1996 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1996 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1996 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 31 March 1996 at the Shah Alam Circuit. This race marked the debut of a young Italian rider and future Grand Prix motorcycle racing legend Valentino Rossi in the 125cc class.

  1996 Malaysian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 15 races in the 1996 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	31 March 1996
Official name	Marlboro Grand Prix of Malaysia
Location	Shah Alam Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.505 km (2.178 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Tadayuki Okada Time 1:23.987 Fastest lap Rider Tadayuki Okada Time 1:25.102 Podium First Luca Cadalora Second Alex Barros Third Carlos Checa
250 cc
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:25.795 Fastest lap Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:25.994 Podium First Max Biaggi Second Tetsuya Harada Third Luis d'Antin
125 cc
Pole position Rider Kazuto Sakata Time 1:31.285 Fastest lap Rider Emilio Alzamora Time 1:31.594 Podium First Stefano Perugini Second Haruchika Aoki Third Peter Öttl

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Luca Cadalora	Kanemoto Honda	Honda	33	47:24.151	2	25
2	7	Alex Barros	Honda Pileri	Honda	33	+5.721	6	20
3	24	Carlos Checa	Fortuna Honda Pons	Honda	33	+15.234	10	16
4	11	Scott Russell	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	33	+15.393	13	13
5	1	Mick Doohan	Team Repsol Honda	Honda	33	+26.529	3	11
6	12	Jean-Michel Bayle	Marlboro Yamaha Roberts	Yamaha	33	+27.233	9	10
7	17	Alberto Puig	Fortuna Honda Pons	Honda	33	+47.603	12	9
8	9	Norifumi Abe	Marlboro Yamaha Roberts	Yamaha	33	+48.555	7	8
9	27	Frédéric Protat	Soverex FP Racing	ROC Yamaha	33	+1:26.583	14	7
10	8	Juan Borja	Elf 500 ROC	ELF 500	33	+1:27.515	15	6
11	19	Sean Emmett	Harris Grand Prix	Harris Yamaha	33	+1:45.301	21	5
12	22	Lucio Pedercini	Team Pedercini	ROC Yamaha	33	+1:58.577	18	4
13	16	Laurent Naveau	ELC Lease ROC	ROC Yamaha	33	+2:03.135	23	3
14	13	Jeremy McWilliams	QUB Team Optimum	ROC Yamaha	33	+2:13.518	20	2
15	18	James Haydon	World Championship Motorsports	ROC Yamaha	32	+1 Lap	16	1
16	51	Jean-Pierre Jeandat	Team Paton	Paton	32	+1 Lap	22
17	20	Toshiyuki Arakaki	Padgett's Racing Team	Yamaha	31	+2 Laps	19
Ret	23	Eugene McManus	Millar Racing	Yamaha	19	Retirement	25
Ret	41	Shinichi Ito	Team Repsol Honda	Honda	18	Retirement	11
Ret	6	Tadayuki Okada	Team Repsol Honda	Honda	11	Retirement	1
Ret	65	Loris Capirossi	Marlboro Yamaha Roberts	Yamaha	9	Retirement	5
Ret	14	Adrian Bosshard	Elf 500 ROC	ELF 500	7	Retirement	24
Ret	4	Àlex Crivillé	Team Repsol Honda	Honda	2	Retirement	4
DNS	15	Doriano Romboni	IP Aprilia Racing Team	Aprilia			8
DNS	21	Katsuaki Fujiwara	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki			17
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Max Biaggi	Aprilia	31	45:06.934	1	25
2	31	Tetsuya Harada	Yamaha	31	+14.745	2	20
3	7	Luis d'Antin	Honda	31	+33.058	6	16
4	19	Olivier Jacque	Honda	31	+37.121	3	13
5	5	Jean-Philippe Ruggia	Honda	31	+39.478	4	11
6	6	Nobuatsu Aoki	Honda	31	+49.988	5	10
7	11	Jürgen Fuchs	Honda	31	+56.860	7	9
8	12	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	31	+1:06.596	9	8
9	20	Luca Boscoscuro	Aprilia	31	+1:15.716	15	7
10	18	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	31	+1:20.972	14	6
11	41	Jamie Robinson	Aprilia	31	+1:23.754	10	5
12	26	Takeshi Tsujimura	Honda	31	+1:29.408	17	4
13	8	Cristiano Migliorati	Honda	30	+1 Lap	16	3
14	25	Davide Bulega	Aprilia	30	+1 Lap	24	2
15	29	Osamu Miyazaki	Aprilia	30	+1 Lap	23	1
16	57	Shahrol Yuzy	Yamaha	30	+1 Lap	26
17	58	Shahrun Nizam	Yamaha	30	+1 Lap	31
Ret	28	Christophe Cogan	Honda	27	Retirement	21
Ret	14	Eskil Suter	Aprilia	17	Retirement	11
Ret	55	Régis Laconi	Honda	16	Retirement	18
Ret	27	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	13	Retirement	12
Ret	23	Christian Boudinot	Aprilia	13	Retirement	27
Ret	9	Yasumasa Hatakeyama	Honda	13	Retirement	13
Ret	21	Massimo Ottobre	Aprilia	9	Retirement	29
Ret	96	José Barresi	Yamaha	8	Retirement	28
Ret	15	Gianluigi Scalvini	Honda	6	Retirement	22
Ret	16	Sete Gibernau	Honda	4	Retirement	30
Ret	30	José Luis Cardoso	Aprilia	4	Retirement	19
Ret	56	Meng Heng Kuang	Yamaha	2	Retirement	25
Ret	10	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	2	Retirement	8
Ret	22	Oliver Petrucciani	Aprilia	2	Retirement	20
DNS	3	Ralf Waldmann	Honda			32

