2000 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2000 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 3 September 2000 at Estoril.

  2000 Portuguese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 12 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	3 September 2000
Official name	Grande Prémio Marlboro de Portugal
Location	Autódromo do Estoril
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.182 km (2.599 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Garry McCoy Time 1:40.736 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:42.200 on lap 28 Podium First Garry McCoy Second Kenny Roberts Jr. Third Valentino Rossi
250cc
Pole position Rider Olivier Jacque Time 1:42.506 Fastest lap Rider Olivier Jacque Time 1:42.985 on lap 3 Podium First Daijiro Kato Second Olivier Jacque Third Marco Melandri
125cc
Pole position Rider Youichi Ui Time 1:47.080 Fastest lap Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:47.279 on lap 9 Podium First Emilio Alzamora Second Roberto Locatelli Third Arnaud Vincent

This was the first Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix since 1987. It was previously a one-off race held in Spain.

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	24	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	28	48:07.663	1	25
2	2	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	28	4.941	4	20
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	28	5.182	12	16
4	4	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	5.724	5	13
5	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	28	13.759	10	11
6	1	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	28	15.422	9	10
7	8	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	28	15.425	6	9
8	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Rizla Honda	TSR-Honda	28	15.776	3	8
9	6	Norick Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	28	19.623	13	7
10	10	Alex Barros	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	28	19.843	7	6
11	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	28	32.421	15	5
12	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	33.195	8	4
13	65	Loris Capirossi	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	28	54.916	14	3
14	31	Tetsuya Harada	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	28	1:13.562	17	2
15	68	Mark Willis	Proton Team KR	Modenas KR3	28	1:18.311	16	1
16	25	José Luis Cardoso	Maxon Dee Cee Jeans	Honda	28	1:19.532	18
17	15	Yoshiteru Konishi	FCC TSR	TSR-Honda	28	1:47.140	19
18	18	Sébastien Le Grelle	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	27	1 lap	20
19	20	Phil Giles	Sabre Sport	Honda	27	1 lap	21
Ret	5	Sete Gibernau	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	20	Accident	11
Ret	43	Paolo Tessari	Team Paton	Paton	10	Retirement	22
Ret	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	0	Accident	2
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	26	45:07.769	2	25
2	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	26	10.954	1	20
3	35	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	26	28.317	6	16
4	14	Anthony West	Honda	26	34.314	12	13
5	26	Klaus Nöhles	Aprilia	26	35.983	8	11
6	10	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	26	40.091	11	10
7	24	Jason Vincent	Aprilia	26	40.375	14	9
8	11	Ivan Clementi	Aprilia	26	51.493	19	8
9	22	Sébastien Gimbert	TSR-Honda	26	54.322	18	7
10	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	26	54.506	26	6
11	66	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	26	58.840	25	5
12	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	26	59.337	13	4
13	25	Vincent Philippe	TSR-Honda	26	1:00.132	16	3
14	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	26	1:05.509	24	2
15	77	Jamie Robinson	Aprilia	26	1:24.133	27	1
16	23	Julien Allemand	Yamaha	26	1:24.462	23
17	31	Lucas Oliver	Yamaha	26	1:35.079	20
18	85	Felisberto Teixeira	Yamaha	25	1 lap	29
19	38	Álvaro Molina	TSR-Honda	25	1 lap	28
Ret	20	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	20	Retirement	21
Ret	15	Adrian Coates	Aprilia	12	Retirement	22
Ret	41	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	9	Retirement	17
Ret	4	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	3	Accident	4
Ret	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	3	Accident	3
Ret	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	3	Accident	15
Ret	6	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	2	Accident	5
Ret	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	1	Accident	10
Ret	42	David Checa	TSR-Honda	1	Accident	7
Ret	30	Alex Debón	Aprilia	1	Accident	9
DNS	16	Johan Stigefelt	TSR-Honda		Did not start
DNQ	86	Vicente Esparragoso	Yamaha		Did not qualify
DNQ	87	Pablo Antelo	Honda		Did not qualify
Source:

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	24	43:22.891	2	25
2	4	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	24	3.691	3	20
3	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	24	12.233	8	16
4	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	24	12.804	17	13
5	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	24	16.958	14	11
6	26	Ivan Goi	Honda	24	19.629	15	10
7	12	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	24	26.990	9	9
8	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	24	30.785	10	8
9	29	Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	24	30.794	13	7
10	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Italjet	24	33.054	23	6
11	17	Steve Jenkner	Honda	24	33.466	20	5
12	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	24	49.454	19	4
13	11	Max Sabbatani	Honda	24	1:04.046	22	3
14	10	Adrián Araujo	Honda	24	1:13.056	27	2
15	53	William de Angelis	Aprilia	24	1:13.060	21	1
16	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	24	1:14.132	26
17	18	Antonio Elías	Honda	23	1 lap	16
18	84	José Leite	Honda	23	1 lap	28
Ret	3	Masao Azuma	Honda	23	Accident	11
Ret	54	Manuel Poggiali	Derbi	17	Retirement	4
Ret	24	Leon Haslam	Italjet	17	Retirement	25
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	12	Accident	5
Ret	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	10	Accident	6
Ret	51	Marco Petrini	Aprilia	10	Retirement	24
Ret	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	9	Accident	1
Ret	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	9	Accident	12
Ret	35	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	9	Accident	18
Ret	5	Noboru Ueda	Honda	8	Accident	7
DNQ	86	Paulo Henriques	Aprilia		Did not qualify
DNQ	83	Emmanuel Carvalho	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	85	Manuel Vieira	Yamaha		Did not qualify
Source:

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	Kenny Roberts Jr.	194
2	Valentino Rossi	148
3	Carlos Checa	132
4	Loris Capirossi	126
5	Norifumi Abe	113

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Yamaha	236
2	Honda	235
3	Suzuki	200
4	Aprilia	80
5	TSR-Honda	68

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