Grand Prix: | Japanese |
Flag: | Japan |
Official Name: | Kibun Japanese Grand Prix[1] [2] [3] |
Location: | Suzuka Circuit |
Course Mi: | 3.641 |
Course Km: | 5.859 |
Race No: | 1 |
Season No: | 15 |
Date: | 24 March |
Year: | 1991 |
Pole Rider 500: | Kevin Schwantz |
Pole Rider 500 Country: | USA |
Pole Rider 500 Bike: | Suzuki |
Pole Time 500: | 2:11.948 |
Fast Rider 500: | John Kocinski |
Fast Rider 500 Country: | USA |
Fast Rider 500 Bike: | Yamaha |
Fast Time 500: | 2:11.149 |
First Rider 500: | Kevin Schwantz |
First Rider 500 Country: | USA |
First Rider 500 Bike: | Suzuki |
Second Rider 500: | Michael Doohan |
Second Rider 500 Country: | Australia |
Second Rider 500 Bike: | Honda |
Third Rider 500: | Wayne Rainey |
Third Rider 500 Country: | USA |
Third Rider 500 Bike: | Yamaha |
Pole Rider 250 Country: | Netherlands |
Pole Rider 250 Bike: | Honda |
Pole Time 250: | 2:16.011 |
Fast Rider 250: | Luca Cadalora |
Fast Rider 250 Country: | Italy |
Fast Rider 250 Bike: | Honda |
Fast Time 250: | 2:15.075 |
First Rider 250: | Luca Cadalora |
First Rider 250 Country: | Italy |
First Rider 250 Bike: | Honda |
Second Rider 250: | Carlos Cardús |
Second Rider 250 Country: | Spain |
Second Rider 250 Bike: | Honda |
Third Rider 250: | Wilco Zeelenberg |
Third Rider 250 Country: | Netherlands |
Third Rider 250 Bike: | Honda |
Pole Rider 125: | Noboru Ueda |
Pole Rider 125 Country: | Japan |
Pole Rider 125 Bike: | Honda |
Pole Time 125: | 2:24.623 |
Fast Rider 125: | Noboru Ueda |
Fast Rider 125 Country: | Japan |
Fast Rider 125 Bike: | Honda |
Fast Time 125: | 2:22.264 |
First Rider 125: | Noboru Ueda |
First Rider 125 Country: | Japan |
First Rider 125 Bike: | Honda |
Second Rider 125: | Fausto Gresini |
Second Rider 125 Country: | Italy |
Second Rider 125 Bike: | Honda |
Third Rider 125: | Loris Capirossi |
Third Rider 125 Country: | Italy |
Third Rider 125 Bike: | Honda |
The 1991 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1991 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 22–24 March 1991 at the Suzuka Circuit.
Noboru Ueda, who won the 125cc race on his Grand Prix motorcycle racing debut, would become the last rider to win on his debut until Can Öncü in 2018.
Pos. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points | |
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1 | Kevin Schwantz | Lucky Strike Suzuki | Suzuki | 22 | 48:35.747 | 1 | 20 | |
2 | Michael Doohan | Rothmans Honda Team | Honda | 22 | +0.204 | 2 | 17 | |
3 | Wayne Rainey | Marlboro Team Roberts | Yamaha | 22 | +0.353 | 5 | 15 | |
4 | John Kocinski | Marlboro Team Roberts | Yamaha | 22 | +0.556 | 3 | 13 | |
5 | Wayne Gardner | Rothmans Honda Team | Honda | 22 | +35.311 | 11 | 11 | |
6 | Eddie Lawson | Cagiva Corse | Cagiva | 22 | +44.915 | 6 | 10 | |
7 | Juan Garriga | Ducados Yamaha | Yamaha | 22 | +55.830 | 4 | 9 | |
8 | Sito Pons | Campsa Honda Team | Honda | 22 | +1:08.316 | 13 | 8 | |
