The 1992 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 27–29 March 1992 at the Suzuka Circuit.
500 cc race report Wet race. Wayne Rainey had to ride with an injured hand from a pre-season test (part of his pinky was removed).
Kevin Schwantz was on pole, and took the lead at the start from Doug Chandler and Mick Doohan. Rainey had a bad start.
Àlex Crivillé crashed out of his debut 500cc race; Wayne Gardner crashes out, as did Rainey at the Dunlop Corner.
Chandler took the lead of a 4-man group with Schwantz, Doohan and Kocinski. Kocinski crashed out.
Doohan and Chandler dropped Schwantz. Gardner had remounted and gotten to 5th before crashing out for good a second time and breaking his leg in two places.
500 cc classification Pos Rider Team Manufacturer Time/Retired Points 1 Mick Doohan Rothmans Honda Team Honda 56:21.831 20 2 Doug Chandler Lucky Strike Suzuki Suzuki +28.298 15 3 Kevin Schwantz Lucky Strike Suzuki Suzuki +55.792 12 4 Shinichi Itoh Team HRC Honda +1:47.802 10 5 Randy Mamola Budweiser Team/Global Motorsports Yamaha +2:00.984 8 6 Keiji Ohishi SRT Suzuki +2:13.708 6 7 Niall Mackenzie Yamaha Motor Banco Yamaha +2:15.005 4 8 Toshihiko Honma Hiro Racing Team Yamaha Yamaha +2:15.491 3 9 Norihiko Fujiwara Kirin Mets Racing Team Yamaha +2:16.591 2 10 Satoshi Tsujimoto AM/PM Racing Honda +2:27.265 1 11 Alex Barros Cagiva Team Agostini Cagiva +1 Lap 12 Juan Garriga Ducados Yamaha Yamaha +1 Lap 13 Keiichiro Iwahashi Team Blue Fox Honda +1 Lap 14 Eddie Lawson Cagiva Team Agostini Cagiva +1 Lap 15 Michael Rudroff Rallye Sport Harris Yamaha +1 Lap 16 Corrado Catalano KCS International ROC Yamaha +1 Lap Ret (17) Wayne Gardner Rothmans Kanemoto Honda Honda Retirement Ret (18) John Kocinski Marlboro Team Roberts Yamaha Retirement Ret (19) Miguel Duhamel Yamaha Motor Banco Yamaha Retirement Ret (20) Wayne Rainey Marlboro Team Roberts Yamaha Retirement Ret (21) Peter Goddard Valvoline Team WCM ROC Yamaha Retirement Ret (22) Àlex Crivillé Campsa Honda Team Honda Retirement Ret (23) Daryl Beattie Team HRC Honda Retirement DNQ Eddie Laycock Milla Racing Yamaha Did not qualify DNQ Dominique Sarron Team ROC Banco ROC Yamaha Did not qualify DNQ Cees Doorakkers HEK Racing Team Harris Yamaha Did not qualify DNQ Marco Papa Librenti Corse Librenti Did not qualify DNQ Simon Buckmaster Padgett's Motorcycles ROC Yamaha Did not qualify DNQ Lucio Pedercini Paton Grand Prix Paton Did not qualify DNQ Josef Doppler Uvex Racing Team ROC Yamaha Did not qualify DNQ Kevin Mitchell MBM Racing Harris Yamaha Did not qualify DNQ Serge David Team ROC ROC Yamaha Did not qualify DNQ Andreas Leuthe VRP Racing Team VRP Did not qualify DNQ Peter Graves Peter Graves Racing Team Harris Yamaha Did not qualify DNQ Thierry Crine Ville de Paris ROC Yamaha Did not qualify DNQ Toshiyuki Arakaki Team ROC Banco ROC Yamaha Did not qualify Sources:
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