2003 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2003 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 3–5 October 2003 at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit.

  2003 Pacific Grand Prix

Race details
Race 13 of 16 races in the 2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	5 October 2003
Official name	Gauloises Pacific Grand Prix of Motegi[1][2][3]
Location	Twin Ring Motegi
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.801 km (2.983 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Honda Time 1:47.696 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 1:48.885 on lap 16 Podium First Max Biaggi Honda Second Valentino Rossi Honda Third Nicky Hayden Honda
250 cc
Pole position Rider Toni Elías Aprilia Time 1:52.849 Fastest lap Rider Toni Elías Aprilia Time 1:53.612 on lap 6 Podium First Toni Elías Aprilia Second Roberto Rolfo Honda Third Manuel Poggiali Aprilia
125 cc
Pole position Rider Dani Pedrosa Honda Time 1:57.736 Fastest lap Rider Jorge Lorenzo Derbi Time 1:58.545 on lap 8 Podium First Héctor Barberá Aprilia Second Casey Stoner Aprilia Third Andrea Dovizioso Honda

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Max Biaggi	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	24	43:57.590	1	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda	Honda	24	+3.754	3	20
3	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda	Honda	24	+5.641	5	16
4	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	24	+19.456	4	13
5	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+19.909	9	11
6	4	Alex Barros	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+20.938	8	10
7	11	Tohru Ukawa	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	24	+22.307	11	9
8	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	24	+27.887	6	8
9	56	Shinya Nakano	D'Antin Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+41.731	12	7
10	43	Akira Ryō	Team Suzuki	Suzuki	24	+50.106	14	6
11	23	Ryuichi Kiyonari	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	24	+53.214	20	5
12	41	Noriyuki Haga	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	24	+53.589	25	4
13	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+1:05.620	15	3
14	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	24	+1:07.535	18	2
15	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	24	+1:09.055	19	1
16	88	Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	24	+1:11.533	22
17	45	Colin Edwards	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	24	+1:27.583	13
18	25	Tamaki Serizawa	Moriwaki Racing	Moriwaki	24	+1:33.001	23
19	52	José David de Gea	WCM	Harris WCM	23	+1 lap	24
Ret	8	Garry McCoy	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	10	Retirement	21
Ret	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	2	Accident	17
Ret	35	Chris Burns	WCM	Harris WCM	1	Retirement	26
Ret	12	Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	0	Accident	10
Ret	21	John Hopkins	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	0	Accident	16
Ret	7	Carlos Checa	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	0	Accident	7
DSQ	6	Makoto Tamada	Pramac Honda	Honda	24	(+4.864)[N 1]	2
Sources: [4][5][6]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	23	43:57.125	1	25
2	3	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	23	+1.483	11	20
3	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	23	+2.159	7	16
4	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	23	+6.018	10	13
5	92	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	23	+6.163	6	11
6	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	23	+20.407	3	10
7	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	23	+25.938	8	9
8	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	23	+28.417	15	8
9	6	Alex Debón	Honda	23	+39.804	13	7
10	70	Choujun Kameya	Honda	23	+39.919	14	6
11	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	23	+49.703	12	5
12	15	Christian Gemmel	Honda	23	+55.921	18	4
13	26	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	23	+1:01.015	22	3
14	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	23	+1:03.387	24	2
15	69	Masaki Tokudome	Yamaha	23	+1:03.530	20	1
16	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	23	+1:04.299	19
17	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	23	+1:04.621	16
18	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	23	+1:21.680	26
19	11	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	23	+1:44.192	28
20	18	Henk vd Lagemaat	Honda	22	+1 lap	30
Ret	5	Sebastián Porto	Honda	18	Accident	4
Ret	67	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Yamaha	11	Retirement	9
Ret	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	9	Accident	5
Ret	13	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	9	Retirement	29
Ret	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	8	Retirement	23
Ret	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	6	Retirement	21
Ret	33	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	5	Retirement	17
Ret	16	Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	3	Retirement	27
Ret	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	2	Accident	2
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Yamaha	1	Retirement	25
Source: [7]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	21	41:54.483	4	25
2	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	21	+0.164	10	20
3	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	21	+0.304	5	16
4	7	Stefano Perugini	Aprilia	21	+2.731	2	13
5	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	21	+2.970	16	11
6	3	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	21	+3.215	1	10
7	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	21	+3.264	13	9
8	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	21	+9.200	6	8
9	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	21	+13.016	8	7
10	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	21	+13.195	15	6
11	6	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	21	+13.353	19	5
12	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	21	+19.848	18	4
13	8	Masao Azuma	Honda	21	+20.107	21	3
14	79	Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	21	+20.616	12	2
15	24	Simone Corsi	Honda	21	+23.402	17	1
16	33	Stefano Bianco	Gilera	21	+24.840	9
17	41	Youichi Ui	Gilera	21	+30.548	24
18	32	Fabrizio Lai	Malaguti	21	+47.008	23
19	1	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	21	+52.431	22
20	50	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	21	+52.675	30
21	66	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	21	+57.467	29
22	88	Robbin Harms	Aprilia	21	+1:11.694	33
23	59	Hiroaki Kuzuhara	Honda	21	+1:11.770	36
24	31	Julián Simón	Malaguti	21	+1:13.195	25
25	94	Sadahito Suma	Honda	21	+1:16.576	31
26	25	Imre Tóth	Honda	21	+1:28.964	32
Ret	10	Roberto Locatelli	KTM	20	Retirement	20
Ret	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	19	Accident	3
Ret	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	14	Accident	11
Ret	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	14	Retirement	14
Ret	95	Yuki Hatano	Honda	12	Accident	37
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	7	Accident	26
Ret	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	5	Accident	7
Ret	28	Michele Danese	Honda	5	Retirement	38
Ret	65	Toshihisa Kuzuhara	Honda	4	Retirement	27
Ret	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	4	Retirement	35
Ret	26	Emilio Alzamora	Derbi	3	Accident	28
Ret	42	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	3	Accident	34
Source: [8]

Championship standings after the race (motoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round thirteen has concluded.[9][10]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 282 2 Sete Gibernau 224 3 Max Biaggi 199 4 Loris Capirossi 131 5 Troy Bayliss 112

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 320 2 Ducati 179 3 Yamaha 143 4 Aprilia 67 5 Suzuki 29

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Notes

1. Disqualified for riding in an irresponsible manner.

References

1. "2003 Pacific MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
2. "2003 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
3. "Twin Ring Motegi | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
4. "2003 Pacific MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
5. "Gauloises Pacific GP of Motegi – MotoGP – Race Classification" (PDF). Motogp.com. Dorna Sports. 5 October 2003. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
6. "PACIFIC GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2003". Motogp.com. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
7. "Gauloises Pacific GP of Motegi – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 5 October 2003. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
8. "Gauloises Pacific GP of Motegi – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 5 October 2003. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
9. "World championship standings". Crash. October 5, 2003.
10. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2003. Retrieved 2019-08-22.

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