2000 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix

  2000 Portuguese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 12 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	3 September 2000
Location	Estoril
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.182 km (2.599 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Garry McCoy
Time	1:40.736
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:42.200
Podium
First	Garry McCoy
Second	Kenny Roberts, Jr.
Third	Valentino Rossi
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Olivier Jacque
Time	1:42.506
Fastest lap
Rider	Olivier Jacque
Time	1:42.985
Podium
First	Daijiro Kato
Second	Olivier Jacque
Third	Marco Melandri
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Youichi Ui
Time	1:47.080
Fastest lap
Rider	Roberto Locatelli
Time	1:47.279
Podium
First	Emilio Alzamora
Second	Roberto Locatelli
Third	Arnaud Vincent

The 2000 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 3 September 2000 at Estoril.

This was the first Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix since 1987. It was previously a one-off race held in Spain.

500 cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	24	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	28	48:07.663	1	25
2	2	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	28	+4.941	4	20
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	28	+5.182	12	16
4	4	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	28	+5.724	5	13
5	55	Régis Laconi	Yamaha	28	+13.759	10	11
6	1	Àlex Crivillé	Honda	28	+15.422	9	10
7	8	Tadayuki Okada	Honda	28	+15.425	6	9
8	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	TSR-Honda	28	+15.776	3	8
9	6	Norick Abe	Yamaha	28	+19.623	13	7
10	10	Alex Barros	Honda	28	+19.843	7	6
11	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	28	+32.421	15	5
12	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	28	+33.195	8	4
13	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	28	+54.916	14	3
14	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	28	+1:13.562	17	2
15	68	Mark Willis	Modenas	28	+1:18.311	16	1
16	25	José Luis Cardoso	Honda	28	+1:19.532	18
17	15	Yoshiteru Konishi	TSR-Honda	28	+1:47.140	19
18	18	Sebastién Le Grelle	Honda	27	+1 Lap	20
19	20	Phil Giles	Honda	27	+1 Lap	21
Ret	5	Sete Gibernau	Honda	20	Accident	11
Ret	43	Paolo Tessari	Paton	10	Retirement	22
Ret	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki	0	Accident	2

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Daijiro Kato	Honda	45:07.769	25
2	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	+10.654	20
3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	+28.317	16
4	Anthony West	Honda	+34.314	13
5	Klaus Nohles	Aprilia	+35.983	11
6	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	+40.091	10
7	Jason Vincent	Aprilia	+40.375	9
8	Ivan Clementi	Aprilia	+51.493	8
9	Sebastien Gimbert	TSR-Honda	+54.322	7
10	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	+54.506	6
11	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	+58.840	5
12	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	+59.337	4
13	Vincent Philippe	TSR-Honda	+1:00.132	3
14	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	+1:05.509	2
15	Jamie Robinson	Aprilia	+1:24.133	1
16	Julien Allemand	Yamaha	+1:24.462
17	Lucas Oliver Bulto	Yamaha	+1:35.079
18	Filisberto Texeira	Yamaha	+1 Lap
19	Alvaro Molina	TSR-Honda	+1 Lap
Ret	Jeronimo Vidal	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Sebastian Porto	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Alex Debón	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	David Checa	TSR-Honda	Retirement
Ret	Adrian Coates	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	Retirement
Ret	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	Retirement