# 2002 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2002 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the penultimate round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 18–20 October 2002 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 27 | 42:02.041 | 7 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 | Alex Barros | West Honda Pons | Honda | 27 | +9.782 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 27 | +11.134 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Fortuna Honda Gresini | Honda | 27 | +11.327 | 10 | 13 |
| 5 | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Kanemoto Racing | Honda | 27 | +11.414 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 27 | +20.937 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 27 | +22.505 | 3 | 9 |
| 8 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 27 | +26.642 | 17 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 27 | +26.692 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 27 | +31.994 | 1 | 6 |
| 11 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 27 | +34.563 | 20 | 5 |
| 12 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 27 | +38.827 | 15 | 4 |
| 13 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 27 | +45.418 | 16 | 3 |
| 14 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Pramac Honda Racing Team | Honda | 27 | +52.542 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 30 | José Luis Cardoso | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | 27 | +52.765 | 21 | 1 |
| 16 | 21 | John Hopkins | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 27 | +1:12.169 | 14 | |
| 17 | 84 | Andrew Pitt | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 27 | +1:12.196 | 19 | |
| 18 | 8 | Garry McCoy | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 26 | +1 lap | 2 | |
| Ret (19) | 72 | Shinichi Ito | Kanemoto Racing | Honda | 11 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret (20) | 55 | Régis Laconi | MS Aprilia Racing | Aprilia | 10 | Retirement | 11 | |
| Ret (21) | 65 | Loris Capirossi | West Honda Pons | Honda | 2 | Retirement | 9 | |
| DNS | 6 | Norifumi Abe | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | | Did not start | | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 3 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | 25 | 39:44.293 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 25 | +0.007 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 9 | Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 25 | +5.766 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Roberto Rolfo | Honda | 25 | +16.042 | 9 | 13 |
| 5 | 24 | Toni Elías | Aprilia | 25 | +18.917 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 17 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 25 | +18.985 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 25 | +21.349 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 42 | David Checa | Aprilia | 25 | +39.582 | 12 | 8 |
| 9 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 25 | +46.230 | 8 | 7 |
| 10 | 27 | Casey Stoner | Aprilia | 25 | +50.645 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 11 | Haruchika Aoki | Honda | 25 | +55.268 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | 13 | Jaroslav Huleš | Yamaha | 25 | +55.288 | 7 | 4 |
| 13 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 25 | +1:07.391 | 11 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 25 | +1:09.565 | 16 | 2 |
| 15 | 18 | Shahrol Yuzy | Yamaha | 25 | +1:09.973 | 18 | 1 |
| 16 | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Aprilia | 25 | +1:10.270 | 21 | |
| 17 | 96 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 25 | +1:10.368 | 22 | |
| 18 | 19 | Leon Haslam | Honda | 25 | +1:10.966 | 10 | |
| 19 | 32 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 25 | +1:25.241 | 19 | |
| 20 | 79 | Russell Holland | Yamaha | 24 | +1 lap | 25 | |
| Ret (21) | 22 | Raúl Jara | Aprilia | 19 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret (22) | 12 | Jay Vincent | Honda | 16 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret (23) | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 5 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret (24) | 36 | Erwan Nigon | Aprilia | 3 | Retirement | 20 | |
| DNS | 51 | Hugo Marchand | Aprilia | 0 | Did not start | 23 | |
| DNQ | 81 | Mark Stanley | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 80 | Earl Lynch | Yamaha | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 78 | Peter Taplin | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
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## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 1 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 23 | 38:08.028 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 23 | +1.252 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Aprilia | 23 | +1.310 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 23 | +1.414 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 23 | +1.575 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 16 | Simone Sanna | Aprilia | 23 | +5.615 | 7 | 10 |
| 7 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 23 | +16.861 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | 5 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 23 | +21.544 | 17 | 8 |
| 9 | 25 | Joan Olivé | Honda | 23 | +21.833 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 23 | +22.168 | 9 | 6 |
| 11 | 50 | Andrea Ballerini | Aprilia | 23 | +28.012 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Italjet | 23 | +32.645 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 23 | +33.386 | 14 | 3 |
| 14 | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 23 | +39.047 | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 23 | +39.117 | 24 | 1 |
| 16 | 8 | Gábor Talmácsi | Honda | 23 | +39.282 | 20 | |
| 17 | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Aprilia | 23 | +55.604 | 21 | |
| 18 | 12 | Klaus Nöhles | Honda | 23 | +57.689 | 25 | |
| 19 | 31 | Mattia Angeloni | Gilera | 23 | +57.861 | 27 | |
| 20 | 19 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 23 | +58.141 | 28 | |
| 21 | 9 | Noboru Ueda | Honda | 23 | +58.148 | 26 | |
| 22 | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | 23 | +1:28.678 | 29 | |
| 23 | 20 | Imre Tóth | Honda | 23 | +1:32.597 | 30 | |
| 24 | 72 | Dario Giuseppetti | Honda | 23 | +1:32.853 | 33 | |
| 25 | 83 | Joshua Waters | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 32 | |
| 26 | 64 | Peter Holmes | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 35 | |
| 27 | 82 | Jeremy Crowe | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 36 | |
| Ret (28) | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Derbi | 18 | Accident | 22 | |
| Ret (29) | 84 | Michel Fabrizio | Gilera | 18 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret (30) | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 15 | Retirement | 3 | |
| Ret (31) | 36 | Mika Kallio | Honda | 14 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret (32) | 77 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 7 | Accident | 31 | |
| Ret (33) | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 6 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret (34) | 42 | Christian Pistoni | Italjet | 6 | Retirement | 34 | |
| Ret (35) | 33 | Stefano Bianco | Aprilia | 0 | Retirement | 8 | |
| Ret (36) | 37 | Marco Simoncelli | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 18 | |
| DNQ | 81 | Tim Inkster | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
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## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fifteen has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 335 |
| 2 | Max Biaggi | 199 |
| 3 | Tohru Ukawa | 198 |
| 4 | Alex Barros | 179 |
| 5 | Carlos Checa | 141 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 365 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 256 |
| 3 | Suzuki | 140 |
| 4 | / Proton KR | 88 |
| 5 | Aprilia | 33 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.