1991 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

  1991 Italian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 5 of 15 races in the 1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	19 May 1991
Official name	Gran Premio d'Italia[1]
Location	Circuito Internazionale Santa Monica
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.488 km (2.167 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Wayne Rainey Yamaha Time 1:16.191 Fastest lap Rider Wayne Rainey Yamaha Time 1:15.892 Podium First Mick Doohan Honda Second John Kocinski Yamaha Third Eddie Lawson Cagiva
250 cc
Pole position Rider Helmut Bradl Honda Time 1:18.679 Fastest lap Rider Luca Cadalora Honda Time 1:17.965 Podium First Luca Cadalora Honda Second Helmut Bradl Honda Third Pierfrancesco Chili Aprilia
125 cc
Pole position Rider Fausto Gresini Honda Time 1:24.267 Fastest lap Rider Fausto Gresini Honda Time 1:23.436 Podium First Fausto Gresini Honda Second Loris Capirossi Honda Third Alessandro Gramigni Aprilia
Sidecar (B2A)
Pole position Rider Rolf Biland LCR-ADM Time 1:19.127 Fastest lap Rider Steve Webster Krauser Time 1:20.039 Podium First Steve Webster Krauser Second Egbert Streuer LCR-Yamaha Third LCR-Krauser

The 1991 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth race of the 1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 17–19 May 1991 at the Circuito Internazionale Santa Monica.

500 cc classification[]

Pos.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Michael Doohan	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	36	46:27.037	5	20
2	John Kocinski	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	36	+8.677	2	17
3	Eddie Lawson	Cagiva Corse	Cagiva	36	+14.319	4	15
4	Alex Barros	Cagiva Corse	Cagiva	36	+23.151	7	13
5	Jean-Philippe Ruggia	Sonauto Yamaha Mobil 1	Yamaha	36	+23.561	8	11
6	Doug Chandler	Roberts B Team	Yamaha	36	+28.135	6	10
7	Kevin Schwantz	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	36	+28.480	3	9
8	Juan Garriga	Ducados Yamaha	Yamaha	36	+48.073	10	8
9	Wayne Rainey	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	36	+1:11.518	1	7
10	Eddie Laycock	Millar Racing	Yamaha	35	+1 lap	12	6
11	Marco Papa	Team Marco Papa	Honda	35	+1 lap	14	5
12	Cees Doorakkers	HEK-Baumachines	Honda	34	+2 laps	15	4
13			Honda	34	+2 laps	13	3
14	Simon Buckmaster	Padgett's Racing Team	Suzuki	33	+3 laps		2
15	Michael Rudroff	Rallye Sport	Honda	33	+3 laps		1
Ret	Didier de Radigu��s	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	29	Retired	9
Ret	Adrien Morillas	Sonauto Yamaha Mobil 1	Yamaha	29	Retired	11
Ret		Team Romero Racing	Yamaha	25	Retired
Ret		Schmassman Technotron	Honda	9	Retired
DNQ		Rallye Sport	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ		Librenti Corse	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ			Honda		Did not qualify
[2][3][4]

250 cc classification[]

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Luca Cadalora	Honda	30	39:29.951	2	20
2	Helmut Bradl	Honda	30	+0.009	1	17
3	Pierfrancesco Chili	Aprilia	30	+8.179	3	15
4	Loris Reggiani	Aprilia	30	+8.186	5	13
5	Wilco Zeelenberg	Honda	30	+14.795	7	11
6	Carlos Cardús	Honda	30	+14.983	4	10
7	Masahiro Shimizu	Honda	30	+33.909	8	9
8	Jochen Schmid	Honda	30	+52.658	11	8
9		Aprilia	30	+53.825	14	7
10	Paolo Casoli	Yamaha	30	+1:03.005	13	6
11		Honda	30	+1:04.911		5
12		Aprilia	30	+1:09.379		4
13		Aprilia	30	+1:09.886		3
14	Carlos Lavado	Yamaha	30	+1:17.145	12	2
15	Stefan Prein	Honda	29	+1 lap		1
16		Aprilia	29	+1 lap
17		Aprilia	29	+1 lap
18		Yamaha	29	+1 lap
19	Martin Wimmer	Suzuki	29	+1 lap	10
20		Aprilia	29	+1 lap
21		Yamaha	29	+1 lap
22		Honda	29	+1 lap
23		Aprilia	29	+1 lap
24		Yamaha	29	+1 lap
Ret		Honda	26	Retired
Ret		Aprilia	22	Retired
Ret	Frédéric Protat	Aprilia	19	Retired
Ret	Doriano Romboni	Honda	18	Retired	6
Ret	Fausto Ricci	Yamaha	18	Retired
Ret	Àlex Crivillé	JJ Cobas	15	Retired	9
Ret		Aprilia	15	Retired	15
Ret	Alberto Puig	Yamaha	13	Retired
Ret	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	13	Retired
Ret		Yamaha	8	Retired
Ret		Honda	1	Retired
[4]

