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2001 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
flag	ESP
Official_Name	Gran Premio Marlboro de la Comunitat Valenciana
Grand Prix	Valencian Community
Location	Circuit de Valencia
Image	Valencia (Ricardo Tormo) track map.svg
Course_mi	2.489
Course_km	4.005
Race_No	12
Season_No	16
Date	23 September
Year	2001
Pole_Rider_500_Country	ITA
Pole_Rider_500	Max Biaggi
Pole_Time_500	1:34.496
Fast_Rider_500_Country	ESP
Fast_Rider_500	Sete Gibernau
Fast_Time_500	1:36.792 on lap 30
First_Rider_500_Country	ESP
First_Rider_500	Sete Gibernau
Second_Rider_500_Country	BRA
Second_Rider_500	Alex Barros
Third_Rider_500_Country	USA
Third_Rider_500	Kenny Roberts Jr.
Pole_Rider_250_Country	ESP
Pole_Rider_250	Fonsi Nieto
Pole_Time_250	1:36.379
Fast_Rider_250_Country	JPN
Fast_Rider_250	Daijiro Kato
Fast_Time_250	1:36.701 on lap 16
First_Rider_250_Country	JPN
First_Rider_250	Daijiro Kato
Second_Rider_250_Country	JPN
Second_Rider_250	Tetsuya Harada
Third_Rider_250_Country	ESP
Third_Rider_250	Fonsi Nieto
Pole_Rider_125_Country	ESP
Pole_Rider_125	Toni Elías
Pole_Time_125	1:40.481
Fast_Rider_125_Country	ITA
Fast_Rider_125	Gino Borsoi
Fast_Time_125	1:41.464 on lap 7
First_Rider_125_Country	SMR
First_Rider_125	Manuel Poggiali
Second_Rider_125_Country	ESP
Second_Rider_125	Toni Elías
Third_Rider_125_Country	ESP
Third_Rider_125	Daniel Pedrosa

The 2001 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 21–23 September 2001 at the Circuit de Valencia. Ten days after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington D.C., Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) announced that the Valencian Community Motorcycle Grand Prix would go ahead as scheduled. Additionally, the Royal Automobile Club of Spain urged fans and spectators to behave "in keeping with the gravity of the situation and in collective participation in the pain of American citizens".

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
15	ESP Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	30	54:39.391	12	25
4	BRA Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	30	+0.293	11	20
1	USA Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	30	+1.241	7	16
7	ESP Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+7.052	8	13
19	FRA Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+29.809	14	11
11	JPN Tohru Ukawa	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	30	+29.863	10	10
56	JPN Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+31.093	3	9
6	JPN Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	30	+31.609	13	8
17	NLD Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	30	+32.783	9	7
3	ITA Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+37.774	1	6
46	ITA Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	30	+40.512	2	5
5	AUS Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	30	+1:36.743	5	4
14	AUS Anthony West	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	29	+1 lap	18	3
16	SWE Johan Stigefelt	Sabre Sport	Sabre V4	29	+1 lap	21	2
21	NLD Barry Veneman	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	28	+2 laps	20	1
9	GBR Leon Haslam	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	28	+2 laps	19
10	ESP José Luis Cardoso	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	26	+4 laps	16
18	AUS Brendan Clarke	Shell Advance Honda	Honda	14	Retirement	22
28	ESP Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	7	Accident	6
41	JPN Noriyuki Haga	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	1	Accident	15
12	JPN Haruchika Aoki	Arie Molenaar Racing	Honda	0	Accident	17
65	ITA Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	0	Accident	4
37	ESP Miguel Tey	By Queroseno Racing	Honda		Did not qualify

