1996 Australian MotoGP

Australian Grand Prix

Sunday, October 20, 1996

Race winner:

Round:

Laps:

Pole position:

Country:

Australia

Circuit:

1996 season:

Position	Driver	Team	Vehicle	Time	Points
1	Loris Capirossi	Marlboro Yamaha Roberts	Yamaha	45m 47.858s	25
2	Tadayuki Okada	Team Repsol Honda	Honda	45m 58.838s +10.980s	20
3	Carlos Checa	Fortuna Honda Pons	Honda	45m 59.255s +11.397s	16
4	Alex Barros	Honda Pileri	Honda	45m 59.296s +11.438s	13
5	Jean-Michel Bayle	Marlboro Yamaha Roberts	Yamaha	46m 0.282s +12.424s	11
6 ↓ 5	Alex Criville	Team Repsol Honda	Honda	46m 8.252s +20.394s	10
7	Luca Cadalora	Kanemoto Honda	Honda	46m 9.922s +22.064s	9
8	Mick Doohan	Team Repsol Honda	Honda	46m 9.992s +22.134s	8
9	Shinichi Ito	Team Repsol Honda	Honda	46m 17.679s +29.821s	7
10	Peter Goddard	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	46m 20.602s +32.744s	6
11	Kenny Roberts jr	Marlboro Yamaha Roberts	Yamaha	46m 21.377s +33.519s	5
12	Lucio Pedercini	Team Pedercini	ROC-Yamaha		4
13	Frederic Protat	Soverex FP Racing	ROC-Yamaha		3
14	Andrew Stroud	World Championship Motorsports	ROC-Yamaha		2
15	Toshi Arakaki	Team Paton	Paton		1
16	Stephane Mertens	Harris Grand Prix	Harris-Yamaha		0
R	Juan Borja	Elf 500 ROC	Elf-Swissauto		0
R	Laurent Naveau	ELC Lease ROC	ROC-Yamaha		0
R	Jeremy McWilliams	QUB Team Optimum	ROC-Yamaha		0
R	Norifumi Abe	Marlboro Yamaha Roberts	Yamaha		0
R	Martin Craggill	Elf 500 ROC	Elf-Swissauto		0
R	Scott Russell	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki		0
R	Eugene McManus	Millar Racing	Yamaha		0
R	Paul Young	Padgett's Racing Team	Harris-Yamaha		0

Grid	Driver	Team	Time
1	Alex Criville	Team Repsol Honda	1m 30.478s

Country:

Australia

Location:

Eastern Creek, New South Wales

Type:

Permanent road course

Length:

2.443 (miles)

Record:

Nico Hulkenberg (Lola A1GP-Zytek), 1m19.142, 111.127 mph, A1GP, 2007

First race: