1992 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

  1992 Japanese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 13 races in the 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	29 March 1992
Official name	Japanese Grand Prix
Location	Suzuka Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.821 km (3.617 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Kevin Schwantz Time 2:20.324 Fastest lap Rider Mick Doohan Time 2:32.090 Podium First Mick Doohan Second Doug Chandler Third Kevin Schwantz
250 cc
Pole position Rider Nobuatsu Aoki Time 2:18.696 Fastest lap Rider Luca Cadalora Time 2:35.962 Podium First Luca Cadalora Second Tadayuki Okada Third Nobuatsu Aoki
125 cc
Pole position Rider Bruno Casanova Time 2:23.630 Fastest lap Rider Ralf Waldmann Time 2:39.888 Podium First Ralf Waldmann Second Bruno Casanova Third Nobuyuki Wakai

The 1992 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 27–29 March 1992 at the Suzuka Circuit.

500 cc race report

Wet race. Wayne Rainey had to ride with an injured hand from a pre-season test (part of his pinky was removed).

John Kocinski was on pole, and took the lead at the start from Doug Chandler and Mick Doohan. Rainey had a bad start.

Àlex Crivillé crashed out of his debut 500cc race; Wayne Gardner crashes out, as did Rainey at the Dunlop Corner.

Chandler took the lead of a 4-man group with Schwantz, Doohan and Kocinski. Kocinski crashed out.

Doohan and Chandler dropped Schwantz. Gardner had remounted and gotten to 5th before crashing out for good a second time and breaking his leg in two places.

Ralf Waldmann, riding his bike at the 125cc race, which he went on to win.

500 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Mick Doohan	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	56:21.831	20
2	Doug Chandler	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	+28.298	15
3	Kevin Schwantz	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	+55.792	12
4	Shinichi Itoh	Team HRC	Honda	+1:47.802	10
5	Randy Mamola	Budweiser Team/Global Motorsports	Yamaha	+2:00.984	8
6	Keiji Ohishi	SRT	Suzuki	+2:13.708	6
7	Niall Mackenzie	Yamaha Motor Banco	Yamaha	+2:15.005	4
8	Toshihiko Honma	Hiro Racing Team Yamaha	Yamaha	+2:15.491	3
9	Norihiko Fujiwara	Kirin Mets Racing Team	Yamaha	+2:16.591	2
10	Satoshi Tsujimoto	AM/PM Racing	Honda	+2:27.265	1
11	Alex Barros	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	+1 Lap
12	Juan Garriga	Ducados Yamaha	Yamaha	+1 Lap
13	Keiichiro Iwahashi	Team Blue Fox	Honda	+1 Lap
14	Eddie Lawson	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	+1 Lap
15	Michael Rudroff	Rallye Sport	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap
16	Corrado Catalano	KCS International	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap
Ret	Wayne Gardner	Rothmans Kanemoto Honda	Honda	Retirement
Ret	John Kocinski	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Miguel Duhamel	Yamaha Motor Banco	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Wayne Rainey	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Peter Goddard	Valvoline Team WCM	ROC Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Àlex Crivillé	Campsa Honda Team	Honda	Retirement
Ret	Daryl Beattie	Team HRC	Honda	Retirement
DNQ	Eddie Laycock	Milla Racing	Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Dominique Sarron	Team ROC Banco	ROC Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Cees Doorakkers	HEK Racing Team	Harris Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Marco Papa	Librenti Corse	Librenti	Did not qualify
DNQ	Simon Buckmaster	Padgett's Motorcycles	ROC Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Lucio Pedercini	Paton Grand Prix	Paton	Did not qualify
DNQ	Josef Doppler	Uvex Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Kevin Mitchell	MBM Racing	Harris Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Serge David	Team ROC	ROC Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Andreas Leuthe	VRP Racing Team	VRP	Did not qualify
DNQ	Peter Graves	Peter Graves Racing Team	Harris Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Thierry Crine	Ville de Paris	ROC Yamaha	Did not qualify
DNQ	Toshiyuki Arakaki	Team ROC Banco	ROC Yamaha	Did not qualify
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