1993 British motorcycle Grand Prix

  1993 British Grand Prix

Race details
Race 10 of 14 races in the 1993 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	1 August 1993
Official name	British Grand Prix[1][2][3]
Location	Donington Park
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.023 km (2.500 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Kevin Schwantz Time 1:33.514 Fastest lap Rider Luca Cadalora Time 1:34.716 Podium First Luca Cadalora Second Wayne Rainey Third Niall Mackenzie
250 cc
Pole position Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:35.191 Fastest lap Rider Jean-Philippe Ruggia Time 1:34.888 Podium First Jean-Philippe Ruggia Second Loris Capirossi Third Loris Reggiani
125 cc
Pole position Rider Kazuto Sakata Time 1:41.178 Fastest lap Rider Kazuto Sakata Time 1:41.347 Podium First Dirk Raudies Second Kazuto Sakata Third Ralf Waldmann

The 1993 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 1993 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 1 August 1993 at Donington Park.

500 cc race report

6th pole of the season for Kevin Schwantz; Wayne Rainey highsides in practice—he loses two fingernails, gets a fracture in his spine and a concussion;^[4] he doesn’t qualify well.

Rainey gets the start.

Rainey has the lead from Alex Barros, Schwantz and Mick Doohan. Approaching the chicane, Doohan leaves the braking too late and slams into the back of Barros on his right, then falls to his left and takes out Schwantz. Schwantz looks injured. Rainey’s championship hopes suddenly look bright, with Carl Fogarty and Luca Cadalora behind him.

Fogarty is adjusting his front brakes on-the-fly; Cadalora comes past.

Àlex Crivillé, who’d been in a battle with Shinichi Itoh, crashes out.

Rainey and Cadalora at the front; Cadalora looks like he’s staying behind Rainey purposely, but then passes. Watching on the race monitors, team manager Kenny Roberts shakes his head at Cadalora’s disregard for Rainey’s championship struggle. It will be Cadalora’s first 500 win.

Fogarty looks to have a strong 3rd, but seems to be running out of gas and is pipped at the line by Niall Mackenzie.

Rainey is now 3 points behind Schwantz with 4 rounds to go.

Cadalora: “When I saw that Kevin was out and he didn’t get point (sic), I was thinking it was not big trouble, because 20 points more for Wayne. That’s good.” ^[5] Had Cadalora stayed in 2nd, Rainey would be 2 points ahead, not 3 points behind.

Roberts: “I’m very happy for Luca, because to win a 500 grand prix for Luca is fantastic. But, I have to run the Marlboro Yamaha team, and for the team, it would have been better that Wayne won. But, we have a lot of work to do before we win the world championship and I don’t think this is going to make a big difference and Wayne is very happy for Luca as well.” ^[6]

500 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Luca Cadalora	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	47:45.630	25
2	Wayne Rainey	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	+3.312	20
3	Niall Mackenzie	Valvoline Team WCM	ROC Yamaha	+21.898	16
4	Carl Fogarty	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	+22.238	13
5	Shinichi Itoh	HRC Rothmans Honda	Honda	+36.151	11
6	Daryl Beattie	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	+36.394	10
7	Juan Lopez Mella	Lopez Mella Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	+1:06.585	9
8	Renzo Colleoni	Team Elit	ROC Yamaha	+1:10.731	8
9	John Reynolds	Padgett's Motorcycles	Harris Yamaha	+1:16.010	7
10	Michael Rudroff	Rallye Sport	Harris Yamaha	+1:21.152	6
11	James Haydon	Team Great Britain	ROC Yamaha	+1:24.715	5
12	José Kuhn	Euromoto	Yamaha	+1:33.544	4
13	Bernard Garcia	Yamaha Motor France	Yamaha	+1:34.372	3
14	Ron Haslam	Team ROC	ROC Yamaha	+1:34.590	2
15	Laurent Naveau	Euro Team	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	1
16	Thierry Crine	Ville de Paris	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap
17	Andreas Meklau	Austrian Racing Company	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap
18	Bruno Bonhuil	MTD Objectif 500	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap
19	Cees Doorakkers	Doorakkers Racing	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap
20	David Jefferies	Peter Graves Racing Team	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap
Ret	Serge David	Team ROC	ROC Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Kevin Mitchell	MBM Racing	Harris Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Mick Doohan	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Andrew Stroud	Team Harris	Harris Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Kevin Schwantz	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	Retirement
Ret	Àlex Crivillé	Marlboro Honda Pons	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Sean Emmett	Shell Team Harris	Harris Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Lucio Pedercini	Team Pedercini	ROC Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Jeremy McWilliams	Millar Racing	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Alex Barros	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	Retirement
DNS	Matthew Mladin	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	Did not start
DNS	Doug Chandler	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	Did not start
Sources: [7][8]

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Jean-Philippe Ruggia	Aprilia	43:05.248	25
2	Loris Capirossi	Honda	+3.266	20
3	Loris Reggiani	Aprilia	+19.510	16
4	Pierfrancesco Chili	Yamaha	+35.138	13
5	Tadayuki Okada	Honda	+49.614	11
6	Max Biaggi	Honda	+1:14.134	10
7	Jochen Schmid	Yamaha	+1:14.948	9
8	Jean-Michel Bayle	Aprilia	+1:15.847	8
9	Patrick van den Goorbergh	Aprilia	+1:16.072	7
10	Eskil Suter	Aprilia	+1:16.328	6
11	Wilco Zeelenberg	Aprilia	+1:21.140	5
12	Frédéric Protat	Aprilia	+1:21.534	4
13	Paolo Casoli	Gilera	+1:27.766	3
14	Adrian Bosshard	Honda	+1:32.974	2
15	Bernard Haenggeli	Aprilia	+1:35.370	1
16	Alessandro Gramigni	Gilera	+1:35.902
17	Bernd Kassner	Aprilia	+1 Lap
18	Juan Borja	Honda	+1 Lap
19	Nigel Bosworth	Yamaha	+1 Lap
20	Jean-Pierre Jeandat	Aprilia	+1 Lap
21	Volker Bähr	Honda	+1 Lap
22	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Aprilia	+1 Lap
23	Luis Maurel	Aprilia	+1 Lap
24	Massimo Pennacchioli	Honda	+1 Lap
25	Carlos Checa	Honda	+5 Laps
Ret	Alberto Puig	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Paul Brown	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Simon Crafar	Suzuki	Retirement
Ret	Nobuatsu Aoki	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Andreas Preining	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Luis d'Antin	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Pere Riba	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Helmut Bradl	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Tetsuya Harada	Yamaha	Retirement

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