2001 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2001 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth and latest round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 1–3 November 2001 at the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet. It was also the final 500cc race in Grand Prix motorcycle racing history. This also marked the final Grand Prix win in the career of Daijiro Kato before his death caused by a crash in the 2003 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix race.

  2001 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix

Race details
Race 16 of 16 races in the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	3 November 2001
Official name	Cinzano Rio Grand Prix[1]
Location	Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.933 km (3.065 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Tohru Ukawa Time 1:51.431 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:53.258 on lap 16 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Carlos Checa Third Max Biaggi
250 cc
Pole position Rider Fonsi Nieto Time 1:53.819 Fastest lap Rider Marco Melandri Time 1:55.315 on lap 22 Podium First Daijiro Kato Second Marco Melandri Third Roberto Locatelli
125 cc
Pole position Rider Youichi Ui Time 1:58.676 Fastest lap Rider Simone Sanna Time 2:11.067 on lap 6 Podium First Youichi Ui Second Simone Sanna Third Arnaud Vincent

Also, this is the last season without Jorge Lorenzo in the category until 2020.

500 cc classification

The race was held in two parts as rain caused its interruption; aggregate times from the two heats determined the final result.[2]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	24	45:57.414	5	25
2	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+0.143	7	20
3	3	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+6.980	10	16
4	4	Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	24	+19.053	12	13
5	65	Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	24	+20.655	2	11
6	6	Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	24	+20.829	9	10
7	28	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	24	+27.894	14	9
8	10	José Luis Cardoso	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	24	+45.110	15	8
9	56	Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	24	+2:25.532	4	7
10	5	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	23	+1 lap	13	6
11	9	Leon Haslam	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	23	+1 lap	18	5
12	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	23	+1 lap	6	4
13	14	Anthony West	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	22	+2 laps	16	3
14	12	Haruchika Aoki	Arie Molenaar Racing	Honda	22	+2 laps	17	2
15	18	Brendan Clarke	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	22	+2 laps	19	1
16	1	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	22	+2 laps	3
17	21	Barry Veneman	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	22	+2 laps	20
Ret	11	Tohru Ukawa	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	7	Retirement	1
Ret	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	1	Retirement	11
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	0	Retirement	8
DNS	41	Noriyuki Haga	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha		Did not start
Sources: [1][3][4]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	22	43:38.212	2	25
2	5	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	22	+0.508	7	20
3	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	22	+1.382	4	16
4	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	22	+3.569	1	13
5	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	22	+3.846	3	11
6	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	22	+11.032	5	10
7	7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	22	+14.786	11	9
8	44	Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	22	+26.769	12	8
9	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	22	+42.705	6	7
10	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	22	+45.602	9	6
11	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	22	+46.659	19	5
12	57	Lorenzo Lanzi	Aprilia	22	+55.054	18	4
13	81	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	22	+1:00.211	8	3
14	11	Riccardo Chiarello	Aprilia	22	+1:04.153	14	2
15	22	José David de Gea	Yamaha	22	+1:04.281	21	1
16	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	22	+1:04.807	10
17	66	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	22	+1:06.148	13
18	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	22	+1:24.059	15
19	45	Stuart Edwards	Yamaha	21	+1 lap	29
20	24	Jason Vincent	Yamaha	21	+1 lap	23
21	36	Luis Costa	Yamaha	21	+1 lap	28
22	42	David Checa	Honda	21	+1 lap	20
23	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	21	+1 lap	16
24	23	César Barros	Yamaha	21	+1 lap	27
25	27	Shaun Geronimi	Yamaha	20	+2 laps	25
26	14	Katja Poensgen	Honda	20	+2 laps	30
Ret	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	15	Retirement	17
Ret	55	Diego Giugovaz	Aprilia	10	Retirement	24
Ret	41	Dámaso Nácher	Honda	8	Retirement	31
Ret	16	David Tomás	Honda	3	Accident	22
Ret	84	Cristiano Vieira	Yamaha	3	Accident	26
DNQ	85	Rafael da Cunha	Honda		Did not qualify
Source: [5]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	21	46:47.181	1	25
2	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	21	+0.112	9	20
3	21	Arnaud Vincent	Honda	21	+27.647	14	16
4	24	Toni Elías	Honda	21	+32.325	4	13
5	54	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	21	+37.646	5	11
6	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	21	+42.052	18	10
7	4	Masao Azuma	Honda	21	+42.563	21	9
8	18	Jakub Smrž	Honda	21	+42.642	8	8
9	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Italjet	21	+42.867	20	7
10	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	21	+43.854	15	6
11	25	Joan Olivé	Honda	21	+1:11.667	7	5
12	10	Jarno Müller	Honda	21	+1:11.675	24	4
13	5	Noboru Ueda	TSR-Honda	21	+1:18.050	17	3
14	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	21	+1:50.142	28	2
15	19	Alessandro Brannetti	Aprilia	21	+1:56.893	26	1
16	77	Adrián Araujo	Honda	21	+2:01.428	30
17	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	21	+2:05.356	12
18	12	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	21	+2:09.956	23
19	48	Leandro Panadés	Honda	21	+2:10.408	31
20	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	20	+1 lap	10
Ret	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	12	Accident	3
Ret	50	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	6	Accident	2
Ret	31	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	6	Accident	11
Ret	7	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	5	Accident	16
Ret	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	3	Accident	6
Ret	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	3	Retirement	13
Ret	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	1	Accident	29
Ret	37	William de Angelis	Honda	1	Accident	27
Ret	28	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	1	Retirement	19
Ret	29	Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	0	Accident	22
Ret	6	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	0	Accident	25
Source: [6]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.[7][8]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 325 2 Max Biaggi 219 3 Loris Capirossi 210 4 Alex Barros 182 5 Shinya Nakano 155

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 367 2 Yamaha 295 3 Suzuki 153 4 Proton KR 65 5 Sabre V4 6

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

References

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3. "The 2001 races – Brazil". Classic.autosport.com. Autosport. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
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5. "Cinzano Rio Grand Prix – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 3 November 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
6. "Cinzano Rio Grand Prix – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). Motogp.com. Dorna Sports. 3 November 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
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