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Race details
Race 12 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	3 September 2000
Official name	Grande Prémio Marlboro de Portugal
Location	Autódromo do Estoril
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.182 km (2.599 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Garry McCoy Time 1:40.736 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:42.200 on lap 28 Podium First Garry McCoy Second Kenny Roberts Jr. Third Valentino Rossi
250cc
Pole position Rider Olivier Jacque Time 1:42.506 Fastest lap Rider Olivier Jacque Time 1:42.985 on lap 3 Podium First Daijiro Kato Second Olivier Jacque Third Marco Melandri
125cc
Pole position Rider Youichi Ui Time 1:47.080 Fastest lap Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:47.279 on lap 9 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	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	24	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	28	48:07.663	1	25
2	2	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	28	+4.941	4	20
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	28	+5.182	12	16
4	4	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+5.724	5	13
5	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	28	+13.759	10	11
6	1	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	28	+15.422	9	10
7	8	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	28	+15.425	6	9
8	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Rizla Honda	TSR-Honda	28	+15.776	3	8
9	6	Norick Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	28	+19.623	13	7
10	10	Alex Barros	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	28	+19.843	7	6
11	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	28	+32.421	15	5
12	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+33.195	8	4
13	65	Loris Capirossi	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	28	+54.916	14	3
14	31	Tetsuya Harada	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	28	+1:13.562	17	2
15	68	Mark Willis	Proton Team KR	Modenas KR3	28	+1:18.311	16	1
16	25	José Luis Cardoso	Maxon Dee Cee Jeans	Honda	28	+1:19.532	18
17	15	Yoshiteru Konishi	FCC TSR	TSR-Honda	28	+1:47.140	19
18	18	Sébastien Le Grelle	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	27	+1 lap	20
19	20	Phil Giles	Sabre Sport	Honda	27	+1 lap	21
Ret	5	Sete Gibernau	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	20	Accident	11
Ret	43	Paolo Tessari	Team Paton	Paton	10	Retirement	22
Ret	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	0	Accident	2
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	26	45:07.769	2	25
2	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	26	+10.954	1	20
3	35	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	26	+28.317	6	16
4	14	Anthony West	Honda	26	+34.314	12	13
5	26	Klaus Nöhles	Aprilia	26	+35.983	8	11
6	10	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	26	+40.091	11	10
7	24	Jason Vincent	Aprilia	26	+40.375	14	9
8	11	Ivan Clementi	Aprilia	26	+51.493	19	8
9	22	Sébastien Gimbert	TSR-Honda	26	+54.322	18	7
10	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	26	+54.506	26	6
11	66	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	26	+58.840	25	5
12	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	26	+59.337	13	4
13	25	Vincent Philippe	TSR-Honda	26	+1:00.132	16	3
14	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	26	+1:05.509	24	2
15	77	Jamie Robinson	Aprilia	26	+1:24.133	27	1
16	23	Julien Allemand	Yamaha	26	+1:24.462	23
17	31	Lucas Oliver	Yamaha	26	+1:35.079	20
18	85	Felisberto Teixeira	Yamaha	25	+1 lap	29
19	38	Álvaro Molina	TSR-Honda	25	+1 lap	28
Ret	20	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	20	Retirement	21
Ret	15	Adrian Coates	Aprilia	12	Retirement	22
Ret	41	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	9	Retirement	17
Ret	4	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	3	Accident	4
Ret	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	3	Accident	3
Ret	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	3	Accident	15
Ret	6	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	2	Accident	5
Ret	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	1	Accident	10
Ret	42	David Checa	TSR-Honda	1	Accident	7
Ret	30	Alex Debón	Aprilia	1	Accident	9
DNS	16	Johan Stigefelt	TSR-Honda		Did not start
DNQ	86	Vicente Esparragoso	Yamaha		Did not qualify
DNQ	87	Pablo Antelo	Honda		Did not qualify
Source:

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	24	43:22.891	2	25
2	4	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	24	+3.691	3	20
3	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	24	+12.233	8	16
4	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	24	+12.804	17	13
5	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	24	+16.958	14	11
6	26	Ivan Goi	Honda	24	+19.629	15	10
7	12	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	24	+26.990	9	9
8	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	24	+30.785	10	8
9	29	Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	24	+30.794	13	7
10	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Italjet	24	+33.054	23	6
11	17	Steve Jenkner	Honda	24	+33.466	20	5
12	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	24	+49.454	19	4
13	11	Max Sabbatani	Honda	24	+1:04.046	22	3
14	10	Adrián Araujo	Honda	24	+1:13.056	27	2
15	53	William de Angelis	Aprilia	24	+1:13.060	21	1
16	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	24	+1:14.132	26
17	18	Antonio Elías	Honda	23	+1 lap	16
18	84	José Leite	Honda	23	+1 lap	28
Ret	3	Masao Azuma	Honda	23	Accident	11
Ret	54	Manuel Poggiali	Derbi	17	Retirement	4
Ret	24	Leon Haslam	Italjet	17	Retirement	25
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	12	Accident	5
Ret	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	10	Accident	6
Ret	51	Marco Petrini	Aprilia	10	Retirement	24
Ret	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	9	Accident	1
Ret	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	9	Accident	12
Ret	35	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	9	Accident	18
Ret	5	Noboru Ueda	Honda	8	Accident	7
DNQ	86	Paulo Henriques	Aprilia		Did not qualify
DNQ	83	Emmanuel Carvalho	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	85	Manuel Vieira	Yamaha		Did not qualify
Source:

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round twelve has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Kenny Roberts Jr. 194 2 Valentino Rossi 148 3 Carlos Checa 132 4 Loris Capirossi 126 5 Norifumi Abe 113

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 236 2 Honda 235 3 Suzuki 200 4 Aprilia 80 5 TSR-Honda 68

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

References

1. "2000 Portuguese MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
2. "2000 Portuguese MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
3. "GP Marlboro de Portugal – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 3 September 2000. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
4. "motogp.com · PORTUGUESE GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 2000". www.motogp.com.
5. "GP Marlboro de Portugal – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 3 September 2000. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
6. "GP Marlboro de Portugal – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 3 September 2000. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
7. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2000. Retrieved 2019-08-20.

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