2002 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix
# 2002 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2002 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 14–16 June 2002 at the Circuit de Catalunya located in Montmeló, Catalonia, Spain.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 25 | 44:20.679 | 4 | 25 |
| 2 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 25 | +0.880 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 25 | +8.531 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 25 | +11.918 | 1 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Alex Barros | West Honda Pons | Honda | 25 | +22.382 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | West Honda Pons | Honda | 25 | +30.096 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 25 | +31.525 | 8 | 9 |
| 8 | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Fortuna Honda Gresini | Honda | 25 | +33.912 | 15 | 8 |
| 9 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 25 | +36.847 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 21 | John Hopkins | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 25 | +51.580 | 6 | 6 |
| 11 | 33 | Akira Ryō | Team Suzuki | Suzuki | 25 | +53.303 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 25 | +57.585 | 12 | 4 |
| 13 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Pramac Honda Racing Team | Honda | 25 | +1:01.823 | 20 | 3 |
| 14 | 55 | Régis Laconi | MS Aprilia Racing | Aprilia | 25 | +1:03.002 | 13 | 2 |
| 15 | 20 | Pere Riba | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | 25 | +1:04.723 | 21 | 1 |
| 16 | 6 | Norifumi Abe | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín | Yamaha | 23 | +2 laps | 16 | |
| Ret | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 24 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 6 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 2 | Retirement | 18 | |
| Ret | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Kanemoto Racing | Honda | 0 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 0 | Accident | 10 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 3 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | 23 | 41:40.377 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 | Roberto Rolfo | Honda | 23 | +2.193 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 23 | +2.689 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 17 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 23 | +2.950 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 23 | +4.538 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 27 | Casey Stoner | Aprilia | 23 | +23.101 | 13 | 10 |
| 7 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 23 | +23.215 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 18 | Shahrol Yuzy | Yamaha | 23 | +23.374 | 12 | 8 |
| 9 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 23 | +24.586 | 7 | 7 |
| 10 | 24 | Toni Elías | Aprilia | 23 | +30.721 | 9 | 6 |
| 11 | 11 | Haruchika Aoki | Honda | 23 | +37.908 | 14 | 5 |
| 12 | 42 | David Checa | Aprilia | 23 | +38.456 | 15 | 4 |
| 13 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 23 | +40.607 | 10 | 3 |
| 14 | 51 | Hugo Marchand | Aprilia | 23 | +1:00.034 | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 22 | Raúl Jara | Aprilia | 23 | +1:02.087 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 76 | Taro Sekiguchi | Yamaha | 23 | +1:02.410 | 16 | |
| 17 | 25 | Vincent Philippe | Aprilia | 23 | +1:02.643 | 18 | |
| 18 | 19 | Leon Haslam | Honda | 23 | +1:09.785 | 20 | |
| 19 | 12 | Jay Vincent | Honda | 23 | +1:17.851 | 21 | |
| 20 | 32 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 23 | +1:30.113 | 22 | |
| 21 | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Aprilia | 23 | +1:31.937 | 25 | |
| 22 | 41 | Jarno Janssen | Honda | 23 | +1:47.797 | 23 | |
| Ret | 34 | Eric Bataille | Honda | 7 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 5 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 9 | Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 4 | Retirement | 8 | |
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## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 22 | 41:18.211 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 22 | +0.019 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 22 | +9.888 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 22 | +15.397 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 16 | Simone Sanna | Aprilia | 22 | +15.452 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 25 | Joan Olivé | Honda | 22 | +15.486 | 21 | 10 |
| 7 | 33 | Stefano Bianco | Aprilia | 22 | +15.549 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Aprilia | 22 | +16.218 | 2 | 8 |
| 9 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Honda | 22 | +22.762 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 22 | +22.839 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 22 | +23.067 | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | 50 | Andrea Ballerini | Honda | 22 | +23.134 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Italjet | 22 | +43.345 | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Derbi | 22 | +43.973 | 7 | 2 |
| 15 | 5 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 22 | +47.189 | 13 | 1 |
| 16 | 18 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 22 | +47.333 | 24 | |
| 17 | 32 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Aprilia | 22 | +52.000 | 23 | |
| 18 | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 22 | +1:11.358 | 27 | |
| 19 | 31 | Mattia Angeloni | Gilera | 22 | +1:11.488 | 29 | |
| 20 | 19 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 22 | +1:21.603 | 32 | |
| 21 | 39 | Jaroslav Huleš | Aprilia | 22 | +1:21.681 | 15 | |
| 22 | 52 | Julián Simón | Honda | 22 | +1:31.723 | 26 | |
| 23 | 20 | Imre Tóth | Honda | 22 | +1:31.794 | 31 | |
| 24 | 24 | Leon Camier | Italjet | 21 | +1 lap | 33 | |
| Ret | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | 18 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 84 | Michel Fabrizio | Gilera | 14 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 13 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 13 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 47 | Ángel Rodríguez | Aprilia | 4 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 0 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 44 | Alessandro Brannetti | Honda | 0 | Accident | 30 | |
| Ret | 51 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 28 | |
| DNQ | 55 | Javier Machado | 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 six has concluded.

| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 145 |
| 2 | Tohru Ukawa | 97 |
| 3 | Loris Capirossi | 65 |
| 4 | Max Biaggi | 56 |
| 5 | Carlos Checa | 56 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 150 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 89 |
| 3 | Suzuki | 48 |
| 4 | / Proton KR | 32 |
| 5 | Aprilia | 28 |

* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
