1999 French motorcycle Grand Prix
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Race details | |||
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Race 4 of 16 races in the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season |
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Date | 23 May 1999 | ||
Official name | Grand Prix de France | ||
Location | Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet | ||
Course | Permanent racing facility 3.800 km (2.361 mi) |
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500 cc | |||
Pole position | |||
Rider | Max Biaggi | ||
Time | 1:20.969 | ||
Fastest lap | |||
Rider | Kenny Roberts, Jr. | ||
Time | 1:21.487 on lap 3 | ||
Podium | |||
First | Àlex Crivillé | ||
Second | John Kocinski | ||
Third | Tetsuya Harada | ||
250 cc | |||
Pole position | |||
Rider | Valentino Rossi | ||
Time | 1:23.366 | ||
Fastest lap | |||
Rider | Valentino Rossi | ||
Time | 1:23.635 on lap 12 | ||
Podium | |||
First | Tohru Ukawa | ||
Second | Shinya Nakano | ||
Third | Stefano Perugini | ||
125 cc | |||
Pole position | |||
Rider | Lucio Cecchinello | ||
Time | 1:28.864 | ||
Fastest lap | |||
Rider | Gianluigi Scalvini | ||
Time | 1:28.891 on lap 12 | ||
Podium | |||
First | Roberto Locatelli | ||
Second | Arnaud Vincent | ||
Third | Emilio Alzamora |
The 1999 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 23 May 1999 at Le Castellet.
Contents
500 cc classification
Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 3 | Àlex Crivillé | Honda | 31 | 42:35.648 | 5 | 25 |
2 | 19 | John Kocinski | Honda | 31 | +11.398 | 3 | 20 |
3 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 31 | +13.657 | 7 | 16 |
4 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Honda | 31 | +14.370 | 14 | 13 |
5 | 4 | Carlos Checa | Yamaha | 31 | +14.409 | 4 | 11 |
6 | 6 | Norick Abe | Yamaha | 31 | +16.639 | 10 | 10 |
7 | 14 | Juan Borja | Honda | 31 | +21.224 | 15 | 9 |
8 | 55 | Régis Laconi | Yamaha | 31 | +21.245 | 13 | 8 |
9 | 8 | Tadayuki Okada | Honda | 31 | +26.063 | 8 | 7 |
10 | 5 | Alex Barros | Honda | 31 | +27.625 | 12 | 6 |
11 | 11 | Simon Crafar | Yamaha | 31 | +1:02.754 | 17 | 5 |
12 | 22 | Sébastien Gimbert | Honda | 31 | +1:12.210 | 18 | 4 |
13 | 26 | Haruchika Aoki | TSR-Honda | 31 | +1:15.698 | 16 | 3 |
14 | 18 | Markus Ober | Honda | 30 | +1 lap | 21 | 2 |
Ret | 10 | Kenny Roberts, Jr. | Suzuki | 24 | Accident | 2 | |
Ret | 17 | Jurgen vd Goorbergh | MuZ Weber | 7 | Retirement | 9 | |
Ret | 12 | Jean-Michel Bayle | Modenas KR3 | 5 | Retirement | 11 | |
Ret | 7 | Luca Cadalora | MuZ Weber | 4 | Retirement | 6 | |
Ret | 2 | Max Biaggi | Yamaha | 2 | Accident | 1 | |
Ret | 21 | Michael Rutter | Honda | 0 | Accident | 20 | |
Ret | 25 | José Luis Cardoso | TSR-Honda | 0 | Accident | 19 | |
DNS | 16 | Yukio Kagayama | Suzuki | ||||
DNS | 20 | Mike Hale | Modenas KR3 | ||||
DNQ | 68 | Mark Willis | BSL | ||||
Source: [1] |
250 cc classification
Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 4 | Tohru Ukawa | Honda | 29 | 40:50.340 | 4 | 25 |
2 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Yamaha | 29 | +10.940 | 5 | 20 |
3 | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Honda | 29 | +20.696 | 8 | 16 |
4 | 6 | Ralf Waldmann | Aprilia | 29 | +21.219 | 6 | 13 |
5 | 24 | Jason Vincent | Honda | 29 | +21.421 | 12 | 11 |
6 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 29 | +26.021[N 1] | 2 | 10 |
7 | 12 | Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 29 | +29.172 | 13 | 9 |
8 | 66 | Alex Hofmann | TSR-Honda | 29 | +35.011 | 14 | 8 |
9 | 14 | Anthony West | TSR-Honda | 29 | +35.916 | 19 | 7 |
10 | 31 | Toshihiko Honma | Yamaha | 29 | +38.122 | 10 | 6 |
