1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

• The Japanese Grand Prix and Malaysian Grand Prix swapped places, with Malaysia hosting the opening round Grand Prix, instead of Japan.
• The Malaysian Grand Prix was moved from Johor to the newly built Sepang International Circuit.
• The Madrid Grand Prix was taken off the calendar, in favour of the newly built Circuit Ricardo Tormo, which would host the first Valencian Grand Prix this year.
• Both the South African Grand Prix and Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix were added to the calendar. The Rio Grand Prix was removed last year due to organisational problems, whilst South Africa had not been in the calendar since the early 80s when the apartheid regime forced out basically everything. The race back then, was held at Kyalami.
• The Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix moved from Suzuka Circuit to the new Twin Ring Motegi circuit.

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Scoring system

Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points.

Pos Rider Bike MAL JPN ESP FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE IMO VAL AUS RSA RIO ARG Pts 1 Àlex Crivillé Honda 3 4 1 1 1 1 Ret 1 2 2 1 Ret 5 3 6 5 267 2 Kenny Roberts Jr. Suzuki 1 1 13 Ret 5 6 2 8 1 3 6 2 10 22 3 1 220 3 Tadayuki Okada Honda 5 15 4 9 3 2 1 2 Ret 1 4 4 1 4 7 Ret 211 4 Max Biaggi Yamaha Ret 9 2 Ret 2 Ret 5 4 Ret 4 3 7 2 1 2 2 194 5 Sete Gibernau Honda 10 5 3 4 6 3 3 DNS 9 10 10 9 6 2 5 6 165 6 Norifumi Abe Yamaha Ret 3 5 6 Ret Ret 6 6 3 Ret 11 6 16 9 1 3 136 7 Carlos Checa Yamaha 2 6 10 5 7 7 Ret Ret 4 Ret Ret 5 4 6 Ret 4 125 8 John Kocinski Honda Ret Ret 6 2 8 9 7 9 5 14 8 8 9 10 13 7 115 9 Alex Barros Honda 6 8 Ret 10 Ret Ret 10 5 8 7 2 10 Ret 11 4 8 110 10 Tetsuya Harada Aprilia 13 Ret Ret 3 4 4 11 3 7 5 13 11 Ret 15 12 11 104 11 Régis Laconi Yamaha 7 Ret 7 8 Ret Ret 12 Ret 13 9 5 1 3 14 11 12 103 12 Juan Borja Honda 8 11 9 7 9 5 8 7 10 12 Ret Ret 17 5 Ret 9 92 13 Nobuatsu Aoki Suzuki 9 10 Ret 11 4 Ret Ret 6 7 12 8 7 9 Ret 78 14 Garry McCoy Yamaha 15 Ret 11 8 9 3 7 8 8 13 65 15 Haruchika Aoki TSR-Honda 15 Ret 12 13 11 10 9 Ret 6 13 12 WD 11 12 15 15 54 16 Jurgen van den Goorbergh MuZ Weber Ret Ret 11 Ret Ret 8 13 Ret 12 11 14 Ret 12 13 Ret 10 40 17 Mick Doohan Honda 4 2 DNS 33 18 Simon Crafar Yamaha 14 Ret 14 11 12 WD 19 MuZ Weber 10 19 Sébastien Gimbert Honda 16 16 Ret 12 13 14 14 Ret 14 Ret 16 13 Ret 19 18 17 16 20 Luca Cadalora MuZ Weber Ret 8 Ret 10 Ret Ret Ret DNS 14 21 Shinichi Ito Honda 7 9 22 Yukio Kagayama Suzuki 11 12 DNS 9 23 José David de Gea TSR-Honda 15 8 Honda Ret Ret Modenas KR3 14 13 20 14 Ret 24 Markus Ober Honda 17 17 15 14 15 13 Ret Ret 17 7 25 Anthony Gobert MuZ Weber Ret 18 10 DNS 6 26 José Luis Cardoso TSR-Honda Ret 14 Ret Ret Ret 12 16 Ret DNS Ret Ret Ret 17 17 16 6 27 Michael Rutter Honda Ret 18 17 Ret Ret Ret Ret 11 Ret Ret Ret 16 Ret Ret Ret 19 5 28 Jean-Michel Bayle Modenas KR3 12 Ret Ret Ret Ret 4 29 Noriyasu Numata MuZ Weber 13 3 30 Mark Willis BSL DNQ 18 DNQ DNQ 3 Modenas KR3 17 16 16 17 Ret 15 16 16 14 31 Mike Hale Modenas KR3 18 19 16 DNS 15 15 15 Ret Ret Ret 18 3 32 James Whitham Modenas KR3 Ret 14 Ret Ret Ret Ret DNS 2 33 Steve Martin Honda 14 21 Ret 20 2 Marc Garcia Honda 17 0 Paolo Tessari Paton Ret Ret 0 Bernard Garcia MuZ Weber Ret DNQ 0 John McGuinness Honda Ret 0 John Allen Honda DNQ 0 Pos. Rider Bike MAL JPN ESP FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE IMO VAL AUS RSA RIO ARG Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole position Italics – Fastest lap

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Scoring system

Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points.

