2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix

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The 2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 19 March 2000 at Phakisa Freeway.

500cc race report

This race was most notable for the shock win of WCM rider Garry McCoy. Initially, many thought that it would be 1999 500cc world champion Àlex Crivillé who would win the race, mainly thanks to the pole he had obtained on Saturday. This race also marked the first ever 500cc race of Valentino Rossi.

At the start of the race, Kenny Roberts Jr. on his Suzuki, overtook Gibernau at the start to lead the opening lap, followed by the Yamaha of Carlos Checa. Crivillé would drop down to 7th, whilst Tadayuki Okada moved up to third, closely followed by Loris Capirossi who would swap places with each other a few times on the opening lap. McCoy at that time was only in 8th place, and Rossi in 13th after a bad opening lap.

After a few laps, Checa would overtake Kenny Roberts Jr. for the lead, and not long after that Capirossi would follow suit. McCoy dropped to 9th place, with Valentino Rossi behind him.[1]

On the 5th lap, Capirossi overtook Checa to lead the race, and after 12 laps, both Max Biaggi and Valentino Rossi were out of the race; Biaggi because of technical problems, and Rossi because of a crash.[2]

With the laps closing down, McCoy overtook multiple people to reach third place. Sete Gibernau also overtook Kenny Roberts to go on and finish in what would be 4th place, but ran wide and eventually retired. Not much later, Crivillé would end up overtaking Roberts Jr. as well.

With 5 laps to go, McCoy overtook the Honda of Capirossi and went up into second place. A few corners later, he overtook the other Yamaha of Checa to lead the race. He held off a late charge from Checa and would come home to win the race with 0.366 seconds difference: the first 500cc race of his career.[3][4]

This was the first race to be won by an Australian since the 1998 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix who was won by Mick Doohan.

500 cc classification

Pos. No. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 24 Template:Flagicon Garry McCoy Red Bull Yamaha WCM Yamaha 28 45:38.775 9 25
2 7 Template:Flagicon Carlos Checa Marlboro Yamaha Team Yamaha 28 +0.366 4 20
3 65 Template:Flagicon Loris Capirossi Emerson Honda Pons Honda 28 +1.590 2 16
4 10 Template:Flagicon Alex Barros Emerson Honda Pons Honda 28 +9.745 13 13
5 1 Template:Flagicon Àlex Crivillé Repsol Honda Team Honda 28 +10.253 7 11
6 2 Template:Flagicon Kenny Roberts Jr. Telefónica Movistar Suzuki Suzuki 28 +15.853 3 10
7 6 Template:Flagicon Norick Abe Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin Yamaha 28 +24.228 15 9
8 9 Template:Flagicon Nobuatsu Aoki Telefónica Movistar Suzuki Suzuki 28 +26.719 12 8
9 55 Template:Flagicon Régis Laconi Red Bull Yamaha WCM Yamaha 28 +36.231 16 7
10 17 Template:Flagicon Jurgen van den Goorbergh Rizla Honda TSR-Honda 28 +37.613 11 6
11 25 Template:Flagicon José Luis Cardoso Maxon Dee Cee Jeans Honda 28 +1:04.044 20 5
12 22 Template:Flagicon Sébastien Gimbert Tecmas Honda Elf Honda 28 +1:14.912 17 4
13 15 Template:Flagicon Yoshiteru Konishi F.C.C. TSR TSR-Honda 28 +1:30.049 21 3
14 12 Template:Flagicon Shane Norval Sabre Sport Honda 28 +1:32.776 19 2
15 11 Template:Flagicon José David de Gea Proton Team KR Modenas KR3 27 +1 lap 18 1
Ret 8 Template:Flagicon Tadayuki Okada Repsol Honda Team Honda 21 Accident 6
Ret 5 Template:Flagicon Sete Gibernau Repsol Honda Team Honda 20 Retirement 1
Ret 46 Template:Flagicon Valentino Rossi Nastro Azzurro Honda Honda 12 Accident 5
Ret 4 Template:Flagicon Max Biaggi Marlboro Yamaha Team Yamaha 12 Retirement 10
Ret 99 Template:Flagicon Jeremy McWilliams Aprilia Grand Prix Racing Aprilia 7 Retirement 8
Ret 31 Template:Flagicon Tetsuya Harada Aprilia Grand Prix Racing Aprilia 2 Retirement 14
Sources: [5][6][7]

