1992 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

1992 Japanese Grand Prix
Race details
Race 1 of 13 races in the; 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	29 March 1992
Official name	Japanese Grand Prix
Location	Suzuka Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility; 5.821 km (3.617 mi);
500 cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Kevin Schwantz
Time	2:20.324
Fastest lap
Rider	Mick Doohan
Time	2:32.090
Podium
First	Mick Doohan
Second	Doug Chandler
Third	Kevin Schwantz
250 cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Nobuatsu Aoki
Time	2:18.696
Fastest lap
Rider	Luca Cadalora
Time	2:35.962
Podium
First	Luca Cadalora
Second	Tadayuki Okada
Third	Nobuatsu Aoki
125 cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Bruno Casanova
Time	2:23.630
Fastest lap
Rider	Ralf Waldmann
Time	2:39.888
Podium
First	Ralf Waldmann
Second	Bruno Casanova
Third	Nobuyuki Wakai

The 1992 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 27–29 March 1992 at the Suzuka Circuit.

500 cc race report

Wet race. Wayne Rainey had to ride with an injured hand from a pre-season test (part of his pinky was removed).

John Kocinski was on pole, and took the lead at the start from Doug Chandler and Mick Doohan. Rainey had a bad start.

Àlex Crivillé crashed out of his debut 500cc race; Wayne Gardner crashes out, as did Rainey at the Dunlop Corner.

Chandler took the lead of a 4-man group with Schwantz, Doohan and Kocinski. Kocinski crashed out.

Doohan and Chandler dropped Schwantz. Gardner had remounted and gotten to 5th before crashing out for good a second time and breaking his leg in two places.

500 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Mick Doohan	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	56:21.831	20
2	Doug Chandler	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	+28.298	15
3	Kevin Schwantz	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	+55.792	12
4	Shinichi Itoh	Team HRC	Honda	+1:47.802	10
5	Randy Mamola	Budweiser Team/Global Motorsports	Yamaha	+2:00.984	8
6	Keiji Ohishi	SRT	Suzuki	+2:13.708	6
7	Niall Mackenzie	Yamaha Motor Banco	Yamaha	+2:15.005	4
8	Toshihiko Honma	Hiro Racing Team Yamaha	Yamaha	+2:15.491	3
9	Norihiko Fujiwara	Kirin Mets Racing Team	Yamaha	+2:16.591	2
10	Satoshi Tsujimoto	AM/PM Racing	Honda	+2:27.265	1
11	Alex Barros	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	+1 Lap
12	Juan Garriga	Ducados Yamaha	Yamaha	+1 Lap
13	Keiichiro Iwahashi	Team Blue Fox	Honda	+1 Lap
14	Eddie Lawson	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	+1 Lap
15	Michael Rudroff	Rallye Sport	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap
16	Corrado Catalano	KCS International	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap
Ret	Wayne Gardner	Rothmans Kanemoto Honda	Honda	Retirement
Ret	John Kocinski	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Miguel Duhamel	Yamaha Motor Banco	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Wayne Rainey	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Peter Goddard	Valvoline Team WCM	ROC Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Àlex Crivillé	Campsa Honda Team	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Daryl Beattie	Team HRC	Honda	Retirement
DNQ	Eddie Laycock	Milla Racing	Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Dominique Sarron	Team ROC Banco	ROC Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Cees Doorakkers	HEK Racing Team	Harris Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Marco Papa	Librenti Corse	Librenti	Did not qualify
DNQ	Simon Buckmaster	Padgett's Motorcycles	ROC Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Lucio Pedercini	Paton Grand Prix	Paton	Did not qualify
DNQ	Josef Doppler	Uvex Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Kevin Mitchell	MBM Racing	Harris Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Serge David	Team ROC	ROC Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Andreas Leuthe	VRP Racing Team	VRP	Did not qualify
DNQ	Peter Graves	Peter Graves Racing Team	Harris Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Thierry Crine	Ville de Paris	ROC Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Toshiyuki Arakaki	Team ROC Banco	ROC Yamaha	Did not qualify
Sources: ^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

^ "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1992". Archive.li. Archived from the original on 2014-03-15. Retrieved 2018-05-19.
^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "1992 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Suzuka Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
^ "motogp.com · JAPANESE GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1992". www.motogp.com.
^ "1992 Japanese MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
^ "motogp.com · JAPANESE GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1992". www.motogp.com.

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[1] "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1992". Archive.li. Archived from the original on 2014-03-15. Retrieved 2018-05-19.

[2] Mitchell, Malcolm. "1992 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.

[3] Mitchell, Malcolm. "Suzuka Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.

[4] "motogp.com · JAPANESE GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1992". www.motogp.com.

[5] "1992 Japanese MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.

[6] "motogp.com · JAPANESE GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1992". www.motogp.com.

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