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The 1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 43rd F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.
The beginning of the 1990s marked a golden age for Grand Prix motorcycle racing.[1] The rivalry between Wayne Rainey and Kevin Schwantz was in full flow while Mick Doohan started to come into his own.[1] Eddie Lawson had switched to Cagiva and started to have some respectable results.[1] In a one-year quirk, only 13 races counted as, competitors were allowed to drop their two worst scores.[1] The Yugoslavia round was dropped because of the civil war and replaced with a Grand Prix of Europe at Jarama.[1] The Brazilian round was also dropped at the last minute over track safety concerns and replaced with a race held at Le Mans.[1] The inaugural Malaysian Grand Prix was held at Shah Alam.[1]
For the 1991 season, Michelin decided to supply only the Rothmans Honda team with tires; everybody else used Dunlops.[1][2]
Luca Cadalora won the 250 title in a dominating fashion with eight wins.[1] In the 125 class, Italian teenager Loris Capirossi swept to the title for the second consecutive year.[1]
The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 1991:[3][4]
Round | Date | Grand Prix | Circuit |
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1 | 24 March | Kibun Japanese Grand Prix | Suzuka Circuit |
2 | 7 April | Tooheys Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix | Eastern Creek Raceway |
3 | 21 April | United States International Grand Prix | Laguna Seca Raceway |
4 | 12 May | Gran Premio de España | Circuito Permanente de Jerez |
5 | 19 May | Gran Premio d'Italia | Misano World Circuit |
6 | 26 May | Großer Preis von Deutschland für Motorräder | Hockenheimring |
7 | 9 June | Großer Preis von Österreich | Salzburgring |
8 | 16 June | G.P de Europa | Circuito Permanente Del Jarama |
9 | 29 June | Dutch TT | TT Circuit Assen |
10 | 21 July | Grand Prix de France | Circuit Paul Ricard |
11 | 4 August | Shell British Motorcycle Grand Prix | Donington Park |
12 | 18 August | San Marino Grand Prix | Mugello Circuit |
13 | 25 August | Czechoslovakian motorcycle Grand Prix | Brno Circuit |
14 | 8 September | Vitesse du Mans Grand Prix | Bugatti Circuit |
15 | 29 September | Lucky Strike Malaysia Grand Prix | Shah Alam Circuit |
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Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th |
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Points | 20 | 17 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th |
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Points | 20 | 17 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Pos | Rider | Bike | JPN |
AUS |
USA |
ESP |
ITA |
GER |
AUT |
EUR |
NED |
Points | Wins |
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1 | Luca Cadalora | Honda | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 237 | 5 |
2 | Helmut Bradl | Honda | 7 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 220 | 3 |
3 | Carlos Cardús | Honda | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 205 | 0 |
4 | Wilco Zeelenberg | Honda | 3 | 4 | 2 | Ret | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 158 | 0 |
5 | Masahiro Shimizu | Honda | 8 | Ret | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 142 | 0 |
6 | Loris Reggiani | Aprilia | 9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Ret | 8 | 5 | Ret | 128 | 0 |
