1994 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

Kazuto Sakata (pictured at Suzuka) became the 1994 125cc world champion

The 1994 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 46th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.

Season summary

1994 was the year in which Honda's Mick Doohan began to stamp his authority on the Grand Prix world.^[1] Honda's Longtime sponsor Rothmans left Honda to join Williams Renault in Formula One.^[1] Doohan won 9 races, the most since Giacomo Agostini won 11 in 1972.^[1] Kevin Schwantz was injured in a pre-season bicycle crash and raced in 6 races with his arm in plaster.^[1] Luca Cadalora took over from Wayne Rainey on the Yamaha and won two races. Aprilia began campaigning in the 500cc class with a 250 V twin motor enlarged to 380cc in hopes of using its lighter weight and nimble handling as an advantage.^[1]

Max Biaggi would win his first world title for Aprilia in a tight 250 class battle against Loris Capirossi and Tadayuki Okada.^[1] Kazuto Sakata won the 125 crown for Aprilia. He was the first Japanese rider to race for a European factory.^[1]

Honda secured the constructor's title in all three categories.

1994 Grand Prix season calendar

The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 1994:^[2][3]

Round	Date	Grand Prix	Circuit
1	27 March	Foster's Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix	Eastern Creek Raceway
2	10 April	Malaysian Grand Prix	Shah Alam Circuit
3	24 April	Marlboro Grand Prix of Japan	Suzuka Circuit
4	8 May	Gran Premio de España	Circuito Permanente de Jerez
5	22 May	Grand Prix Austria	Salzburgring
6	12 June	Grand Prix Deutschland	Hockenheimring
7	25 June	Lucky Strike Dutch Grand Prix	TT Circuit Assen
8	3 July	Gran Premio d'Italia	Mugello Circuit
9	17 July	Grand Prix de France Moto	Bugatti Circuit
10	24 July	British Motorcycle Grand Prix	Donington Park
11	21 August	Grand Prix České republiky	Brno Circuit
12	11 September	United States Motorcycle Grand Prix	Laguna Seca Raceway
13	25 September	Gran Prix Marlboro Argentina	Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez
14	9 October	Gran Premi Pepsi d'Europa	Circuit de Catalunya

Calendar changes

• The European Grand Prix was moved back from 4 July to 9 October.
• The French Grand Prix returned after a one-year absence on the Bugatti Circuit in Le Mans.
• The San Marino Grand Prix was removed and the Italian Grand Prix was held at the Mugello Circuit, while the Circuito Internazionale Santa Monica was taken off the calendar.
• The FIM Grand Prix, which hosted the Jarama circuit, was taken off the calendar.

Results and standings

Grands Prix

Round	Date	Race	Location	125cc winner	250cc winner	500cc winner	Report
1	27 March	Australian motorcycle Grand Prix	Eastern Creek	Kazuto Sakata	Max Biaggi	John Kocinski	Report
2	10 April	Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix	Shah Alam	Noboru Ueda	Max Biaggi	Mick Doohan	Report
3	24 April	Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix	Suzuka	Takeshi Tsujimura	Tadayuki Okada	Kevin Schwantz	Report
4	8 May	Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix	Jerez	Kazuto Sakata	Jean-Philippe Ruggia	Mick Doohan	Report
5	22 May	Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix	Salzburgring	Dirk Raudies	Loris Capirossi	Mick Doohan	Report
6	12 June	German motorcycle Grand Prix	Hockenheim	Dirk Raudies	Loris Capirossi	Mick Doohan	Report
7	25 June	Dutch TT	Assen	Takeshi Tsujimura	Max Biaggi	Mick Doohan	Report
8	3 July	Italian motorcycle Grand Prix	Mugello	Noboru Ueda	Ralf Waldmann	Mick Doohan	Report
9	17 July	French motorcycle Grand Prix	Le Mans	Noboru Ueda	Loris Capirossi	Mick Doohan	Report
10	24 July	British motorcycle Grand Prix	Donington	Takeshi Tsujimura	Loris Capirossi	Kevin Schwantz	Report
11	21 August	Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix	Brno	Kazuto Sakata	Max Biaggi	Mick Doohan	Report
12	11 September	United States motorcycle Grand Prix	Laguna Seca	Takeshi Tsujimura	Doriano Romboni	Luca Cadalora	Report
13	25 September	Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix	Buenos Aires	Jorge Martínez	Tadayuki Okada	Mick Doohan	Report
14	9 October	European motorcycle Grand Prix	Catalunya	Dirk Raudies	Max Biaggi	Luca Cadalora	Report