9 | Kenichiro Iwahashi | Ajinomoto | Honda | 22 | +1:08.373 | 10 | 7 | |
10 | Alex Barros | Cagiva Corse | Cagiva | 22 | +1:15.302 | 8 | 6 | |
11 | Doug Chandler | Roberts B Team | Yamaha | 22 | +1:15.595 | 5 | ||
12 | Adrien Morillas | Sonauto Yamaha Mobil 1 | Yamaha | 22 | +1:18.928 | 4 | ||
13 | Kevin Magee | Team Roberts | Suzuki | 22 | +1:20.899 | 3 | ||
14 | Didier de Radiguès | Lucky Strike Suzuki | Suzuki | 22 | +1:22.472 | 2 | ||
15 | Peter Goddard | Hayashi | Yamaha | 22 | +1:22.696 | 12 | 1 | |
16 | Shinichi Itoh | Honda | 22 | +1:38.831 | 9 | |||
17 | Toshihiko Honma | YMO | Yamaha | 22 | +1:41.697 | |||
18 | Kunio Machii | Yamaha | 22 | +1:41.905 | ||||
19 | Satoshi Tsujimoto | SRT | Suzuki | 22 | +1:54.952 | |||
20 | Hikaru Miyagi | Ajinomoto | Honda | 22 | +1:55.213 | |||
21 | Tasuro Arata | Itohen | Yamaha | 21 | +1 lap | |||
22 | Cees Doorakkers | HEK-Baumachines | Honda | 21 | +1 lap | |||
Ret | Eddie Laycock | Millar Racing | Yamaha | 17 | Retired | |||
Ret | Jean-Philippe Ruggia | Sonauto Yamaha Mobil 1 | Yamaha | 9 | Retired | 7 | ||
Ret | Keiji Ohishi | Yamaha | 9 | Retired | ||||
Ret | Norihiko Fujiwara | Kirin Mets Racing Team | Yamaha | 7 | Retired | 15 | ||
Ret | Osamu Hiwatashi | SRT | Suzuki | 1 | Retired | |||
Ret | Tadahiko Taira | YRTR | Yamaha | 1 | Retired | 14 | ||
DNQ | Nicholas Schmassman | Schmassman Technotron | Honda | 0 | Did not qualify | |||
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Pos | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points | |
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1 | Luca Cadalora | Honda | 20 | 45:23.048 | 8 | 20 | |
2 | Carlos Cardús | Honda | 20 | +0.255 | 2 | 17 | |
3 | Wilco Zeelenberg | Honda | 20 | +17.876 | 1 | 15 | |
4 | Masumitsu Taguchi | Honda | 20 | +21.180 | 9 | 13 | |
5 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Honda | 20 | +21.560 | 11 | 11 | |
6 | Tetsuya Harada | Yamaha | 20 | +21.570 | 3 | 10 | |
7 | Helmut Bradl | Honda | 20 | +22.060 | 6 | 9 | |
8 | Masahiro Shimizu | Honda | 20 | +23.103 | 8 | ||
9 | Loris Reggiani | Aprilia | 20 | +31.920 | 15 | 7 | |
10 | Tsutomu Udagawa | Honda | 20 | +37.366 | 4 | 6 | |
11 | Katsuyoshi Kozono | Honda | 20 | +37.953 | 7 | 5 | |
12 | Kyoji Namba | Yamaha | 20 | +40.569 | 12 | 4 | |
13 | Jochen Schmid | Honda | 20 | +56.684 | 3 | ||
14 | Martin Wimmer | Suzuki | 20 | +56.734 | 10 | 2 | |
15 | Toshiyuki Arakaki | Honda | 20 | +57.140 | 1 | ||
16 | Osamu Miyazaki | Yamaha | 20 | +58.962 | |||
17 | Pierfrancesco Chili | Aprilia | 20 | +1:00.083 | 13 | ||
18 | Jean-Pierre Jeandat | Honda | 20 | +1:03.334 | |||
19 | Andreas Preining | Aprilia | 20 | +1:08.539 | |||
20 | Stefan Prein | Honda | 20 | +1:10.775 | |||
21 | Alberto Puig | Yamaha | 20 | +1:31.053 | |||
22 | Takehiko Kurokawa | Honda | 20 | +1:34.951 | |||
23 | Leon van der Heyden | Honda | 20 | +1:35.323 | |||
24 | Yoshomasa Kato | Yamaha | 20 | +1:38.026 | |||
