# 2002 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2002 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 23–25 August 2002 at the Brno Circuit located in Brno, Czech Republic. This event would be the last podium for Japanese MotoGP rider, Daijiro Kato; who finished in second place, before his death on 20 April 2003 following an accident at the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 22 | 44:36.498 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Fortuna Honda Gresini | Honda | 22 | +2.755 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 22 | +7.598 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 22 | +11.889 | 9 | 13 |
| 5 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 22 | +14.029 | 6 | 11 |
| 6 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | West Honda Pons | Honda | 22 | +18.260 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 22 | +24.840 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 6 | Norifumi Abe | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | 22 | +26.572 | 16 | 8 |
| 9 | 4 | Alex Barros | West Honda Pons | Honda | 22 | +28.741 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 22 | +29.156 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 22 | +32.920 | 19 | 5 |
| 12 | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Kanemoto Racing | Honda | 22 | +38.670 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 8 | Garry McCoy | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 22 | +45.144 | 4 | 3 |
| 14 | 33 | Akira Ryō | Team Suzuki | Suzuki | 22 | +51.932 | 20 | 2 |
| 15 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Pramac Honda Racing Team | Honda | 22 | +1:02.171 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 55 | Régis Laconi | MS Aprilia Racing | Aprilia | 22 | +1:02.238 | 18 | |
| 17 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 22 | +1:13.465 | 21 | |
| Ret (18) | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 20 | Tyre Wear | 3 | |
| Ret (19) | 21 | John Hopkins | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 12 | Retirement | 7 | |
| Ret (20) | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 11 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret (21) | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 0 | Accident | 11 | |
| DNS | 20 | Pere Riba | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | 0 | Did not start | 22 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 3 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | 20 | 41:41.572 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 9 | Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 20 | +7.023 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 24 | Toni Elías | Aprilia | 20 | +8.135 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 20 | +8.307 | 1 | 13 |
| 5 | 27 | Casey Stoner | Aprilia | 20 | +11.322 | 20 | 11 |
| 6 | 17 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 20 | +11.636 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 20 | +16.988 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 20 | +20.984 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 11 | Haruchika Aoki | Honda | 20 | +21.002 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 84 | David García | Honda | 20 | +30.259 | 17 | 6 |
| 11 | 26 | Ralf Waldmann | Aprilia | 20 | +30.357 | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 12 | Jay Vincent | Honda | 20 | +30.805 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 20 | +43.592 | 11 | 3 |
| 14 | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Aprilia | 20 | +44.141 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 22 | Raúl Jara | Aprilia | 20 | +50.513 | 16 | 1 |
| 16 | 36 | Erwan Nigon | Aprilia | 20 | +1:02.225 | 23 | |
| 17 | 19 | Leon Haslam | Honda | 20 | +1:04.058 | 19 | |
| 18 | 42 | David Checa | Aprilia | 20 | +1:15.519 | 15 | |
| 19 | 29 | Henk vd Lagemaat | Honda | 20 | +2:05.290 | 25 | |
| 20 | 63 | Gábor Rizmayer | Honda | 19 | +1 lap | 27 | |
| Ret (21) | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 19 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret (22) | 32 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 19 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret (23) | 4 | Roberto Rolfo | Honda | 18 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret (24) | 13 | Jaroslav Huleš | Yamaha | 15 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret (25) | 18 | Shahrol Yuzy | Yamaha | 10 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret (26) | 64 | Vladimír Častka | Yamaha | 4 | Retirement | 26 | |
| Ret (27) | 51 | Hugo Marchand | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 18 | |
| DNS | 62 | Radomil Rous | Honda | | Did not start | | |
| DNQ | 65 | Roger Heierli | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
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## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 4 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 19 | 41:18.287 | 6 | 25 |
| 2 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 19 | +0.202 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 19 | +0.278 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 19 | +0.494 | 9 | 13 |
| 5 | 1 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 19 | +0.495 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 19 | +0.717 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 16 | Simone Sanna | Aprilia | 19 | +0.901 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 19 | +1.309 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 19 | +5.579 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Honda | 19 | +7.091 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 8 | Gábor Talmácsi | Honda | 19 | +7.360 | 11 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 19 | +14.326 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 33 | Stefano Bianco | Aprilia | 19 | +14.345 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 19 | +16.990 | 20 | 2 |
| 15 | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Aprilia | 19 | +18.106 | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 12 | Klaus Nöhles | Honda | 19 | +18.186 | 17 | |
| 17 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 19 | +22.341 | 13 | |
| 18 | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Italjet | 19 | +22.408 | 16 | |
| 19 | 77 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 19 | +22.442 | 18 | |
| 20 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Derbi | 19 | +41.048 | 27 | |
| 21 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 19 | +41.208 | 21 | |
| 22 | 53 | Gioele Pellino | Aprilia | 19 | +44.018 | 26 | |
| 23 | 88 | Robbin Harms | Honda | 19 | +50.207 | 29 | |
| 24 | 31 | Mattia Angeloni | Gilera | 19 | +50.372 | 34 | |
| 25 | 84 | Michel Fabrizio | Gilera | 19 | +50.451 | 28 | |
| 26 | 20 | Imre Tóth | Honda | 19 | +50.700 | 30 | |
| 27 | 37 | Marco Simoncelli | Aprilia | 19 | +50.746 | 24 | |
| 28 | 49 | Igor Kaláb | Honda | 19 | +51.560 | 35 | |
| 29 | 72 | Dario Giuseppetti | Honda | 19 | +1:07.328 | 32 | |
| 30 | 76 | Matěj Smrž | Aprilia | 19 | +1:47.385 | 33 | |
| Ret (31) | 56 | Lukáš Pešek | Honda | 15 | Accident | 25 | |
| Ret (32) | 50 | Andrea Ballerini | Honda | 13 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret (33) | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Aprilia | 7 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret (34) | 25 | Joan Olivé | Honda | 6 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret (35) | 42 | Christian Pistoni | Italjet | 5 | Retirement | 31 | |
| DNS | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | | Did not start | | |
| WD | 19 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | | Withdrew | | |
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## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round ten has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 220 |
| 2 | Tohru Ukawa | 140 |
| 3 | Max Biaggi | 134 |
| 4 | Carlos Checa | 96 |
| 5 | Alex Barros | 94 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 245 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 170 |
| 3 | Suzuki | 86 |
| 4 | / Proton KR | 57 |
| 5 | Aprilia | 28 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.