11 | 9 | Jeremy McWilliams | Aprilia | 29 | +43.060 | 9 | 5 |
12 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Yamaha | 29 | +52.963 | 22 | 4 |
13 | 36 | Masaki Tokudome | TSR-Honda | 29 | +52.970 | 21 | 3 |
14 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro | TSR-Honda | 29 | +53.198 | 15 | 2 |
15 | 34 | Marcellino Lucchi | Aprilia | 29 | +56.805 | 11 | 1 |
16 | 68 | Vincent Philippe | Honda | 29 | +1:24.349 | 20 | |
17 | 11 | Tomomi Manako | Yamaha | 29 | +1:29.118 | 23 | |
18 | 58 | Matías Ríos | Aprilia | 28 | +1 lap | 26 | |
19 | 22 | Lucas Oliver Bultó | Yamaha | 28 | +1 lap | 28 | |
20 | 27 | Rob Filart | Honda | 28 | +1 lap | 24 | |
Ret | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Aprilia | 28 | Retirement | 1 | |
Ret | 15 | David García | Yamaha | 24 | Retirement | 17 | |
Ret | 23 | Julien Allemand | TSR-Honda | 22 | Accident | 16 | |
Ret | 1 | Loris Capirossi | Honda | 21 | Accident | 3 | |
Ret | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Aprilia | 15 | Retirement | 7 | |
Ret | 41 | Jarno Janssen | TSR-Honda | 9 | Accident | 18 | |
Ret | 16 | Johan Stigefelt | Yamaha | 1 | Accident | 25 | |
Ret | 93 | Hervé Mora | Aprilia | 1 | Accident | 29 | |
Ret | 65 | Julien da Costa | Honda | 1 | Retirement | 27 | |
DNQ | 67 | Thomas Metro | Honda | ||||
Source: [2] |
125 cc classification
Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 27 | 40:23.904 | 3 | 25 |
2 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 27 | +6.124 | 6 | 20 |
3 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 27 | +6.401 | 5 | 16 |
4 | 4 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 27 | +6.567 | 2 | 13 |
5 | 6 | Noboru Ueda | Honda | 27 | +7.015 | 11 | 11 |
6 | 13 | Marco Melandri | Honda | 27 | +7.090 | 8 | 10 |
7 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Aprilia | 27 | +9.163 | 4 | 9 |
8 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 27 | +14.240 | 14 | 8 |
9 | 1 | Kazuto Sakata | Honda | 27 | +14.996 | 17 | 7 |
10 | 16 | Simone Sanna | Honda | 27 | +15.487 | 7 | 6 |
11 | 12 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 27 | +15.490 | 20 | 5 |
12 | 29 | Ángel Nieto, Jr. | Honda | 27 | +15.865 | 18 | 4 |
13 | 32 | Mirko Giansanti | Aprilia | 27 | +19.043 | 12 | 3 |
14 | 10 | Jerónimo Vidal | Aprilia | 27 | +34.498 | 10 | 2 |
15 | 9 | Frédéric Petit | Aprilia | 27 | +36.391 | 19 | 1 |
16 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 27 | +39.141 | 16 | |
17 | 20 | Bernhard Absmeier | Aprilia | 27 | +1:00.715 | 24 | |
18 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Derbi | 27 | +1:00.814 | 26 | |
19 | 59 | Grégory Lefort | Aprilia | 27 | +1:19.170 | 25 | |
20 | 58 | Éric Dubray | Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 27 | |
21 | 60 | Hervé Louiset | Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 28 | |
22 | 52 | Mike Lougassi | Honda | 25 | +2 laps | 29 | |
Ret | 44 | Alessandro Brannetti | Aprilia | 19 | Accident | 15 | |
Ret | 18 | Reinhard Stolz | Honda | 5 | Accident | 23 | |
Ret | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Honda | 5 | Accident | 21 | |
Ret | 5 | Lucio Cecchinello | Honda | 2 | Accident | 1 | |
Ret | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Aprilia | 1 | Accident | 13 | |
Ret | 26 | Ivan Goi | Honda | 0 | Accident | 22 | |
Ret | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 0 | Accident | 9 | |
DNS | 61 | Jimmy Petit | Honda | ||||
Source: [3] |
Notes
- ↑ Franco Battaini received a 5-second penalty for overtaking under yellow flags.[2]
References
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FIM Grand Prix World Championship 1999 season |
Next race: 1999 Italian Grand Prix |
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