Pos Rider Bike MAL JPN ESP FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE IMO VAL AUS RSA RIO ARG Pts 1 Valentino Rossi Aprilia 5 7 1 Ret 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 8 1 1 1 3 309 2 Tohru Ukawa Honda 2 2 2 1 3 2 4 4 Ret 3 12 1 3 4 2 2 261 3 Loris Capirossi Honda 1 3 3 Ret DSQ 1 2 2 7 1 3 6 5 3 Ret 209 4 Shinya Nakano Yamaha 3 1 Ret 2 5 4 5 3 4 4 5 4 4 2 15 5 207 5 Stefano Perugini Honda 9 Ret 8 3 8 7 8 5 5 6 4 5 7 7 5 6 151 6 Ralf Waldmann Aprilia WD 6 4 2 Ret 6 8 3 2 7 Ret 6 Ret 7 11 131 7 Olivier Jacque Yamaha 4 Ret DNS 8 5 3 Ret 2 3 4 1 122 8 Franco Battaini Aprilia Ret 4 4 6 6 3 7 Ret Ret 10 6 2 8 10 Ret Ret 121 9 Sebastián Porto Yamaha 15 17 12 7 9 9 12 Ret 7 Ret 9 6 9 6 6 4 98 10 Jeremy McWilliams Aprilia 7 Ret 7 11 4 6 3 6 Ret 8 13 Ret Ret Ret DNS 83 11 Jason Vincent Honda 12 Ret 11 5 7 Ret 9 Ret Ret 9 Ret 7 12 11 11 12 70 12 Anthony West Honda 14 10 17 9 Ret Ret 10 11 6 15 15 9 10 9 Ret 8 66 13 Luca Boscoscuro Honda 11 Ret 10 14 10 10 16 10 10 13 11 11 14 8 10 Ret 66 14 Roberto Rolfo Aprilia 10 12 9 Ret Ret 5 Ret 12 11 10 13 DNS 9 7 62 15 Tomomi Manako Yamaha Ret 8 14 17 13 12 13 14 14 14 14 Ret 11 12 8 9 52 16 Alex Hofmann TSR-Honda 17 18 15 8 16 11 11 13 9 Ret 17 10 13 13 12 10 51 17 Marcellino Lucchi Aprilia 6 9 5 15 Ret Ret Ret 7 13 8 49 18 Masaki Tokudome TSR-Honda 13 16 13 13 11 13 14 9 15 12 16 14 15 14 WD 15 37 19 Naoki Matsudo Yamaha 8 11 8 DNS 21 20 Daijiro Kato Honda 5 11 21 Julien Allemand TSR-Honda 18 Ret Ret Ret 14 Ret 18 15 11 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 13 Ret 11 22 Tatsuya Yamaguchi Honda 6 10 23 Fonsi Nieto Yamaha 22 14 18 12 17 Ret 19 17 18 17 18 15 16 15 17 14 10 24 Toshihiko Honma Yamaha 10 Ret 6 25 Lucas Oliver Yamaha 23 Ret 23 19 14 20 Ret 22 19 20 12 DNQ 6 26 Scott Smart Aprilia Ret Ret 17 Ret Ret 14 13 5 27 Johan Stigefelt Yamaha 16 Ret Ret Ret 12 Ret 17 18 DSQ Ret 19 Ret 19 17 19 18 4 28 Jamie Robinson Yamaha 12 4 