1999 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix
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| Race 5 of 16 races in the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 6 June 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Gran Premio d'Italia IP[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Mugello Circuit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1999 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth race of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 6 June 1999 at the Mugello Circuit.
500 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points | 
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| 1 | 3 |  Àlex Crivillé | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 23 | 44:05.522 | 2 | 25 | 
| 2 | 2 |  Max Biaggi | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 23 | +0.283 | 13 | 20 | 
| 3 | 8 |  Tadayuki Okada | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 23 | +6.052 | 7 | 16 | 
| 4 | 31 |  Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia Grand Prix Racing | Aprilia | 23 | +6.849 | 1 | 13 | 
| 5 | 10 |  Kenny Roberts Jr. | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 23 | +12.674 | 3 | 11 | 
| 6 | 15 |  Sete Gibernau | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 23 | +12.714 | 12 | 10 | 
| 7 | 4 |  Carlos Checa | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 23 | +21.341 | 9 | 9 | 
| 8 | 19 |  John Kocinski | Kanemoto Honda | Honda | 23 | +29.800 | 4 | 8 | 
| 9 | 14 |  Juan Borja | Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 23 | +29.801 | 8 | 7 | 
| 10 | 7 |  Luca Cadalora | Team Biland GP1 | MuZ Weber | 23 | +46.742 | 6 | 6 | 
| 11 | 26 |  Haruchika Aoki | FCC TSR | TSR-Honda | 23 | +1:07.293 | 17 | 5 | 
| 12 | 11 |  Simon Crafar | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 23 | +1:14.550 | 19 | 4 | 
| 13 | 22 |  Sébastien Gimbert | Tecmas Honda Elf | Honda | 23 | +1:20.353 | 18 | 3 | 
| 14 | 69 |  Jamie Whitham | Proton KR Modenas | Modenas KR3 | 23 | +1:27.761 | 16 | 2 | 
| 15 | 18 |  Markus Ober | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 23 | +1:45.918 | 20 | 1 | 
| Ret | 55 |  Régis Laconi | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 17 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 12 |  Jean-Michel Bayle | Proton KR Modenas | Modenas KR3 | 7 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 17 |  Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Team Biland GP1 | MuZ Weber | 6 | Retirement | 11 | |
| Ret | 21 |  Michael Rutter | Millar Honda | Honda | 3 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 5 |  Alex Barros | Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 1 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 25 |  José Luis Cardoso | Team Maxon TSR | TSR-Honda | 1 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 43 |  Paolo Tessari | Team Paton | Paton | 0 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 6 |  Norifumi Abe | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin | Yamaha | 0 | Accident | 5 | |
| DNQ | 68 | .svg.png) Mark Willis | Buckley Systems BSL Racing | BSL | Did not qualify | |||
| Sources: [3][4][5] | ||||||||
250 cc classification
Loris Capirossi was black-flagged for causing Marcellino Lucchi's crash at the start of the race;[6] in addition, as he did not return to the pits within one lap after having been shown the flag, he was banned from the following event.[7]
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 |  Valentino Rossi | Aprilia | 21 | 40:52.837 | 6 | 25 | 
| 2 | 6 |  Ralf Waldmann | Aprilia | 21 | +2.643 | 4 | 20 | 
| 3 | 4 |  Tohru Ukawa | Honda | 21 | +2.684 | 9 | 16 | 
| 4 | 9 |  Jeremy McWilliams | Aprilia | 21 | +11.333 | 7 | 13 | 
| 5 | 56 |  Shinya Nakano | Yamaha | 21 | +11.684 | 5 | 11 | 
| 6 | 21 |  Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 21 | +12.447 | 3 | 10 | 
| 7 | 24 |  Jason Vincent | Honda | 21 | +21.184 | 11 | 9 | 
| 8 | 7 |  Stefano Perugini | Honda | 21 | +21.721 | 12 | 8 | 
| 9 | 12 |  Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 21 | +40.911 | 13 | 7 | 
| 10 | 37 |  Luca Boscoscuro | TSR-Honda | 21 | +45.815 | 16 | 6 | 
| 11 | 36 |  Masaki Tokudome | TSR-Honda | 21 | +53.891 | 18 | 5 | 
| 12 | 16 |  Johan Stigefelt | Yamaha | 21 | +54.066 | 17 | 4 | 
| 13 | 11 |  Tomomi Manako | Yamaha | 21 | +54.096 | 22 | 3 | 
| 14 | 23 |  Julien Allemand | TSR-Honda | 21 | +1:18.330 | 24 | 2 | 
