1999 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 13 of 16 races in the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||
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| Date | 3 October 1999 | ||
| Official name | Qantas Australian Grand Prix | ||
| Location | Phillip Island | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 4.448 km (2.764 mi) | ||
| 500 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider |  Kenny Roberts, Jr. |
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| Time | 1:32.319 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Kenny Roberts, Jr. |
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| Time | 1:32.743 on lap 7 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |  Tadayuki Okada |
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| Second |  Max Biaggi |
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| Third |  Régis Laconi |
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| 250 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider |  Jeremy McWilliams |
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| Time | 1:33.919 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Valentino Rossi |
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| Time | 1:33.556 on lap 25 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Valentino Rossi |
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| Second | Olivier Jacque |
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| Third | Tohru Ukawa |
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| 125 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider | Noboru Ueda |
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| Time | 1:38.600 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Marco Melandri |
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| Time | 1:38.118 on lap 21 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Marco Melandri |
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| Second | Lucio Cecchinello |
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| Third | Youichi Ui |
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The 1999 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 3 October 1999 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit.
500 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | Tadayuki Okada |
Honda | 27 | 42:09.271 | 7 | 25 |
| 2 | 2 | Max Biaggi |
Yamaha | 27 | +0.085 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 55 | Régis Laconi |
Yamaha | 27 | +0.124 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 |  Carlos Checa |
Yamaha | 27 | +9.497 | 10 | 13 |
| 5 | 3 | Àlex Crivillé |
Honda | 27 | +9.811 | 12 | 11 |
| 6 | 15 | Sete Gibernau |
Honda | 27 | +10.691 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 24 |  Garry McCoy |
Yamaha | 27 | +12.135 | 15 | 9 |
| 8 | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki |
Suzuki | 27 | +25.028 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 19 | John Kocinski |
Honda | 27 | +25.219 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 10 | Kenny Roberts, Jr. |
Suzuki | 27 | +41.652 | 1 | 6 |
| 11 | 26 | Haruchika Aoki |
TSR-Honda | 27 | +47.628 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 17 |  Jurgen vd Goorbergh |
MuZ Weber | 27 | +47.670 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 52 | José David de Gea |
Modenas KR3 | 27 | +1:22.997 | 21 | 3 |
| 14 | 37 | Steve Martin |
Honda | 27 | +1:23.305 | 23 | 2 |
| 15 | 68 | Mark Willis |
Modenas KR3 | 27 | +1:35.980 | 24 | 1 |
| 16 | 6 | Norick Abe |
Yamaha | 26 | +1 lap | 8 | |
| 17 | 14 | Juan Borja |
Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 9 | |
| Ret | 31 | Tetsuya Harada |
Aprilia | 23 | Retirement | 2 | |
| Ret | 5 |  Alex Barros |
Honda | 23 | Retirement | 4 | |
| Ret | 22 | Sébastien Gimbert |
Honda | 6 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 25 | José Luis Cardoso |
TSR-Honda | 5 | Retirement | 16 | |
| Ret | 20 | Mike Hale |
Modenas KR3 | 3 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 21 | Michael Rutter |
Honda | 2 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 35 | Anthony Gobert |
MuZ Weber | 0 | Accident | 13 | |
| Source: [1] | |||||||
250 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi |
Aprilia | 25 | 39:28.278 | 7 | 25 |
| 2 | 19 | Olivier Jacque |
Yamaha | 25 | +0.103 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 4 | Tohru Ukawa |
Honda | 25 | +0.729 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 56 | Shinya Nakano |
Yamaha | 25 | +0.796 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 6 |  Ralf Waldmann |
Aprilia | 25 | +13.097 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 1 | Loris Capirossi |
Honda | 25 | +13.133 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | 7 | Stefano Perugini |
Honda | 25 | +25.831 | 10 | 9 |
| 8 | 21 | Franco Battaini |
Aprilia | 25 | +25.994 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 12 |  Sebastián Porto |
