1999 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1999 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth race of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 6 June 1999 at the Mugello Circuit.

  1999 Italian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 5 of 16 races in the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	6 June 1999
Official name	Gran Premio d'Italia IP[1][2]
Location	Mugello Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.245 km (3.259 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 1:52.454 Fastest lap Rider Kenny Roberts, Jr. Time 1:53.889 on lap 2 Podium First Àlex Crivillé Second Max Biaggi Third Tadayuki Okada
250 cc
Pole position Rider Marcellino Lucchi Time 1:54.376 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:55.254 on lap 7 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Ralf Waldmann Third Tohru Ukawa
125 cc
Pole position Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 2:00.254 Fastest lap Rider Kazuto Sakata Time 2:00.648 on lap 12 Podium First Roberto Locatelli Second Marco Melandri Third Noboru Ueda

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	44:05.522	2	25
2	2	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+0.283	13	20
3	8	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	+6.052	7	16
4	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia Grand Prix Racing	Aprilia	23	+6.849	1	13
5	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	23	+12.674	3	11
6	15	Sete Gibernau	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	+12.714	12	10
7	4	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+21.341	9	9
8	19	John Kocinski	Kanemoto Honda	Honda	23	+29.800	4	8
9	14	Juan Borja	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	23	+29.801	8	7
10	7	Luca Cadalora	Team Biland GP1	MuZ Weber	23	+46.742	6	6
11	26	Haruchika Aoki	FCC TSR	TSR-Honda	23	+1:07.293	17	5
12	11	Simon Crafar	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	23	+1:14.550	19	4
13	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	23	+1:20.353	18	3
14	69	Jamie Whitham	Proton KR Modenas	Modenas KR3	23	+1:27.761	16	2
15	18	Markus Ober	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	23	+1:45.918	20	1
Ret	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	17	Accident	10
Ret	12	Jean-Michel Bayle	Proton KR Modenas	Modenas KR3	7	Retirement	15
Ret	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Team Biland GP1	MuZ Weber	6	Retirement	11
Ret	21	Michael Rutter	Millar Honda	Honda	3	Retirement	22
Ret	5	Alex Barros	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	1	Accident	14
Ret	25	José Luis Cardoso	Team Maxon TSR	TSR-Honda	1	Retirement	21
Ret	43	Paolo Tessari	Team Paton	Paton	0	Accident	23
Ret	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	0	Accident	5
DNQ	68	Mark Willis	Buckley Systems BSL Racing	BSL		Did not qualify
Sources: [3][4][5]

250 cc classification

Loris Capirossi was black-flagged for causing Marcellino Lucchi's crash at the start of the race;[6] in addition, as he did not return to the pits within one lap after having been shown the flag, he was banned from the following event.[7]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	21	40:52.837	6	25
2	6	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	21	+2.643	4	20
3	4	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	21	+2.684	9	16
4	9	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	21	+11.333	7	13
5	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	21	+11.684	5	11
6	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	21	+12.447	3	10
7	24	Jason Vincent	Honda	21	+21.184	11	9
8	7	Stefano Perugini	Honda	21	+21.721	12	8
9	12	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	21	+40.911	13	7
10	37	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	21	+45.815	16	6
11	36	Masaki Tokudome	TSR-Honda	21	+53.891	18	5
12	16	Johan Stigefelt	Yamaha	21	+54.066	17	4
13	11	Tomomi Manako	Yamaha	21	+54.096	22	3
14	23	Julien Allemand	TSR-Honda	21	+1:18.330	24	2
15	15	David García	Yamaha	21	+1:21.272	19	1
16	66	Alex Hofmann	TSR-Honda	21	+1:27.000	14
17	10	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	21	+1:33.576	25
18	55	Filippo Cotti	Yamaha	21	+1:33.644	23
19	58	Matías Ríos	Aprilia	20	+1 lap	28
Ret	44	Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	10	Retirement	8
Ret	14	Anthony West	TSR-Honda	10	Retirement	21
Ret	41	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	9	Accident	20
Ret	27	Rob Filart	Honda	3	Accident	26
Ret	48	Ivan Clementi	Aprilia	3	Accident	15
Ret	31	Toshihiko Honma	Yamaha	0	Accident	10
Ret	34	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	0	Accident	1
Ret	47	Ivan Mengozzi	Yamaha	0	Accident	27
DSQ	1	Loris Capirossi	Honda	15	Black flag	2
Source: [8]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	20	40:52.672	1	25
2	13	Marco Melandri	Honda	20	+0.271	5	20
3	6	Noboru Ueda	Honda	20	+0.295	4	16
4	16	Simone Sanna	Honda	20	+0.343	6	13
5	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	20	+0.442	7	11
6	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	20	+0.588	11	10
7	4	Masao Azuma	Honda	20	+0.589	12	9
8	1	Kazuto Sakata	Honda	20	+1.193	13	8
9	5	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	20	+1.260	3	7
10	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	20	+1.338	10	6
11	32	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	20	+1.429	15	5
12	10	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	20	+2.269	8	4
13	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	20	+8.436	14	3
14	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	20	+10.382	17	2
15	26	Ivan Goi	Honda	20	+10.541	18	1
16	11	Max Sabbatani	Honda	20	+10.695	16
17	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Honda	20	+17.572	19
18	9	Frédéric Petit	Aprilia	20	+17.668	9
19	12	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	20	+23.619	21
20	44	Alessandro Brannetti	Aprilia	20	+23.731	20
21	20	Bernhard Absmeier	Aprilia	20	+34.245	24
22	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	20	+41.130	26
23	63	Marco Petrini	Aprilia	20	+42.373	22
24	64	Gaspare Caffiero	Aprilia	20	+42.593	28
25	66	Marco Tresoldi	Honda	20	+42.597	25
Ret	18	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	19	Retirement	23
Ret	62	Riccardo Chiarello	Aprilia	19	Retirement	27
Ret	65	Lorenzo Lanzi	Aprilia	9	Retirement	29
Ret	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	4	Retirement	2
Source: [9]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.[10]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Àlex Crivillé 104 2 Kenny Roberts Jr. 64 3 Carlos Checa 56 4 Sete Gibernau 56 5 Tadayuki Okada 48

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 111 2 Yamaha 87 3 Suzuki 64 4 Aprilia 32 5 MuZ Weber 17

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

References

1. "1999 Italian MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Mugello - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
3. "1999 Italian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
4. "Gran Premio d'Italia IP – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 6 June 1999. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
5. "motogp.com · ITALIAN GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1999". www.motogp.com.
6. "Stop a Capirossi". raisport.rai.it (in Italian). Rai Sport. 7 June 1999. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
7. "La dichiarazione del Team Gresini sulla squalifica di Capirossi". MotoCorse.com (in Italian). 10 June 1999. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
8. "Gran Premio d'Italia IP – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 6 June 1999. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
9. "Gran Premio d'Italia IP – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 6 June 1999. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
10. "Results" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 1998. Retrieved 2019-08-20.