7 | Pierfrancesco Chili | Aprilia | 17 | 6 | Ret | 5 | 3 | Ret | 4 | Ret | 1 | 107 | 1 |
8 | Jochen Schmid | Honda | 13 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | Ret | 96 | 0 |
9 | Martin Wimmer | Suzuki | 14 | Ret | 7 | 8 | 19 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 89 | 0 |
10 | Paolo Casoli | Yamaha | 26 | 9 | Ret | Ret | 10 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 65 | 0 |
11 | Andy Preining | Aprilia | 19 | 7 | 6 | Ret | 9 | 6 | Ret | 14 | 20 | 60 | |
12 | Jean Pierre Jeandat | Honda | 18 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 14 | Ret | 13 | 10 | 59 | |
13 | Àlex Crivillé | Honda | Ret | Ret | 9 | Ret | Ret | 7 | 9 | Ret | Ret | 51 | |
14 | Carlos Lavado | Yamaha | 25 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 15 | DNS | 9 | 34 | ||
15 | Doriano Romboni | Honda | Ret | Ret | 13 | 9 | Ret | 13 | Ret | 7 | Ret | 32 | |
16 | Alberto Puig | Yamaha | 21 | Ret | Ret | 10 | Ret | DNS | DNS | Ret | 28 | ||
17 | Stefan Prein | Honda | 20 | Ret | 15 | DNS | 15 | 10 | 10 | Ret | Ret | 28 | |
18 | Harald Eckl | Aprilia | Ret | 14 | Ret | 16 | 12 | 12 | 19 | 11 | 22 | ||
19 | Katsuyoshi Kozono | Honda | 11 | 21 | 11 | 12 | 20 | ||||||
20 | Renzo Colleoni | Aprilia | Ret | 13 | Ret | 25 | Ret | Ret | 19 | ||||
21 | Bernard Haenggeli | Aprilia | 32 | 12 | 17 | 17 | Ret | Ret | 22 | Ret | 13 | 15 | |
22 | Masumitsu Taguchi | Honda | 4 | 13 | |||||||||
23 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Honda | 5 | 13 | |||||||||
24 | Tetsuya Harada | Yamaha | 6 | 10 | |||||||||
25 | Herri Torrontegui | Aprilia | Ret | 8 | |||||||||
26 | Erkka Korpiaho | Aprilia | Ret | 12 | DNS | 14 | 17 | Ret | 8 | ||||
27 | Max Biaggi | Aprilia | Ret | 7 | |||||||||
28 | Tsutomu Udagawa | Honda | 10 | 6 | |||||||||
29 | Marcellino Lucchi | Aprilia | Ret | Ret | 22 | Ret | Ret | 14 | 5 | ||||
30 | Jose Barresi | 4 | |||||||||||
30 | Kyoji Nanba | Yamaha | 12 | 4 | |||||||||
30 | Dominique Sarron | Yamaha | Ret | 16 | 12 | 4 | |||||||
33 | Frederic Protat | Aprilia | 30 | 13 | Ret | Ret | Ret | DNS | Ret | 15 | 17 | 4 | |
34 | Urs Jücker | Yamaha | 27 | 14 | 18 | 15 | 18 | Ret | Ret | 18 | 16 | 4 | |
35 | Leon Van Der Heyden | Honda | 23 | Ret | 19 | 13 | Ret | DNS | 22 | Ret | 3 | ||
35 | Patrick van den Goorbergh | Yamaha | 14 | 21 | 19 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 3 | ||||
37 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | 2 | |||||||||||
38 | Corrado Catalano | Honda | Ret | Ret | 24 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 15 | Ret | Ret | 1 | |
38 | Bernd Kassner | Honda | 22 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 1 | ||||||
38 | Toshi Arakaki | Honda | 15 | 1 | |||||||||
38 | Kevin Mitchell | Yamaha | 29 | 15 | Ret | Ret | 20 | DNS | 1 | ||||
Jaime Mariano | Aprilia | Ret | 17 | 20 | 16 | 17 | Ret | 18 | 0 | ||||
Fausto Ricci | Yamaha | 19 | Ret | 18 | 16 | Ret | DNQ | 0 | |||||
Stefano Pennese | Aprilia | Ret | DNS | 19 | 16 | Ret | 0 | ||||||
Jim Filice | Yamaha | 31 | Ret | 16 | 0 | ||||||||
Osamu Miyazaki | Yamaha | 16 | 0 | ||||||||||
Stephen Whitehouse | Yamaha | 16 | 0 | ||||||||||
Eskil Suter | Aprilia | 17 | 23 | 0 | |||||||||
Ian Newton | Yamaha | Ret | 27 | 18 | Ret | 24 | 26 | 21 | 19 | 0 | |||
Jean Foray | Yamaha | 20 | 24 | 21 | 27 | Ret | 18 | 0 | |||||
David Horton | Yamaha | 18 | 0 | ||||||||||
Gavin Johnston | Yamaha | 19 | 0 | ||||||||||
