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2002 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
flag	Valencia
Grand Prix	Valencian Community
Official_Name	Gran Premio Marlboro de la Comunitat Valenciana
Location	Circuit Ricardo Tormo
Image	Valencia (Ricardo Tormo) track map.svg
Course_mi	2.489
Course_km	4.005
Race_No	16
Season_No	16
Date	3 November
Year	2002
Pole_Rider_MotoGP	Max Biaggi
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Yamaha
Pole_Time_MotoGP	1:33.211
Fast_Rider_MotoGP	Alex Barros
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Brazil
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Fast_Time_MotoGP	1:33.873 on lap 5
First_Rider_MotoGP	Alex Barros
First_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Brazil
First_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Second_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Third_Rider_MotoGP	Max Biaggi
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Yamaha
Pole_Rider_250	Marco Melandri
Pole_Rider_250_Country	Italy
Pole_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Pole_Time_250	1:35.885
Fast_Rider_250	Marco Melandri
Fast_Rider_250_Country	Italy
Fast_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Fast_Time_250	1:36.784 on lap 4
First_Rider_250	Marco Melandri
First_Rider_250_Country	Italy
First_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Second_Rider_250	Roberto Rolfo
Second_Rider_250_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_250_Bike	Honda
Third_Rider_250	Emilio Alzamora
Third_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Third_Rider_250_Bike	Honda
Pole_Rider_125	Daniel Pedrosa
Pole_Rider_125_Country	Spain
Pole_Rider_125_Bike	Honda
Pole_Time_125	1:39.426
Fast_Rider_125	Steve Jenkner
Fast_Rider_125_Country	Germany
Fast_Rider_125_Bike	Aprilia
Fast_Time_125	1:40.252 on lap 21
First_Rider_125	Daniel Pedrosa
First_Rider_125_Country	Spain
First_Rider_125_Bike	Honda
Second_Rider_125	Arnaud Vincent
Second_Rider_125_Country	France
Second_Rider_125_Bike	Aprilia
Third_Rider_125	Pablo Nieto
Third_Rider_125_Country	Spain
Third_Rider_125_Bike	Aprilia

The 2002 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 1–3 November 2002 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
4	BRA Alex Barros	West Honda Pons	Honda	30	47:22.404	2	25
46	ITA Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+0.230	6	20
3	ITA Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+15.213	1	16
74	JPN Daijiro Kato	Fortuna Honda Gresini	Honda	30	+22.504	3	13
11	JPN Tohru Ukawa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+35.165	7	11
56	JPN Shinya Nakano	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+50.169	9	10
17	NLD Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Kanemoto Racing	Honda	30	+1:03.814	15	9
99	GBR Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	30	+1:05.079	8	8
19	FRA Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+1:08.312	11	7
6	JPN Norifumi Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	30	+1:08.312	20	6
21	USA John Hopkins	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	30	+1:26.241	17	5
84	AUS Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	30	+1:27.427	18	4
15	ESP Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	29	+1 lap	10	3
31	JPN Tetsuya Harada	Pramac Honda Racing Team	Honda	29	+1 lap	22	2
10	USA Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	24	Retirement	14
65	ITA Loris Capirossi	West Honda Pons	Honda	19	Accident	12
29	ESP David García	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	13	Retirement	19
8	AUS Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	6	Accident	4
9	JPN Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	1	Accident	16
55	FRA Régis Laconi	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	1	Retirement	13
30	ESP José Luis Cardoso	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antín	Yamaha	0	Collision	21
7	ESP Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	0	Collision	5

