2002 French motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2002 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 17th-19th May, 2002 at the Bugatti Circuit located in Le Mans, France.

[edit] MotoGP classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Valentino Rossi	Honda	21	34:22.335	1	25
2	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	21	+0.217	4	20
3	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	21	+0.604	3	16
4	Norifumi Abe	Yamaha	21	+1.701	11	13
5	Kenny Roberts Jr	Suzuki	21	+8.464	9	11
6	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton	21	+10.212	10	10
7	Loris Capirossi	Honda	21	+12.437	7	9
8	Alex Barros	Honda	21	+15.231	15	8
9	Regis Laconi	Aprilia	21	+17.155	14	7
10	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton	21	+21.847	6	6
11	John Hopkins	Yamaha	21	+25.121	19	5
12	Sete Gibernau	Suzuki	21	+25.919	16	4
13	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	21	+26.227	13	3
14	Jean-Michel Bayle	Yamaha	21	+27.011	18	2
15	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	21	+30.342	17	1
16	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	21	+36.574	20
Ret	Daijiro Kato	Honda		Retirement	5
Ret	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha		Retirement	12
Ret	Tetsuya Harada	Honda		Retirement	8
Ret	Carlos Checa	Yamaha		Retirement	2

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	26	43:41.140	1	25
2	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	26	+0.252	4	20
3	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	26	+6.431	2	16
4	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	26	+6.604	3	13
5	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	26	+11.527	12	11
6	Toni Elías	Aprilia	26	+13.157	5	10
7	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	26	+13.870	15	9
8	Sebastian Porto	Yamaha	26	+20.077	9	8
9	Alex Debón	Aprilia	26	+28.557	11	7
10	David Checa	Aprilia	26	+28.684	17	6
11	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	26	+28.892	10	5
12	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	26	+35.148	13	4
13	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	26	+35.344	14	3
14	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	26	+56.484	19	2
15	Jay Vincent	Honda	26	+56.894	16	1
16	Vincent Philippe	Aprilia	26	+1:08.156	20
17	Jarno Janssen	Honda	26	+1:08.390	22
18	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+1:16.135	23
19	Raul Jara	Aprilia	26	+1:18.040	21
20	Erwan Nigon	Honda	26	+1 Lap	24
Ret	Thierry vd Bosch	Aprilia		Retirement	18
Ret	Franco Battaini	Aprilia		Retirement	6
Ret	Casey Stoner	Aprilia		Retirement	7
Ret	Haruchika Aoki	Honda		Retirement	8
Ret	Leon Haslam	Honda		Retirement	25

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	24	42:09.029	4	25
2	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	24	+0.076	1	20
3	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	24	+0.604	3	16
4	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	24	+0.865	5	13
5	Masao Azuma	Honda	24	+0.943	2	11
6	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	24	+1.618	7	10
7	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	24	+3.769	19	9
8	Mika Kallio	Honda	24	+8.680	20	8
9	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	24	+8.915	11	7
10	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	24	+9.534	8	6
11	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	24	+11.749	16	5
12	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	24	+20.252	13	4
13	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	24	+32.082	21	3
14	Klaus Nohles	Honda	24	+35.206	26	2
15	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	24	+49.526	25	1
16	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	24	+1:02.359	23
17	Michel Fabrizio	Gilera	24	+1:07.571	28
18	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	24	+1:10.303	22
19	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	24	+1:10.Ret8	29
20	Gregory Lefort	Aprilia	24	+1:11.479	31
21	Mattia Angeloni	Gilera	24	+1:36.333	32
22	Imre Tóth	Honda	24	+1:41.034	35
23	Jimmy Petit	Honda	24	+1:42.517	33
24	Gregory Leblanc	Honda	24	+1 Lap	37
25	Yoann Tiberio	Honda	24	+1 Lap	36
Ret	Jaroslav Huleš	Aprilia		Retirement	15
Ret	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia		Retirement	6
Ret	Joan Olivé	Honda		Retirement	14
Ret	Simone Sanna	Aprilia		Retirement	12
Ret	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia		Retirement	30
Ret	Youichi Ui	Derbi		Retirement	10
Ret	Angel Rodríguez	Aprilia		Retirement	9
Ret	Gabor Talmácsi	Italjet		Retirement	18
Ret	Noboru Ueda	Honda		Retirement	17
Ret	Stefano Perugini	Italjet		Retirement	27
Ret	Jakub Smrž	Honda		Retirement	24
Ret	Vincent Braillard	Honda		Retirement	34

The MotoGP race was stopped for rain after 21 of the 28 scheduled laps; however full points were awarded since two thirds of the laps were already ran.

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