250 cc classification

Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 56 Template:Flagicon Shinya Nakano Yamaha 26 42:34.085 1 25
2 74 Template:Flagicon Daijiro Kato Honda 26 +0.875 3 20
3 4 Template:Flagicon Tohru Ukawa Honda 26 +13.813 2 16
4 19 Template:Flagicon Olivier Jacque Yamaha 26 +30.687 5 13
5 14 Template:Flagicon Anthony West Honda 26 +47.621 4 11
6 21 Template:Flagicon Franco Battaini Aprilia 26 +47.705 6 10
7 6 Template:Flagicon Ralf Waldmann Aprilia 26 +58.221 7 9
8 9 Template:Flagicon Sebastián Porto Yamaha 26 +1:02.190 11 8
9 24 Template:Flagicon Jason Vincent Aprilia 26 +1:07.732 17 7
10 8 Template:Flagicon Naoki Matsudo Yamaha 26 +1:09.269 18 6
11 77 Template:Flagicon Jamie Robinson Aprilia 26 +1:23.219 14 5
12 30 Template:Flagicon Alex Debón Aprilia 26 +1:25.538 10 4
13 13 Template:Flagicon Marco Melandri Aprilia 26 +1:29.763 8 3
14 26 Template:Flagicon Klaus Nöhles Aprilia 26 +1:31.878 13 2
15 44 Template:Flagicon Roberto Rolfo TSR-Honda 25 +1 lap 28 1
16 42 Template:Flagicon David Checa TSR-Honda 25 +1 lap 24
17 41 Template:Flagicon Jarno Janssen TSR-Honda 25 +1 lap 19
18 12 Template:Flagicon Mike Baldinger Yamaha 25 +1 lap 26
Ret 10 Template:Flagicon Fonsi Nieto Yamaha 21 Retirement 23
Ret 31 Template:Flagicon Lucas Oliver Yamaha 20 Retirement 27
Ret 18 Template:Flagicon Shahrol Yuzy Yamaha 19 Retirement 12
Ret 16 Template:Flagicon Johan Stigefelt TSR-Honda 17 Retirement 20
Ret 11 Template:Flagicon Ivan Clementi Aprilia 14 Retirement 22
Ret 54 Template:Flagicon David García Aprilia 12 Accident 21
Ret 37 Template:Flagicon Luca Boscoscuro Aprilia 10 Retirement 9
Ret 66 Template:Flagicon Alex Hofmann Aprilia 8 Retirement 15
Ret 15 Template:Flagicon Adrian Coates Aprilia 3 Accident 16
DNS 25 Template:Flagicon Vincent Philippe TSR-Honda 0 Did not start 25
Source: [8]

125 cc classification

Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 21 Template:Flagicon Arnaud Vincent Aprilia 24 41:35.310 6 25
2 32 Template:Flagicon Mirko Giansanti Honda 24 +1.937 4 20
3 1 Template:Flagicon Emilio Alzamora Honda 24 +2.057 11 16
4 4 Template:Flagicon Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 24 +2.362 1 13
5 5 Template:Flagicon Noboru Ueda Honda 24 +4.566 7 11
6 17 Template:Flagicon Steve Jenkner Honda 24 +11.073 5 10
7 8 Template:Flagicon Gianluigi Scalvini Aprilia 24 +11.187 3 9
8 26 Template:Flagicon Ivan Goi Honda 24 +11.504 8 8
9 3 Template:Flagicon Masao Azuma Honda 24 +37.723 12 7
10 23 Template:Flagicon Gino Borsoi Aprilia 24 +39.819 9 6
11 9 Template:Flagicon Lucio Cecchinello Honda 24 +39.887 18 5
12 16 Template:Flagicon Simone Sanna Aprilia 24 +39.964 10 4
13 29 Template:Flagicon Ángel Nieto Jr. Honda 24 +40.474 14 3
14 12 Template:Flagicon Randy de Puniet Aprilia 24 +41.118 13 2
15 22 Template:Flagicon Pablo Nieto Derbi 24 +52.411 16 1
16 15 Template:Flagicon Alex de Angelis Honda 24 +52.639 15
17 35 Template:Flagicon Reinhard Stolz Honda 24 +1:22.243 20
18 10 Template:Flagicon Adrián Araujo Honda 24 +1:27.527 24
19 53 Template:Flagicon William de Angelis Aprilia 24 +1:27.811 21
20 11 Template:Flagicon Max Sabbatani Honda 24 +1:28.093 17
21 51 Template:Flagicon Marco Petrini Aprilia 24 +1:28.449 19
22 24 Template:Flagicon Leon Haslam Italjet 24 +1:28.648 22
23 18 Template:Flagicon Antonio Elías Honda 24 +1:47.350 23
Ret 39 Template:Flagicon Jaroslav Huleš Italjet 4 Retirement 25
Ret 41 Template:Flagicon Youichi Ui Derbi 0 Accident 2
DNS 54 Template:Flagicon Manuel Poggiali Derbi Did not start
Source: [9]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded.[10]

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  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

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