Biaggi On 500cc Pole At The Grande Premio de Portugal

Biaggi On 500cc Pole At The Grande Premio de Portugal

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FIM Grand Prix Qualifying From Estoril, Portugal:

500cc Final Qualifying Results:
1. Max Biaggi, Yamaha, 1:40.076
2. Loris Capirossi, Honda, 1:40.258
3. Valentino Rossi, Honda, 1:40.324
4. Tohru Ukawa, Honda, 1:40.531
5. Jurgen vd Goorbergh, Proton, 1:40.540
6. Alex Barros, Honda, 1:40.670
7. Sete Gibernau, Suzuki, 1:40.713
8. Carlos Checa, Yamaha, 1:40.752
9. Garry McCoy, Yamaha, 1:40.894
10. Norick Abe, Yamaha, 1:40.901
11. Kenny Roberts, Suzuki, 1:40.969
12. Alex Criville, Honda, 1:41.037
13. Noriyuki Haga, Yamaha, 1:41.139
14. Shinya Nakano, Yamaha, 1:41.520
15. Oliver Jacque, Yamaha, 1:41.583
16. Jose Luis Cardoso, Yamaha, 1:41.887
17. Haruchika Aoki, Honda, 1:42.130
18. Anthony West, Honda, 1:43.173
19. Leon Haslam, Honda, 1:43.645
20. Johan Stigefelt, Sabre, 1:43.715
21. Barry Veneman, Honda, 1:44.446
22. Brendan Clarke, Honda, 1:45.593

Max Biaggi’s pole-position-winning time is over 2.1 seconds faster than Valentino Rossi’s pole position time from 2000.

500cc Top Speeds:
1. Ukawa, Honda, 183.6 mph (295.6 kph)
2. Capirossi, Honda, 182.5 mph (293.7 kph)
3. Biaggi, Yamaha, 181.9 mph (292.8 kph)
4. Rossi, Honda, 181.8 mph (292.7 kph)
5. Criville, Honda, 181.6 mph (292.3 kph)
6. Barros, Honda, 180.7 mph (290.9 kph)
7. Haga, Yamaha, 180.7 (290.9 kph)
8. McCoy, Yamaha, 180.3 mph (290.3 kph)
9. Jacque, Yamaha, 179.8 mph (289.4 kph)
10. Gibernau, Suzuki, 179.5 mph (289.0 kph)
11. Nakano, Yamaha, 178.8 mph (287.8 kph)
12. Checa, Yamaha, 178.7 mph (287.6 kph)
13. Roberts, Suzuki, 178.6 mph (287.5 kph)
14. Goorbergh, Proton, 176.2 mph (283.7 kph)
15. Abe, Yamaha, 176.29 mph (283.7 kph)
16. Cardoso, Yamaha, 175.9 mph (283.2 kph)
17. Haslam, Honda, 174.3 mph (280.5 kph)
18. Aoki, Honda, 170.4 mph (274.3 kph)
19. Stigefelt, Sabre, 168.0 mph (270.5 kph)
20. Veneman, Honda, 167.5 mph (269.7 kph)
21. West, Honda, 167.3 mph (269.3 kph)
22. Clarke, Honda, 166.6 mph (268.2 kph)

250cc Final Qualifying Results:
1. Tetsuya Harada, Aprilia, 1:41.993
2. Daijiro Katoh, Honda, 1:42.205
3. Jeremy McWilliams, Aprilia, 1:42.251
4. Fonsi Nieto, Aprilia, 1:42.588
5. Marco Melandri, Aprilia, 1:42.706
6. Emilio Alzamora, Honda, 1:42.775
7. Naoki Matsudo, Yamaha, 1:42.836
8. David Checa, Honda, 1:42.997
9. Roberto Locatelli, Aprilia, 1:43.019
10. Alex Debon, Aprilia, 1:43.273
11. Roberto Rolfo, Aprilia, 1:43.298
12. Randy De Puniet, Aprilia, 1:43.495
13. Lorenzo Lanzi, Aprilia, 1:43.544
14. Taro Sekiguchi, Yamaha, 1:43.751
15. Alex Hofmann, Aprilia, 1:43.949

29. Katja Poensgen, Honda, 1:47.808

Tetsuya Harada’s time is a new track record and his fifth consecutive pole position.

125cc Final Qualifying Results:
1. Manuel Poggiali, Gilera, 1:45.923
2. Youichi Ui, Derbi, 1:46.045
3. Simone Sanna, Aprilia, 1:46.439
4. Lucio Cecchinello, Aprilia, 1:46.651
5. Toni Elias, Honda, 1:46.676
6. Angel Rodriguez, Aprilia, 1:47.095
7. Jakub Smrz, Honda, 1:47.153
8. Daniel Pedrosa, Honda, 1:47.246
9. Alex De Angelis, Honda, 1:47.293
10. Jaroslav Hules, Honda, 1:47.301

Manuel Poggiali’s time not only earned him his first pole position, but was also 1.35 seconds faster than the 2000 pole time.

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