Elías	Honda	23	+28.109	6	3
14	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	23	+28.221	25	2
15	18	Jakub Smrž	Honda	23	+28.969	26	1
16	44	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	23	+33.743	24
17	28	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	23	+33.905	13
18	10	Jarno Müller	Honda	23	+38.247	22
19	12	Raul Jara	Aprilia	23	+58.393	27
20	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	23	+1:13.859	30
Ret	54	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	22	Incidente	2
Ret	43	Daniel Piñera	Honda	21	Ritiro	31
Ret	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	19	Incidente	1
Ret	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	18	Ritiro	17
Ret	14	Phillipp Hafeneger	Honda	18	Ritiro	32
Ret	20	Gaspare Caffiero	Aprilia	10	Ritiro	10
Ret	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Italjet	9	Ritiro	21
Ret	19	Alessandro Brannetti	Honda	7	Ritiro	28
Ret	27	Marco Petrini	Honda	7	Ritiro	29
Ret	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	6	Incidente	19
Ret	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	6	Ritiro	11
Ret	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	4	Ritiro	5

References

• "MotoGP official website". http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/2001/SPA/. Retrieved 2009-09-07. 

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