29 David García Yamaha 19 13 16 Ret 15 Ret 21 16 Ret 16 Ret 16 17 DNS Ret Ret 4 30 Jarno Janssen TSR-Honda 20 19 19 Ret Ret 15 15 19 20 18 Ret 19 18 Ret 16 16 2 31 Tekkyu Kayo TSR-Honda 15 1 Matías Ríos Aprilia 21 21 22 18 19 16 DNS Ret 24 20 Ret Ret 20 Ret 18 Ret 0 Maurice Bolwerk TSR-Honda DNS Ret Ret 16 Ret Ret Ret Ret 18 DNS 17 0 Shane Norval Honda Ret 16 0 Vincent Philippe Honda 16 0 Jesús Pérez Honda 24 17 0 Mike Baldinger TSR-Honda 17 0 Alex Debón Honda 26 Ret 18 0 Filippo Cotti Yamaha 18 0 Adrian Coates Honda Ret 0 Aprilia 19 Matthias Neukirchen Aprilia 19 0 Leandro Mulet Honda 19 0 Markus Barth Yamaha 20 Ret Ret 0 Shahrol Yuzy Honda Ret 20 0 Rob Filart Honda 20 Ret 0 Ken Eguchi Yamaha 20 0 Leandro Giuggia Yamaha 20 0 Álvaro Molina Honda 21 Ret Ret 0 Dirk Heidolf Honda 21 0 Vladimír Částka Honda 21 0 Stefano Pennese Aprilia 21 0 Roger Harrison Yamaha 21 0 Rudie Markink Aprilia 22 0 Arno Visscher Aprilia 23 Ret 0 Christian Gemmel Honda 23 0 Henk van de Lagemaat Honda 24 0 Naohiro Negishi Honda 25 0 Ivan Clementi Aprilia Ret Ret 0 Meng Heng Kuang Honda Ret 0 Takehiko Kurokawa TSR-Honda Ret 0 Taro Sekiguchi Yamaha Ret 0 Manuel Luque Yamaha Ret 0 Hervé Mora Aprilia Ret 0 Julien da Costa Honda Ret 0 Ivan Mengozzi Yamaha Ret 0 Iván Silva Honda Ret 0 Andre Romein Honda Ret 0 Paul Jones Honda Ret 0 Dirk Brockman Honda Ret 0 Lars Langer Yamaha Ret 0 Radomil Rous Honda Ret 0 Mario De Matteo Aprilia Ret 0 David Ortega TSR-Honda Ret 0 Ismael Bonilla Honda Ret 0 Jay Taylor Honda Ret 0 Kevin Curtain Honda Ret 0 Shaun Geronimi Yamaha Ret 0 Diego Pierluigi Honda Ret 0 Gabriel Borgmann Yamaha Ret 0 Thomas Metro Honda DNQ 0 Johan ten Napel Honda DNQ 0 Lukáš Vavrečka Honda DNQ 0 Aaron Clark Honda DNQ 0 Roger Buffa Yamaha DNQ 0 Pos. Rider Bike MAL JPN ESP FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE IMO VAL AUS RSA RIO ARG Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole position Italics – Fastest lap

