2000 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix

  2000 Pacific Grand Prix

Race details
Race 15 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	15 October 2000
Official name	Pacific Grand Prix of Motegi
Location	Motegi
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.801 km (2.983 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:49.954 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:50.591 Podium First Kenny Roberts, Jr. Second Valentino Rossi Third Max Biaggi
250 cc
Pole position Rider Daijiro Kato Time 1:52.574 Fastest lap Rider Shinya Nakano Time 1:52.253 Podium First Daijiro Kato Second Shinya Nakano Third Marco Melandri
125 cc
Pole position Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:58.831 Fastest lap Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:58.816 Podium First Roberto Locatelli Second Emilio Alzamora Third Simone Sanna

The 2000 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 15 October 2000 at the Twin Ring Motegi.

500cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	2	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	25	46:23.327	2	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	25	+6.175	5	20
3	4	Max Biaggi	Yamaha	25	+6.360	1	16
4	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	25	+19.727	7	13
5	6	Norick Abe	Yamaha	25	+21.994	6	11
6	1	Àlex Crivillé	Honda	25	+22.237	9	10
7	10	Alex Barros	Honda	25	+23.963	4	9
8	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	25	+26.051	3	8
9	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki	25	+26.388	10	7
10	8	Tadayuki Okada	Honda	25	+32.508	9	6
11	55	Régis Laconi	Yamaha	25	+36.078	13	5
12	5	Sete Gibernau	Honda	25	+37.760	11	4
13	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	25	+38.014	16	3
14	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Aprilia	25	+55.675	14	2
15	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	TSR-Honda	25	+1:06.664	15	1
16	56	Tekkyu Kayoh	Honda	25	+1:28.554	17
17	33	David Tomás	Honda	24	+1 Lap	19
18	15	Yoshiteru Konishi	TSR-Honda	24	+1 Lap	20
Ret	24	Garry McCoy	Yamaha	17	Retirement	8
DNS	68	Mark Willis	Modenas	0	Did not start	18
DNQ	36	Stephen Briggs	BSL
DNQ	25	José Luis Cardoso	Honda

250cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Daijiro Kato	Honda	43:26.394	25
2	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	+0.707	20
3	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	+19.677	16
4	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	+24.260	13
5	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	+28.673	11
6	Anthony West	Honda	+49.317	10
7	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	+50.661	9
8	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	+1:06.700	8
9	Jason Vincent	Aprilia	+1:08.330	7
10	Yasumasa Hatakeyama	Honda	+1:14.158	6
11	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	+1:20.838	5
12	Alex Debón	Aprilia	+1:20.946	4
13	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	+1:22.838	3
14	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	+1:22.817	2
15	David Checa	TSR-Honda	+1:22.942	1
16	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	+1:37.060
17	Yoshinori Korogi	Honda	+1:46.753
18	Sebastien Gimbert	TSR-Honda	+1:47.920
19	Johann Stigefelt	TSR-Honda	+1:48.952
Ret	Julien Allemand	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Roberto Rolfo	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Shinichi Nakatomi	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Jamie Robinson	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Vincent Philippe	TSR-Honda	Retirement
Ret	Klaus Nohles	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	Retirement
Ret	Lucas Oliver Bulto	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Sebastian Porto	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Osamu Miyazaki	Yamaha	Retirement