# Grand Prix-wegrace van de Pacific 2001

De Grand Prix-wegrace van de Pacific 2001 was de dertiende race van het wereldkampioenschap wegrace-seizoen 2001. De race werd verreden op 7 oktober 2001 op de Twin Ring Motegi nabij Motegi, Japan.

## Uitslag
### 500 cc

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Constructeur | Rondes | Tijd | Grid | Punten |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Honda | 25 | 46:32.600 | 4 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 | Alex Barros | Honda | 25 | +2.607 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Honda | 25 | +9.765 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 6 | Norifumi Abe | Yamaha | 25 | +13.951 | 16 | 13 |
| 5 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Honda | 25 | +21.994 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Yamaha | 25 | +22.279 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Yamaha | 25 | +27.332 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 1 | Kenny Roberts jr. | Suzuki | 25 | +27.607 | 6 | 8 |
| 9 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Suzuki | 25 | +33.822 | 7 | 7 |
| 10 | 64 | Yukio Kagayama | Suzuki | 25 | +38.139 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 28 | Àlex Crivillé | Honda | 25 | +41.866 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | Garry McCoy | Yamaha | 25 | +50.419 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 10 | José Luis Cardoso | Yamaha | 25 | +56.204 | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 14 | Anthony West | Honda | 25 | +1:05.286 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 9 | Leon Haslam | Honda | 24 | +1 ronde | 20 | 1 |
| 16 | 21 | Barry Veneman | Honda | 24 | +1 ronde | 22 | |
| 17 | 18 | Brendan Clarke | Honda | 24 | +1 ronde | 23 | |
| DNF | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Yamaha | 18 | Uitgevallen | 8 | |
| DNF | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Proton | 8 | Uitgevallen | 10 | |
| DNF | 12 | Haruchika Aoki | Honda | 7 | Ongeluk | 19 | |
| DNF | 41 | Noriyuki Haga | Yamaha | 6 | Ongeluk | 15 | |
| DNF | 3 | Max Biaggi | Yamaha | 5 | Ongeluk | 2 | |
| DNF | 16 | Johan Stigefelt | Sabre V4 | 4 | Uitgevallen | 21 | |

### 250 cc

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Constructeur | Rondes | Tijd | Grid | Punten |
| 1 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 23 | 43:59.587 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 23 | +7.559 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Aprilia | 23 | +8.024 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 23 | +11.462 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Aprilia | 23 | +11.763 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 23 | +13.498 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 23 | +19.937 | 10 | 9 |
| 8 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 23 | +24.789 | 13 | 8 |
| 9 | 46 | Taro Sekiguchi | Yamaha | 23 | +26.671 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 88 | Nobuyuki Ohsaki | Yamaha | 23 | +33.671 | 17 | 6 |
| 11 | 81 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 23 | +37.114 | 7 | 5 |
| 12 | 42 | David Checa | Honda | 23 | +40.478 | 15 | 4 |
| 13 | 89 | Osamu Miyazaki | Yamaha | 23 | +41.670 | 20 | 3 |
| 14 | 16 | David Tomás | Honda | 23 | +42.139 | 23 | 2 |
| 15 | 57 | Lorenzo Lanzi | Aprilia | 23 | +42.568 | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 23 | +42.806 | 24 | |
| 17 | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Aprilia | 23 | +43.379 | 21 | |
| 18 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 23 | +45.790 | 11 | |
| 19 | 18 | Shahrol Yuzy | Yamaha | 23 | +46.181 | 12 | |
| 20 | 90 | Daisaku Sakai | Honda | 23 | +48.361 | 26 | |
| 21 | 92 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 23 | +48.507 | 19 | |
| 22 | 24 | Jason Vincent | Yamaha | 23 | +1:16.106 | 29 | |
| 23 | 11 | Riccardo Chiarello | Aprilia | 23 | +1:33.167 | 30 | |
| 24 | 36 | Luis Costa | Yamaha | 23 | +1:53.607 | 31 | |
| 25 | 55 | Diego Giugovaz | Aprilia | 22 | +1 ronde | 33 | |
| 26 | 14 | Katja Poensgen | Honda | 22 | +1 ronde | 35 | |
| DNF | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro | Aprilia | 13 | Uitgevallen | 18 | |
| DNF | 23 | César Barros | Yamaha | 11 | Uitgevallen | 32 | |
| DNF | 5 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | 5 | Ongeluk | 3 | |
| DNF | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Honda | 5 | Ongeluk | 2 | |
| DNF | 45 | Stuart Edwards | Yamaha | 4 | Ongeluk | 34 | |
| DNF | 22 | José David de Gea | Yamaha | 3 | Uitgevallen | 25 | |
| DNF | 9 | Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 3 | Uitgevallen | 14 | |
| DNF | 20 | Jerónimo Vidal | Aprilia | 2 | Uitgevallen | 28 | |
| DNF | 91 | Takayuki Onodera | Yamaha | 0 | Uitgevallen | 27 | |

