1992 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix
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Race 1 of 13 races in the 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 29 March 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official name | Japanese Grand Prix[1][2][3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Suzuka Circuit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1992 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 27–29 March 1992 at the Suzuka Circuit.
500 cc race report[]
Wet race. Wayne Rainey had to ride with an injured hand from a pre-season test (part of his pinky was removed).
John Kocinski was on pole, and took the lead at the start from Doug Chandler and Mick Doohan. Rainey had a bad start.
Àlex Crivillé crashed out of his debut 500cc race; Wayne Gardner crashes out, as did Rainey at the Dunlop Corner.
Chandler took the lead of a 4-man group with Schwantz, Doohan and Kocinski. Kocinski crashed out.
Doohan and Chandler dropped Schwantz. Gardner had remounted and gotten to 5th before crashing out for good a second time and breaking his leg in two places.
500 cc classification[]
Pos | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Time/Retired | Points | ||
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1 | Mick Doohan | Rothmans Honda Team | Honda | 56:21.831 | 20 | ||
2 | Doug Chandler | Lucky Strike Suzuki | Suzuki | +28.298 | 15 | ||
3 | Kevin Schwantz | Lucky Strike Suzuki | Suzuki | +55.792 | 12 | ||
4 | Shinichi Itoh | Team HRC | Honda | +1:47.802 | 10 | ||
5 | Randy Mamola | Budweiser Team/Global Motorsports | Yamaha | +2:00.984 | 8 | ||
6 | SRT | Suzuki | +2:13.708 | 6 | |||
7 | Niall Mackenzie | Yamaha Motor Banco | Yamaha | +2:15.005 | 4 | ||
8 | Hiro Racing Team Yamaha | Yamaha | +2:15.491 | 3 | |||
9 | Kirin Mets Racing Team | Yamaha | +2:16.591 | 2 | |||
10 | AM/PM Racing | Honda | +2:27.265 | 1 | |||
11 | Alex Barros | Cagiva Team Agostini | Cagiva | +1 Lap | |||
12 | Juan Garriga | Ducados Yamaha | Yamaha | +1 Lap | |||
13 | Team Blue Fox | Honda | +1 Lap | ||||
14 | Eddie Lawson | Cagiva Team Agostini | Cagiva | +1 Lap | |||
15 | Michael Rudroff | Rallye Sport | Harris Yamaha | +1 Lap | |||
16 | KCS International | ROC Yamaha | +1 Lap | ||||
Ret | Wayne Gardner | Rothmans Kanemoto Honda | Honda | Retirement | |||
Ret | John Kocinski | Marlboro Team Roberts | Yamaha | Retirement | |||
Ret | Miguel Duhamel | Yamaha Motor Banco | Yamaha | Retirement | |||
Ret | Wayne Rainey | Marlboro Team Roberts | Yamaha | Retirement | |||
Ret | Peter Goddard | Valvoline Team WCM | ROC Yamaha | Retirement | |||
Ret | Àlex Crivillé | Campsa Honda Team | Honda | Retirement | |||
Ret | Daryl Beattie | Team HRC | Honda | Retirement | |||
DNQ | Eddie Laycock | Milla Racing | Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
DNQ | Dominique Sarron | Team ROC Banco | ROC Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
DNQ | Cees Doorakkers | HEK Racing Team | Harris Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
DNQ | Marco Papa | Librenti Corse | Did not qualify | ||||
DNQ | Simon Buckmaster | Padgett's Motorcycles | ROC Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
DNQ | Lucio Pedercini | Paton Grand Prix | Paton | Did not qualify | |||
DNQ | Uvex Racing Team | ROC Yamaha | Did not qualify | ||||
DNQ | Kevin Mitchell | MBM Racing | Harris Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
DNQ | Serge David | Team ROC | ROC Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
DNQ | VRP Racing Team | VRP | Did not qualify | ||||
DNQ | Peter Graves | Peter Graves Racing Team | Harris Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
DNQ | Ville de Paris | ROC Yamaha | Did not qualify | ||||
DNQ | Team ROC Banco | ROC Yamaha | Did not qualify | ||||
Sources: [4][5][6] |
References[]
- ^ "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1992". Archive.li. Archived from the original on 2014-03-15. Retrieved 2018-05-19.
- ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "1992 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
- ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Suzuka Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
- ^ "motogp.com · JAPANESE GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1992". www.motogp.com.
- ^ "1992 Japanese MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
- ^ "motogp.com · JAPANESE GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1992". www.motogp.com.
- Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix
- 1992 MotoGP race reports
- 1992 in Japanese motorsport