25 | Carlos Lavado | Yamaha | 20 | +1:41.074 | |||
26 | Paolo Casoli | Yamaha | 20 | +1:48.765 | |||
27 | Urs Jucker | Yamaha | 20 | +2:07.587 | |||
28 | Peter Linden | Honda | 20 | +2:10.769 | |||
29 | Kevin Mitchell | Yamaha | 20 | +2:13.523 | |||
30 | Frédéric Protat | Aprilia | 20 | +2:13.687 | |||
31 | Jim Filice | Yamaha | 19 | +1 lap | |||
32 | Bernard Hänggeli | Aprilia | 19 | +1 lap | |||
Ret | Hiroyuki Yamagishi | Honda | 18 | Retired | |||
Ret | Jaime Mariano | Aprilia | 16 | Retired | |||
Ret | Àlex Crivillé | Honda | 13 | Retired | 14 | ||
Ret | Corrado Catalano | Honda | 6 | Retired | |||
Ret | Tadayuki Okada | Honda | 5 | Retired | 5 | ||
Ret | Doriano Romboni | Honda | 1 | Retired | |||
Pos | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points | |
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1 | Noboru Ueda | Honda | 16 | 38:26.905 | 1 | 20 | |
2 | Fausto Gresini | Honda | 16 | +2.553 | 3 | 17 | |
3 | Loris Capirossi | Honda | 16 | +8.676 | 2 | 15 | |
4 | Masato Shima | Honda | 16 | +15.917 | 10 | 13 | |
5 | Jorge Martínez | JJ Cobas | 16 | +33.737 | 11 | ||
6 | Heinz Lüthi | Honda | 16 | +37.389 | 11 | 10 | |
7 | Ralf Waldmann | Honda | 16 | +37.546 | 9 | ||
8 | Akira Saito | Honda | 16 | +38.930 | 12 | 8 | |
9 | Soichiro Sato | Honda | 16 | +39.174 | 15 | 7 | |
10 | Adolf Stadler | JJ Cobas | 16 | +39.327 | 5 | 6 | |
11 | Gabriele Debbia | Aprilia | 16 | +39.380 | 13 | 5 | |
12 | Nobuyuki Wakai | Honda | 16 | +39.425 | 4 | 4 | |
13 | Yosuke Yamakawa | Honda | 16 | +45.178 | 8 | 3 | |
14 | Gimmi Bosio | Honda | 16 | +47.160 | 2 | ||
15 | Kinya Wada | Honda | 16 | +47.506 | 1 | ||
16 | Hans Spaan | Honda | 16 | +47.883 | 7 | ||
17 | Masayuki Hirose | Honda | 16 | +48.032 | |||
18 | Koji Takada | Honda | 16 | +54.478 | |||
19 | Hisashi Unemoto | Honda | 16 | +54.555 | |||
20 | Arie Molenaar | Honda | 16 | +1:03.982 | |||
21 | Dirk Raudies | Honda | 16 | +1:05.364 | |||
22 | Steve Patrickson | Honda | 16 | +1:06.647 | |||
23 | Hideaki Ueno | Honda | 16 | +1:06.674 | |||
24 | Julián Miralles | JJ Cobas | 16 | +1:06.892 | |||
25 | Alessandro Gramigni | Aprilia | 16 | +1:26.032 | |||
26 | Johnny Wickström | Honda | 16 | +1:30.576 | |||
27 | Robin Appleyard | Honda | 16 | +1:30.874 | |||
28 | Maurizio Vitali | Gazzaniga | 16 | +1:30.939 | |||
29 | Thierry Feuz | Honda | 16 | +1:32.191 | |||
30 | Oliver Petrucciani | Aprilia | 16 | +1:56.424 | |||
31 | Peter Galvin | Honda | 16 | +1:56.544 | |||
32 | Hubert Abold | Honda | 16 | +2:24.346 | |||
33 | Manuel Herreros | JJ Cobas | 15 | +1 lap | |||
Ret | Ezio Gianola | Derbi | 13 | Retired | 14 | ||
Ret | Masafumi Ono | Honda | 13 | Retired | 9 | ||
Ret | Herri Torrontegui | JJ Cobas | 9 | Retired | |||
Ret | Bruno Casanova | Honda | 6 | Retired | 6 | ||
Ret | Alfred Waibel | Honda | 6 | Retired | |||
Ret | Kazuto Sakata | Honda | 5 | Retired | |||
Ret | Emilio Cuppini | Gazzaniga | 2 | Retired | |||