125 cc classification[]

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	Fausto Gresini	Honda	26	36:29.927	1	20
2	Loris Capirossi	Honda	26	+18.493	2	17
3	Alessandro Gramigni	Aprilia	26	+23.101	7	15
4	Ezio Gianola	Derbi	26	+29.088	4	13
5	Hans Spaan	Honda	26	+33.230	10	11
6		Honda	26	+33.629	13	10
7		Honda	26	+34.115	3	9
8	Gabriele Debbia	Aprilia	26	+34.237	8	8
9	Ralf Waldmann	Honda	26	+34.460	11	7
10	Dirk Raudies	Honda	26	+35.230		6
11		Honda	26	+42.905		5
12		JJ Cobas	26	+47.525	15	4
13		Honda	26	+54.431		3
14		Honda	26	+1:00.339		2
15		Honda	26	+1:00.539		1
16		Honda	26	+1:06.139
17	Julián Miralles	JJ Cobas	26	+1:06.935
18		Honda	26	+1:07.493
19		Honda	26	+1:08.123
20		Honda	26	+1:08.427
21		Honda	26	+1:15.924
22		Honda	26	+1:19.698
23		JJ Cobas	26	+1:19.849
24	Maurizio Vitali	Gazzaniga	25	+1 lap	12
25		Derbi	25	+1 lap
Ret		Honda	25	Retired
Ret	Bruno Casanova	Honda	18	Retired	6
Ret	Peter Öttl	Rotax	17	Retired
Ret	Herri Torrontegui	JJ Cobas	15	Retired	14
Ret	Jorge Martínez	JJ Cobas	10	Retired	9
Ret	Noboru Ueda	Honda	8	Retired	5
Ret	Kazuto Sakata	Honda	5	Retired
Ret	Manuel Herreros	JJ Cobas	4	Retired
Ret		Honda	4	Retired
Ret		Honda	0	Retired
Ret		Gazzaniga	0	Retired
DNQ		Honda
DNQ		Honda
DNQ		Honda
DNQ		Honda
DNQ		Honda
DNQ	Robin Appleyard	Honda
DNQ		Honda
DNQ		Honda
DNQ		Honda
DNQ	Hubert Abold	Honda
DNQ	Janez Pintar	Honda
DNQ	Taru Rinne	Honda
[4]

Sidecar classification[]

Pos	Rider	Passenger	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Steve Webster		Krauser	26	35:08.085	2	20
2	Egbert Streuer		LCR-Yamaha	26	+14.440	5	17
3			LCR-Krauser	26	+26.431	13	15
4	Darren Dixon		LCR-Krauser	26	+30.300	10	13
5		Bryan Houghton	Krauser	26	+45.188	9	11
6			LCR-Yamaha	26	+50.688	14	10
7			LCR-Yamaha	26	+50.943	8	9
8			Bohnhorst	26	+57.003	7	8
9			LCR-Yamaha	26	+1:08.810	6	7
10			LCR-Krauser	25	+1 lap		6
11			LCR	25	+1 lap		5
12			LCR	25	+1 lap		4
13			LCR-Krauser	25	+1 lap		3
14			ADM	25	+1 lap		2
15	Klaus Klaffenböck		LCR	24	+2 laps	11	1
16			Yamaha	24	+2 laps	4
Ret			LCR-Krauser	22	Retired	12
Ret	Alain Michel		Krauser	12	Retired	3
Ret	Rolf Biland		LCR-ADM	3	Retired	1
Ret			Windle-ADM	2	Retired	15
DNQ			LCR
DNQ		C. Mugnari	Krauser
DNQ			LCR
DNQ			Krauser
DNQ			Yamaha
DNQ			Schuh-Spezial
DNQ			ADM
[5]

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