### 125 cc

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Constructeur | Rondes | Tijd | Grid | Punten |
| 1 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 21 | 42:01.711 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 21 | +1.004 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 21 | +1.129 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 9 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 21 | +12.109 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 21 | +23.107 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 28 | Gábor Talmácsi | Honda | 21 | +28.345 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 21 | +28.387 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 21 | +29.678 | 17 | 8 |
| 9 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Italjet | 21 | +29.898 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 19 | Alessandro Brannetti | Aprilia | 21 | +30.026 | 20 | 6 |
| 11 | 12 | Raúl Jara | Aprilia | 21 | +30.268 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | 25 | Joan Olivé | Honda | 21 | +35.692 | 31 | 4 |
| 13 | 29 | Ángel Nieto jr. | Honda | 21 | +35.894 | 21 | 3 |
| 14 | 39 | Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 21 | +36.170 | 29 | 2 |
| 15 | 31 | Ángel Rodríguez | Aprilia | 21 | +45.438 | 28 | 1 |
| 16 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Derbi | 21 | +45.543 | 27 | |
| 17 | 20 | Gaspare Caffiero | Aprilia | 21 | +45.997 | 16 | |
| 18 | 65 | Toshihisa Kuzuhara | Honda | 21 | +1:10.144 | 33 | |
| 19 | 10 | Jarno Müller | Honda | 21 | +1:14.335 | 34 | |
| 20 | 37 | William de Angelis | Honda | 21 | +1:14.887 | 30 | |
| 21 | 77 | Adrián Araujo | Aprilia | 21 | +1:29.485 | 35 | |
| DNF | 16 | Simone Sanna | Aprilia | 13 | Uitgevallen | 24 | |
| DNF | 34 | Eric Bataille | Honda | 11 | Uitgevallen | 32 | |
| DNF | 56 | Yuzo Fujioka | Honda | 6 | Ongeluk | 18 | |
| DNF | 64 | Yuki Takahashi | E-Ner | 5 | Ongeluk | 11 | |
| DNF | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Honda | 5 | Ongeluk | 12 | |
| DNF | 24 | Toni Elías | Honda | 4 | Ongeluk | 4 | |
| DNF | 5 | Noboru Ueda | TSR-Honda | 4 | Ongeluk | 8 | |
| DNF | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Aprilia | 4 | Ongeluk | 10 | |
| DNF | 55 | Hideyuki Nakajoh | Honda | 2 | Uitgevallen | 19 | |
| DNF | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Honda | 1 | Ongeluk | 22 | |
| DNF | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 0 | Ongeluk | 14 | |
| DNF | 18 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 0 | Ongeluk | 23 | |
| DNF | 66 | Shuhei Aoyama | Honda | 0 | Ongeluk | 26 | |
| DNF | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Italjet | 0 | Ongeluk | 25 | |

## Tussenstand na wedstrijd
### 500 cc

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Team | Punten |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Honda | 250 |
| 2 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Yamaha | 183 |
| 3 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Honda | 163 |
| 4 | 4 | Alex Barros | Honda | 147 |
| 5 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Yamaha | 126 |

### 250 cc

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Team | Punten |
| 1 | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Honda | 247 |
| 2 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 223 |
| 3 | 5 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | 169 |
| 4 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Aprilia | 147 |
| 5 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 127 |

### 125 cc

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Team | Punten |
| 1 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 190 |
| 2 | 24 | Toni Elías | Honda | 178 |
| 3 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 157 |
| 4 | 9 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 129 |
| 5 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 113 |
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