2000 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix

  2000 Malaysian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 2 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	2 April 2000
Official name	Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix [1]
Location	Sepang International Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.548 km (3.447 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Kenny Roberts Jr. Time 2:06.053 Fastest lap Rider Kenny Roberts Jr. Time 2:06.839 on lap 2 Podium First Kenny Roberts Jr. Second Carlos Checa Third Garry McCoy
250cc
Pole position Rider Tohru Ukawa Time 2:08.225 Fastest lap Rider Shinya Nakano Time 2:09.116 on lap 3 Podium First Shinya Nakano Second Olivier Jacque Third Daijiro Kato
125cc
Pole position Rider Noboru Ueda Time 2:15.886 Fastest lap Rider Mirko Giansanti Time 2:16.138 on lap 14 Podium First Roberto Locatelli Second Youichi Ui Third Mirko Giansanti

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.

500cc race report

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^{[ check spelling ]} 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]

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
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]

250 cc classification

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]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
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]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Garry McCoy 41 2 Carlos Checa 40 3 Kenny Roberts Jr. 35 4 Alex Barros 21 5 Nobuatsu Aoki 19

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 45 2 Suzuki 35 3 Honda 26 4 TSR-Honda 11 5 Aprilia 6

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

References

1. "2000 Malaysian MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
2. "Kenny Roberts on Pole for Malaysian Grand Prix « MotorcycleDaily.com – Motorcycle News, Editorials, Product Reviews and Bike Reviews". Motorcycledaily.com. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
3. "Yamaha leads in both 250 and 500 championships - Yamaha Racing". Archived from the original on 2019-01-03. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
4. "Roberts Victorious in Rain-Interrupted Malaysian 500 GP « MotorcycleDaily.com – Motorcycle News, Editorials, Product Reviews and Bike Reviews". Motorcycledaily.com. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
5. "2000 Malaysian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motrosportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
6. "Malaysian Grand Prix – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 2 April 2000. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
7. "MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 2000". Motogp.com. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
8. "Malaysian Grand Prix – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 2 April 2000. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
9. "Malaysian Grand Prix – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 2 April 2000. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
10. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2000. Retrieved 2019-08-20.

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