Participants

500cc participants

Team Constructor Motorcycle No Rider Rounds Lucky Strike Suzuki Suzuki Suzuki RGV500 (XR84) 1 Kevin Schwantz 1–12 6 Alex Barros All 12 Juan López Mella 14 19 Sean Emmett 13–14 Marlboro Team Roberts Yamaha Yamaha YZR500 (OWF9) 3 Daryl Beattie 1–9, 12–14 5 Luca Cadalora All 56 Norifumi Abe 10–11 56 Norifumi Abe 12 Honda Team HRC Honda Honda NSR500 (NV0S) 4 Mick Doohan All 7 Shinichi Itoh All 8 Àlex Crivillé All Cagiva Team Agostini Cagiva Cagiva C594 10 Doug Chandler All 11 John Kocinski All 70 Carl Fogarty 10 Lopez Mella Racing Team (rd 1-3) Team Repsol ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 12 Juan López Mella 1–9, 11–13 Aprilia Racing Team Aprilia Aprilia RSW-2 500 13 Loris Reggiani 4–8, 14 Team Millar Yamaha Yamaha YZR500 14 Jeremy McWilliams All Padgetts Motorcycles Harris-Yamaha Harris-Yamaha SLS500 15 John Reynolds All Euroteam ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 16 Laurent Naveau All Ducados Honda Pons Honda Honda NSR500 17 Alberto Puig All Yamaha Motor France ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 18 Bernard Garcia 1–3 Team ROC ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 18 Bernard Garcia 4, 6–14 28 Julián Miralles 1–4 37 Hervé Moineau 5 41 Andrew Stroud 14 63 Udo Mark 9–10 69 Philippe Monneret 9 72 Michael Liedl 11 79 Chuck Graves 12 Shell Harris Grand Prix Harris-Yamaha Harris-Yamaha SLS500 19 Sean Emmett 1–12 40 Neil Hodgson 13–14 52 Scott Doohan 1 M.B.M. Racing Harris-Yamaha Harris-Yamaha SLS500 20 Kevin Mitchell 1–2, 4–14 Team Doorakkers Harris-Yamaha Harris-Yamaha SLS500 21 Cees Doorakkers All Team Pedercini ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 23 Lucio Pedercini All 24 Cristiano Migliorati All Team Elit ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 25 Marco Papa 1–2, 4–6, 11–14 38 Ermanno Bastianini 8–9 39 James Haydon 10 Haenggeli Racing ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 27 Bernard Haenggeli All ROC Coronas Repsol ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 28 Julián Miralles 5–8 Team Doppler Austria ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 29 Andreas Leuthe All Team Paton Paton Paton V70 C9/2 30 Vittorio Scatola 1–2, 4–8, 13–14 42 Paul Pellissier 9, 11 Sachsen Racing Team Harris-Yamaha Harris-Yamaha SLS500 31 Lothar Neukirchner 1–7 32 Evren Bischoff 9 63 Udo Mark 6 MTD Objectif 500 ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 34 Bruno Bonhuil All Jean Foray Racing Team ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 36 Jean Foray All D.R. Team Shark ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 44 Marc Garcia All Slick 50 Team WCM ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 50 Niall Mackenzie All J.P.J. Racing ROC-Yamaha ROC-Yamaha GP1 51 Jean-Pierre Jeandat All Mister Yumcha Blue Fox Honda Honda NSR500 56 Norick Abe 3 YRTR Yamaha Yamaha YZR500 57 Toshihiko Honma 3 Manfred Erhardt Harris-Yamaha Harris-Yamaha SLS500 62 Manfred Erhardt 6 Triton Team GB Harris-Yamaha Harris-Yamaha SLS500 73 Nick Hopkins 10 Felipe Horta Harris-Yamaha Harris-Yamaha SLS500 77 Felipe Horta 13 Yamasur Harris-Yamaha Harris-Yamaha SLS500 79 Nestor Amoroso 13

Key Regular Rider Wildcard Rider Replacement Rider

Standing

500cc riders' standings

^[4][5]

Scoring system

Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.