250 cc classification

The race was held in two parts as rain caused its interruption; race times from the two heats were added together to determine the final results.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
74	JPN Daijiro Kato	Honda	27	44:01.853	5	25
31	JPN Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	27	+4.943	4	20
10	ESP Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	27	+12.371	1	16
7	ESP Emilio Alzamora	Honda	27	+14.972	9	13
99	GBR Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	27	+21.045	7	11
8	JPN Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	27	+25.817	8	10
15	ITA Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	27	+26.623	3	9
44	ITA Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	27	+26.776	10	8
6	ESP Alex Debón	Aprilia	27	+35.372	2	7
81	FRA Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	27	+46.273	14	6
42	ESP David Checa	Honda	27	+47.766	13	5
18	MYS Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	27	+47.887	19	4
9	ARG Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	27	+49.132	18	3
21	ITA Franco Battaini	Aprilia	27	+51.582	11	2
22	ESP José David de Gea	Yamaha	27	+52.052	16	1
50	FRA Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	27	+53.057	15
46	JPN Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	27	+53.108	21
20	ESP Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	27	+1:17.203	24
11	ITA Riccardo Chiarello	Aprilia	27	+1:42.393	22
38	ESP Álvaro Molina	Yamaha	27	+1:53.681	27
23	BRA César Barros	Yamaha	27	+2:07.720	28
16	ESP David Tomás	Honda	27	+2:12.659	23
45	GBR Stuart Edwards	Yamaha	27	+2:14.370	30
14	DEU Katja Poensgen	Honda	27	+2:23.258	29
36	ESP Luis Costa	Yamaha	19	Retirement	26
66	DEU Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	16	Retirement	12
37	ITA Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	13	Retirement	20
83	HUN Gábor Rizmayer	Honda	9	Retirement	31
57	ITA Lorenzo Lanzi	Aprilia	6	Retirement	17
24	GBR Jason Vincent	Yamaha	5	Retirement	25
5	ITA Marco Melandri	Aprilia	3	Retirement	6
41	ESP Dámaso Nácher	Honda		Did not qualify
43	ESP Isaac Martín	Honda		Did not qualify
72	ESP Michael García	Aprilia		Did not qualify
12	DEU Klaus Nöhles	Aprilia		Did not qualify

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
54	SMR Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	25	42:45.422	12	25
24	ESP Toni Elías	Honda	25	+0.022	1	20
26	ESP Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	25	+0.263	8	16
41	JPN Youichi Ui	Derbi	25	+0.305	10	13
23	ITA Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	25	+0.561	6	11
16	ITA Simone Sanna	Aprilia	25	+0.586	2	10
17	DEU Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	25	+0.654	5	9
9	ITA Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	25	+1.596	3	8
11	ITA Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	25	+2.005	4	7
25	ESP Joan Olivé	Honda	25	+2.078	9	6
28	HUN Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	25	+15.746	11	5
7	ITA Stefano Perugini	Italjet	25	+17.225	29	4
6	ITA Mirko Giansanti	Honda	25	+17.369	18	3
22	ESP Pablo Nieto	Derbi	25	+17.456	14	2
31	ESP Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	25	+17.709	19	1
29	ESP Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	25	+18.686	15
34	AND Eric Bataille	Honda	25	+20.387	13
21	FRA Arnaud Vincent	Honda	25	+20.537	16
20	ITA Gaspare Caffiero	Aprilia	25	+21.800	28
19	ITA Alessandro Brannetti	Aprilia	25	+24.857	24
18	CZE Jakub Smrž	Honda	25	+24.946	23
8	ITA Gianluigi Scalvini	Italjet	25	+38.255	22
4	JPN Masao Azuma	Honda	25	+38.692	20
77	ESP Adrián Araujo	Honda	25	+42.858	34
12	ESP Raúl Jara	Aprilia	25	+43.450	26
30	DEU Jascha Büch	Honda	25	+1:01.078	30
15	SMR Alex de Angelis	Honda	24	Accident	21
44	ESP Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	18	Retirement	17
39	CZE Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	14	Retirement	25
45	ESP Javier Forés	Aprilia	14	Retirement	27
75	ITA Fabrizio Lai	Rieju	11	Accident	31
5	JPN Noboru Ueda	TSR-Honda	7	Accident	7
37	SMR William de Angelis	Honda	6	Retirement	33
82	FIN Mika Kallio	Honda	4	Accident	32

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

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

;Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	ITA Valentino Rossi	225
2	ITA Max Biaggi	183
3	ITA Loris Capirossi	147
4	BRA Alex Barros	127
5	JPN Shinya Nakano	116

;Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	JPN Honda	267
2	JPN Yamaha	226
3	JPN Suzuki	126
4	MYS Proton KR	59
5	GBR Sabre V4	6

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

References

| Previous_year's_race = 2000 Valencian Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = 2002 Valencian Grand Prix

References

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Mitchell, Malcolm. "Valencia Ricardo Tormo - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
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(23 September 2001). "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – 500cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
"motogp.com · VALENCIA GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 2001".
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(23 September 2001). "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – 125cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(2001). "Standings".

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