| 15 | 15 |  David García | Yamaha | 21 | +1:21.272 | 19 | 1 | 
| 16 | 66 |  Alex Hofmann | TSR-Honda | 21 | +1:27.000 | 14 | |
| 17 | 10 |  Fonsi Nieto | Yamaha | 21 | +1:33.576 | 25 | |
| 18 | 55 |  Filippo Cotti | Yamaha | 21 | +1:33.644 | 23 | |
| 19 | 58 |  Matías Ríos | Aprilia | 20 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| Ret | 44 |  Roberto Rolfo | Aprilia | 10 | Retirement | 8 | |
| Ret | 14 | .svg.png) Anthony West | TSR-Honda | 10 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 41 |  Jarno Janssen | TSR-Honda | 9 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 27 |  Rob Filart | Honda | 3 | Accident | 26 | |
| Ret | 48 |  Ivan Clementi | Aprilia | 3 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 31 |  Toshihiko Honma | Yamaha | 0 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 34 |  Marcellino Lucchi | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 47 |  Ivan Mengozzi | Yamaha | 0 | Accident | 27 | |
| DSQ | 1 |  Loris Capirossi | Honda | 15 | Black flag | 2 | |
| Source: [8] | |||||||
125 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 |  Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 20 | 40:52.672 | 1 | 25 | 
| 2 | 13 |  Marco Melandri | Honda | 20 | +0.271 | 5 | 20 | 
| 3 | 6 |  Noboru Ueda | Honda | 20 | +0.295 | 4 | 16 | 
| 4 | 16 |  Simone Sanna | Honda | 20 | +0.343 | 6 | 13 | 
| 5 | 21 |  Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 20 | +0.442 | 7 | 11 | 
| 6 | 7 |  Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 20 | +0.588 | 11 | 10 | 
| 7 | 4 |  Masao Azuma | Honda | 20 | +0.589 | 12 | 9 | 
| 8 | 1 |  Kazuto Sakata | Honda | 20 | +1.193 | 13 | 8 | 
| 9 | 5 |  Lucio Cecchinello | Honda | 20 | +1.260 | 3 | 7 | 
| 10 | 23 |  Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 20 | +1.338 | 10 | 6 | 
| 11 | 32 |  Mirko Giansanti | Aprilia | 20 | +1.429 | 15 | 5 | 
| 12 | 10 |  Jerónimo Vidal | Aprilia | 20 | +2.269 | 8 | 4 | 
| 13 | 54 |  Manuel Poggiali | Aprilia | 20 | +8.436 | 14 | 3 | 
| 14 | 17 |  Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 20 | +10.382 | 17 | 2 | 
| 15 | 26 |  Ivan Goi | Honda | 20 | +10.541 | 18 | 1 | 
| 16 | 11 |  Max Sabbatani | Honda | 20 | +10.695 | 16 | |
| 17 | 29 |  Ángel Nieto, Jr. | Honda | 20 | +17.572 | 19 | |
| 18 | 9 |  Frédéric Petit | Aprilia | 20 | +17.668 | 9 | |
| 19 | 12 |  Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 20 | +23.619 | 21 | |
| 20 | 44 |  Alessandro Brannetti | Aprilia | 20 | +23.731 | 20 | |
| 21 | 20 |  Bernhard Absmeier | Aprilia | 20 | +34.245 | 24 | |
| 22 | 22 |  Pablo Nieto | Derbi | 20 | +41.130 | 26 | |
| 23 | 63 |  Marco Petrini | Aprilia | 20 | +42.373 | 22 | |
| 24 | 64 |  Gaspare Caffiero | Aprilia | 20 | +42.593 | 28 | |
| 25 | 66 | .svg.png) Marco Tresoldi | Honda | 20 | +42.597 | 25 | |
| Ret | 18 |  Reinhard Stolz | Honda | 19 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 62 |  Riccardo Chiarello | Aprilia | 19 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret | 65 |  Lorenzo Lanzi | Aprilia | 9 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret | 8 |  Gianluigi Scalvini | Aprilia | 4 | Retirement | 2 | |
| Source: [9] | |||||||
Championship standings after the race (500cc)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.[10]
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
- ^ "1999 Italian MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Mugello - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "1999 Italian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
- ^ "Gran Premio d'Italia IP – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 6 June 1999. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ "motogp.com · ITALIAN GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1999". www.motogp.com.
- ^ "Stop a Capirossi". raisport.rai.it (in Italian). Rai Sport. 7 June 1999. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ "La dichiarazione del Team Gresini sulla squalifica di Capirossi". MotoCorse.com (in Italian). 10 June 1999. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ "Gran Premio d'Italia IP – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 6 June 1999. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ "Gran Premio d'Italia IP – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 6 June 1999. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ "Results" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 1998. Retrieved 2019-08-20.