Pos Rider Bike AUS MAL JPN ESP AUT GER NED ITA FRA GBR CZE USA ARG EUR Pts 1 Mick Doohan Honda NSR500 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 2 317 2 Luca Cadalora Yamaha YZR500 2 4 4 Ret 22 DNS 9 2 7 3 3 1 6 1 174 3 John Kocinski Cagiva GP500 1 2 9 3 5 Ret 8 Ret 2 4 Ret 2 3 3 172 4 Kevin Schwantz Suzuki RGV500 4 6 1 2 2 2 5 3 Ret 1 7 169 5 Alberto Puig Honda NSR500 7 5 8 6 6 3 4 4 4 7 5 7 5 7 152 6 Àlex Crivillé Honda NSR500 6 8 7 5 3 4 3 Ret 3 6 4 DNS 7 4 144 7 Shinichi Ito Honda NSR500 5 3 3 Ret 4 6 Ret 5 5 9 2 4 4 Ret 141 8 Alex Barros Suzuki RGV500 8 7 5 4 7 5 2 7 6 Ret 8 8 8 6 134 9 Doug Chandler Cagiva GP500 9 9 10 7 Ret 7 6 Ret Ret 5 Ret 5 2 10 96 10 Niall Mackenzie Yamaha YZR500 Ret 11 19 8 9 8 Ret 9 Ret 8 9 10 11 8 69 11 Bernard Garcia ROC-Yamaha 11 Ret 11 Ret 9 10 8 Ret 11 11 12 12 9 56 12 Jeremy McWilliams Yamaha YZR500 17 14 13 11 16 Ret Ret 15 8 10 10 9 9 12 49 13 Daryl Beattie Yamaha YZR500 Ret 10 28 Ret 8 Ret 7 6 DNS Ret Ret 5 44 14 John Reynolds Yamaha YZR500 10 12 12 10 10 10 Ret Ret Ret 14 12 Ret Ret 11 43 15 Sean Emmett Harris-Yamaha 14 13 17 Ret 12 11 Ret 14 Ret 12 13 11 10 Ret 34 16 Juan López Mella ROC-Yamaha 13 Ret 15 13 Ret 12 Ret 10 10 Ret DNS DNS 26 Suzuki RGV500 13 17 Norifumi Abe Honda NSR500 Ret 20 Yamaha YZR500 DNS 6 6 18 Laurent Naveau ROC-Yamaha 16 Ret 14 Ret 15 14 12 16 Ret 13 Ret 13 14 14 19 19 Jean-Pierre Jeandat ROC-Yamaha 18 16 21 14 13 Ret 11 11 Ret DNS 16 14 Ret 17 17 20 Cristiano Migliorati ROC-Yamaha 15 20 20 12 14 Ret Ret 12 15 Ret 18 17 16 18 12 21 Marc Garcia ROC-Yamaha 20 18 22 16 17 Ret Ret Ret 9 Ret 15 16 13 Ret 11 22 Toshihiko Honma Yamaha YZR500 6 10 23 Jean Foray ROC-Yamaha Ret Ret 23 17 20 Ret 15 19 11 19 14 21 Ret DNS 8 24 Loris Reggiani Aprilia RSW500 9 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 7 25 Bernard Haenggeli ROC-Yamaha 19 Ret 25 20 Ret Ret 16 13 12 Ret 17 18 19 20 7 26 Julián Miralles ROC-Yamaha 21 Ret 24 15 18 13 13 Ret 7 27 Bruno Bonhuil ROC-Yamaha 22 17 16 Ret 19 15 14 17 13 15 Ret 19 Ret Ret 7 28 Hervé Moineau ROC-Yamaha 11 5 29 Scott Doohan Harris-Yamaha 12 4 30 Udo Mark Harris-Yamaha Ret 2 ROC-Yamaha 14 17 31 Lucio Pedercini ROC-Yamaha Ret 15 18 Ret Ret Ret Ret 20 Ret 18 Ret 15 17 Ret 2 32 Neil Hodgson Harris-Yamaha 15 16 1 33 Andrew Stroud ROC-Yamaha 15 1 Kevin Mitchell Harris-Yamaha Ret Ret Ret 21 16 17 Ret 16 16 Ret Ret Ret Ret 0 Andreas Leuthe ROC-Yamaha 23 21 26 18 Ret 17 Ret Ret 17 20 Ret Ret Ret 0 Cees Doorakkers Harris-Yamaha 25 19 Ret 19 Ret 18 18 21 Ret 21 20 20 18 19 0 Ermanno Bastianini ROC-Yamaha 18 Ret 0 Philippe Monneret ROC-Yamaha 18 0 Lothar Neukirchner Harris-Yamaha Ret 27 21 19 Ret 0 Vittorio Scatola Paton 24 Ret 19 Ret Ret Ret 0 Marco Papa ROC-Yamaha Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 19 Ret Ret Ret 0 Néstor Amoroso Harris-Yamaha 20 0 Neil Hopkins Harris-Yamaha Ret 0 James Haydon ROC-Yamaha Ret 0 Michael Liedl Harris-Yamaha Ret 0 Felipe Horta Harris-Yamaha Ret 0 Pos Rider Bike AUS MAL JPN ESP AUT GER NED ITA FRA GBR CZE USA ARG EUR Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