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Scoring system

Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points.

Pos Rider Bike MAL JPN ESP FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE IMO VAL AUS RSA RIO ARG Pts 1 Emilio Alzamora Honda 2 3 3 3 6 2 4 3 2 6 4 2 15 Ret 3 2 227 2 Marco Melandri Honda DNS Ret 6 2 3 8 5 1 1 1 Ret 1 3 2 1 226 3 Masao Azuma Honda 1 1 1 4 7 Ret 1 1 6 12 10 Ret 5 14 6 Ret 190 4 Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 18 Ret 5 1 1 6 3 4 4 Ret 11 8 6 4 8 3 173 5 Noboru Ueda Honda Ret Ret 8 5 3 4 2 2 5 2 5 3 Ret Ret 1 Ret 171 6 Gianluigi Scalvini Aprilia 3 12 4 7 Ret 10 5 6 7 4 19 1 4 1 Ret 7 163 7 Arnaud Vincent Aprilia 4 Ret 10 2 5 1 7 9 10 10 3 4 Ret 2 13 Ret 155 8 Simone Sanna Honda 6 Ret 7 10 4 8 14 Ret 9 8 2 7 12 6 9 6 123 9 Lucio Cecchinello Honda 17 6 2 Ret 9 5 Ret Ret 3 3 Ret Ret 2 8 21 Ret 108 10 Gino Borsoi Aprilia 7 Ret 12 16 10 12 9 8 8 9 Ret 6 8 5 5 4 106 11 Youichi Ui Derbi 13 4 Ret Ret Ret 6 7 Ret 5 9 Ret 3 7 10 DNS 84 12 Mirko Giansanti Aprilia 9 16 13 13 11 14 12 10 13 15 13 Ret 11 Ret 4 5 66 13 Ivan Goi Honda 8 14 11 Ret 15 15 11 11 12 11 6 Ret 14 Ret 11 8 61 14 Kazuto Sakata Honda 10 8 15 9 8 7 10 13 19 Ret Ret 12 13 15 17 Ret 56 15 Steve Jenkner Aprilia 15 13 17 8 14 Ret DNS 17 7 7 5 10 11 16 Ret 52 16 Jerónimo Vidal Aprilia 5 Ret 6 14 12 Ret 17 15 16 17 18 Ret 7 10 12 Ret 47 17 Manuel Poggiali Aprilia 12 18 9 Ret 13 Ret 13 Ret 11 WD 8 Ret 9 Ret 7 Ret 46 18 Randy de Puniet Aprilia 20 15 Ret 11 19 9 Ret Ret 15 Ret Ret 10 21 Ret 18 10 26 19 Max Sabbatani Honda 11 7 Ret Ret 16 Ret 18 Ret 20 Ret Ret Ret 16 14 11 21 20 Hideyuki Nakajo Honda 2 20 21 Alessandro Brannetti Aprilia 16 21 14 Ret 20 11 Ret 16 Ret 18 15 11 16 9 DNS 20 22 Ángel Nieto, Jr. Honda 14 11 16 12 17 Ret DNS 17 20 16 Ret 15 18 13 15 Ret 16 23 Pablo Nieto Derbi 22 19 Ret 18 22 Ret 16 12 Ret 22 17 Ret 17 12 Ret 9 15 24 Katsuji Uezu Yamaha 5 11 25 Frédéric Petit Aprilia Ret 20 Ret 15 18 13 15 Ret DNS 16 Ret 19 18 20 12 9 26 Reinhard Stolz Honda 19 17 18 Ret Ret 16 Ret 14 18 14 14 13 20 17 19 Ret 9 27 Kazuhiro Kubo Yamaha 9 7 28 David Micó Aprilia 9 7 29 Minoru Nakamura Honda 10 6 30 Klaus Nöhles Honda 14 13 5 31 William de Angelis Honda 12 4 32 Robbin Harms Aprilia 22 Ret 22 13 3 33 Toni Elías Honda 21 Ret 14 2 Bernhard Absmeier Aprilia Ret Ret 19 17 21 Ret Ret Ret Ret 19 Ret 16 0 Emilio Delgado Honda 20 Ret 17 0 Adrián Araujo Honda Ret 17 Ret 0 Luis Costa Honda Ret 18 0 Patrick Lakerveld Honda 18 0 Grégory Lefort Aprilia 19 0 Hans Koopman Honda 19 0 Leon Haslam Honda 19 0 Beaumont Levy Honda 19 0 Eric Dubray Honda 20 0 Ronnie Timmer Honda 20 0 Kenny Tibble Honda 20 0 Cristian Magnani Aprilia 20 0 Direk Archewong Honda 21 0 Hervé Louiset Honda 21 0 Maik Stief Honda 21 0 Jakub Smrž Honda 21 0 Mike Lougassi Honda 22 0 Philipp Hafeneger Honda 22 0 Marco Petrini Aprilia 23 0 Dirk Reißmann Aprilia 23 0 Igor Kaláb Honda 23 0 Broc Parkes Honda 23 0 César Barros Honda 23 0 Gaspare Caffiero Aprilia 24 0 Dennis Charlett Honda 24 0 Cristiano Vieira Honda 24 0 Jason DiSalvo Honda 25 Ret 0 Marco Tresoldi Honda 25 0 Renato Velludo Honda 26 0 Jaroslav Huleš Italjet Ret Ret 0 Magilai Meganathan Honda Ret 0 Jun Inageda Honda Ret 0 Riccardo Chiarello Aprilia Ret 0 Lorenzo Lanzi Aprilia Ret 0 Víctor Carrasco Honda Ret 0 Harold de Haan Honda Ret 0 Chris Burns Honda Ret 0 Andi Notman Honda Ret 0 Jarno Müller Honda Ret 0 Alex de Angelis Honda Ret 0 Iván Martínez Aprilia Ret 0 Andrew Willy Honda Ret 0 Peter Galvin Honda Ret 0 Michael Teniswood Honda Ret 0 Jimmy Petit Honda DNS 0 Diego Giugovaz Aprilia DNS 0 Wilhelm van Leeuwen Honda DNQ 0 Michal Březina Honda DNQ 0 Robert Portman Honda DNQ 0 Alexander di Grandi Honda DNQ 0 Franco Lessio Yamaha DNQ 0 Pos. Rider Bike MAL JPN ESP FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE IMO VAL AUS RSA RIO ARG Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole position Italics – Fastest lap