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2002 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
flag	MYS
Grand Prix	Malaysian
Official_Name	Gauloises Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix
Location	Sepang International Circuit
Image	Sepang.svg
Course_mi	3.444
Course_km	5.543
Race_No	14
Season_No	16
Date	13 October
Year	2002
Pole_Rider_MotoGP	Alex Barros
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Brazil
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Pole_Time_MotoGP	2:04.487
Fast_Rider_MotoGP	Max Biaggi
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Yamaha
Fast_Time_MotoGP	2:04.925 on lap 5
First_Rider_MotoGP	Max Biaggi
First_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
First_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Yamaha
Second_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Third_Rider_MotoGP	Alex Barros
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Brazil
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Pole_Rider_250	Fonsi Nieto
Pole_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Pole_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Pole_Time_250	2:08.067
Fast_Rider_250	Fonsi Nieto
Fast_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Fast_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Fast_Time_250	2:08.858 on lap 2
First_Rider_250	Fonsi Nieto
First_Rider_250_Country	Spain
First_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Second_Rider_250	Toni Elías
Second_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Third_Rider_250	Roberto Rolfo
Third_Rider_250_Country	Italy
Third_Rider_250_Bike	Honda
Pole_Rider_125	Arnaud Vincent
Pole_Rider_125_Country	France
Pole_Rider_125_Bike	Aprilia
Pole_Time_125	2:13.563
Fast_Rider_125	Lucio Cecchinello
Fast_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Fast_Rider_125_Bike	Aprilia
Fast_Time_125	2:13.919 on lap 4
First_Rider_125	Arnaud Vincent
First_Rider_125_Country	France
First_Rider_125_Bike	Aprilia
Second_Rider_125	Lucio Cecchinello
Second_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_125_Bike	Aprilia
Third_Rider_125	Daniel Pedrosa
Third_Rider_125_Country	Spain
Third_Rider_125_Bike	Honda

The 2002 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourteenth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 11–13 October 2002 at the Sepang International Circuit.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
3	ITA Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	21	44:01.592	2	25
46	ITA Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	21	+0.542	8	20
4	BRA Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	21	+1.572	1	16
11	JPN Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	21	+2.238	6	13
74	JPN Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	21	+8.475	3	11
56	JPN Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	21	+23.000	16	10
7	ESP Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	21	+24.360	5	9
10	USA Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	21	+24.709	12	8
65	ITA Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	21	+27.669	4	7
6	JPN Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	21	+41.811	11	6
33	JPN Akira Ryō	Team Suzuki	Suzuki	21	+42.603	18	5
99	GBR Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	21	+45.761	7	4
17	NLD Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	21	+48.316	10	3
15	ESP Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	21	+1:01.270	15	2
8	AUS Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	21	+1:13.096	9	1
30	ESP José Luis Cardoso	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	21	+1:15.503	21
55	FRA Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	21	+1:21.513	20
21	USA John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	21	+1:42.684	19
84	AUS Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	21	+1:48.156	22
9	JPN Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	18	Retirement	13
31	JPN Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	11	Retirement	14
19	FRA Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	3	Accident	17

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
10	ESP Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	20	43:28.624	1	25
24	ESP Toni Elías	Aprilia	20	+0.412	3	20
4	ITA Roberto Rolfo	Honda	20	+2.947	6	16
9	ARG Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	20	+7.910	8	13
21	ITA Franco Battaini	Aprilia	20	+8.581	5	11
17	FRA Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	20	+8.706	7	10
8	JPN Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	20	+19.155	14	9
7	ESP Emilio Alzamora	Honda	20	+22.459	13	8
18	MYS Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	20	+22.694	12	7
42	ESP David Checa	Aprilia	20	+29.350	11	6
27	AUS Casey Stoner	Aprilia	20	+36.502	10	5
11	JPN Haruchika Aoki	Honda	20	+40.016	15	4
15	ITA Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	20	+46.558	4	3
12	GBR Jay Vincent	Honda	20	+49.793	18	2
13	CZE Jaroslav Huleš	Yamaha	20	+57.200	21	1
96	CZE Jakub Smrž	Honda	20	+1:02.918	23
19	GBR Leon Haslam	Honda	20	+1:02.950	20
28	DEU Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	20	+1:03.369	16
51	FRA Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	20	+1:13.145	17
36	FRA Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	14	Retirement	22
32	ESP Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	9	Accident	19
6	ESP Alex Debón	Aprilia	8	Accident	9
22	ESP Raúl Jara	Aprilia	6	Retirement	24
3	ITA Marco Melandri	Aprilia	2	Retirement	2

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
21	FRA Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	18	40:32.656	1	25
4	ITA Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	18	+0.278	7	20
26	ESP Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	18	+0.345	3	16
1	SMR Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	18	+0.813	2	13
22	ESP Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	18	+3.647	10	11
17	DEU Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	18	+6.288	4	10
36	FIN Mika Kallio	Honda	18	+13.020	14	9
80	ESP Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	18	+13.028	5	8
5	JPN Masao Azuma	Honda	18	+13.255	9	7
15	SMR Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	18	+21.494	19	6
16	ITA Simone Sanna	Aprilia	18	+25.209	22	5
41	JPN Youichi Ui	Derbi	18	+30.511	6	4
25	ESP Joan Olivé	Honda	18	+36.548	16	3
12	DEU Klaus Nöhles	Honda	18	+45.983	11	2
34	ITA Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	18	+46.435	17	1
6	ITA Mirko Giansanti	Honda	18	+46.466	15
31	ITA Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	18	+47.101	18
9	JPN Noboru Ueda	Honda	18	+47.690	26
23	ITA Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	18	+47.724	20
48	ESP Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	18	+48.079	24
77	CHE Thomas Lüthi	Honda	18	+1:22.654	30
20	HUN Imre Tóth	Honda	18	+1:22.721	28
19	ITA Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	18	+1:22.867	32
72	DEU Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	18	+1:23.046	29
57	GBR Chaz Davies	Aprilia	18	+1:36.014	31
84	ITA Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	18	+1:36.792	21
42	ITA Christian Pistoni	Italjet	16	Retirement	33
83	AUS Joshua Waters	Honda	15	Accident	34
8	HUN Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	6	Retirement	23
37	ITA Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	5	Accident	27
50	ITA Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	3	Accident	13
11	ITA Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	2	Accident	8
33	ITA Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	1	Accident	12
7	ITA Stefano Perugini	Italjet	1	Retirement	25

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

;Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	ITA Valentino Rossi	310
2	ITA Max Biaggi	189
3	JPN Tohru Ukawa	182
4	BRA Alex Barros	159
5	SPA Carlos Checa	136

;Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	JPN Honda	340
2	JPN Yamaha	246
3	JPN Suzuki	133
4	MYS/USA Proton KR	79
5	ITA Aprilia	33

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

References

| Previous_year's_race = 2001 Malaysian Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix

References

(13 June 2017). "2002 Malaysian MotoGP".
(25 July 2015). "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 2002".
(13 June 2017). "2002 Malaysian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database".
(13 October 2002). "Gauloises Malaysian Motorcycle GP – MotoGP – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
"motogp.com · MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2002".
(13 October 2002). "Gauloises Malaysian Motorcycle GP – 250cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(13 October 2002). "Gauloises Malaysian Motorcycle GP – 125cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(2002). "Standings".

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