1993 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1993 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 1993 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 2 May 1993 at the Circuito de Jerez.

  1993 Spanish Grand Prix

Race details
Race 4 of 14 races in the 1993 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	2 May 1993
Official name	Gran Premio de España Ducados
Location	Circuito de Jerez
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.428 km (2.751 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Kevin Schwantz Time 1:44.459 Fastest lap Rider Alex Barros Time 1:44.659 Podium First Kevin Schwantz Second Wayne Rainey Third Àlex Crivillé
250 cc
Pole position Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 1:45.762 Fastest lap Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 1:46.303 Podium First Tetsuya Harada Second Max Biaggi Third Jean-Philippe Ruggia
125 cc
Pole position Rider Dirk Raudies Time 1:51.576 Fastest lap Rider Ralf Waldmann Time 1:51.989 Podium First Kazuto Sakata Second Ralf Waldmann Third Takeshi Tsujimura

The weekend was marred by a practice accident which resulted in the death of Japanese rider Nobuyuki Wakai after he had struck a spectator who had entered the pit lane without authorization.

500 cc race report

Kevin Schwantz’ 4th pole in 4 races.

Wayne Rainey takes the start from Schwantz and Alex Barros.

Schwantz and Rainey get a gap from Àlex Crivillé, Mick Doohan, with Barros closing.

Barros up to 3rd, and then arrives to Schwantz and Rainey.

Schwantz waves his teammate Barros through to 2nd, then Barros takes the lead from Rainey.

Barros and Schwantz get a gap, but Schwantz makes a mistake and goes into the grass. He saves it and remains in 2nd.

Barros in 1st and has a large lead with a couple of laps to go, but lowsides out of the race.

500 cc classification

Pos.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Kevin Schwantz	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	47:39.627	1	25
2	Wayne Rainey	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	+1.664	3	20
3	Àlex Crivillé	Marlboro Honda Pons	Honda	+12.280	6	16
4	Mick Doohan	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	+26.183	7	13
5	Luca Cadalora	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	+47.828	4	11
6	Daryl Beattie	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	+54.886	11	10
7	Niall Mackenzie	Valvoline Team WCM	ROC Yamaha	+1:02.335	8	9
8	Juan Lopez Mella	Lopez Mella Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	+1:06.680	10	8
9	Sean Emmett	Shell Team Harris	Harris Yamaha	+1:19.312	20	7
10	Tsutomu Udagawa	Team Udagawa	ROC Yamaha	+1:40.054	15	6
11	Corrado Catalano	Team ROC	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	24	5
12	Lucio Pedercini	Team Pedercini	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	18	4
13	Renato Colleoni	Team Elit	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	14	3
14	José Kuhn	Euromoto	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	23	2
15	Serge David	Team ROC	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	25	1
16	Cees Doorakkers	Doorakkers Racing	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap	29
17	Kevin Mitchell	MBM Racing	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	26
18	Andreas Meklau	Austrian Racing Company	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	27
19	Jean d'Orgeix	Yamaha Motor France	Yamaha	+1 Lap
20	Bruno Bonhuil	MTD Objectif 500	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap	33
Ret	Laurent Naveau	Euro Team	ROC Yamaha	Retirement	16
Ret	Jeremy McWilliams	Millar Racing	Yamaha	Retirement	17
Ret	Thierry Crine	Ville de Paris	ROC Yamaha	Retirement	19
Ret	Michael Rudroff	Rallye Sport	Harris Yamaha	Retirement	21
Ret	Matthew Mladin	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	Retirement	12
Ret	Simon Crafar	Peter Graves Racing Team	Harris Yamaha	Retirement	28
Ret	Shinichi Itoh	HRC Rothmans Honda	Honda	Retirement	9
Ret	Marco Papa	Librenti Corse	Librenti	Retirement	34
Ret	Doug Chandler	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	Retirement	5
Ret	Alan Scott	Team Harris	Harris Yamaha	Retirement	32
Ret	John Reynolds	Padgett's Motorcycles	Harris Yamaha	Retirement	13
Ret	Jean Luc Romanens	Argus Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	Retirement	30
Ret	Alex Barros	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	Retirement	2
DNS	Bernard Garcia	Yamaha Motor France	Yamaha	Did not start
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	31	Tetsuya Harada	Yamaha	26	46:22.519	1	25
2	5	Max Biaggi	Honda	26	+4.717	3	20
3	17	Jean-Philippe Ruggia	Aprilia	26	+4.908	2	16
4	19	John Kocinski	Suzuki	26	+13.943	10	13
5	4	Helmut Bradl	Honda	26	+24.795	9	11
6	11	Wilco Zeelenberg	Aprilia	26	+32.284	11	10
7	18	Tadayuki Okada	Honda	26	+36.275	8	9
8	10	Doriano Romboni	Honda	26	+41.176	6	8
9	7	Jochen Schmid	Yamaha	26	+45.326	13	7
10	65	Loris Capirossi	Honda	26	+45.422	4	6
11	34	Luis d'Antin	Honda	26	+45.457	14	5
12	3	Pierfrancesco Chili	Yamaha	26	+55.208	7	4
13	28	Adrian Bosshard	Honda	26	+58.483	16	3
14	44	Jean-Michel Bayle	Aprilia	26	+1:02.020	21	2
15	16	Andy Preining	Aprilia	26	+1:17.930	20	1
16	27	Frédéric Protat	Aprilia	26	+1:22.214	22
17	30	Juan Borja	Honda	26	+1:22:611	24
18	20	Eskil Suter	Aprilia	26	+1:22.614	19
19	23	Bernard Haenggeli	Aprilia	26	+1:28.328	26
20	12	Gabriele Debbia	Honda	26	+1:36.157	23
21	22	Luis Maurel	Aprilia	26	+1:44.016	28
22	32	Volker Bähr	Honda	26	+1:44.077	32
23	25	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Aprilia	26	+1:49.856	27
24	53	Alex Sirera	Yamaha	25	+1 Lap	33
Ret	6	Alberto Puig	Honda	17	Retirement	12
Ret	24	Patrick van den Goorbergh	Aprilia	15	Retirement	17
Ret	43	Massimo Pennacchioli	Honda	13	Retirement	34
Ret	14	Nobuatsu Aoki	Honda	6	Retirement	15
Ret	21	Paolo Casoli	Gilera	5	Retirement	18
Ret	26	Bernd Kassner	Aprilia	3	Retirement	29
Ret	13	Loris Reggiani	Aprilia	1	Retirement	5
Ret	39	Alessandro Gramigni	Gilera	0	Retirement	30
DNS	8	Carlos Cardús	Honda		Did not start	25
DNS	15	Nobuyuki Wakai	Suzuki		Fatal accident in Saturday	31
DNS	51	Jean-Pierre Jeandat	Aprilia		Did not start	35
DNQ	54	Miguel Castilla	Yamaha		Did not qualify	35