# 2001 German motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2001 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 20–22 July 2001 at the Sachsenring.

## 500 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 30 | 43:36.983 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 30 | +3.249 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 30 | +3.642 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 6 | Norifumi Abe | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin | Yamaha | 30 | +4.784 | 8 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Alex Barros | West Honda Pons | Honda | 30 | +21.164 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 30 | +21.385 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Nastro Azzurro Honda | Honda | 30 | +21.945 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | West Honda Pons | Honda | 30 | +22.485 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 1 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 30 | +23.331 | 9 | 7 |
| 10 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 30 | +24.404 | 10 | 6 |
| 11 | 5 | Garry McCoy | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 30 | +24.410 | 6 | 5 |
| 12 | 41 | Noriyuki Haga | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 30 | +43.996 | 16 | 4 |
| 13 | 10 | José Luis Cardoso | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin | Yamaha | 30 | +44.216 | 12 | 3 |
| 14 | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 30 | +44.329 | 13 | 2 |
| 15 | 14 | Anthony West | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 30 | +1:22.533 | 15 | 1 |
| 16 | 24 | Jason Vincent | Pulse GP | Pulse | 29 | +1 lap | 21 | |
| Ret | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Repsol YPF Honda Team | Honda | 27 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 18 | Brendan Clarke | Shell Advance Honda | Honda | 18 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 21 | Barry Veneman | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 13 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 16 | Johan Stigefelt | Sabre Sport | Sabre V4 | 9 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 12 | Haruchika Aoki | Arie Molenaar Racing | Honda | 0 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 9 | Leon Haslam | Shell Advance Honda | Honda | 0 | Accident | 18 | |
| DNS | 28 | Àlex Crivillé | Repsol YPF Honda Team | Honda | | Did not start | | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 5 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | 29 | 42:37.696 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Honda | 29 | +0.052 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 29 | +0.203 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Aprilia | 29 | +18.310 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 81 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 29 | +28.108 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 29 | +36.566 | 10 | 10 |
| 7 | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Aprilia | 29 | +36.764 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 29 | +36.918 | 13 | 8 |
| 9 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 29 | +40.466 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 29 | +43.174 | 5 | 6 |
| 11 | 18 | Shahrol Yuzy | Yamaha | 29 | +43.256 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 57 | Lorenzo Lanzi | Aprilia | 29 | +57.398 | 20 | 4 |
| 13 | 20 | Jerónimo Vidal | Aprilia | 29 | +1:11.662 | 23 | 3 |
| 14 | 11 | Riccardo Chiarello | Aprilia | 29 | +1:25.507 | 24 | 2 |
| 15 | 16 | David Tomás | Honda | 29 | +1:25.614 | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 75 | Dirk Heidolf | Yamaha | 28 | +1 lap | 25 | |
| 17 | 76 | Christian Gemmel | Honda | 28 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| 18 | 78 | Max Neukirchner | Honda | 28 | +1 lap | 32 | |
| 19 | 36 | Luis Costa | Yamaha | 28 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| 20 | 98 | Katja Poensgen | Aprilia | 28 | +1 lap | 33 | |
| Ret | 12 | Klaus Nöhles | Aprilia | 27 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 27 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 23 | César Barros | Yamaha | 13 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret | 45 | Stuart Edwards | Honda | 11 | Accident | 31 | |
| Ret | 55 | Diego Giugovaz | Yamaha | 8 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Aprilia | 7 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 7 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 77 | Marcel Schneider | Honda | 6 | Accident | 34 | |
| Ret | 42 | David Checa | Honda | 5 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 9 | Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 2 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 22 | José David de Gea | Yamaha | 2 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 1 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro | Aprilia | 1 | Accident | 18 | |
| DNS | 25 | Vincent Philippe | Honda | 0 | Did not start | 26 | |
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## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 16 | Simone Sanna | Aprilia | 27 | 41:09.327 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 24 | Toni Elías | Honda | 27 | +0.247 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 27 | +0.701 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 27 | +0.734 | 11 | 13 |
| 5 | 9 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 27 | +1.370 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 39 | Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 27 | +2.202 | 16 | 10 |
| 7 | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Aprilia | 27 | +2.326 | 1 | 9 |
| 8 | 31 | Ángel Rodríguez | Aprilia | 27 | +5.877 | 14 | 8 |
| 9 | 18 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 27 | +6.132 | 9 | 7 |
| 10 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 27 | +10.071 | 6 | 6 |
| 11 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 27 | +23.066 | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Honda | 27 | +23.089 | 15 | 4 |
| 13 | 29 | Ángel Nieto Jr. | Honda | 27 | +23.309 | 13 | 3 |
| 14 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 27 | +27.801 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 25 | Joan Olivé | Honda | 27 | +28.065 | 23 | 1 |
| 16 | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Italjet | 27 | +28.139 | 21 | |
| 17 | 19 | Alessandro Brannetti | Aprilia | 27 | +28.948 | 22 | |
| 18 | 28 | Gábor Talmácsi | Honda | 27 | +32.317 | 26 | |
| 19 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 27 | +35.643 | 8 | |
| 20 | 34 | Eric Bataille | Honda | 27 | +40.978 | 20 | |
| 21 | 27 | Marco Petrini | Honda | 27 | +44.624 | 17 | |
| 22 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Italjet | 27 | +1:06.673 | 19 | |
| 23 | 12 | Raúl Jara | Aprilia | 27 | +1:07.108 | 29 | |
| 24 | 79 | Andreas Hahn | Honda | 27 | +1:08.085 | 30 | |
| 25 | 78 | Claudius Klein | Honda | 27 | +1:08.383 | 28 | |
| 26 | 80 | Tobias Kirmeier | Honda | 27 | +1:08.632 | 27 | |
| 27 | 81 | René Knöfler | Yamaha | 26 | +1 lap | 31 | |
| Ret | 77 | Adrián Araujo | Honda | 15 | Retirement | 32 | |
| Ret | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Derbi | 8 | Retirement | 12 | |
| Ret | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Honda | 8 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 6 | Retirement | 7 | |
| Ret | 82 | Mika Kallio | Honda | 0 | Retirement | 25 | |
| DNS | 5 | Noboru Ueda | TSR-Honda | | Did not start | | |
| DNS | 20 | Gaspare Caffiero | Aprilia | | Did not start | | |
| WD | 10 | Jarno Müller | Honda | | Withdrew | | |
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## Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round nine has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 170 |
| 2 | Max Biaggi | 160 |
| 3 | Loris Capirossi | 111 |
| 4 | Alex Barros | 100 |
| 5 | Shinya Nakano | 100 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 197 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 184 |
| 3 | Suzuki | 83 |
| 4 | Proton KR | 43 |
| 5 | Pulse | 3 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.