1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
The 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 44th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Honda secured the constructor's title in all three categories.
Season summaries
500cc summary
The fifth round at
The eighth round at
Rainey was back for the following round at the Hungaroring, but changeable weather conditions allowed Lawson to take Cagiva's first ever 500cc victory, and Lawson's last in a glittering career. Rainey got back to winning ways in France for the tenth round, however Gardner took a popular win at the British round, with Rainey in second. A patch of oil into the first turn catching out several riders including high flying Schwantz, and teammate Doug Chandler.
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The factory Honda riders debuted the
250cc summary
Luca Cadalora claimed his second 250cc crown by a much larger margin than his previous title.[1] He won five out of the first six races on his Rothmans Honda accumulating such a huge points lead that he could afford to be more conservative in the second half of the season. Fellow Italians Loris Reggiani and Pierfrancesco Chili provided Cadalora's strongest competition.[1] Reggiani won two races on his factory Aprilia, whilst Chili put in a number of strong performances winning three races, but failing to finish on a number of occasions, and suffered the embarrassment of thinking he had claimed a podium in the fourth round at Jerez, only to realise he had slowed down prematurely and had in fact been warming down on the final lap. Helmut Bradl had a more disappointing 1992 season, having run Cadalora close for the title in the previous year, the German on the HB Honda failed to win a race, and was often off the pace, back in fifth in the championship standings. 1992 saw the emergence of several future 250cc stars, with Max Biaggi, Chili's teammate, winning several pole positions and winning the final round in his debut season and impressing more and more as the season progressed. Loris Capirossi made the step up from 125s to 250s for the 1992 season. He was largely off the pace at the start of the season as he wasn't given a full works Honda initially, but once provided with a Honda much closer to the performance of Cadalora's as he proved he had the speed to be a contender. Similarly, Doriano Romboni's performances improved in the final few races when his HB Honda was upgraded. Former 250 world champion Carlos Lavado retired at the end of the season having had a very low-key 1992, rarely appearing in the points.[1]
125cc summary
Rule changes and off track events
During 1992 Rainey created the International Motorcycle Racers’ Association (IMRA) to pressure track organizers for safety improvements. Michelin came back from a semi-withdrawal and supplied tires to the Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha teams. The points system was revised to award points to the top 10 finishers only, instead of the top 15.[1] This system would last for only the 1992 season, a slightly modified version being brought in for 1993, that is still used today.
The calendar was shortened to 13 rounds, with the United States, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Austria losing their races.[1] The South African Grand Prix was added and the European Grand Prix continued for another year.[1]
1992 Grand Prix season calendar
The official 1992 calendar was approved on 28 February 1992.[2] The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 1992:[3][4]
Round | Date | Grand Prix | Circuit |
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1 | 29 March | Japanese Grand Prix | Suzuka Circuit
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2 | 12 April | Foster's Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix | Eastern Creek Raceway
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3 | 19 April | Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix | Shah Alam Circuit |
4 | 10 May | Gran Premio Ducados de España | Circuito Permanente de Jerez
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5 | 24 May | Gran Premio d'Italia | Mugello Circuit |
6 | 31 May | Gran Premio Super Nintendo Entertainment System de Europa | Circuit de Catalunya
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7 | 14 June | Großer Preis von Deutschland Motorräder | Hockenheimring |
8 | 27 June | Dutch TT Assen | TT Circuit Assen |
9 | 12 July | HB Magyar Nagydíj | Hungaroring |
10 | 19 July | Grand Prix de France | Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours |
11 | 2 August | Rothmans British Grand Prix | Donington Park |
12 | 23 August | Brazilian Grand Prix | Autódromo José Carlos Pace
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13 | 6 September | Nashua South African Grand Prix | Kyalami |
Calendar changes
- The San Marino and Czechoslovakian motorcycle Grand Prix races were taken off the calendar due to a demand from Bernie Ecclestone which started to meddle more with motorcycle racing affairs, along with the IRTA.[5][6][7]
- The Hungarian Grand Prix was added to the calendar after a one-year absence on demand of Bernie Ecclestone, who wanted to get more F1 tracks on the calendar.
- The Interlagos circuit, instead of the previously used Goiâniacircuit.
- The French Grand Prix moved from the Paul Ricard circuit to the Magny-Cours circuit on demand of Bernie Ecclestone.
- The South African Grand Prix returned on the calendar after a six-year absence due to apartheid policies in the country. The venue used was the new, redesigned Kyalami circuit.
