2000 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2000 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 15 October 2000 at the Twin Ring Motegi.

  2000 Pacific Grand Prix

Race details
Race 15 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	15 October 2000
Official name	Pacific Grand Prix of Motegi[1][2]
Location	Twin Ring Motegi
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.801 km (2.983 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:49.954 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:50.591 on lap 22 Podium First Kenny Roberts Jr. Second Valentino Rossi Third Max Biaggi
250cc
Pole position Rider Daijiro Kato Time 1:52.574 Fastest lap Rider Shinya Nakano Time 1:52.253 on lap 23 Podium First Daijiro Kato Second Shinya Nakano Third Marco Melandri
125cc
Pole position Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:58.831 Fastest lap Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:58.816 on lap 7 Podium First Roberto Locatelli Second Emilio Alzamora Third Simone Sanna

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	2	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	25	46:23.327	2	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	25	+6.175	5	20
3	4	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	25	+6.360	1	16
4	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	25	+19.727	7	13
5	6	Norick Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	25	+21.994	6	11
6	1	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	25	+22.237	12	10
7	10	Alex Barros	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	25	+23.963	4	9
8	65	Loris Capirossi	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	25	+26.051	3	8
9	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	25	+26.388	10	7
10	8	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	25	+32.508	9	6
11	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	25	+36.078	13	5
12	5	Sete Gibernau	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	25	+37.760	11	4
13	31	Tetsuya Harada	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	25	+38.014	16	3
14	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	25	+55.657	14	2
15	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Rizla Honda	TSR-Honda	25	+1:06.664	15	1
16	56	Tekkyu Kayoh	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	25	+1:28.554	17
17	33	David Tomás	Sabre Sport	Honda	24	+1 lap	19
18	15	Yoshiteru Konishi	FCC TSR	TSR-Honda	24	+1 lap	20
Ret	24	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	17	Retirement	8
DNS	68	Mark Willis	Proton Team KR	Modenas KR3	0	Did not start	18
DNQ	36	Stephen Briggs	BSL	BSL		Did not qualify
WD	25	José Luis Cardoso	Maxon Dee Cee Jeans	Honda		Withdrew
Sources: [3][4][5]

250cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	23	43:26.394	1	25
2	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	23	+0.707	3	20
3	35	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	23	+19.677	2	16
4	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	23	+24.260	5	13
5	4	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	23	+28.673	4	11
6	14	Anthony West	Honda	23	+49.317	9	10
7	6	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	23	+50.661	7	9
8	89	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	23	+1:06.700	17	8
9	24	Jason Vincent	Aprilia	23	+1:08.330	13	7
10	88	Yasumasa Hatakeyama	Honda	23	+1:14.158	12	6
11	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	23	+1:20.838	15	5
12	30	Alex Debón	Aprilia	23	+1:20.946	8	4
13	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	23	+1:22.398	18	3
14	10	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	23	+1:22.817	14	2
15	42	David Checa	TSR-Honda	23	+1:22.942	16	1
16	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	23	+1:37.060	20
17	90	Yoshinori Korogi	Honda	23	+1:46.753	26
18	22	Sébastien Gimbert	TSR-Honda	23	+1:46.792	29
19	16	Johan Stigefelt	TSR-Honda	23	+1:48.952	27
Ret	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	14	Accident	10
Ret	23	Julien Allemand	Yamaha	5	Retirement	23
Ret	77	Jamie Robinson	Aprilia	2	Accident	28
Ret	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	1	Accident	6
Ret	25	Vincent Philippe	TSR-Honda	0	Accident	21
Ret	26	Klaus Nöhles	Aprilia	0	Accident	24
Ret	31	Lucas Oliver	Yamaha	0	Accident	30
Ret	41	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	0	Accident	25
Ret	44	Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	0	Accident	22
Ret	48	Shinichi Nakatomi	Honda	0	Accident	19
DSQ	49	Osamu Miyazaki	Yamaha	23	(+1:08.510)	11
DNS	15	Adrian Coates	Aprilia		Did not start
DNS	11	Ivan Clementi	Aprilia		Did not start
DNS	20	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia		Did not start
Source: [6]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	21	41:55.152	1	25
2	1	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	21	+13.790	5	20
3	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	21	+16.429	12	16
4	3	Masao Azuma	Honda	21	+21.734	4	13
5	26	Ivan Goi	Honda	21	+28.060	8	11
6	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	21	+28.277	10	10
7	5	Noboru Ueda	Honda	21	+28.322	7	9
8	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	21	+29.155	6	8
9	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	21	+29.521	18	7
10	29	Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	21	+33.499	11	6
11	54	Manuel Poggiali	Derbi	21	+38.889	13	5
12	18	Antonio Elías	Honda	21	+39.828	21	4
13	17	Steve Jenkner	Honda	21	+39.983	15	3
14	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	21	+40.151	20	2
15	56	Yuzo Fujioka	NER Honda	21	+55.189	14	1
16	96	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Yamaha	21	+55.212	22
17	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	21	+1:09.288	16
18	11	Max Sabbatani	Honda	21	+1:11.898	25
19	51	Marco Petrini	Aprilia	21	+1:11.980	24
20	98	Masafumi Ono	Honda	21	+1:12.325	19
21	35	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	21	+1:38.513	27
22	67	Marco Tresoldi	Italjet	21	+1:52.521	29
Ret	97	Naoki Katoh	Honda	17	Accident	17
Ret	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	13	Accident	3
Ret	12	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	11	Retirement	23
Ret	24	Leon Haslam	Italjet	10	Retirement	28
Ret	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	1	Retirement	26
Ret	95	Nobuyuki Yunoki	Honda	0	Accident	9
DSQ	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	21	(+17.692)	2
DNS	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda		Did not start
DNS	53	William de Angelis	Aprilia		Did not start
Source: [7]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fifteen has concluded.^[8]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Kenny Roberts Jr. 249 2 Valentino Rossi 193 3 Carlos Checa 155 4 Garry McCoy 150 5 Alex Barros 150

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 293 2 Honda 291 3 Suzuki 255 4 Aprilia 86 5 TSR-Honda 81

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