1997 motorcycle world championship
500 cm³ world champion | |
Driver: | Mick Doohan |
Constructor: | Honda |
250 cc world champion | |
Driver: | Max Biaggi |
Constructor: | Honda |
125 cc world champion | |
Driver: | Valentino Rossi |
Constructor: | Aprilia |
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The 1997 motorcycle world championship season was the 49th in the history of the FIM - motorcycle road world championship .
15 races were held in all classes.
Distribution of points
The world champion will be the driver or manufacturer who has accumulated the most points in the world championship by the end of the season. When distributing points, the placements are taken into account in the overall result of the respective race. The top fifteen drivers in each race receive points according to the following scheme:
Distribution of points | |||||||||||||||
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space | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th |
Points | 25th | 20th | 16 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8th | 7th | 6th | 5 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 1 |
All the results achieved were included in the evaluation.
500 cc class
Race results
Driver ranking
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Constructors' championship
1 | Honda | 375 |
2 | Yamaha | 188 |
3 | Suzuki | 90 |
4th | Aprilia | 88 |
5 | Modenas | 68 |
6th | ELF 500 ROC | 60 |
7th | ROC- Yamaha | 12 |
250 cc class
Race results
Driver ranking
World Cup place | driver | motorcycle | TIMES |
JPN |
ESP |
ITA |
AUT |
FRA |
NED |
SMR |
GER |
BRA |
GBR |
CZE |
CAT |
IND |
OUT |
Points |
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1 | Max Biaggi | Honda | 25th | 9 | 16 | 25th | 16 | 20th | DQ | 25th | 13 | 11 | Ret | 25th | 20th | 25th | 20th | 250 |
2 | Ralf Waldmann | Honda | 13 | 11 | 25th | 13 | 20th | 16 | 20th | 13 | 16 | 4th | 25th | 13 | 25th | 9 | 25th | 248 |
3 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 20th | 16 | 20th | Ret | 0 | 25th | 25th | 11 | 25th | 20th | 20th | 16 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 235 |
4th | Olivier Jacque | Honda | 16 | Inj | 9 | 11 | 25th | Ret | Ret | 20th | 20th | 25th | 13 | 20th | 10 | 16 | 16 | 201 |
5 | Tōru Ukawa | Honda | 10 | 20th | Ret | Ret | 11 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 10 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 20th | 8th | 173 |
6th | Loris Capirossi | Aprilia | Ret | 5 | Ret | 16 | 13 | 13 | 16 | Ret | 11 | 13 | 16 | Ret | 11 | 2 | 116 | |
7th | Takeshi Tsujimura | Honda | Ret | 13 | 13 | Ret | 9 | Ret | 10 | Ret | 3 | 8th | 10 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 109 |
8th | Haruchika Aoki | Honda | 11 | 8th | 11 | 2 | 8th | 10 | Ret | 8th | 7th | 9 | 8th | Ret | 8th | 10 | 2 | 102 |
9 | Stefano Perugini | Aprilia | Ret | Ret | 10 | 9 | 10 | Ret | 11 | Ret | Ret | 10 | 9 | 9 | Ret | 8th | 9 | 85 |
10 | Jeremy McWilliams | Honda | 7th | 0 | 7th | 7th | Ret | 5 | 7th | 9 | 8th | 6th | Ret | 5 | 6th | 6th | 73 | |
11 | Sebastián Porto | Aprilia | Ret | 4th | Ret | 6th | 7th | 9 | Ret | Ret | 0 | 7th | 7th | 6th | 0 | 7th | 7th | 60 |
12 | Noriyasu Numata | Suzuki | 2 | 7th | 8th | 10 | 6th | Ret | Ret | Ret | 9 | Ret | 6th | Ret | 7th | Ret | 55 | |
13 | Osamu Miyazaki | Yamaha | 5 | Ret | 4th | 1 | Ret | 6th | 8th | 7th | 0 | Ret | 2 | 6th | 3 | 5 | 47 | |
14th | Franco Battaini | Yamaha | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4th | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4th | 44 | |
15th | Cristiano Migliorati | Honda | 8th | 0 | Ret | Ret | 0 | Ret | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | Ret | 7th | 0 | 5 | 3 | 35 |
Luis d'Antin | Yamaha | Ret | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8th | 6th | Ret | 0 | Ret | Ret | 3 | Ret | 0 | 32 | ||
17th | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 9 | Inj | Inj | Ret | DNS | Inj | Ret | 6th | 6th | 2 | Ret | 4th | 4th | Ret | Ret | 31 |
18th | Marcellino Lucchi | Aprilia | 20th | Ret | 10 | 30th | ||||||||||||
19th | Daijirō Katō | Honda | 25th | 25th | ||||||||||||||
20th | William Costes | Honda | Ret | Ret | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7th | 9 | 4th | 0 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 0 | Ret | 23 |
21st | José Luis Cardoso | Honda | Ret | 0 | 6th | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 2 | Ret | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | Ret | Ret | 19th |
Jamie Robinson | Suzuki | Ret | 2 | 0 | 8th | 4th | Ret | 1 | Ret | Ret | 3 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 19th | |||
23 | Oliver Petrucciani | Aprilia | 6th | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 0 | 0 | 14th | |
24 | Luca Boscoscuro | Honda | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4th | Ret | Ret | Ret | 2 | 3 | Ret | Ret | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13 | |
25th | Giuseppe Fiorillo | Aprilia | Ret | Ret | Ret | 4th | 0 | Ret | 8th | Ret | Ret | Ret | 12 | |||||
26th | Yukio Kagayama | Suzuki | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||||||
Troy Bayliss | Suzuki | 10 | 10 | |||||||||||||||
28 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 6th | 6th | ||||||||||||||
29 | Eustaquio Gavira | Aprilia | 4th | Ret | 0 | Ret | 0 | DNS | 1 | Ret | 0 | 0 | Ret | 0 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 5 |
30th | Scott Smart | Honda | 4th | 4th | ||||||||||||||
31 | Naoto Ogura | Yamaha | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
Sébastien Gimbert | Honda | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
33 | Idalio Gavira | Aprilia | DNS | DNS | Ret | 0 | Ret | 2 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 2 | |||
Maurice Bolwerk | Honda | 2 | Ret | 2 | ||||||||||||||
John McGuinness | Aprilia | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
35 | Choujun Kameya | Suzuki | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Claudio Vanzetta | Aprilia | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Callum Ramsay | Honda | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
World Cup place | driver | motorcycle | TIMES |
JPN |
ESP |
ITA |
AUT |
FRA |
NED |
SMR |
GER |
BRA |
GBR |
CZE |
CAT |
IND |
OUT |
Points |
colour | result |
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gold | winner |
silver | Second |
bronze | Third |
green | in the goal with points |
blue | at the finish without points |
violet | not in target (Ret) |
pink | not qualified (DNQ) |
black | disqualified (DQ) |
Azure blue | Race started as a rain race |
no | not participated |
not participated due to injury (inj) |
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not started (DNS) | |
Race was canceled (Ann.) | |
excluded (EX) |
Constructors' championship
1 | Honda | 360 |
2 | Aprilia | 268 |
3 | Technical Sports Honda | 109 |
4th | Yamaha | 81 |
5 | Suzuki | 72 |
125 cc class
Race results
Driver ranking
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Constructors' championship
1 | Aprilia | 351 |
2 | Honda | 287 |
3 | Yamaha | 139 |
Web links
Commons : Motorcycle World Championship 1997 - Collection of images, videos and audio files