1996 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

  1996 Spanish Grand Prix

Race details
Race 4 of 15 races in the 1996 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	12 May 1996
Official name	Gran Premio Lucky Strike de España[1]
Location	Circuito de Jerez
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.423 km (2.748 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Mick Doohan Time 1:43.866 Fastest lap Rider Luca Cadalora Time 1:44.812 Podium First Mick Doohan Second Luca Cadalora Third Tadayuki Okada
250 cc
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:45.015 Fastest lap Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:45.270 Podium First Max Biaggi Second Tetsuya Harada Third Ralf Waldmann
125 cc
Pole position Rider Jorge Martínez Time 1:49.945 Fastest lap Rider Kazuto Sakata Time 1:49.400 Podium First Haruchika Aoki Second Emilio Alzamora Third Noboru Ueda

The 1996 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 1996 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 12 May 1996 at the Circuito Permanente de Jerez.

Going into the final lap of the race, local hero Àlex Crivillé led his Repsol Honda teammate Mick Doohan and Italian Luca Cadalora. In a complete lack of security by track officials, many fans had jumped the fence and were lining the last third of the circuit to cheer Crivillé home. The Spaniard was forced to slow slightly through the crowd which allowed Doohan to close up (the gap was less than a second between them at the start of the final lap). Taking advantage, Doohan was able to dive under Crivillé going into the final turn. Seeking to regain the advantage, Crivillé throttled too early in the hairpin leading onto the pit straight, high-sided over his Honda and ended up in the gravel trap and not finishing the race.

Doohan won his second Grand Prix of the season from Cadalora and his other Repsol Honda teammate Tadayuki Okada. After looking to have the race won before Crivillé's crash, the first Spanish rider home was Alberto Puig in 5th place.

500 cc classification

Pos.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Mick Doohan	Team Repsol Honda	Honda	47:28.064	25
2	Luca Cadalora	Kanemoto Honda	Honda	+2.677	20
3	Tadayuki Okada	Team Repsol Honda	Honda	+14.644	16
4	Loris Capirossi	Marlboro Yamaha Roberts	Yamaha	+17.030	13
5	Alberto Puig	Fortuna Honda Pons	Honda	+21.534	11
6	Kenny Roberts Jr	Marlboro Yamaha Roberts	Yamaha	+21.814	10
7	Jean-Michel Bayle	Marlboro Yamaha Roberts	Yamaha	+26.312	9
8	Alex Barros	Honda Pileri	Honda	+38.120	8
9	Shinichi Itoh	Team Repsol Honda	Honda	+38.444	7
10	Carlos Checa	Fortuna Honda Pons	Honda	+49.478	6
11	Juan Borja	Elf 500 ROC	Elf 500	+59.336	5
12	James Haydon	World Championship Motorsports	ROC Yamaha	+1:08.537	4
13	Frederic Protat	Soverex FP Racing	ROC Yamaha	+1:09.082	3
14	Jeremy McWilliams	QUB Team Optimum	ROC Yamaha	+1:09.509	2
15	Sean Emmett	Harris Grand Prix	Harris Yamaha	+1:21.050	1
16	Eugene McManus	Millar Racing	Yamaha	+1:43.550
17	Toshiyuki Arakaki	Padgett's Racing Team	Yamaha	+1 Lap
18	Jean Pierre Jeandat	Team Paton	Paton	+1 Lap
19	Adrien Bosshard	Elf 500 ROC	Elf 500	+1 Lap
20	Lucio Pedercini	Team Pedercini	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap
Ret	Norifumi Abe	Marlboro Yamaha Roberts	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Doriano Romboni	IP Aprilia Racing Team	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Àlex Crivillé	Team Repsol Honda	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Daryl Beattie	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	Retirement
DNS	Scott Russell	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	Did not start
Sources: [2][3]

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Max Biaggi	Aprilia	46:06.154	25
2	Tetsuya Harada	Yamaha	+12.238	20
3	Ralf Waldmann	Honda	+15.476	16
4	Jürgen Fuchs	Honda	+16.222	13
5	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	+29.329	11
6	Luis d'Antin	Honda	+29.508	10
7	Olivier Jacque	Honda	+37.638	9
8	Jean-Philippe Ruggia	Honda	+44.866	8
9	Jamie Robinson	Aprilia	+50.899	7
10	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	+52.203	6
11	Sete Gibernau	Honda	+1:06.864	5
12	Sebastian Porto	Aprilia	+1:16.662	4
13	Cristiano Migliorati	Honda	+1:19.461	3
14	Takeshi Tsujimura	Honda	+1:21.196	2
15	Osamu Miyazaki	Aprilia	+1:21.585	1
16	Davide Bulega	Aprilia	+1:31.868
17	Massimo Ottobre	Aprilia	+1:33.071
18	Yasumasa Hatakeyama	Honda	+1:33.122
19	Gianluigi Scalvini	Honda	+2 Laps
Ret	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Vicente Esparragoso	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Cristophe Cogan	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Javier Marsella	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	José Barresi	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Christian Boudinot	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Eskil Suter	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Regis Laconi	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Miguel Tey	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Olivier Petrucciani	Aprilia	Retirement

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	42:34.978	25
2	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	+0.025	20
3	Noboru Ueda	Honda	+0.116	16
4	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	+0.162	13
5	Kazuto Sakata	Aprilia	+0.224	11
6	Masaki Tokudome	Aprilia	+3.096	10
7	Stefano Perugini	Aprilia	+3.326	9
8	Tomomi Manako	Honda	+13.464	8
9	Yoshiaki Katoh	Yamaha	+13.546	7
10	Ivan Goi	Honda	+15.430	6
11	Peter Öttl	Aprilia	+15.943	5
12	Manfred Geissler	Aprilia	+23.611	4
13	Dirk Raudies	Honda	+26.878	3
14	Darren Barton	Aprilia	+32.756	2
15	José Antonio Ramirez	Yamaha	+32.893	1
16	Josep Sarda	Honda	+43.570
17	Youichi Ui	Yamaha	+53.858
18	Frederic Petit	Honda	+59.656
19	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	+59.929
20	Herri Torrontegui	Honda	+1:03.994
21	Loek Bodelier	Honda	+1:04.857
22	Jaroslav Hules	Honda	+1:07.144
23	Gabriele Debbia	Yamaha	+1:10.669
24	Akira Saito	Honda	+1:27.562
Ret	David García	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Alvaro Molina	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Angel Nieto Jr	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Enrique Maturana	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Garry McCoy	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Stefano Cruciani	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Jorge Martinez	Aprilia	Retirement

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