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2001 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
flag	BRA
Grand Prix	Rio de Janeiro
Official Name	Cinzano Rio Grand Prix
Location	Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet
Image	Jacarepaguá.svg
Course_mi	3.065
Course_km	4.933
Race_No	16
Season_No	16
Date	3 November
Year	2001
Pole_Rider_500_Country	JPN
Pole_Rider_500	Tohru Ukawa
Pole_Time_500	1:51.431
Fast_Rider_500_Country	ITA
Fast_Rider_500	Valentino Rossi
Fast_Time_500	1:53.258 on lap 16
First_Rider_500_Country	ITA
First_Rider_500	Valentino Rossi
Second_Rider_500_Country	ESP
Second_Rider_500	Carlos Checa
Third_Rider_500_Country	ITA
Third_Rider_500	Max Biaggi
Pole_Rider_250_Country	ESP
Pole_Rider_250	Fonsi Nieto
Pole_Time_250	1:53.819
Fast_Rider_250_Country	ITA
Fast_Rider_250	Marco Melandri
Fast_Time_250	1:55.315 on lap 22
First_Rider_250_Country	JPN
First_Rider_250	Daijiro Kato
Second_Rider_250_Country	ITA
Second_Rider_250	Marco Melandri
Third_Rider_250_Country	ITA
Third_Rider_250	Roberto Locatelli
Pole_Rider_125_Country	JPN
Pole_Rider_125	Youichi Ui
Pole_Time_125	1:58.676
Fast_Rider_125_Country	ITA
Fast_Rider_125	Simone Sanna
Fast_Time_125	2:11.067 on lap 6
First_Rider_125_Country	JPN
First_Rider_125	Youichi Ui
Second_Rider_125_Country	ITA
Second_Rider_125	Simone Sanna
Third_Rider_125_Country	FRA
Third_Rider_125	Arnaud Vincent

The 2001 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth and latest round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 1–3 November 2001 at the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet. It was also the final 500cc race in Grand Prix motorcycle racing history. This also marked the final Grand Prix win in the career of Daijiro Kato before his death caused by a crash in the 2003 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix race.

500 cc classification

The race was held in two parts as rain caused its interruption; aggregate times from the two heats determined the final result.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
46	ITA Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	24	45:57.414	5	25
7	ESP Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+0.143	7	20
3	ITA Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+6.980	10	16
4	BRA Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	24	+19.053	12	13
65	ITA Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	24	+20.655	2	11
6	JPN Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	24	+20.829	9	10
28	ESP Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	24	+27.894	14	9
10	ESP José Luis Cardoso	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	24	+45.110	15	8
56	JPN Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	24	+2:25.532	4	7
5	AUS Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	23	+1 lap	13	6
9	GBR Leon Haslam	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	23	+1 lap	18	5
15	ESP Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	23	+1 lap	6	4
14	AUS Anthony West	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	22	+2 laps	16	3
12	JPN Haruchika Aoki	Arie Molenaar Racing	Honda	22	+2 laps	17	2
18	AUS Brendan Clarke	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	22	+2 laps	19	1
1	USA Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	22	+2 laps	3
21	NLD Barry Veneman	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	22	+2 laps	20
11	JPN Tohru Ukawa	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	7	Retirement	1
17	NLD Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	1	Retirement	11
19	FRA Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	0	Retirement	8
41	JPN Noriyuki Haga	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha		Did not start

