# 2002 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2002 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 31 May – 2 June 2002 at the Mugello Circuit.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 23 | 43:40.837 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 23 | +2.404 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 23 | +11.289 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 23 | +11.408 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Alex Barros | West Honda Pons | Honda | 23 | +15.371 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | West Honda Pons | Honda | 23 | +20.010 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 6 | Norifumi Abe | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | 23 | +26.447 | 19 | 9 |
| 8 | 55 | Régis Laconi | MS Aprilia Racing | Aprilia | 23 | +30.333 | 5 | 8 |
| 9 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 23 | +30.428 | 6 | 7 |
| 10 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Pramac Honda Racing Team | Honda | 23 | +30.759 | 8 | 6 |
| 11 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 23 | +34.162 | 14 | 5 |
| 12 | 21 | John Hopkins | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 23 | +37.715 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 18 | Jean-Michel Bayle | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 23 | +1:17.803 | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Kanemoto Racing | Honda | 23 | +1:19.800 | 15 | 2 |
| Ret (15) | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 18 | Retirement | 12 | |
| Ret (16) | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 14 | Retirement | 18 | |
| Ret (17) | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 9 | Retirement | 11 | |
| Ret (18) | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Fortuna Honda Gresini | Honda | 9 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret (19) | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 8 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret (20) | 20 | Pere Riba | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | 1 | Accident | 20 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 3 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | 21 | 40:42.759 | 5 | 25 |
| 2 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 21 | +0.258 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 21 | +0.720 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 24 | Toni Elías | Aprilia | 21 | +1.464 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 17 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 21 | +1.718 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 21 | +8.606 | 1 | 10 |
| 7 | 9 | Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 21 | +11.864 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | 4 | Roberto Rolfo | Honda | 21 | +17.248 | 14 | 8 |
| 9 | 18 | Shahrol Yuzy | Yamaha | 21 | +28.481 | 7 | 7 |
| 10 | 42 | David Checa | Aprilia | 21 | +28.490 | 9 | 6 |
| 11 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 21 | +32.113 | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 11 | Haruchika Aoki | Honda | 21 | +34.770 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 25 | Vincent Philippe | Aprilia | 21 | +51.837 | 18 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 21 | +51.912 | 12 | 2 |
| 15 | 12 | Jay Vincent | Honda | 21 | +52.393 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 32 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 21 | +57.112 | 19 | |
| 17 | 22 | Raúl Jara | Aprilia | 21 | +57.198 | 16 | |
| 18 | 19 | Leon Haslam | Honda | 21 | +57.737 | 20 | |
| Ret (19) | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 20 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret (20) | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Aprilia | 18 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret (21) | 41 | Jarno Janssen | Honda | 2 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret (22) | 51 | Hugo Marchand | Aprilia | 2 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret (23) | 76 | Taro Sekiguchi | Yamaha | 1 | Accident | 11 | |
| DNS | 27 | Casey Stoner | Aprilia | | Did not start | | |
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## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 1 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 20 | 40:20.019 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 20 | +0.507 | 14 | 20 |
| 3 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Aprilia | 20 | +0.512 | 26 | 16 |
| 4 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 20 | +0.572 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 20 | +0.675 | 6 | 11 |
| 6 | 4 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 20 | +0.980 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 20 | +2.071 | 3 | 9 |
| 8 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 20 | +2.072 | 4 | 8 |
| 9 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 20 | +2.209 | 5 | 7 |
| 10 | 50 | Andrea Ballerini | Honda | 20 | +2.255 | 10 | 6 |
| 11 | 16 | Simone Sanna | Aprilia | 20 | +2.432 | 9 | 5 |
| 12 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 20 | +4.047 | 12 | 4 |
| 13 | 5 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 20 | +6.296 | 18 | 3 |
| 14 | 53 | Gioele Pellino | Aprilia | 20 | +12.881 | 20 | 2 |
| 15 | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Italjet | 20 | +36.125 | 13 | 1 |
| 16 | 84 | Michel Fabrizio | Gilera | 20 | +40.230 | 17 | |
| 17 | 30 | Gaspare Caffiero | Honda | 20 | +43.410 | 28 | |
| 18 | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | 20 | +43.717 | 23 | |
| 19 | 19 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 20 | +1:02.878 | 33 | |
| 20 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Derbi | 20 | +1:02.888 | 30 | |
| 21 | 20 | Imre Tóth | Honda | 20 | +1:02.933 | 32 | |
| 22 | 87 | Simone Corsi | Honda | 20 | +1:34.919 | 31 | |
| Ret (23) | 33 | Stefano Bianco | Aprilia | 16 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret (24) | 18 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 9 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret (25) | 8 | Gábor Talmácsi | Italjet | 9 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret (26) | 47 | Ángel Rodríguez | Aprilia | 6 | Accident | 24 | |
| Ret (27) | 31 | Mattia Angeloni | Gilera | 4 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret (28) | 54 | Marco Petrini | Aprilia | 4 | Accident | 25 | |
| Ret (29) | 25 | Joan Olivé | Honda | 0 | Accident | 22 | |
| Ret (30) | 36 | Mika Kallio | Honda | 0 | Retirement | 16 | |
| Ret (31) | 39 | Jaroslav Huleš | Aprilia | 0 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret (32) | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 0 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret (33) | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 29 | |
| DNS | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Aprilia | | Did not start | | |
| DNS | 12 | Klaus Nöhles | Honda | | Did not start | | |
| DNS | 9 | Noboru Ueda | Honda | | 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 five has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 120 |
| 2 | Tohru Ukawa | 77 |
| 3 | Loris Capirossi | 55 |
| 4 | Norifumi Abe | 52 |
| 5 | Max Biaggi | 43 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 125 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 73 |
| 3 | Suzuki | 39 |
| 4 | / Proton KR | 28 |
| 5 | Aprilia | 26 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.