points ahead of Kenny Roberts Jr. and 56 points ahead of teammate Tadayuki Okada. He took six wins and clinched his first and only 500cc World Championship title and second overall championship at the penultimate race of the season in Rio, finishing in sixth place. 2000 With Crivillé winning his first-ever 500cc title in 1999, expectations were high that Crivillé would do the same in 2000. However, the new NSR500 bike for 2000 proved to be worse than its predecessor last year, with Crivillé frequently struggling all throughout the season as a result. A fifth place at the opening round in South Africa made him the best of the Repsol Honda riders, with Sete Gibernau and Tadayuki Okada both out of the race. A crash on the opening lap saw Crivillé retire in Malaysia, with a sixth and fourth place following in the Japanese and Spanish GPs. At the fifth round of the season in France, Crivillé scored his final win of his career. Despite starting from fifth on the grid on Saturday, Crivillé made a relatively good start and slowly moved up the field, overtaking Carlos Checa and Kenny Roberts Jr. to take the lead. He then battled with and held off the hard charging Norifumi Abe and rookie Valentino Rossi to cross the line 0.321 ahead of the Japanese. After his win in Le Mans, two consecutive retirements followed in Italy and Catalunya. Crivillé had an accident after eight and ten laps in Mugello and Cataluña, causing him to retire twice. In a wet-dry race in the Netherlands, Crivillé took second behind Alex Barros after both passed Sete Gibernau and Régis Laconi, the Catalan unable to close the gap to Barros as he crossed the line 2.077 ahead of Crivillé. In Great Britain, Crivillé finished seventh but slid out of contention once more after twelve laps in Germany. More points followed when he finished in seventh and sixth place at the Czech Republic and Portuguese grand Prix. At round thirteen in the Valencian Community, Crivillé took his only fastest lap of the season but crashed after twelve laps, adding another retirement to his tally. Two more points finished followed in Rio de Janeiro, where he finished eleventh, and in the Pacific, where he finished sixth. Crivillé then retired at the last race of the year in Australia, crashing out after nine laps - his sixth retirement of the