1993 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1993 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 1993 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 2 May 1993 at the Circuito de Jerez.

The weekend was marred by a practice accident which resulted in the death of Japanese rider Nobuyuki Wakai after he had struck a spectator who had entered the pit lane without authorization.

500 cc race report

Kevin Schwantz’ 4th pole in 4 races.

Wayne Rainey takes the start from Schwantz and Alex Barros.

Schwantz and Rainey get a gap from Àlex Crivillé, Mick Doohan, with Barros closing.

Barros up to 3rd, and then arrives to Schwantz and Rainey.

Schwantz waves his teammate Barros through to 2nd, then Barros takes the lead from Rainey.

Barros and Schwantz get a gap, but Schwantz makes a mistake and goes into the grass. He saves it and remains in 2nd.

Barros in 1st and has a large lead with a couple of laps to go, but lowsides out of the race.

500 cc classification

Pos.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Template:Flagicon Kevin Schwantz	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	47:39.627	1	25
2	Template:Flagicon Wayne Rainey	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	+1.664	3	20
3	Template:Flagicon Àlex Crivillé	Marlboro Honda Pons	Honda	+12.280	6	16
4	Template:Flagicon Mick Doohan	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	+26.183	7	13
5	Template:Flagicon Luca Cadalora	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	+47.828	4	11
6	Template:Flagicon Daryl Beattie	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	+54.886	11	10
7	Template:Flagicon Niall Mackenzie	Valvoline Team WCM	ROC Yamaha	+1:02.335	8	9
8	Template:Flagicon Juan Lopez Mella	Lopez Mella Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	+1:06.680	10	8
9	Template:Flagicon Sean Emmett	Shell Team Harris	Harris Yamaha	+1:19.312	20	7
10	Template:Flagicon Tsutomu Udagawa	Team Udagawa	ROC Yamaha	+1:40.054	15	6
11	Template:Flagicon Corrado Catalano	Team ROC	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	24	5
12	Template:Flagicon Lucio Pedercini	Team Pedercini	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	18	4
13	Template:Flagicon Renato Colleoni	Team Elit	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	14	3
14	Template:Flagicon José Kuhn	Euromoto	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	23	2
15	Template:Flagicon Serge David	Team ROC	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	25	1
16	Template:Flagicon Cees Doorakkers	Doorakkers Racing	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap	29
17	Template:Flagicon Kevin Mitchell	MBM Racing	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	26
18	Template:Flagicon Andreas Meklau	Austrian Racing Company	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	27
19	Template:Flagicon Jean d'Orgeix	Yamaha Motor France	Yamaha	+1 Lap
20	Template:Flagicon Bruno Bonhuil	MTD Objectif 500	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	33
Ret	Template:Flagicon Laurent Naveau	Euro Team	ROC Yamaha	Retirement	16
Ret	Template:Flagicon Jeremy McWilliams	Millar Racing	Yamaha	Retirement	17
Ret	Template:Flagicon Thierry Crine	Ville de Paris	ROC Yamaha	Retirement	19
Ret	Template:Flagicon Michael Rudroff	Rallye Sport	Harris Yamaha	Retirement	21
Ret	Template:Flagicon Matthew Mladin	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	Retirement	12
Ret	Template:Flagicon Simon Crafar	Peter Graves Racing Team	Harris Yamaha	Retirement	28
Ret	Template:Flagicon Shinichi Itoh	HRC Rothmans Honda	Honda	Retirement	9
Ret	Template:Flagicon Marco Papa	Librenti Corse	Librenti	Retirement	34
Ret	Template:Flagicon Doug Chandler	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	Retirement	5
Ret	Template:Flagicon Alan Scott	Team Harris	Harris Yamaha	Retirement	32
Ret	Template:Flagicon John Reynolds	Padgett's Motorcycles	Harris Yamaha	Retirement	13
Ret	Template:Flagicon Jean Luc Romanens	Argus Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	Retirement	30
Ret	Template:Flagicon Alex Barros	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	Retirement	2
DNS	Template:Flagicon Bernard Garcia	Yamaha Motor France	Yamaha	Did not start
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	31	Template:Flagicon Tetsuya Harada	Yamaha	26	46:22.519	1	25
2	5	Template:Flagicon Max Biaggi	Honda	26	+4.717	3	20
3	17	Template:Flagicon Jean-Philippe Ruggia	Aprilia	26	+4.908	2	16
4	19	Template:Flagicon John Kocinski	Suzuki	26	+13.943	10	13
5	4	Template:Flagicon Helmut Bradl	Honda	26	+24.795	9	11
6	11	Template:Flagicon Wilco Zeelenberg	Aprilia	26	+32.284	11	10
7	18	Template:Flagicon Tadayuki Okada	Honda	26	+36.275	8	9
8	10	Template:Flagicon Doriano Romboni	Honda	26	+41.176	6	8
9	7	Template:Flagicon Jochen Schmid	Yamaha	26	+45.326	13	7
10	65	Template:Flagicon Loris Capirossi	Honda	26	+45.422	4	6
11	34	Template:Flagicon Luis d'Antin	Honda	26	+45.457	14	5
12	3	Template:Flagicon Pierfrancesco Chili	Yamaha	26	+55.208	7	4
13	28	Template:Flagicon Adrian Bosshard	Honda	26	+58.483	16	3
14	44	Template:Flagicon Jean-Michel Bayle	Aprilia	26	+1:02.020	21	2
15	16	Template:Flagicon Andy Preining	Aprilia	26	+1:17.930	20	1
16	27	Template:Flagicon Frédéric Protat	Aprilia	26	+1:22.214	22
17	30	Template:Flagicon Juan Borja	Honda	26	+1:22:611	24
18	20	Template:Flagicon Eskil Suter	Aprilia	26	+1:22.614	19
19	23	Template:Flagicon Bernard Haenggeli	Aprilia	26	+1:28.328	26
20	12	Template:Flagicon Gabriele Debbia	Honda	26	+1:36.157	23
21	22	Template:Flagicon Luis Maurel	Aprilia	26	+1:44.016	28
22	32	Template:Flagicon Volker Bähr	Honda	26	+1:44.077	32
23	25	Template:Flagicon Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Aprilia	26	+1:49.856	27
24	53	Template:Flagicon Alex Sirera	Yamaha	25	+1 Lap	33
Ret	6	Template:Flagicon Alberto Puig	Honda	17	Retirement	12
Ret	24	Template:Flagicon Patrick van den Goorbergh	Aprilia	15	Retirement	17
Ret	43	Template:Flagicon Massimo Pennacchioli	Honda	13	Retirement	34
Ret	14	Template:Flagicon Nobuatsu Aoki	Honda	6	Retirement	15
Ret	21	Template:Flagicon Paolo Casoli	Gilera	5	Retirement	18
Ret	26	Template:Flagicon Bernd Kassner	Aprilia	3	Retirement	29
Ret	13	Template:Flagicon Loris Reggiani	Aprilia	1	Retirement	5
Ret	39	Template:Flagicon Alessandro Gramigni	Gilera	0	Retirement	30
DNS	8	Template:Flagicon Carlos Cardús	Honda		Did not start	25
DNS	15	Template:Flagicon Nobuyuki Wakai	Suzuki		Fatal accident in Saturday	31
DNS	51	Template:Flagicon Jean-Pierre Jeandat	Aprilia		Did not start	35
DNQ	54	Template:Flagicon Miguel Castilla	Yamaha		Did not qualify	35