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| Race 2 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 2 April 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Sepang International Circuit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2000 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 2 April 2000 at the Sepang International Circuit.
The race was won by Kenny Roberts Jr., after he had already qualified for pole position on Saturday. [2]
At the start, Kenny Roberts Jr. lost ground to the Yamaha's of Carlos Checa and Norick Abe, with Loris Capirossi also making up ground to go up into third place, with Valentino Rossi right behind in 4th place. Kenny Roberts Jr. dropped down to 11th position.
After a few corners, both Àlex Crivillé and Capirossi fell and retired on the opening lap. Capirossi highsighted whilst accelerating out of the corner, taking out Crivillé in the process and almost taking out Roberts as well.
On lap 2, Roberts had moved up into 6th position, thanks to the crash from both Capirossi and Crivillé
On lap 3, Norick Abe crashed out of the race. He lowsided when coming out of corner 9 and slid into the grass.
On lap 4, Checa still led, with Rossi in second, McCoy in third, Roberts in 4th and Max Biaggi in 5th place. Rossi also crashed out of the race at turn 1, making this his second retirement of the season. He lost the front end, highsighted and slid into the grass with his Honda.
After a few laps, Roberts overtook McCoy and went up into second place, after Rossi retired. Checa still led the race, but Roberts' Suzuki was now closing in on the Yamaha of Checa with 14 laps to go.
On lap 7, Roberts overtook Checa to take a lead he would never surrender.
On lap 11, McCoy overtook Biaggi for third place after Biaggi ran wide on the first corner. He tried to gain it back, but ultimately conceded. [3]
On lap 15, Roberts waved his hand, indicating that it was raining. The race was red-flagged, Roberts won and full points were given because two-thirds of the race distance was traversed by the riders. [4]
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 2 |  Kenny Roberts Jr. | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 15 | 31:58.102 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 7 |  Carlos Checa | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 15 | +1.870 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 24 |  Garry McCoy | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 15 | +7.190 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 |  Max Biaggi | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 15 | +13.202 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 9 |  Nobuatsu Aoki | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 15 | +22.214 | 11 | 11 |
| 6 | 8 | Tadayuki Okada | Repsol YPF Honda Team | Honda | 15 | +22.858 | 12 | 10 |
| 7 | 5 | Sete Gibernau | Repsol YPF Honda Team | Honda | 15 | +25.081 | 14 | 9 |
| 8 | 10 |  Alex Barros | Emerson Honda Pons | Honda | 15 | +25.229 | 9 | 8 |
| 9 | 55 |  Régis Laconi | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 15 | +25.522 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 99 |  Jeremy McWilliams | Aprilia Grand Prix Racing | Aprilia | 15 | +35.874 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 17 |  Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Rizla Honda | TSR-Honda | 15 | +46.150 | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia Grand Prix Racing | Aprilia | 15 | +46.615 | 16 | 4 |
| 13 | 25 | José Luis Cardoso | Maxon Dee Cee Jeans | Honda | 15 | +1:03.255 | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 11 | José David de Gea | Proton Team KR | Modenas KR3 | 15 | +1:05.616 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 22 | Sébastien Gimbert | Tecmas Honda Elf | Honda | 15 | +1:08.226 | 19 | 1 |
| 16 | 12 |  Shane Norval | Sabre Sport | Honda | 15 | +1:42.190 | 21 | |
| 17 | 6 | Norick Abe | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin | Yamaha | 14 | +1 lap | 5 | |
| Ret | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Nastro Azzurro Honda | Honda | 4 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 15 | Yoshiteru Konishi | F.C.C. TSR | TSR-Honda | 3 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 1 | Àlex Crivillé | Repsol YPF Honda Team | Honda | 0 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Emerson Honda Pons | Honda | 0 | Accident | 2 | |
| Sources: [5] [6] [7] | ||||||||
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Yamaha | 20 | 43:20.928 | 5 | 25 |
