2000 French motorcycle Grand Prix

  2000 French Grand Prix

Race details
Race 5 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	14 May 2000
Official name	Grand Prix Polini de France[1][2]
Location	Bugatti Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.305 km (2.675 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:39.342 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:40.089 on lap 5 Podium First Àlex Crivillé Second Norick Abe Third Valentino Rossi
250 cc
Pole position Rider Daijiro Kato Time 1:41.635 Fastest lap Rider Tohru Ukawa Time 1:42.312 on lap 11 Podium First Tohru Ukawa Second Shinya Nakano Third Olivier Jacque
125 cc
Pole position Rider Youichi Ui Time 1:49.776 Fastest lap Rider Noboru Ueda Time 1:48.011 on lap 3 Podium First Youichi Ui Second Mirko Giansanti Third Emilio Alzamora

The 2000 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 14 May 2000 at the Bugatti Circuit in Le Mans.

500 cc classification[]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	28	47:15.363	5	25
2	6	Norick Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	28	+0.321	7	20
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	28	+1.155	10	16
4	24	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	28	+4.377	8	13
5	10	Alex Barros	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	28	+5.240	3	11
6	2	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	28	+9.176	4	10
7	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+11.600	2	9
8	65	Loris Capirossi	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	28	+12.174	9	8
9	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	28	+12.342	12	7
10	31	Tetsuya Harada	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	28	+29.818	15	6
11	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	28	+38.477	14	5
12	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	28	+42.085	6	4
13	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Rizla Honda	-Honda	28	+44.936	13	3
14	8	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	28	+45.857	11	2
15	5	Sete Gibernau	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	28	+50.834	16	1
16	11	José David de Gea	Proton Team KR	Modenas KR3	28	+1:18.818	17
17	18	Sébastien Le Grelle	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	27	+1 Lap	19
Ret	15	Yoshiteru Konishi	FCC TSR	-Honda	9	Accident	18
Ret	4	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	3	Accident	1
DNS	21	Ron Haslam	Sabre Sport	Honda		Did not start
Sources: [3][4][5]

250 cc classification[]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	26	44:42.954	5	25
2	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	26	+0.279	3	20
3	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	26	+2.521	6	16
4	13	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	26	+20.531	4	13
5	14	Anthony West	Honda	26	+25.474	8	11
6	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	26	+36.681	1	10
7	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	26	+42.599	11	9
8	6	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	26	+46.083	2	8
9	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	26	+48.751	10	7
10	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	26	+49.128	19	6
11	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	26	+55.586	7	5
12	16	Johan Stigefelt	-Honda	26	+1:03.973	14	4
13	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	26	+1:07.028	12	3
14	26		Aprilia	26	+1:09.460	15	2
15	30	Alex Debón	Aprilia	26	+1:10.649	9	1
16	10	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	26	+1:11.700	25
17	41		-Honda	26	+1:23.677	21
18	66	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	26	+1:25.025	17
19	11		Aprilia	26	+1:41.997	26
20	31		Yamaha	25	+1 lap	23
21	22	Sébastien Gimbert	-Honda	25	+1 lap	29
22	52		Honda	25	+1 lap	30
23	58		Yamaha	25	+1 lap	33
24	53		Yamaha	25	+1 lap	32
Ret	77		Aprilia	21	Retirement	18
Ret	25		-Honda	19	Accident	16
Ret	15		Aprilia	12	Retirement	24
Ret	23		Yamaha	11	Accident	13
Ret	54		Aprilia	10	Retirement	27
Ret	24		Aprilia	9	Accident	20
Ret	42	David Checa	-Honda	9	Retirement	22
Ret	57		Honda	4	Accident	31
Ret	55	Sylvain Guintoli	Honda	1	Accident	28
Source: [6]

125 cc classification[]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	24	43:43.690	1	25
2	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	24	+1.655	13	20
3	1	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	24	+1.857	7	16
4	4	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	24	+2.079	2	13
5	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	24	+2.231	6	11
6	26	Ivan Goi	Honda	24	+5.899	12	10
7	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	24	+10.132	5	9
8	54	Manuel Poggiali	Derbi	24	+13.923	9	8
9	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	24	+14.267	10	7
10	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	24	+20.522	16	6
11	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	24	+23.135	4	5
12	12	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	24	+33.577	19	4
13	35		Honda	24	+40.851	17	3
14	19	Alessandro Brannetti	Honda	24	+41.862	15	2
15	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	24	+41.883	22	1
16	29		Honda	24	+42.843	26
17	18	Toni Elías	Honda	24	+1:01.198	18
18	51		Aprilia	24	+1:21.871	21
19	63		Honda	24	+1:25.409	24
20	62		Yamaha	23	+1 lap	29
21	61		Aprilia	23	+1 lap	27
22	64	Hugo Marchand	Honda	23	+1 lap	28
Ret	11	Max Sabbatani	Honda	20	Retirement	8
Ret	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Italjet	19	Retirement	23
Ret	3	Masao Azuma	Honda	9	Accident	11
Ret	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	7	Retirement	25
Ret	5	Noboru Ueda	Honda	4	Accident	3
Ret	53		Aprilia	2	Accident	20
Ret	17	Steve Jenkner	Honda	1	Accident	14
DNQ	60		Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	24	Leon Haslam	Italjet		Did not qualify
Source: [7]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)[]

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.^[8]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Kenny Roberts Jr. 90 2 Carlos Checa 80 3 Garry McCoy 61 4 Àlex Crivillé 59 5 Norifumi Abe 54

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 110 2 Suzuki 90 3 Honda 83 4 Aprilia 25 5 24

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

References[]