1993 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1993 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1993 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 28 March 1993 at Eastern Creek Raceway.

  1993 Australian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 14 races in the 1993 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	28 March 1993
Official name	Foster's Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix
Location	Eastern Creek Raceway
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.930 km (2.442 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Kevin Schwantz Time 1:31.188 Fastest lap Rider Wayne Rainey Time 1:31.807 Podium First Kevin Schwantz Second Wayne Rainey Third Doug Chandler
250cc
Pole position Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:32.896 Fastest lap Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 1:32.894 Podium First Tetsuya Harada Second John Kocinski Third Max Biaggi
125cc
Pole position Rider Carlos Giró Time 1:37.858 Fastest lap Rider Dirk Raudies Time 1:37.819 Podium First Dirk Raudies Second Kazuto Sakata Third Herri Torrontegui

500 cc race report

Beattie and Chandler get a small gap, then Beattie starts pulling away.

Schwantz, Chandler, Rainey are closing on Beattie. Doohan goes out with a mechanical. Freddie Spencer crashes out hard.

Schwantz arrives and passes into 1st. Rainey, desperate to get to the leaders, brushes Chandler's front tire with his knee as he passes into 2nd, then passes Schwantz for 1st, but cannot hold him off.

Doug Chandler, pictured with Italian legend Giacomo Agostini in the Cagiva pits. He went on to finish third at the 500cc race.

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	34	Kevin Schwantz	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	30	46:21.885	1	25
2	1	Wayne Rainey	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	30	+3.118	2	20
3	5	Doug Chandler	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	30	+6.111	4	16
4	4	Daryl Beattie	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	30	+12.430	3	13
5	9	Alex Barros	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	30	+36.435	7	11
6	8	Àlex Crivillé	Marlboro Honda Pons	Honda	30	+36.672	5	10
7	6	Shinichi Itoh	HRC Rothmans Honda	Honda	30	+39.192	6	9
8	7	Luca Cadalora	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	30	+52.962	10	8
9	12	Mat Mladin	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	30	+1:16.298	12	7
10	11	Niall Mackenzie	Valvoline Team WCM	ROC Yamaha	30	+1:20.844	13	6
11	21	Laurent Naveau	Euro Team	ROC Yamaha	29	+1 Lap	24	5
12	18	Bernard Garcia	Yamaha Motor France	Yamaha	29	+1 Lap	18	4
13	32	José Kuhn	Euromoto	ROC Yamaha	29	+1 Lap	17	3
14	15	Tsutomu Udagawa	Team Udagawa	ROC Yamaha	29	+1 Lap	15	2
15	23	Serge David	Team ROC	ROC Yamaha	29	+1 Lap	22	1
16	29	Sean Emmett	Shell Team Harris	Harris Yamaha	29	+1 Lap	26
17	27	Renato Colleoni	Team Elit	ROC Yamaha	29	+1 Lap	25
18	36	Lucio Pedercini	Team Pedercini	ROC Yamaha	29	+1 Lap	27
19	33	Andreas Meklau	Austrian Racing Company	ROC Yamaha	29	+1 Lap	30
20	35	Jean Luc Romanens	Argus Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	28	+2 Laps	31
21	24	Cees Doorakkers	Doorakkers Racing	Harris Yamaha	28	+2 Laps	32
22	44	Alan Scott	Team Harris	Harris Yamaha	27	+3 Laps	33
23	13	Toshiyuki Arakaki	Team ROC	ROC Yamaha	25	+5 Laps	21
Ret	46	Peter Goddard	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	28	Retirement	9
Ret	30	Juan Lopez Mella	Lopez Mella Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	27	Retirement	19
Ret	16	Michael Rudroff	Rallye Sport	Harris Yamaha	25	Retirement	16
Ret	19	Freddie Spencer	Yamaha Motor France	Yamaha	19	Retirement	11
Ret	22	Kevin Mitchell	MBM Racing	Harris Yamaha	18	Retirement	20
Ret	2	Mick Doohan	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	17	Retirement	8
Ret	25	Thierry Crine	Ville de Paris	ROC Yamaha	8	Retirement	29
Ret	28	John Reynolds	Padgett's Motorcycles	Harris Yamaha	8	Retirement	14
Ret	20	Jeremy McWilliams	Millar Racing	Yamaha	7	Retirement	23
Ret	14	Marco Papa	Librenti Corse	Librenti	4	Retirement	34
Ret	31	Bruno Bonhuil	MTD Objectif 500	ROC Yamaha	4	Retirement	28
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	31	Tetsuya Harada	Yamaha	28	43:57.049	3	25
2	19	John Kocinski	Suzuki	28	+0.030	4	20
3	5	Max Biaggi	Honda	28	+6.160	2	16
4	18	Tadayuki Okada	Honda	28	+9.597	9	13
5	14	Nobuatsu Aoki	Honda	28	+9.599	5	11
6	8	Carlos Cardús	Honda	28	+9.946	7	10
7	10	Doriano Romboni	Honda	28	+10.569	6	9
8	4	Helmut Bradl	Honda	28	+13.571	10	8
9	17	Jean-Philippe Ruggia	Aprilia	28	+19.507	11	7
10	3	Pierfrancesco Chili	Yamaha	28	+19.949	14	6
11	11	Wilco Zeelenberg	Aprilia	28	+32.632	8	5
12	7	Jochen Schmid	Yamaha	28	+56.034	12	4
13	6	Alberto Puig	Honda	28	+57.581	20	3
14	13	Loris Reggiani	Aprilia	28	+57.996	13	2
15	28	Adrian Bosshard	Honda	28	+1:06.575	15	1
16	21	Paolo Casoli	Gilera	28	+1:08.841	18
17	25	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Aprilia	28	+1:19.138	24
18	51	Jean-Pierre Jeandat	Aprilia	28	+1:21.333	21
19	44	Jean-Michel Bayle	Aprilia	28	+1:27.160	29
20	26	Bernd Kassner	Aprilia	28	+1:27.625	30
21	15	Noboyuki Wakai	Suzuki	28	+1:31.277	17
22	47	Rene Bongers	Honda	27	+1 lap	34
23	12	Gabriele Debbia	Honda	27	+1 lap	33
24	43	Massimo Pennacchioli	Honda	26	+2 laps	36
Ret	27	Frédéric Protat	Aprilia	26	Retirement	28
Ret	16	Andreas Preining	Aprilia	22	Retirement	22
Ret	22	Luis Maurel	Aprilia	20	Retirement	32
Ret	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	17	Retirement	1
Ret	23	Bernard Haenggeli	Aprilia	17	Retirement	25
Ret	30	Juan Borja	Honda	12	Retirement	27
Ret	24	Patrick van den Goorbergh	Aprilia	5	Retirement	26
Ret	39	Alessandro Gramigni	Gilera	5	Retirement	19
Ret	34	Luis d'Antin	Honda	2	Retirement	16
Ret	20	Eskil Suter	Aprilia	2	Retirement	23
Ret	32	Volker Bähr	Honda	0	Retirement	35
Ret	46	Steven Whitehouse	Yamaha	0	Retirement	31