Renato Colleoni | Aprilia | 20 | 24 | 0 | |||||||||
Warren Palesy | Yamaha | 20 | 0 | ||||||||||
Michael Haisman | Yamaha | 21 | 0 | ||||||||||
Nick Ienatsch | Yamaha | 21 | 0 | ||||||||||
Peter Linden | Honda | 28 | Ret | 25 | Ret | 22 | 0 | ||||||
Takehiko Kurokawa | Honda | 22 | 0 | ||||||||||
Scott Buckley | Yamaha | 22 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chris D'Aluisio | Yamaha | 22 | 0 | ||||||||||
Wayne Doran | Aprilia | 23 | 23 | 28 | 0 | ||||||||
Jon Cornwell | Yamaha | 25 | 23 | 0 | |||||||||
Rick Kirk | Yamaha | 23 | 0 | ||||||||||
Yoshiaki Kato | Yamaha | 24 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mike Sullivan | Yamaha | 26 | 0 | ||||||||||
Hiroyuki Yamagishi | Honda | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||
Darren Milner | Yamaha | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||
Trevor Manley | Yamaha | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||
Ricky Rice | Yamaha | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||
Alan Scott | Yamaha | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||
Rick Tripodi | Yamaha | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||
Daniel Amatriain | Aprilia | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||
Stefano Caracchi | Yamaha | DNQ | 0 | ||||||||||
Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins |
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1 | Loris Capirossi | 1 | Italy | Honda | 200 | 5 |
2 | Fausto Gresini | 8 | Italy | Honda | 181 | 2 |
3 | Ralf Waldmann | 28 | Germany | Honda | 141 | 2 |
4 | Gabriele Debbia | 12 | Italy | Aprilia | 111 | 0 |
5 | Noboru Ueda | 56 | Japan | Honda | 105 | 2 |
6 | Jorge Martínez | 6 | Spain | Cobas | 99 | 0 |
7 | Alessandro Gramigni | 9 | Italy | Aprilia | 90 | 1 |
8 | Dirk Raudies | 5 | Germany | Honda | 81 | 0 |
9 | Peter Öttl | 22 | Germany | Rotax | 67 | 1 |
10 | Nobuyuki Wakai | 51 | Japan | Honda | 60 | 0 |
11 | Heinz Lüthi | 10 | Switzerland | Honda | 56 | 0 |
12 | Adi Stadler | 11 | Germany | Cobas | 56 | 0 |
13 | Kazuto Sakata | 35 | Japan | Honda | 55 | 0 |
14 | Hans Spaan | 2 | Netherlands | Honda | 54 | 0 |
15 | Bruno Casanova | 3 | Italy | Honda | 45 | 0 |
16 | Ezio Gianola | 6 | Italy | Derbi | 32 | 0 |
17 | Koji Takada | 16 | Japan | Honda | 28 | 0 |
18 | Maurizio Vitali | 15 | Italy | Gazzaniga | 27 | 0 |
19 | Hisashi Unemoto | Japan | Honda | 15 | 0 | |
20 | Kinya Wada | 73 | Japan | Honda | 14 | 0 |
21 | Masato Shima | Japan | Honda | 13 | 0 | |
22 | Luis Alvaro | 66 | Spain | Derbi | 13 | 0 |
23 | Oliver Petrucciani | 47 | Switzerland | Aprilia | 13 | 0 |
24 | Herri Torrontegui | Spain | Cobas | 12 | 0 | |
25 | Andres Sanchez | Spain | Cobas | 12 | 0 | |
26 | Gimmi Bosio | Italy | Honda | 12 | 0 | |
27 | Julián Miralles | 14 | Spain | Cobas | 10 | 0 |
28 | Alfred Waibel | 19 | Germany | Honda | 9 | 0 |
29 | Akira Saito | Japan | Honda | 8 | 0 | |
30 | Sinya Sato | Japan | Honda | 7 | 0 | |
31 | Carlos Giro Jr. | Spain | Cobas | 7 | 0 | |
32 | Arie Molenaar | 46 | Netherlands | Honda | 7 | 0 |
33 | Manuel Herreros | Spain | Cobas | 6 | 0 | |
34 | Ian McConnachie | 62 | United Kingdom | Kawasaki | 5 | 0 |
35 | Steve Patrickson | United Kingdom | Honda | 5 | 0 | |
36 | Johnny Wickstroem | Finland | Cobas | 5 | 0 | |
37 | Yosuke Yamakawa | Japan | Honda | 3 | 0 | |
38 | Peter Galvin | 29 | Australia | Honda | 2 | 0 |
39 | Alain Bronec | 41 | France | Honda | 2 | 0 |
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