125 cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	6	Stefano Perugini	Aprilia	29	44:46.542	4	25
2	1	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	29	+0.405	7	20
3	10	Peter Öttl	Aprilia	29	+0.758	10	16
4	7	Masaki Tokudome	Aprilia	29	+0.785	9	13
5	3	Emilio Alzamora	Honda	29	+1.267	3	11
6	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	29	+7.379	13	10
7	8	Tomomi Manako	Honda	29	+7.406	5	9
8	4	Akira Saito	Honda	29	+7.814	11	8
9	12	Noboru Ueda	Honda	29	+18.034	14	7
10	2	Kazuto Sakata	Aprilia	29	+35.742	1	6
11	23	Frédéric Petit	Honda	29	+39.738	28	5
12	72	Garry McCoy	Aprilia	29	+39.812	18	4
13	21	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	29	+57.770	19	3
14	24	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	29	+1:10.237	17	2
15	37	Paolo Tessari	Honda	29	+1:10.772	22	1
16	26	Ivan Goi	Honda	29	+1:12.419	26
17	30	Stefano Cruciani	Aprilia	29	+1:34.951	25
18	35	Loek Bodelier	Honda	28	+1 Lap	21
19	36	Josep Sardá	Honda	28	+1 Lap	27
20	59	Yau Chuen Tang	Yamaha	27	+2 Laps	33
Ret	5	Dirk Raudies	Honda	17	Retirement	2
Ret	88	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Aprilia	16	Retirement	29
Ret	57	Yasir Said	Yamaha	14	Retirement	31
Ret	15	Manfred Geissler	Aprilia	12	Retirement	12
Ret	14	Yoshiaki Katoh	Yamaha	9	Retirement	8
Ret	19	Youichi Ui	Yamaha	8	Retirement	23
Ret	58	Chow Yan Kit	Yamaha	8	Retirement	32
Ret	13	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	7	Retirement	16
Ret	99	Chao Chee Hou	Yamaha	6	Retirement	30
Ret	27	Gabriele Debbia	Yamaha	6	Retirement	15
Ret	55	Jorge Martínez	Aprilia	3	Retirement	6
Ret	17	Darren Barton	Aprilia	3	Retirement	24
Ret	25	José David de Gea	Honda	0	Retirement	20

External links

• "Marlboro Malaysian Grand Prix – Results". dorna.com. Dorna Sports. Archived from the original on February 5, 1998.