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
74	JPN Daijiro Kato	Honda	22	43:38.212	2	25
5	ITA Marco Melandri	Aprilia	22	+0.508	7	20
15	ITA Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	22	+1.382	4	16
10	ESP Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	22	+3.569	1	13
99	GBR Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	22	+3.846	3	11
31	JPN Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	22	+11.032	5	10
7	ESP Emilio Alzamora	Honda	22	+14.786	11	9
44	ITA Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	22	+26.769	12	8
8	JPN Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	22	+42.705	6	7
21	ITA Franco Battaini	Aprilia	22	+45.602	9	6
50	FRA Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	22	+46.659	19	5
57	ITA Lorenzo Lanzi	Aprilia	22	+55.054	18	4
81	FRA Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	22	+1:00.211	8	3
11	ITA Riccardo Chiarello	Aprilia	22	+1:04.153	14	2
22	ESP José David de Gea	Yamaha	22	+1:04.281	21	1
6	ESP Alex Debón	Aprilia	22	+1:04.807	10
66	DEU Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	22	+1:06.148	13
37	ITA Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	22	+1:24.059	15
45	GBR Stuart Edwards	Yamaha	21	+1 lap	29
24	GBR Jason Vincent	Yamaha	21	+1 lap	23
36	ESP Luis Costa	Yamaha	21	+1 lap	28
42	ESP David Checa	Honda	21	+1 lap	20
18	MYS Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	21	+1 lap	16
23	BRA César Barros	Yamaha	21	+1 lap	27
27	AUS Shaun Geronimi	Yamaha	20	+2 laps	25
14	DEU Katja Poensgen	Honda	20	+2 laps	30
9	ARG Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	15	Retirement	17
55	ITA Diego Giugovaz	Aprilia	10	Retirement	24
41	ESP Dámaso Nácher	Honda	8	Retirement	31
16	ESP David Tomás	Honda	3	Accident	22
84	BRA Cristiano Vieira	Yamaha	3	Accident	26
85	BRA Rafael da Cunha	Honda		Did not qualify

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
41	JPN Youichi Ui	Derbi	21	46:47.181	1	25
16	ITA Simone Sanna	Aprilia	21	+0.112	9	20
21	FRA Arnaud Vincent	Honda	21	+27.647	14	16
24	ESP Toni Elías	Honda	21	+32.325	4	13
54	SMR Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	21	+37.646	5	11
15	SMR Alex de Angelis	Honda	21	+42.052	18	10
4	JPN Masao Azuma	Honda	21	+42.563	21	9
18	CZE Jakub Smrž	Honda	21	+42.642	8	8
8	ITA Gianluigi Scalvini	Italjet	21	+42.867	20	7
39	CZE Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	21	+43.854	15	6
25	ESP Joan Olivé	Honda	21	+1:11.667	7	5
10	DEU Jarno Müller	Honda	21	+1:11.675	24	4
5	JPN Noboru Ueda	TSR-Honda	21	+1:18.050	17	3
22	ESP Pablo Nieto	Derbi	21	+1:50.142	28	2
19	ITA Alessandro Brannetti	Aprilia	21	+1:56.893	26	1
77	ESP Adrián Araujo	Honda	21	+2:01.428	30
17	DEU Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	21	+2:05.356	12
12	ESP Raúl Jara	Aprilia	21	+2:09.956	23
48	BRA Leandro Panadés	Honda	21	+2:10.408	31
23	ITA Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	20	+1 lap	10
26	ESP Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	12	Accident	3
50	ITA Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	6	Accident	2
31	ESP Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	6	Accident	11
7	ITA Stefano Perugini	Italjet	5	Accident	16
9	ITA Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	3	Accident	6
11	ITA Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	3	Retirement	13
34	AND Eric Bataille	Honda	1	Accident	29
37	SMR William de Angelis	Honda	1	Accident	27
28	HUN Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	1	Retirement	19
29	ESP Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	0	Accident	22
6	ITA Mirko Giansanti	Honda	0	Accident	25

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.

;Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	ITA Valentino Rossi	325
2	ITA Max Biaggi	219
3	ITA Loris Capirossi	210
4	BRA Alex Barros	182
5	JPN Shinya Nakano	155

;Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	JPN Honda	367
2	JPN Yamaha	295
3	JPN Suzuki	153
4	MYS Proton KR	65
5	GBR Sabre V4	6

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

References

| Previous_year's_race = 2000 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = 2002 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix

References

(June 13, 2017). "2001 Brazilian MotoGP | Motor Sport Magazine Database".
"Marlboro Yamaha two & three". [[Yamaha Motor Racing]].
"The 2001 races – Brazil". [[Autosport]].
"motogp.com · RIO GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 2001".
(3 November 2001). "Cinzano Rio Grand Prix – 250cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(3 November 2001). "Cinzano Rio Grand Prix – 125cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
"2001 Rio de Janeiro MotoGP : Classification".
"motogp.com · 500cc World Standing 2001".

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