1992 Brazilian motorcycle Grand Prix

  1992 Brazilian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 12 of 13 races in the 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	23 August 1992
Official name	Grande Premio do Brasil
Location	Autódromo José Carlos Pace
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.352 km (2.704 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider John Kocinski Time 1:43.403 Fastest lap Rider Wayne Rainey Time 1:42.872 Podium First Wayne Rainey Second John Kocinski Third Doug Chandler
250 cc
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:55.227 Fastest lap Rider Loris Reggiani Time 1:44.478 Podium First Luca Cadalora Second Max Biaggi Third Loris Reggiani
125 cc
Pole position Rider Kazuto Sakata Time 1:55.715 Fastest lap Rider Dirk Raudies Time 1:50.262 Podium First Dirk Raudies Second Jorge Martínez Third Alessandro Gramigni

The 1992 Brazilian motorcycle Grand Prix was the penultimate round of the 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 21–23 August 1992 at Interlagos.

500 cc race report

Riders were concerned about the track surface and bumpiness; with Michael Scott, Wayne Rainey, Eddie Lawson and Mick Doohan all against racing (which would have decided the championship for Doohan), but the race went on anyway.

John Kocinski took pole ahead of Rainey, Wayne Gardner and Kevin Schwantz. Doohan, returning from his crash in the TT Assen earlier in the year, qualified 14th.

Rainey took the lead from Kocinski and Schwantz, and built a gap from the close pack of Kocinski, Schwantz and Doug Chandler.

Kocinski eventually pulled a late-braking pass to move from 4th to 2nd, overtaking Chandler and Schwantz.

Rainey eventually won the race by over 13 seconds, closing his 20 point deficit to Doohan in the Riders' standings from 22 points to 2 points; helped by Doohan's non-points finish in 12th.

500cc classification

Pos.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Wayne Rainey	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	48:33.539	20
2	John Kocinski	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	+13.000	15
3	Doug Chandler	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	+20.750	12
4	Wayne Gardner	Rothmans Kanemoto Honda	Honda	+28.880	10
5	Miguel Duhamel	Yamaha Motor Banco	Yamaha	+31.260	8
6	Àlex Crivillé	Campsa Honda Team	Honda	+31.210	6
7	Kevin Schwantz	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	+50.400	4
8	Alex Barros	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	+53.520	3
9	Niall Mackenzie	Yamaha Motor Banco	Yamaha	+1:02.280	2
10	Randy Mamola	Budweiser Team/Global Motorsports	Yamaha	+1:10.960	1
11	Eddie Lawson	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	+1:20.830
12	Mick Doohan	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	+1:31.570
13	Dominique Sarron	Team ROC Banco	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap
14	Toshiyuki Arakaki	Team ROC Banco	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap
15	Michael Rudroff	Rallye Sport	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap
16	Kevin Mitchell	MBM Racing	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap
17	Marco Papa	Librenti Corse	Cagiva	+1 Lap
18	Serge David	Team ROC Banco	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap
19	Nicholas Schmassman	Uvex Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap
20	Eddie Laycock	Milla Racing	Yamaha	+1 Lap
21	Andreas Leuthe	VRP Racing Team	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap
22	Cees Doorakkers	HEK Racing Team	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap
23	Peter Graves	Peter Graves Racing Team	Harris Yamaha	+2 Laps
Ret	Josef Doppler	Uvex Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Lucio Pedercini	Paton Grand Prix	Paton	Retirement
Ret	Peter Goddard	Valvoline Team WCM	ROC Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Corrado Catalano	KCS International	ROC Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Damon Buckmaster	Padgett's Motorcycles	Harris Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Juan Garriga	Ducados Yamaha	Yamaha	Retirement
DNS	Juan Lopez Mella	Nivea For Men Team	ROC Yamaha	Did not start
Sources:

250cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Luca Cadalora	Honda	45:45.808	20
2	Max Biaggi	Aprilia	+3.650	15
3	Loris Reggiani	Aprilia	+3.922	12
4	Doriano Romboni	Honda	+7.560	10
5	Jochen Schmid	Yamaha	+16.221	8
6	Helmut Bradl	Honda	+21.434	6
7	Loris Capirossi	Honda	+30.564	4
8	Alberto Puig	Aprilia	+36.079	3
9	Patrick van den Goorbergh	Aprilia	+38.279	2
10	Andy Preining	Aprilia	+38.294	1
11	Wilco Zeelenberg	Suzuki	+42.496
12	Jean-Philippe Ruggia	Gilera	+42.721
13	Masahiro Shimizu	Honda	+44.279
14	Carlos Lavado	Gilera	+57.406
15	Herri Torrontegui	Suzuki	+58.146
16	Bernd Kassner	Aprilia	+1.06.792
17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Aprilia	+1.24.828
18	Yves Briguet	Honda	+1.28.889
19	Bernard Hänggeli	Aprilia	+1.36.182
20	Frédéric Protat	Aprilia	+1.45.448
21	Stefan Prein	Honda	+1.48.338
22	Katsuyoshi Kozono	Honda	+1.49.628
23	Renzo Colleoni	Aprilia	+1 Lap
24	Bernard Cazade	Honda	+1 Lap
25	Luis Lavado	Yamaha	+1 Lap
26	Adi Stadler	Honda	+1 Lap
27	Michele Gallina	Yamaha	+1 Lap
Ret	Eskil Suter	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Pierfrancesco Chili	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	Luis d'Antin	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Paolo Casoli	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Harald Eckl	Aprilia	Retirement
Ret	José Kuhn	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Adrian Bosshard	Honda	Retirement