2002 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix

  2002 Czech Republic Grand Prix

Race details
Race 10 of 16 races in the 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	25 August 2002
Location	Masaryk Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.403 km (3.357 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Max Biaggi
Time	1:59.646
Fastest lap
Rider	Daijiro Kato
Time	2:00.605
Podium
First	Max Biaggi
Second	Daijiro Kato
Third	Tohru Ukawa
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Fonsi Nieto
Time	2:03.037
Fastest lap
Rider	Marco Melandri
Time	2:04.039
Podium
First	Marco Melandri
Second	Sebastián Porto
Third	Toni Elías
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Alex de Angelis
Time	2:08.746
Fastest lap
Rider	Lucio Cecchinello
Time	2:08.903
Podium
First	Lucio Cecchinello
Second	Dani Pedrosa
Third	Arnaud Vincent

The 2002 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 23–25 August 2002 at the Masaryk Circuit located in Brno, Czech Republic. This event would be the last podium for Japanese MotoGP rider, Daijiro Kato; who finished in second place, before his death in 6 April 2003 at the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix.

MotoGP classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	22	44:36.498	1	25
2	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	22	+2.755	2	20
3	11	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	22	+7.598	8	16
4	15	Sete Gibernau	Suzuki	22	+11.889	12	13
5	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	22	+14.029	6	11
6	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	22	+18.260	5	10
7	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton KR	22	+24.840	10	9
8	6	Norifumi Abe	Yamaha	22	+26.572	15	8
9	4	Alex Barros	Honda	22	+28.741	16	7
10	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	22	+29.156	14	6
11	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	22	+32.920	19	5
12	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	22	+38.670	11	4
13	8	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	22	+45.144	4	3
14	33	Akira Ryō	Suzuki	22	+51.932	20	2
15	31	Tetsuya Harada	Honda	22	+1:02.171	18	1
16	55	Régis Laconi	Aprilia	22	+1:02.238	17
17	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Yamaha	22	+1:13.465	21
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	20	Retirement	3
Ret	21	John Hopkins	Yamaha	12	Retirement	7
Ret	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton KR	11	Accident	13
Ret	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	0	Accident	9
DNS	20	Pere Riba	Yamaha			22

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	41:41.572	2	25
2	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	+7.023	6	20
3	Toni Elías	Aprilia	+8.135	7	16
4	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	+8.307	1	13
5	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	+11.322	19	11
6	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	+11.636	9	10
7	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	+16.988	3	9
8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	+20.984	8	8
9	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	+21.002	12	7
10	David García	Honda	+30.259	14	6
11	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	+30.357	10	5
12	Jay Vincent	Honda	+30.805	23	4
13	Alex Debón	Aprilia	+43.592	11	3
14	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	+44.141	21	2
15	Raúl Jara	Aprilia	+50.513	16	1
16	Erwan Nigon	Honda	+1:02.225	22
17	Leon Haslam	Honda	+1:04.058	17
18	David Checa	Aprilia	+1:15.519	13
19	Henk vd Lagemaat	Honda	+2:05.290	25
20	Gabor Rizmayer	Honda	+1 Lap	27
Ret	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	Retirement	4
Ret	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	Retirement	20
Ret	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	Retirement	5
Ret	Jaroslav Huleš	Yamaha	Retirement	24
Ret	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	Retirement	18
Ret	Vladimir Castka	Yamaha	Retirement	26
Ret	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	Retirement	15

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	41:18.287	6	25
2	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	+0.202	3	20
3	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	+0.278	8	16
4	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	+0.494	9	13
5	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	+0.495	4	11
6	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	+0.717	5	10
7	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	+0.901	2	9
8	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	+1.309	1	8
9	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	+5.579	10	7
10	Mika Kallio	Honda	+7.091	14	6
11	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	+7.360	11	5
12	Masao Azuma	Honda	+14.326	19	4
13	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	+14.345	15	3
14	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	+16.990	21	2
15	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	+18.106	22	1
16	Klaus Nohles	Honda	+18.186	17
17	Youichi Ui	Derbi	+22.341	13
18	Stefano Perugini	Italjet	+22.408	16
19	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	+22.442	18
20	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	+41.048	27
21	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	+41.208	20
22	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	+44.018	26
23	Robbin Harms	Honda	+50.207	28
24	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	+50.372	35
25	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	+50.451	29
26	Imre Tóth	Honda	+50.700	30
27	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	+50.746	24
28	Igor Kalab	Honda	+51.560	34
29	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	+1:07.328	32
30	Matej Smrž	Aprilia	+1:47.385	33
Ret	Lukáš Pešek	Honda	Retirement	25
Ret	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	Retirement	23
Ret	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	Retirement	7
Ret	Joan Olivé	Honda	Retirement	12
Ret	Christian Pistoni	Italjet	Retirement	31