# 2001 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2001 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 19–21 October 2001 at the Sepang International Circuit.

## 500 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Nastro Azzurro Honda | Honda | 21 | 44:46.652 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | West Honda Pons | Honda | 21 | +3.551 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 5 | Garry McCoy | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 21 | +4.722 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 21 | +5.005 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Repsol YPF Honda Team | Honda | 21 | +8.807 | 12 | 11 |
| 6 | 28 | Àlex Crivillé | Repsol YPF Honda Team | Honda | 21 | +12.192 | 11 | 10 |
| 7 | 4 | Alex Barros | West Honda Pons | Honda | 21 | +15.682 | 5 | 9 |
| 8 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 21 | +18.772 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 41 | Noriyuki Haga | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 21 | +27.012 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 21 | +28.829 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 10 | José Luis Cardoso | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin | Yamaha | 21 | +29.007 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 14 | Anthony West | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 21 | +1:02.166 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 6 | Norifumi Abe | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin | Yamaha | 21 | +1:20.535 | 10 | 3 |
| 14 | 18 | Brendan Clarke | Shell Advance Honda | Honda | 21 | +2:04.455 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 9 | Leon Haslam | Shell Advance Honda | Honda | 21 | +2:04.500 | 20 | 1 |
| Ret | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 12 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 21 | Barry Veneman | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 7 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 12 | Haruchika Aoki | Arie Molenaar Racing | Honda | 6 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 16 | Johan Stigefelt | Sabre Sport | Sabre V4 | 5 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 1 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 3 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 3 | Max Biaggi | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 3 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 80 | Kurtis Roberts | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 2 | Accident | 17 | |
| DNS | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | | Did not start | | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Honda | 20 | 43:22.487 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 20 | +14.893 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 20 | +15.892 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 20 | +19.748 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Aprilia | 20 | +35.867 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 20 | +46.364 | 13 | 10 |
| 7 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 20 | +46.408 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Aprilia | 20 | +46.731 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 20 | +56.513 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Aprilia | 20 | +58.914 | 4 | 6 |
| 11 | 5 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | 20 | +1:00.301 | 8 | 5 |
| 12 | 81 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 20 | +1:00.689 | 5 | 4 |
| 13 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro | Aprilia | 20 | +1:09.730 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 20 | +1:09.953 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 42 | David Checa | Honda | 20 | +1:10.810 | 18 | 1 |
| 16 | 16 | David Tomás | Honda | 20 | +1:10.847 | 23 | |
| 17 | 11 | Riccardo Chiarello | Aprilia | 20 | +1:12.008 | 16 | |
| 18 | 24 | Jason Vincent | Yamaha | 20 | +1:26.290 | 22 | |
| 19 | 20 | Jerónimo Vidal | Aprilia | 20 | +1:30.098 | 24 | |
| 20 | 22 | José David de Gea | Yamaha | 20 | +1:37.261 | 21 | |
| 21 | 55 | Diego Giugovaz | Aprilia | 20 | +1:37.635 | 25 | |
| 22 | 36 | Luis Costa | Yamaha | 20 | +1:49.118 | 26 | |
| 23 | 27 | Shaun Geronimi | Yamaha | 19 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| Ret | 57 | Lorenzo Lanzi | Aprilia | 11 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 14 | Katja Poensgen | Honda | 9 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 8 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 9 | Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 6 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 18 | Shahrol Yuzy | Yamaha | 2 | Accident | 10 | |
| DNS | 23 | César Barros | Yamaha | | Did not start | | |
| DNQ | 45 | Stuart Edwards | 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 | 19 | 43:21.269 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 19 | +2.078 | 8 | 20 |
| 3 | 9 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 19 | +2.196 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 19 | +3.161 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 19 | +3.987 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 24 | Toni Elías | Honda | 19 | +4.265 | 1 | 10 |
| 7 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Honda | 19 | +4.468 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 4 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 19 | +5.123 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 19 | +30.026 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Aprilia | 19 | +30.292 | 7 | 6 |
| 11 | 5 | Noboru Ueda | TSR-Honda | 19 | +30.417 | 13 | 5 |
| 12 | 25 | Joan Olivé | Honda | 19 | +30.684 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Italjet | 19 | +30.860 | 27 | 3 |
| 14 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Honda | 19 | +31.433 | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 39 | Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 19 | +31.802 | 12 | 1 |
| 16 | 16 | Simone Sanna | Aprilia | 19 | +33.406 | 9 | |
| 17 | 31 | Ángel Rodríguez | Aprilia | 19 | +36.162 | 23 | |
| 18 | 12 | Raúl Jara | Aprilia | 19 | +36.542 | 26 | |
| 19 | 20 | Gaspare Caffiero | Aprilia | 19 | +37.248 | 22 | |
| 20 | 28 | Gábor Talmácsi | Honda | 19 | +41.564 | 19 | |
| 21 | 10 | Jarno Müller | Honda | 19 | +41.660 | 20 | |
| 22 | 37 | William de Angelis | Honda | 19 | +1:11.823 | 29 | |
| 23 | 77 | Adrián Araujo | Honda | 19 | +1:34.039 | 30 | |
| Ret | 29 | Ángel Nieto Jr. | Honda | 17 | Retirement | 6 | |
| Ret | 34 | Eric Bataille | Honda | 7 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Italjet | 7 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 28 | |
| Ret | 18 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 0 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 19 | Alessandro Brannetti | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 25 | |
| Ret | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Derbi | 0 | Accident | 18 | |
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## Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fifteen has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 300 |
| 2 | Max Biaggi | 203 |
| 3 | Loris Capirossi | 199 |
| 4 | Alex Barros | 169 |
| 5 | Shinya Nakano | 148 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 342 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 275 |
| 3 | Suzuki | 149 |
| 4 | Proton KR | 65 |
| 5 | Sabre V4 | 6 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.