2000 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2000 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth race of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 28 May 2000 at the Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello.

  2000 Italian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 6 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	28 May 2000
Official name	Gran Premio Cinzano d'Italia
Location	Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.245 km (3.259 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Alex Barros Time 1:52.811 Fastest lap Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:53.885 on lap 2 Podium First Loris Capirossi Second Carlos Checa Third Jeremy McWilliams
250cc
Pole position Rider Marcellino Lucchi Time 1:53.928 Fastest lap Rider Shinya Nakano Time 1:54.462 on lap 16 Podium First Shinya Nakano Second Olivier Jacque Third Daijiro Kato
125cc
Pole position Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:58.923 Fastest lap Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 2:00.029 on lap 2 Podium First Roberto Locatelli Second Mirko Giansanti Third Masao Azuma

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	65	Loris Capirossi	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	23	44:04.220	4	25
2	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	2.876	5	20
3	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	23	8.041	11	16
4	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	23	9.631	8	13
5	6	Norick Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	23	9.939	14	11
6	2	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	23	10.127	6	10
7	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	23	18.288	9	9
8	8	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	23	18.401	7	8
9	4	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	26.661	2	7
10	5	Sete Gibernau	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	23	27.668	15	6
11	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Rizla Honda	TSR-Honda	23	28.147	17	5
12	46	Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	23	49.625	3	4
13	25	José Luis Cardoso	Maxon Dee Cee Jeans	Honda	23	1:15.622	16	3
14	18	Sébastien Le Grelle	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	22	1 lap	20	2
15	15	Yoshiteru Konishi	FCC TSR	TSR-Honda	22	1 lap	19	1
Ret	31	Tetsuya Harada	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	21	Retirement	10
Ret	24	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	18	Accident	13
Ret	10	Alex Barros	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	17	Accident	1
Ret	1	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	8	Accident	12
Ret	23	Callum Ramsay	Sabre Sport	Honda	5	Retirement	22
Ret	11	José David de Gea	Proton Team KR	Modenas KR3	2	Retirement	18
Ret	43	Paolo Tessari	Team Paton	Paton	1	Retirement	21
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	21	40:30.142	2	25
2	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	21	0.786	3	20
3	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	21	15.233	8	16
4	13	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	21	15.334	5	13
5	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	21	34.753	9	11
6	4	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	21	38.003	6	10
7	14	Anthony West	Honda	21	1:01.597	23	9
8	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	21	1:01.839	13	8
9	10	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	21	1:02.068	22	7
10	11	Ivan Clementi	Aprilia	21	1:07.095	15	6
11	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	21	1:17.005	18	5
12	23	Julien Allemand	Yamaha	21	1:21.649	21	4
13	42	David Checa	TSR-Honda	21	1:38.389	27	3
14	15	Adrian Coates	Aprilia	20	1 lap	17	2
Ret	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	20	Accident	16
Ret	30	Alex Debón	Aprilia	18	Retirement	11
Ret	34	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	11	Accident	1
Ret	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	11	Retirement	25
Ret	54	David García	Aprilia	7	Accident	24
Ret	26	Klaus Nöhles	Aprilia	4	Accident	7
Ret	24	Jason Vincent	Aprilia	3	Accident	14
Ret	77	Jamie Robinson	Aprilia	3	Accident	10
Ret	31	Lucas Oliver	Yamaha	3	Accident	26
Ret	6	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	2	Accident	4
Ret	16	Johan Stigefelt	TSR-Honda	0	Retirement	19
Ret	22	Sébastien Gimbert	TSR-Honda	0	Retirement	28
Ret	41	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	0	Retirement	20
Ret	66	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	0	Accident	12
WD	25	Vincent Philippe	TSR-Honda		Withdrew
Source:

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	20	40:36.753	1	25
2	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	20	6.212	13	20
3	3	Masao Azuma	Honda	20	6.258	12	16
4	17	Steve Jenkner	Honda	20	6.493	10	13
5	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	20	6.494	5	11
6	5	Noboru Ueda	Honda	20	6.821	6	10
7	1	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	20	6.932	11	9
8	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	20	7.038	7	8
9	12	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	20	7.214	15	7
10	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	20	20.644	3	6
11	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	20	20.945	14	5
12	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	20	38.950	20	4
13	26	Ivan Goi	Honda	20	38.971	19	3
14	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Italjet	20	39.002	25	2
15	18	Antonio Elías	Honda	20	40.284	23	1
16	29	Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	20	40.484	24
17	19	Alessandro Brannetti	Honda	20	40.522	21
18	53	William de Angelis	Aprilia	20	40.757	17
19	35	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	20	41.099	22
20	11	Max Sabbatani	Honda	20	41.186	16
21	51	Marco Petrini	Aprilia	20	42.010	18
22	24	Leon Haslam	Italjet	20	1:16.769	27
23	10	Adrián Araujo	Honda	20	1:39.715	28
24	66	Alex Baldolini	Honda	19	1 lap	29
Ret	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	19	Accident	8
Ret	54	Manuel Poggiali	Derbi	19	Accident	9
Ret	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	9	Retirement	2
Ret	67	Marco Tresoldi	Honda	8	Retirement	26
Ret	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	4	Retirement	4
Source:

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

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

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Kenny Roberts Jr.	100
2	Carlos Checa	100
3	Norifumi Abe	65
4	Loris Capirossi	63
5	Garry McCoy	61

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Yamaha	130
2	Honda	108
3	Suzuki	103
4	Aprilia	41
5	TSR-Honda	29

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