# 2002 South African motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2002 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 19–21 April 2002 at the Phakisa Freeway.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | 44:39.467 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | +0.932 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | West Honda Pons | Honda | 28 | +8.259 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Fortuna Honda Gresini | Honda | 28 | +26.962 | 14 | 13 |
| 5 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 28 | +27.227 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 28 | +27.889 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 6 | Norifumi Abe | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | 28 | +30.215 | 15 | 9 |
| 8 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 28 | +30.781 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 28 | +43.796 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | 8 | Garry McCoy | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 28 | +45.501 | 5 | 6 |
| 11 | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Kanemoto Racing | Honda | 28 | +1:06.938 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Pramac Honda Racing Team | Honda | 28 | +1:19.560 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 20 | Pere Riba | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | 28 | +1:19.857 | 20 | 3 |
| 14 | 21 | John Hopkins | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 28 | +1:31.519 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 55 | Régis Laconi | MS Aprilia Racing | Aprilia | 28 | +1:32.725 | 18 | 1 |
| 16 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 27 | +1 lap | 10 | |
| Ret (17) | 4 | Alex Barros | West Honda Pons | Honda | 26 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret (18) | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 9 | Retirement | 6 | |
| Ret (19) | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 7 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret (20) | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 5 | Retirement | 16 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 3 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | 26 | 42:52.922 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 26 | +2.962 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 26 | +5.213 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Roberto Rolfo | Honda | 26 | +6.290 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 26 | +6.675 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 17 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 26 | +8.102 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 26 | +22.571 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 9 | Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 26 | +24.171 | 12 | 8 |
| 9 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 26 | +28.161 | 9 | 7 |
| 10 | 42 | David Checa | Aprilia | 26 | +36.261 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 26 | +47.211 | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 12 | Jay Vincent | Honda | 26 | +47.886 | 22 | 4 |
| 13 | 11 | Haruchika Aoki | Honda | 26 | +53.106 | 13 | 3 |
| 14 | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Aprilia | 26 | +1:02.767 | 20 | 2 |
| 15 | 19 | Leon Haslam | Honda | 26 | +1:04.093 | 18 | 1 |
| 16 | 24 | Toni Elías | Aprilia | 26 | +1:13.435 | 15 | |
| 17 | 41 | Jarno Janssen | Honda | 25 | +1 lap | 24 | |
| Ret (18) | 32 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 25 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret (19) | 18 | Shahrol Yuzy | Yamaha | 25 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret (20) | 22 | Raúl Jara | Aprilia | 9 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret (21) | 27 | Casey Stoner | Aprilia | 2 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret (22) | 51 | Hugo Marchand | Aprilia | 1 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret (23) | 25 | Vincent Philippe | Aprilia | 1 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret (24) | 76 | Taro Sekiguchi | Yamaha | 0 | Accident | 19 | |
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## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 1 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 24 | 41:26.120 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 24 | +0.270 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 24 | +0.826 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 24 | +1.098 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Aprilia | 24 | +1.187 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 24 | +1.583 | 12 | 10 |
| 7 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 24 | +1.830 | 8 | 9 |
| 8 | 16 | Simone Sanna | Aprilia | 24 | +12.839 | 16 | 8 |
| 9 | 5 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 24 | +13.942 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 24 | +19.201 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 9 | Noboru Ueda | Honda | 24 | +19.210 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Honda | 24 | +39.207 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Aprilia | 24 | +46.560 | 22 | 3 |
| 14 | 50 | Andrea Ballerini | Honda | 24 | +53.710 | 26 | 2 |
| 15 | 84 | Michel Fabrizio | Gilera | 24 | +53.868 | 25 | 1 |
| 16 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 24 | +54.001 | 21 | |
| 17 | 31 | Mattia Angeloni | Gilera | 24 | +54.739 | 30 | |
| 18 | 8 | Gábor Talmácsi | Italjet | 24 | +54.886 | 23 | |
| 19 | 10 | Jarno Müller | Honda | 24 | +54.919 | 18 | |
| 20 | 19 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 24 | +1:07.871 | 28 | |
| 21 | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | 24 | +1:08.217 | 29 | |
| 22 | 33 | Stefano Bianco | Aprilia | 24 | +1:15.825 | 10 | |
| 23 | 20 | Imre Tóth | Honda | 24 | +1:36.139 | 31 | |
| 24 | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Italjet | 24 | +1:43.455 | 24 | |
| Ret (25) | 47 | Ángel Rodríguez | Aprilia | 11 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret (26) | 39 | Jaroslav Huleš | Aprilia | 6 | Retirement | 9 | |
| Ret (27) | 12 | Klaus Nöhles | Honda | 0 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret (28) | 18 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 0 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret (29) | 25 | Joan Olivé | Honda | 0 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret (30) | 4 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret (31) | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 0 | Accident | 17 | |
| DNS | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | | Did not start | | |
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## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round two has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 45 |
| 2 | Carlos Checa | 27 |
| 3 | Tohru Ukawa | 25 |
| 4 | Loris Capirossi | 23 |
| 5 | Akira Ryō | 20 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 50 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 27 |
| 3 | Suzuki | 20 |
| 4 | / Proton KR | 9 |
| 5 | Aprilia | 9 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.