2000 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix

  2000 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix

Race details
Race 14 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	7 October 2000
Official name	Cinzano Rio Grand Prix
Location	Rio de Janeiro
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.933 km (3.065 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Max Biaggi
Time	1:51.058
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:52.667
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Alex Barros
Third	Garry McCoy
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Marco Melandri
Time	1:53.464
Fastest lap
Rider	Olivier Jacque
Time	1:54.394
Podium
First	Daijiro Kato
Second	Tohru Ukawa
Third	Marco Melandri
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Roberto Locatelli
Time	1:59.011
Fastest lap
Rider	Mirko Giansanti
Time	1:59.368
Podium
First	Simone Sanna
Second	Masao Azuma
Third	Youichi Ui

The 2000 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourteenth round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 7 October 2000 at the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet.

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	24	45:22.624	4	25
2	10	Alex Barros	Honda	24	+0.970	2	20
3	24	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	24	+3.446	13	16
4	6	Norick Abe	Yamaha	24	+3.568	6	13
5	4	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	24	+3.709	1	11
6	2	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	24	+7.778	7	10
7	5	Sete Gibernau	Honda	24	+8.260	11	9
8	55	Régis Laconi	Yamaha	24	+8.518	9	8
9	8	Tadayuki Okada	Honda	24	+17.506	8	7
10	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	TSR-Honda	24	+23.254	10	6
11	1	Àlex Crivillé	Honda	24	+28.802	12	5
12	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki	24	+34.134	15	4
13	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	24	+54.359	16	3
14	68	Mark Willis	Modenas	24	+1:03.182	17	2
15	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	24	+1:03.506	3	1
16	25	José Luis Cardoso	Honda	24	+1:21.941	18
17	33	David Tomás	Honda	23	+1 Lap	19
18	15	Yoshiteru Konishi	TSR-Honda	23	+1 Lap	20
Ret	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	2	Accident	5
Ret	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	2	Retirement	14
DNQ	18	Sébastien Le Grelle	Honda

250 cc classification

Pos.	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Daijiro Kato	Honda	42:14.822	25
2	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	+0.064	20
3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	+0.190	16
4	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	+13.788	13
5	Anthony West	Honda	+19.087	11
6	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	+19.236	10
7	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	+24.786	9
8	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	+31.874	8
9	Jason Vincent	Aprilia	+41.546	7
10	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	+45.904	6
11	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	+55.630	5
12	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	+55.670	4
13	Ivan Clementi	Aprilia	+55.980	3
14	Sébastien Gimbert	TSR-Honda	+56.327	2
15	Julien Allemand	Honda	+56.491	1
16	Vincent Philippe	TSR-Honda	+56.713
17	Klaus Nöhles	Aprilia	+1:08.088
18	Adrian Coates	Aprilia	+1:12.784
19	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	+1:23.491
20	Lucas Oliver Bultó	Yamaha	+1:39.172
21	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	+1:41.493
Ret	Cristiano Irias-Vieira	Honda	Retirement
Ret	César Barros	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Jamie Robinson	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Alex Debón	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	David Checa	TSR-Honda	Retirement
Ret	Johan Stigefelt	TSR-Honda	Retirement

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