Yamaha | 25 | +35.124 | 9 | 7 |
| 10 | 14 | Anthony West |
TSR-Honda | 25 | +36.446 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 11 | Tomomi Manako |
Yamaha | 25 | +49.725 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 24 | Jason Vincent |
Honda | 25 | +50.949 | 6 | 4 |
| 13 | 66 | Alex Hofmann |
TSR-Honda | 25 | +59.357 | 16 | 3 |
| 14 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro |
TSR-Honda | 25 | +59.373 | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 36 | Masaki Tokudome |
TSR-Honda | 25 | +1:06.163 | 20 | 1 |
| 16 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto |
Yamaha | 25 | +1:27.873 | 19 | |
| 17 | 15 | David García |
Yamaha | 25 | +1:29.494 | 21 | |
| 18 | 41 | Jarno Janssen |
TSR-Honda | 24 | +1 lap | 22 | |
| 19 | 16 |  Johan Stigefelt |
Yamaha | 24 | +1 lap | 25 | |
| 20 | 58 | Matías Ríos |
Aprilia | 24 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| 21 | 39 | Roger Harrison |
Yamaha | 24 | +1 lap | 27 | |
| Ret | 40 | Jay Taylor |
Honda | 22 | Accident | 26 | |
| Ret | 38 | Shaun Geronimi |
Yamaha | 2 | Accident | 18 | |
| Ret | 17 | Maurice Bolwerk |
TSR-Honda | 2 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 23 | Julien Allemand |
TSR-Honda | 2 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 18 | Scott Smart |
Aprilia | 2 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 9 | Jeremy McWilliams |
Aprilia | 1 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 43 | Kevin Curtain |
Honda | 1 | Retirement | 24 | |
| DNS | 44 | Roberto Rolfo |
Aprilia | Did not start | |||
| DNQ | 42 |  Aaron Clark |
Honda | Did not qualify | |||
| DNQ | 22 | Lucas Oliver Bultó |
Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
| Source: [2] | |||||||
125 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | Marco Melandri |
Honda | 23 | 38:07.081 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 5 | Lucio Cecchinello |
Honda | 23 | +0.035 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 41 | Youichi Ui |
Derbi | 23 | +0.179 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini |
Aprilia | 23 | +1.043 | 8 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Masao Azuma |
Honda | 23 | +1.259 | 16 | 11 |
| 6 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli |
Aprilia | 23 | +1.898 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 10 | Jerónimo Vidal |
Aprilia | 23 | +10.207 | 10 | 9 |
| 8 | 23 | Gino Borsoi |
Aprilia | 23 | +11.845 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 54 |  Manuel Poggiali |
Aprilia | 23 | +12.890 | 9 | 7 |
| 10 | 17 | Steve Jenkner |
Aprilia | 23 | +16.527 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 32 | Mirko Giansanti |
Aprilia | 23 | +16.731 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 16 | Simone Sanna |
Honda | 23 | +16.837 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 1 | Kazuto Sakata |
Honda | 23 | +36.339 | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 26 | Ivan Goi |
Honda | 23 | +36.408 | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora |
Honda | 23 | +49.941 | 11 | 1 |
| 16 | 44 | Alessandro Brannetti |
Aprilia | 23 | +51.121 | 20 | |
| 17 | 22 | Pablo Nieto |
Derbi | 23 | +51.786 | 18 | |
| 18 | 29 | Ángel Nieto, Jr. |
Honda | 23 | +53.389 | 14 | |
| 19 | 9 | Frédéric Petit |
Aprilia | 23 | +1:07.146 | 21 | |
| 20 | 18 | Reinhard Stolz |
Honda | 23 | +1:16.137 | 27 | |
| 21 | 12 | Randy de Puniet |
Aprilia | 23 | +1:16.144 | 25 | |
| 22 | 24 |  Robbin Harms |
Aprilia | 23 | +1:28.270 | 26 | |
| 23 | 88 | Broc Parkes |
Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 29 | |
| 24 | 92 | Dennis Charlett |
Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| Ret | 6 | Noboru Ueda |
Honda | 19 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 21 | Arnaud Vincent |
Aprilia | 8 | Retirement | 5 | |
| Ret | 90 | Andrew Willy |
Honda | 6 | Retirement | 28 | |
| Ret | 89 | Peter Galvin |
Honda | 5 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 11 | Max Sabbatani |
Honda | 3 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 91 | Michael Teniswood |
Honda | 0 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Source: [3] | |||||||
References
- ↑ "Qantas Australian Grand Prix – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 3 October 1999. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
- ↑ "Qantas Australian Grand Prix – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 3 October 1999. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
- ↑ "Qantas Australian Grand Prix – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 3 October 1999. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
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FIM Grand Prix World Championship 1999 season |
Next race: 1999 South African Grand Prix |
| Previous race: 1998 Australian Grand Prix |
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