# 2001 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2001 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourteenth round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 12–14 October 2001 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit.

## 500 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Nastro Azzurro Honda | Honda | 27 | 42:22.383 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 27 | +0.013 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | West Honda Pons | Honda | 27 | +0.581 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Alex Barros | West Honda Pons | Honda | 27 | +0.714 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Repsol YPF Honda Team | Honda | 27 | +1.288 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 27 | +2.534 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 27 | +2.579 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 41 | Noriyuki Haga | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 27 | +2.582 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 27 | +2.832 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 27 | +19.443 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 28 | Àlex Crivillé | Repsol YPF Honda Team | Honda | 27 | +20.000 | 13 | 5 |
| 12 | 14 | Anthony West | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 27 | +20.303 | 16 | 4 |
| 13 | 6 | Norifumi Abe | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin | Yamaha | 27 | +21.043 | 10 | 3 |
| 14 | 12 | Haruchika Aoki | Arie Molenaar Racing | Honda | 27 | +21.360 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 1 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 27 | +29.738 | 12 | 1 |
| 16 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 27 | +30.023 | 7 | |
| 17 | 16 | Johan Stigefelt | Sabre Sport | Sabre V4 | 27 | +1:18.349 | 19 | |
| 18 | 21 | Barry Veneman | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 27 | +1:24.773 | 21 | |
| 19 | 9 | Leon Haslam | Shell Advance Honda | Honda | 27 | +1:24.848 | 20 | |
| 20 | 18 | Brendan Clarke | Shell Advance Honda | Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 22 | |
| Ret | 5 | Garry McCoy | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 18 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 10 | José Luis Cardoso | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin | Yamaha | 6 | Retirement | 18 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Honda | 25 | 39:48.180 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 25 | +5.644 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Aprilia | 25 | +8.518 | 11 | 16 |
| 4 | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Aprilia | 25 | +14.303 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 25 | +14.389 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 25 | +14.749 | 10 | 10 |
| 7 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 25 | +17.546 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro | Aprilia | 25 | +37.456 | 17 | 8 |
| 9 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 25 | +50.872 | 15 | 7 |
| 10 | 18 | Shahrol Yuzy | Yamaha | 25 | +53.951 | 19 | 6 |
| 11 | 57 | Lorenzo Lanzi | Aprilia | 25 | +1:00.113 | 13 | 5 |
| 12 | 46 | Taro Sekiguchi | Yamaha | 25 | +1:10.314 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 11 | Riccardo Chiarello | Aprilia | 25 | +1:34.981 | 26 | 3 |
| 14 | 16 | David Tomás | Honda | 25 | +1:39.355 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 20 | Jerónimo Vidal | Aprilia | 24 | +1 lap | 21 | 1 |
| 16 | 23 | César Barros | Yamaha | 24 | +1 lap | 25 | |
| 17 | 55 | Diego Giugovaz | Aprilia | 24 | +1 lap | 23 | |
| 18 | 36 | Luis Costa | Yamaha | 24 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| 19 | 14 | Katja Poensgen | Honda | 24 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| 20 | 45 | Stuart Edwards | Yamaha | 24 | +1 lap | 29 | |
| Ret | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 22 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 22 | José David de Gea | Yamaha | 18 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 96 | Mark Rowling | Yamaha | 17 | Retirement | 31 | |
| Ret | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Aprilia | 14 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 14 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 95 | Shane Smith | Honda | 12 | Retirement | 32 | |
| Ret | 24 | Jason Vincent | Yamaha | 1 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 0 | Retirement | 6 | |
| Ret | 42 | David Checa | Honda | 0 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 81 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 9 | Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 0 | Accident | 8 | |
| DNS | 97 | Josh Brookes | Yamaha | 0 | Did not start | 27 | |
| DNS | 5 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | | Did not start | | |
| DNQ | 93 | Earl Lynch | Yamaha | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 94 | Terry Carter | Yamaha | | Did not qualify | | |
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## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 23 | 38:14.688 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 23 | +4.709 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 24 | Toni Elías | Honda | 23 | +4.743 | 17 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 23 | +4.938 | 14 | 13 |
| 5 | 9 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 23 | +4.974 | 2 | 11 |
| 6 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Honda | 23 | +5.053 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 23 | +5.562 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Aprilia | 23 | +5.881 | 21 | 8 |
| 9 | 34 | Eric Bataille | Honda | 23 | +9.506 | 23 | 7 |
| 10 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 23 | +17.165 | 4 | 6 |
| 11 | 5 | Noboru Ueda | TSR-Honda | 23 | +17.289 | 5 | 5 |
| 12 | 73 | Casey Stoner | Honda | 23 | +17.372 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 29 | Ángel Nieto Jr. | Honda | 23 | +18.361 | 10 | 3 |
| 14 | 39 | Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 23 | +18.375 | 12 | 2 |
| 15 | 20 | Gaspare Caffiero | Aprilia | 23 | +18.447 | 16 | 1 |
| 16 | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Italjet | 23 | +19.742 | 8 | |
| 17 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 23 | +26.857 | 18 | |
| 18 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Italjet | 23 | +26.892 | 15 | |
| 19 | 18 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 23 | +26.916 | 20 | |
| 20 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Derbi | 23 | +31.486 | 26 | |
| 21 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Honda | 23 | +31.819 | 9 | |
| 22 | 19 | Alessandro Brannetti | Aprilia | 23 | +35.783 | 30 | |
| 23 | 31 | Ángel Rodríguez | Aprilia | 23 | +35.998 | 13 | |
| 24 | 12 | Raúl Jara | Aprilia | 23 | +42.581 | 24 | |
| 25 | 10 | Jarno Müller | Honda | 23 | +49.404 | 28 | |
| 26 | 91 | Jay Taylor | Honda | 23 | +49.494 | 29 | |
| 27 | 25 | Joan Olivé | Honda | 23 | +54.747 | 22 | |
| 28 | 28 | Gábor Talmácsi | Honda | 23 | +1:13.148 | 27 | |
| 29 | 37 | William de Angelis | Honda | 23 | +1:13.174 | 31 | |
| Ret | 16 | Simone Sanna | Aprilia | 22 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 92 | Peter Galvin | Honda | 14 | Accident | 33 | |
| Ret | 94 | Cath Thompson | Honda | 12 | Accident | 34 | |
| Ret | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 11 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 77 | Adrián Araujo | Honda | 1 | Retirement | 32 | |
| DNQ | 93 | Andrew Brooks | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
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## Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fourteen has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 275 |
| 2 | Max Biaggi | 203 |
| 3 | Loris Capirossi | 179 |
| 4 | Alex Barros | 160 |
| 5 | Shinya Nakano | 135 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 317 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 259 |
| 3 | Suzuki | 141 |
| 4 | Proton KR | 65 |
| 5 | Sabre V4 | 6 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.