250cc riders' standings

^[6]

Scoring system

Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.

Pos Rider Bike AUS MAL JPN ESP AUT GER NED ITA FRA GBR CZE USA ARG EUR Pts 1 Max Biaggi Aprilia 1 1 4 Ret 2 2 1 Ret 3 Ret 1 2 2 1 234 2 Tadayuki Okada Honda 5 2 1 3 4 5 2 7 9 2 5 4 1 4 214 3 Loris Capirossi Honda 3 3 2 Ret 1 1 Ret 3 1 1 Ret Ret 5 2 199 4 Doriano Romboni Honda 2 5 6 2 3 3 NC NC 2 3 NC 1 3 170 5 Ralf Waldmann Honda 7 6 NC 4 5 6 4 1 4 7 2 10 8 7 156 6 Jean-Philippe Ruggia Aprilia 4 4 7 1 6 8 NC 4 7 6 3 NC 4 6 149 7 Tetsuya Harada Yamaha 9 7 NC 7 NC 2 8 4 NC 3 3 5 109 8 Jean-Michel Bayle Aprilia 10 7 11 8 11 11 6 8 5 5 6 Ret 7 8 105 9 Luis D'Antin Honda 8 8 10 6 7 9 7 6 Ret 9 7 6 9 NC 100 10 Nobuatsu Aoki Honda 6 Ret 8 5 Ret 4 5 Inj 6 8 4 5 21 Ret 95 11 Wilco Zeelenberg Honda 9 9 NC 9 NC 10 3 9 10 11 9 9 11 12 84 12 Carlos Checa Honda 14 11 Ret 11 Ret 14 11 10 13 12 Ret 7 10 9 54 13 Eskil Suter Aprilia 15 Ret 15 10 10 Ret 8 Ret 14 10 8 12 19 Ret 42 14 Adrian Bosshard Honda 13 12 Ret Ret NC Ret 11 12 14 13 13 12 10 34 15 Andy Preining Aprilia 12 13 21 NC 12 13 NC 12 21 NC 10 11 NC 15 30 16 Patrick van den Goorbergh Aprilia NC NC 13 20 8 12 10 14 16 17 12 16 NC 22 27 17 Jurgen van den Goorbergh Aprilia 16 Ret 12 12 9 Ret 9 16 Ret 16 Ret 14 Ret 17 24 18 Kenny Roberts Jr. Yamaha Ret 8 6 11 23 19 Tohru Ukawa Honda 3 16 20 Marcellino Lucchi Aprilia 5 11 20 Takuma Aoki Honda 5 11 22 Toshihiko Honma Yamaha NC 13 NC 11 13 11 23 Alessandro Gramigni Aprilia 17 10 Ret 17 15 17 13 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 10 24 Luis Carlos Maurel Honda 21 16 16 19 16 16 19 15 15 11 17 16 13 10 25 Bernd Kassner Aprilia NC 14 19 14 14 NC 14 15 20 9 26 Giuseppe Fiorillo Honda 20 18 21 16 19 12 NC NC NC 14 NC 14 16 8 27 Adi Stadler Honda NC 15 14 NC 13 15 15 18 17 18 NC NC 18 19 8 28 Craig Connell Honda 11 5 29 Miguel Castilla Yamaha 13 14 5 30 Juan Borja Honda 22 NC Ret 18 Ret 15 15 13 18 5 31 José Luis Cardoso Aprilia 19 NC NC 15 NC 21 NC NC NC 19 NC 20 15 Ret 2 Pos Rider Bike AUS MAL JPN ESP AUT GER NED ITA FRA GBR CZE USA ARG EUR Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

125cc riders' standings

^[7]

Scoring system

Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.

