1992 German Grand Prix

Race details
Race 7 of 13 races in the 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	14 June 1992
Official name	Großer Preis von Deutschland Motorräder[1][2][3]
Location	Hockenheimring
Course	Permanent racing facility 6.823 km (4.240 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Mick Doohan Time 1:58.325 Fastest lap Rider Mick Doohan Time 1:58.956 Podium First Mick Doohan Second Kevin Schwantz Third Wayne Gardner
250 cc
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Time 2:06.630 Fastest lap Rider Loris Reggiani Time 2:06.499 Podium First Pierfrancesco Chili Second Max Biaggi Third Loris Reggiani
125 cc
Pole position Rider Ralf Waldmann Time 2:18.346 Fastest lap Rider Ezio Gianola Time 2:19.065 Podium First Bruno Casanova Second Fausto Gresini Third Ralf Waldmann

The 1992 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventh round of the 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 12–14 June 1992, at the Hockenheim circuit.

500cc race

Wayne Rainey took a big highside in qualifying and crashed, breaking his ribs, wrist and injuring his knee, but decided to race anyway. "Mentally I was down, probably the worst I had ever been in my GP career. I’d screwed myself up trying to race with Doohan. And I didn’t feel I was getting the support from Yamaha. I was still on the same bike, it was still slow."^[4]: 169

Mick Doohan was on pole. John Kocinski took the lead at the start but gave it up to Doohan quickly. Doohan got a gap to Kevin Schwantz, then the rest followed. Rainey retired from the race: "I ended up pulling in, for the first time in my career, because I was just too hurt to continue. ... I knew anything could happen, but the only thing for me would be if Mick made a huge mistake. That was possible because I knew he only thought about being the fastest guy, winning every race and devastating everybody."^{[4]: 169–170}

The fight for third between Àlex Crivillé, Wayne Gardner and Kocinski went to experience over youth.

500 cc classification

Pos.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Points
1	Mick Doohan	Rothmans Honda Team	Honda	35:57.895	20
2	Kevin Schwantz	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	+24.626	15
3	Wayne Gardner	Rothmans Kanemoto Honda	Honda	+35.765	12
4	Àlex Crivillé	Campsa Honda Team	Honda	+35.943	10
5	John Kocinski	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	+36.065	8
6	Eddie Lawson	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	+36.646	6
7	Alex Barros	Cagiva Team Agostini	Cagiva	+37.920	4
8	Doug Chandler	Lucky Strike Suzuki	Suzuki	+38.204	3
9	Juan Garriga	Ducados Yamaha	Yamaha	+42.263	2
10	Peter Goddard	Valvoline Team WCM	ROC Yamaha	+1:10.185	1
11	Miguel Duhamel	Yamaha Motor Banco	Yamaha	+1:15.276
12	Juan Lopez Mella	Nivea For Men Team	ROC Yamaha	+1:36.493
13	Dominique Sarron	Team ROC Banco	ROC Yamaha	+1:37.457
14	Michael Rudroff	Rallye Sport	Harris Yamaha	+1:37.802
15	Eddie Laycock	Milla Racing	Yamaha	+1:38.940
16	Kevin Mitchell	MBM Racing	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap
17	Damon Buckmaster	Padgett's Motorcycles	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap
18	Nicholas Schmassman	Uvex Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap
19	Cees Doorakkers	HEK Racing Team	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap
20	Josef Doppler	Uvex Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	+1 Lap
21	Peter Graves	Peter Graves Racing Team	Harris Yamaha	+1 Lap
22	Lucio Pedercini	Paton Grand Prix	Paton	+1 Lap
Ret	Serge David	Team ROC Banco	ROC Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Thierry Crine	Ville de Paris	ROC Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Marco Papa	Librenti Corse	Librenti	Retirement
Ret	Claude Arciero	Arciero Racing Team	ROC Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Toshiyuki Arakaki	Team ROC Banco	ROC Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Randy Mamola	Budweiser Team/Global Motorsports	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Niall Mackenzie	Yamaha Motor Banco	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Wayne Rainey	Marlboro Team Roberts	Yamaha	Retirement
Ret	Corrado Catalano	KCS International	ROC Yamaha	Retirement
DNQ	Andreas Leuthe	VRP Racing Team	VRP	Did not qualify
Sources:[5][6]

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