| 2 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Yamaha | 20 | +4.042 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Honda | 20 | +6.270 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 6 |  Ralf Waldmann | Aprilia | 20 | +17.172 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 13 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | 20 | +41.679 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | 14 | Anthony West | Honda | 20 | +43.577 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro | Aprilia | 20 | +46.589 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 9 |  Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 20 | +50.730 | 16 | 8 |
| 9 | 30 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 20 | +57.955 | 19 | 7 |
| 10 | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Aprilia | 20 | +58.477 | 12 | 6 |
| 11 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 20 | +58.659 | 11 | 5 |
| 12 | 24 | Jason Vincent | Aprilia | 20 | +59.380 | 23 | 4 |
| 13 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 20 | +1:05.180 | 7 | 3 |
| 14 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | TSR-Honda | 20 | +1:15.621 | 24 | 2 |
| 15 | 16 |  Johan Stigefelt | TSR-Honda | 20 | +1:19.994 | 25 | 1 |
| 16 | 41 | Jarno Janssen | TSR-Honda | 20 | +1:31.080 | 17 | |
| 17 | 25 | Vincent Philippe | TSR-Honda | 20 | +1:33.083 | 27 | |
| 18 | 18 |  Shahrol Yuzy | Yamaha | 20 | +1:45.662 | 18 | |
| 19 | 12 | Mike Baldinger | Yamaha | 20 | +1:46.346 | 26 | |
| Ret | 31 | Lucas Oliver | Yamaha | 13 | Retirement | 28 | |
| Ret | 54 | David García | Aprilia | 12 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Yamaha | 10 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 77 | Jamie Robinson | Aprilia | 7 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 15 | Adrian Coates | Aprilia | 4 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret | 11 | Ivan Clementi | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 26 | Klaus Nöhles | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 4 | Tohru Ukawa | Honda | 0 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 42 | David Checa | TSR-Honda | 0 | Accident | 20 | |
| Source: [8] | |||||||
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 4 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 19 | 43:30.945 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 19 | +0.161 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 32 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 19 | +0.163 | 9 | 16 |
| 4 | 1 | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 19 | +1.299 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 5 | Noboru Ueda | Honda | 19 | +6.246 | 1 | 11 |
| 6 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 19 | +6.315 | 12 | 10 |
| 7 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Aprilia | 19 | +11.098 | 15 | 9 |
| 8 | 3 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 19 | +11.329 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Honda | 19 | +11.540 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 26 | Ivan Goi | Honda | 19 | +15.917 | 11 | 6 |
| 11 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Derbi | 19 | +23.496 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 29 | Ángel Nieto Jr. | Honda | 19 | +26.226 | 16 | 4 |
| 13 | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Honda | 19 | +30.126 | 6 | 3 |
| 14 | 16 | Simone Sanna | Aprilia | 19 | +34.564 | 10 | 2 |
| 15 | 35 | Reinhard Stolz | Honda | 19 | +56.991 | 20 | 1 |
| 16 | 15 |  Alex de Angelis | Honda | 19 | +1:02.794 | 19 | |
| 17 | 18 | Antonio Elías | Honda | 19 | +1:03.411 | 18 | |
| 18 | 9 | Lucio Cecchinello | Honda | 19 | +1:04.648 | 8 | |
| 19 | 24 | Leon Haslam | Italjet | 19 | +1:25.423 | 24 | |
| 20 | 48 |  Decha Kraisart | Yamaha | 19 | +2:14.740 | 27 | |
| Ret | 51 | Marco Petrini | Aprilia | 14 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 39 |  Jaroslav Huleš | Italjet | 14 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 10 | Adrián Araujo | Honda | 12 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 53 | William de Angelis | Aprilia | 11 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 10 | Retirement | 2 | |
| Ret | 12 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 10 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 49 | Suhathai Chaemsap | Honda | 1 | Accident | 26 | |
| Source: [9] | |||||||
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round two has concluded. [10]
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