Pos Rider Bike AUS MAL JPN ESP AUT GER NED ITA FRA GBR CZE USA ARG EUR Pts 1 Kazuto Sakata Aprilia 1 2 2 1 5 2 4 2 3 4 1 Ret 9 7 224 2 Noboru Ueda Honda 7 1 NC 4 2 6 NC 1 1 6 2 9 2 6 194 3 Takeshi Tsujimura Honda Ret 5 1 6 NC Ret 1 3 2 1 5 1 7 4 190 4 Dirk Raudies Honda 10 4 NC 5 1 1 NC 5 5 8 7 8 6 1 162 5 Peter Öttl Aprilia 2 NC 4 2 4 4 NC 4 4 3 NC 3 13 2 160 6 Jorge Martínez Yamaha NC 3 7 9 17 7 2 7 6 10 4 5 1 NC 135 7 Stefano Perugini Aprilia 12 6 5 7 2 3 2 3 106 8 Masaki Tokudome Honda 9 14 6 10 9 5 6 9 12 6 14 8 13 87 9 Olivier Petrucciani Aprilia 5 7 NC 13 15 10 7 11 18 7 9 13 16 5 74 10 Herri Torrontegui Aprilia 8 9 8 3 14 NC 6 13 8 5 Ret NC 73 11 Hideyuki Nakajoh Honda 15 11 3 11 9 11 11 8 6 8 70 12 Haruchika Aoki Honda 17 10 17 14 25 12 9 12 13 19 4 12 3 59 13 Garry McCoy Aprilia 3 12 9 11 3 DNS 8 Ret 17 Ret 16 56 14 Akira Saito Honda 6 8 5 NC 7 8 Ret 14 14 15 NC 19 14 NC 53 15 Loek Bodelier Honda 11 NC 11 8 18 15 3 12 NC NC 14 Ret NC 9 48 16 Fausto Gresini Honda 4 6 18 DNF 8 13 16 17 10 20 DNS NC 10 46 17 Gianluigi Scalvini Aprilia 12 13 NC NC NC 15 10 4 11 32 18 Oliver Koch Honda 23 13 13 7 10 11 NC 12 NC Ret 30 19 Carlos Giró Jr. Aprilia 26 NC 20 28 20 Ret 15 Ret 9 13 7 10 NC 26 20 Tomomi Manako Honda 3 NC 8 24 21 Stefan Prein Yamaha 19 NC 15 NC 16 21 NC 16 15 17 11 11 11 21 17 22 Emilio Alzamora Honda NC 16 NC 22 22 11 18 NC 22 NC 21 5 NC 16 23 Bruno Casanova Honda 16 15 10 15 13 12 15 24 Gabriele Debbia Aprilia 13 NC 21 18 20 NC 10 19 19 14 20 NC NC 11 25 Manfred Geissler Aprilia 20 16 14 NC 21 NC NC 20 16 16 10 15 Ret 20 9 26 Yoshiaki Katoh Yamaha NC NC NC 12 NC NC 12 8 27 Emilio Cuppini Aprilia 9 NC 7 28 Tomoko Igata Honda 14 NC NC NC NC NC 19 12 23 NC 15 7 29 Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 10 6 30 Lucio Cecchinello Honda 18 21 Ret Ret 19 14 15 NC NC 23 17 17 NC 14 5 31 Kunihiro Amano Honda 12 4 32 Juan Enrique Maturana Yamaha 20 13 18 22 16 15 4 33 Frédéric Petit Yamaha 22 NC 23 16 24 17 14 NC NC 24 21 NC NC 22 2 Pos Rider Bike AUS MAL JPN ESP AUT GER NED ITA FRA GBR CZE USA ARG EUR Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

References

• Büla, Maurice & Schertenleib, Jean-Claude (2001). Continental Circus 1949-2000. Chronosports S.A. ISBN 2-940125-32-5
• "The Official MotoGP website". Retrieved 2010-07-06.