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
3	ITA Marco Melandri	Aprilia	27	43:57.812	1	25
4	ITA Roberto Rolfo	Honda	27	+4.318	7	20
7	ESP Emilio Alzamora	Honda	27	+4.538	4	16
17	FRA Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	27	+18.214	2	13
15	ITA Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	27	+21.990	12	11
42	ESP David Checa	Aprilia	27	+22.173	11	10
21	ITA Franco Battaini	Aprilia	27	+26.755	9	9
8	JPN Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	27	+26.909	14	8
6	ESP Alex Debón	Aprilia	27	+26.915	5	7
24	ESP Toni Elías	Aprilia	27	+32.380	8	6
18	MYS Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	27	+36.294	13	5
11	JPN Haruchika Aoki	Honda	27	+42.879	16	4
27	AUS Casey Stoner	Aprilia	27	+42.889	10	3
12	GBR Jay Vincent	Honda	27	+44.942	18	2
32	ESP Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	27	+47.348	15	1
13	CZE Jaroslav Huleš	Yamaha	27	+47.849	19
19	GBR Leon Haslam	Honda	27	+1:06.850	21
74	ESP Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	27	+1:20.276	26
28	DEU Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	27	+1:24.489	22
36	FRA Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	27	+1:27.859	23
90	USA Chuck Sorensen	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	27
96	CZE Jakub Smrž	Honda	26	Accident	20
22	ESP Raúl Jara	Aprilia	15	Retirement	25
10	ESP Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	7	Accident	6
34	FRA Eric Bataille	Honda	4	Accident	24
51	FRA Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	2	Retirement	17
9	ARG Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	1	Retirement	3
39	ESP Luis Castro	Yamaha		Did not qualify

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
26	ESP Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	25	42:13.044	1	25
21	FRA Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	25	+0.100	4	20
22	ESP Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	25	+2.704	3	16
15	SMR Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	25	+3.069	5	13
17	DEU Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	25	+3.136	7	11
80	ESP Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	25	+8.041	6	10
1	SMR Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	25	+8.852	2	9
4	ITA Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	25	+11.879	18	8
25	ESP Joan Olivé	Honda	25	+12.037	12	7
23	ITA Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	25	+14.757	8	6
11	ITA Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	25	+15.167	13	5
50	ITA Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	25	+18.472	9	4
33	ITA Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	25	+18.514	20	3
16	ITA Simone Sanna	Aprilia	25	+18.804	15	2
8	HUN Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	25	+23.694	11	1
36	FIN Mika Kallio	Honda	25	+23.726	10
34	ITA Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	25	+23.782	14
5	JPN Masao Azuma	Honda	25	+23.958	19
6	ITA Mirko Giansanti	Honda	25	+24.110	17
84	ITA Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	25	+54.350	25
12	DEU Klaus Nöhles	Honda	25	+58.575	30
48	ESP Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	25	+58.916	26
51	ESP Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	25	+59.286	28
77	CHE Thomas Lüthi	Honda	25	+1:10.021	35
20	HUN Imre Tóth	Honda	25	+1:10.155	33
71	ESP Rubén Catalán	Aprilia	25	+1:16.125	32
72	DEU Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	25	+1:16.138	34
57	GBR Chaz Davies	Aprilia	25	+1:20.058	31
59	CHE Vincent Braillard	Honda	24	+1 lap	37
7	ITA Stefano Perugini	Italjet	22	Retirement	27
31	ITA Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	20	Accident	23
52	ESP Julián Simón	Honda	18	Retirement	22
19	ITA Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	13	Retirement	29
41	JPN Youichi Ui	Derbi	10	Accident	16
42	ITA Christian Pistoni	Italjet	9	Accident	36
98	CAN Chris Peris	Aprilia	9	Retirement	38
9	JPN Noboru Ueda	Honda	3	Accident	21
37	ITA Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	3	Accident	24

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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	355
2	ITA Max Biaggi	215
3	JPN Tohru Ukawa	209
4	BRA Alex Barros	204
5	SPA Carlos Checa	141

;Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	JPN Honda	390
2	JPN Yamaha	272
3	JPN Suzuki	143
4	MYS/USA Proton KR	96
5	ITA Aprilia	33

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

References

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

References

(13 June 2017). "2002 Valencia MotoGP".
Mitchell, Malcolm. "Valencia Ricardo Tormo - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
(25 July 2015). "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 2002".
(13 June 2017). "2002 Valencia MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database".
(3 November 2002). "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – MotoGP – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
"motogp.com · VALENCIA GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2002".
(3 November 2002). "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – 250cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(3 November 2002). "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – 125cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(2002). "Standings".

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