2001 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix
# 2001 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2001 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 7–9 September 2001 at the Autódromo do Estoril.

## 500 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Nastro Azzurro Honda | Honda | 28 | 47:25.357 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | West Honda Pons | Honda | 28 | +1.756 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 5 | Garry McCoy | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 28 | +14.030 | 9 | 16 |
| 4 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 28 | +24.337 | 8 | 13 |
| 5 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 28 | +31.348 | 1 | 11 |
| 6 | 1 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 28 | +31.925 | 11 | 10 |
| 7 | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 28 | +37.140 | 5 | 9 |
| 8 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 28 | +41.043 | 15 | 8 |
| 9 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 28 | +50.273 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 10 | José Luis Cardoso | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin | Yamaha | 28 | +58.227 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 12 | Haruchika Aoki | Arie Molenaar Racing | Honda | 28 | +1:27.139 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 14 | Anthony West | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 28 | +1:27.459 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 16 | Johan Stigefelt | Sabre Sport | Sabre V4 | 27 | +1 lap | 20 | 3 |
| 14 | 18 | Brendan Clarke | Shell Advance Honda | Honda | 27 | +1 lap | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 21 | Barry Veneman | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 27 | +1 lap | 21 | 1 |
| Ret | 41 | Noriyuki Haga | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 25 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 9 | Leon Haslam | Shell Advance Honda | Honda | 18 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 28 | Àlex Crivillé | Repsol YPF Honda Team | Honda | 12 | Retirement | 12 | |
| Ret | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 2 | Retirement | 7 | |
| Ret | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Repsol YPF Honda Team | Honda | 0 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 4 | Alex Barros | West Honda Pons | Honda | 0 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 6 | Norifumi Abe | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin | Yamaha | 0 | Accident | 10 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Honda | 26 | 44:38.464 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 5 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | 26 | +16.993 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 26 | +27.360 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Aprilia | 26 | +34.207 | 11 | 13 |
| 5 | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Aprilia | 26 | +36.916 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 26 | +37.101 | 7 | 10 |
| 7 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 26 | +44.441 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | 42 | David Checa | Honda | 26 | +45.404 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 26 | +49.202 | 17 | 7 |
| 10 | 18 | Shahrol Yuzy | Yamaha | 26 | +51.072 | 19 | 6 |
| 11 | 12 | Klaus Nöhles | Aprilia | 26 | +55.776 | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 26 | +59.663 | 10 | 4 |
| 13 | 22 | José David de Gea | Yamaha | 26 | +1:19.420 | 16 | 3 |
| 14 | 24 | Jason Vincent | Yamaha | 26 | +1:19.835 | 25 | 2 |
| 15 | 20 | Jerónimo Vidal | Aprilia | 26 | +1:20.435 | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 16 | David Tomás | Honda | 26 | +1:20.795 | 23 | |
| 17 | 81 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 26 | +1:23.776 | 12 | |
| 18 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro | Aprilia | 26 | +1:27.354 | 24 | |
| 19 | 36 | Luis Costa | Yamaha | 25 | +1 lap | 27 | |
| 20 | 14 | Katja Poensgen | Honda | 25 | +1 lap | 29 | |
| 21 | 71 | Javier Díaz | Honda | 25 | +1 lap | 31 | |
| 22 | 72 | Michael García | Aprilia | 25 | +1 lap | 32 | |
| Ret | 23 | César Barros | Yamaha | 20 | Retirement | 30 | |
| Ret | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Aprilia | 12 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 46 | Taro Sekiguchi | Yamaha | 12 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 11 | Riccardo Chiarello | Aprilia | 10 | Retirement | 26 | |
| Ret | 57 | Lorenzo Lanzi | Aprilia | 9 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 5 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 4 | Retirement | 9 | |
| Ret | 9 | Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 4 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 2 | Accident | 20 | |
| DNS | 45 | Stuart Edwards | Yamaha | 0 | Did not start | 28 | |
| DNQ | 41 | Dámaso Nácher | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 70 | José Estrela | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
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## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 24 | 42:55.454 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 24 | +0.011 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 24 | Toni Elías | Honda | 24 | +8.306 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 16 | Simone Sanna | Aprilia | 24 | +8.473 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 24 | +26.230 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 18 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 24 | +30.439 | 7 | 10 |
| 7 | 39 | Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 24 | +30.513 | 10 | 9 |
| 8 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 24 | +31.500 | 17 | 8 |
| 9 | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Aprilia | 24 | +33.982 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Honda | 24 | +35.553 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 19 | Alessandro Brannetti | Aprilia | 24 | +36.820 | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | 28 | Gábor Talmácsi | Honda | 24 | +37.344 | 16 | 4 |
| 13 | 20 | Gaspare Caffiero | Aprilia | 24 | +50.138 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 12 | Raúl Jara | Aprilia | 24 | +57.302 | 26 | 2 |
| 15 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 24 | +57.409 | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 9 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 24 | +1:10.035 | 4 | |
| 17 | 77 | Adrián Araujo | Honda | 24 | +1:12.889 | 29 | |
| 18 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Italjet | 24 | +1:24.889 | 27 | |
| 19 | 30 | Jascha Büch | Honda | 24 | +1:40.128 | 30 | |
| 20 | 86 | José Leite | Honda | 23 | +1 lap | 32 | |
| Ret | 90 | José Luis Nión | Honda | 17 | Retirement | 31 | |
| Ret | 29 | Ángel Nieto Jr. | Honda | 12 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Italjet | 12 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 27 | Marco Petrini | Honda | 11 | Retirement | 28 | |
| Ret | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Derbi | 9 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 5 | Noboru Ueda | TSR-Honda | 8 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 5 | Retirement | 12 | |
| Ret | 31 | Ángel Rodríguez | Aprilia | 5 | Retirement | 6 | |
| Ret | 4 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 4 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Honda | 2 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 25 | Joan Olivé | Honda | 1 | Accident | 13 | |
| DNS | 34 | Eric Bataille | Honda | 0 | Did not start | 19 | |
| DNQ | 88 | João Pinto | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 89 | Ricardo Tomé | Aprilia | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 87 | José Monteiro | 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 eleven has concluded.

| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 220 |
| 2 | Max Biaggi | 177 |
| 3 | Loris Capirossi | 147 |
| 4 | Alex Barros | 107 |
| 5 | Shinya Nakano | 107 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 247 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 213 |
| 3 | Suzuki | 101 |
| 4 | Proton KR | 52 |
| 5 | Sabre V4 | 4 |

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