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Race details
Race 13 of 16 races in the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	17 September 2000
Official name	Gran Premio Marlboro de la Comunitat Valenciana
Location	Valencia
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Kenny Roberts Jr. Time 1:35.133 Fastest lap Rider Àlex Crivillé Time 1:36.085 on lap 4 Podium First Garry McCoy Second Kenny Roberts Jr. Third Max Biaggi
250cc
Pole position Rider Olivier Jacque Time 1:36.680 Fastest lap Rider Shinya Nakano Time 1:36.398 on lap 16 Podium First Shinya Nakano Second Olivier Jacque Third Marco Melandri
125cc
Pole position Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:40.918 Fastest lap Rider Youichi Ui Time 1:40.631 on lap 8 Podium First Roberto Locatelli Second Masao Azuma Third Youichi Ui

The 2000 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 17 September 2000 at the Circuit de Valencia.

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	24	Garry McCoy	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	30	48:27.799	4	25
2	2	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	30	+5.005	1	20
3	4	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+5.978	2	16
4	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Telefónica Movistar Suzuki	Suzuki	30	+8.675	12	13
5	10	Alex Barros	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	30	+14.247	7	11
6	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	30	+16.111	10	10
7	7	Carlos Checa	Marlboro Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+19.967	6	9
8	5	Sete Gibernau	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	30	+21.094	9	8
9	8	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	30	+21.346	14	7
10	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Rizla Honda	TSR-Honda	30	+37.506	8	6
11	11	José David de Gea	Proton Team KR	Modenas KR3	30	+37.682	15	5
12	25	José Luis Cardoso	Maxon Dee Cee Jeans	Honda	30	+59.465	18	4
13	33	David Tomás	Queroseno Racing Team	Honda	29	+1 lap	19	3
14	15	Yoshiteru Konishi	FCC TSR	TSR-Honda	29	+1 lap	20	2
15	20	Phil Giles	Sabre Sport	Honda	29	+1 lap	22	1
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Nastro Azzurro Honda	Honda	26	Accident	5
Ret	43	Paolo Tessari	Team Paton	Paton	15	Retirement	23
Ret	1	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol YPF Honda Team	Honda	12	Retirement	11
Ret	65	Loris Capirossi	Emerson Honda Pons	Honda	10	Accident	3
Ret	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	6	Accident	13
Ret	6	Norick Abe	Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin	Yamaha	3	Accident	16
Ret	18	Sébastien Le Grelle	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	3	Retirement	21
Ret	31	Tetsuya Harada	Blu Aprilia Team	Aprilia	1	Retirement	17
Source:

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	27	43:49.140	2	25
2	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	27	+4.285	1	20
3	35	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	27	+14.848	3	16
4	4	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	27	+14.897	4	13
5	74	Daijiro Kato	Honda	27	+20.208	13	11
6	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	27	+36.491	5	10
7	14	Anthony West	Honda	27	+39.810	14	9
8	9	Sebastián Porto	Yamaha	27	+39.887	12	8
9	24	Jason Vincent	Aprilia	27	+40.271	19	7
10	42	David Checa	TSR-Honda	27	+40.273	8	6
11	30	Alex Debón	Aprilia	27	+53.509	7	5
12	37	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	27	+56.619	9	4
13	6	Ralf Waldmann	Aprilia	27	+56.709	6	3
14	18	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	27	+1:01.788	11	2
15	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	27	+1:04.067	18	1
16	25	Vincent Philippe	TSR-Honda	27	+1:17.605	20
17	10	Fonsi Nieto	Yamaha	27	+1:18.349	10
18	66	Alex Hofmann	Aprilia	27	+1:20.839	24
19	77	Jamie Robinson	Aprilia	27	+1:22.270	17
20	23	Julien Allemand	Yamaha	27	+1:28.758	22
21	11	Ivan Clementi	Aprilia	27	+1:30.004	23
22	31	Lucas Oliver	Yamaha	27	+1:34.529	28
23	15	Adrian Coates	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	21
24	41	Jarno Janssen	TSR-Honda	26	+1 lap	25
Ret	26	Klaus Nöhles	Aprilia	20	Retirement	15
Ret	39	Ismael Bonilla	Honda	19	Retirement	29
Ret	38	Álvaro Molina	TSR-Honda	14	Retirement	30
Ret	16	Johan Stigefelt	TSR-Honda	9	Retirement	26
Ret	22	Sébastien Gimbert	TSR-Honda	2	Retirement	27
Ret	20	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	0	Retirement	16
Source:

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	25	42:27.505	1	25
2	3	Masao Azuma	Honda	25	+0.433	6	20
3	41	Youichi Ui	Derbi	25	+7.925	2	16
4	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	25	+7.941	4	13
5	1	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	25	+15.086	3	11
6	16	Simone Sanna	Aprilia	25	+20.463	17	10
7	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Aprilia	25	+20.625	19	9
8	9	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	25	+21.015	8	8
9	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	25	+21.456	11	7
10	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	25	+21.688	10	6
11	5	Noboru Ueda	Honda	25	+21.848	9	5
12	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	25	+25.453	5	4
13	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	25	+27.102	12	3
14	54	Manuel Poggiali	Derbi	25	+32.153	18	2
15	18	Antonio Elías	Honda	25	+36.034	15	1
16	17	Steve Jenkner	Honda	25	+44.666	20
17	29	Ángel Nieto Jr.	Honda	25	+47.817	7
18	12	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	25	+47.862	13
19	44	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	25	+1:10.477	26
20	51	Marco Petrini	Aprilia	25	+1:12.524	24
21	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Italjet	25	+1:12.684	23
22	24	Leon Haslam	Italjet	25	+1:17.512	25
23	35	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	25	+1:26.832	28
24	43	David Micó	Aprilia	25	+1:27.526	21
25	53	William de Angelis	Aprilia	25	+1:30.158	29
26	11	Max Sabbatani	Honda	24	+1 lap	16
Ret	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	21	Retirement	27
Ret	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	13	Accident	22
Ret	26	Ivan Goi	Honda	13	Accident	14
Ret	10	Adrián Araujo	Honda	0	Retirement	30
Source:

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Kenny Roberts Jr. 214 2 Valentino Rossi 148 3 Carlos Checa 141 4 Garry McCoy 134 5 Loris Capirossi 126

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 261 2 Honda 246 3 Suzuki 220 4 Aprilia 80 5 TSR-Honda 74

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

References

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2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Valencia Ricardo Tormo - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
3. "2000 Valencia MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
4. "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 17 September 2000. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
5. "motogp.com · VALENCIA GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 2000". www.motogp.com.
6. "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 17 September 2000. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
7. "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 17 September 2000. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
8. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2000. Retrieved 2019-08-21.

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