MotoGP Classification
| Pos | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Honda | 28 | 44:39.467 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Honda | 28 | +0.932 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Honda | 28 | +8.259 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Honda | 28 | +26.962 | 14 | 13 |
| 5 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Yamaha | 28 | +27.227 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Yamaha | 28 | +27.889 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 6 | Norifumi Abe | Yamaha | 28 | +30.215 | 15 | 9 |
| 8 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Yamaha | 28 | +30.781 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Yamaha | 28 | +43.796 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | 8 | Garry McCoy | Yamaha | 28 | +45.501 | 5 | 6 |
| 11 | 17 | Jurgen vd Goorbergh | Honda | 28 | +1:06.938 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Honda | 28 | +1:19.560 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 20 | Pere Riba | Yamaha | 28 | +1:19.857 | 20 | 3 |
| 14 | 21 | John Hopkins | Yamaha | 28 | +1:31.519 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 55 | Régis Laconi | Aprilia | 28 | +1:32.725 | 18 | 1 |
| 16 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Suzuki | 27 | +1 lap | 10 | |
| Ret | 4 | Alex Barros | Honda | 26 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 10 | Kenny Roberts, Jr. | Suzuki | 9 | Retirement | 6 | |
| Ret | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Proton KR | 7 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Proton KR | 5 | Retirement | 16 |
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