- The Vitesse du Mans Grand Prixwas taken off the calendar.
- The Catalunyacircuit.
- The Malaysian Grand Prix was moved forward, from 29 September to 19 April.
1992 Grand Prix season results
Grands Prix
Participants
500cc participants
250cc participants
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125cc participants
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Results and standings
500cc riders' standings
- Scoring system
Points are awarded to the top ten finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
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Points | 20 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Bold – Pole Position |
250cc standings
Place | Rider | Number | Country | Team | Machine | Points | Wins |
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1 | Luca Cadalora | 1 | Italy | Rothmans-Honda | NSR250 | 203 | 7 |
2 | Loris Reggiani | 13 | Italy | Unlimited Jeans-Aprilia | RSV250 | 159 | 2 |
3 | Pierfrancesco Chili | 7 | Italy | Telkor Valesi-Aprilia | RSV250 | 119 | 3 |
4 | Helmut Bradl | 2 | Germany | HB-Honda Germany | NSR250 | 89 | 0 |
5 | Max Biaggi | 29 | Italy | Telkor Valesi-Aprilia | RSV250 | 78 | 1 |
6 | Alberto Puig | 16 | Spain | Ducados-Aprilia | RSV250 | 71 | 0 |
7 | Jochen Schmid | 8 | Germany | Mitsui-Yamaha | YZR250 | 58 | 0 |
8 | Carlos Cardús | 3 | Spain | Repsol-Honda | NSR250 | 48 | 0 |
9 | Masahiro Shimizu | 5 | Japan | Hero Sports-Honda | NSR250 | 46 | 0 |
10 | Doriano Romboni | 15 | Italy | HB-Honda Italy | NSR250 | 43 | 0 |
11 | Wilco Zeelenberg | 4 | Netherlands | Lucky Strike Suzuki 250 | 38 | 0 | |
12 | Loris Capirossi | 6 | Italy | Marlboro Team Pileri
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NSR250 | 27 | 0 |
13 | Tadayuki Okada | 51 | Japan | Team HRC | TSR-Honda | 15 | 0 |
14 | Nobuatsu Aoki | 53 | Japan | Cup Noodle Honda | NSR250 | 12 | 0 |
15 | Herri Torrontegui | 28 | Spain | Lucky Strike Suzuki 250 | 11 | 0 | |
16 | Andy Preining | 11 | Austria | Team Preining-Aprilia | RSV250 | 6 | |
17 | Jean Philippe Ruggia
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18 | Noboiuki Wakai | 4 | |||||
19 | Carlos Lavado | 4 | |||||
20 | Kyoji Nanba | 3 | |||||
21 | Paolo Casoli | 3 | |||||
22 | Bernard Haenggeli | 2 | |||||
22 | Stefan Prein | 2 | |||||
22 | Patrick van de Goorbergh | 2 | |||||
25 | Jurgen van de Goorbergh
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26 | Bernd Kassner | 1 | |||||
26 | Jean Pierre Jeandat | 1 |
125cc standings
Place | Rider | Number | Country | Machine | Points | Wins | |
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1 | Alessandro Gramigni | 7 | Italy | Aprilia | 134 | 2 | |
2 | Fausto Gresini | 2 | Italy | Honda | 118 | 1 | |
3 | Ralf Waldmann | 3 | Germany | Honda | 112 | 3 | |
4 | Ezio Gianola | 16 | Italy | Honda | 105 | 4 | |
5 | Bruno Casanova | 15 | Italy | Aprilia | 96 | 1 | |
6 | Dirk Raudies | 8 | Germany | Honda | 91 | 1 | |
7 | Jorge Martínez | 6 | Spain | Honda | 83 | 1 | |
8 | Gabriele Debbia | 4 | Italy | Honda | 58 | 0 | |
9 | Noboru Ueda | 5 | Japan | Honda | 57 | 0 | |
10 | Nobuyuki Wakai | 10 | Japan | Honda | 52 | 0 | |
11 | Kazuto Sakata | 42 | |||||
12 | Carlos Giro Jr. | 39 | |||||
13 | Hans Spaan | 12 | |||||
14 | Peter Oettl
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15 | Oliver Petrucciani | 9 | |||||
16 | Oliver Koch | 9 | |||||
17 | Akira Saito
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18 | Takao Shimizu | 5 | |||||
19 | Kinya Wada | 5 | |||||
20 | Yu Fujiwara | 4 | |||||
21 | Stefan Kurfiss | 3 | |||||
22 | Heinz Lüthi | 1 |
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