2004 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2004 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2004 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 29–31 October 2004 at the Circuit de Valencia.

  2004 Valencian Community Grand Prix

Race details
Race 16 of 16 races in the 2004 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	31 October 2004
Official name	Gran Premio Marlboro de la Comunitat Valenciana[1]
Location	Circuit Ricardo Tormo
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Makoto Tamada Time 1:32.815 Fastest lap Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:33.582 on lap 6 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Max Biaggi Third Troy Bayliss
250 cc
Pole position Rider Dani Pedrosa Time 1:36.367 Fastest lap Rider Dani Pedrosa Time 1:36.957 on lap 3 Podium First Dani Pedrosa Second Toni Elías Third Randy de Puniet
125 cc
Pole position Rider Andrea Dovizioso Time 1:39.927 Fastest lap Rider Pablo Nieto Time 1:40.581 on lap 5 Podium First Héctor Barberá Second Andrea Dovizioso Third Álvaro Bautista

MotoGP classification

Kenny Roberts Jr. was replaced by Gregorio Lavilla after the first practice session due to injury.[2]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	30	47:16.145	3	25
2	3	Max Biaggi	Camel Honda	Honda	30	+0.425	2	20
3	12	Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	30	+3.133	6	16
4	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	30	+6.128	4	13
5	6	Makoto Tamada	Camel Honda	Honda	30	+7.768	1	11
6	4	Alex Barros	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+14.675	12	10
7	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	30	+23.315	10	9
8	45	Colin Edwards	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	30	+27.441	8	8
9	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	30	+29.403	13	7
10	17	Norifumi Abe	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+31.537	15	6
11	66	Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	30	+40.951	11	5
12	21	John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	30	+1:02.014	7	4
13	99	Jeremy McWilliams	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	30	+1:04.637	14	3
14	7	Carlos Checa	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	30	+1:08.042	9	2
15	50	Neil Hodgson	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	30	+1:09.364	18	1
16	24	Garry McCoy	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	30	+1:15.022	20
17	32	Gregorio Lavilla	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	30	+1:15.274	19
18	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	29	+1 lap	21
19	77	James Ellison	WCM	Harris WCM	29	+1 lap	23
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Moriwaki Racing	Moriwaki	24	Retirement	22
Ret	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	22	Accident	5
Ret	35	Chris Burns	WCM	Harris WCM	11	Accident	25
Ret	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	10	Accident	16
Ret	11	Rubén Xaus	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	10	Accident	17
DNS	80	Kurtis Roberts	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	0	Did not start	24
Sources: [3][4][5]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	27	44:10.176	1	25
2	24	Toni Elías	Honda	27	+8.086	5	20
3	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	27	+27.412	4	16
4	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	27	+31.620	6	13
5	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	27	+34.059	10	11
6	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	27	+34.784	16	10
7	2	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	27	+40.352	18	9
8	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	27	+46.761	9	8
9	33	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	27	+46.770	13	7
10	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	27	+58.235	21	6
11	52	José David de Gea	Honda	27	+1:03.287	12	5
12	12	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	27	+1:05.615	20	4
13	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	27	+1:06.024	14	3
14	6	Alex Debón	Honda	27	+1:06.858	11	2
15	11	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	27	+1:10.842	15	1
16	41	Álvaro Molina	Aprilia	27	+1:13.946	25
17	16	Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	27	+1:14.621	22
18	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	27	+1:15.103	19
19	43	Radomil Rous	Yamaha	27	+1:40.045	27
20	42	Grégory Leblanc	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	24
21	75	Hans Smees	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	28
22	63	Jarno Ronzoni	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	29
Ret	19	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	18	Accident	2
Ret	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	18	Accident	17
Ret	64	Frederik Watz	Honda	17	Retirement	26
Ret	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	14	Retirement	23
Ret	51	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	3	Accident	3
Ret	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	1	Accident	8
DSQ	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	27	(+10.343)	7
DNS	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia		Did not start
DNS	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia		Did not start
DNQ	88	Gergő Talmácsi	Yamaha		Did not qualify
Source: [6]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	24	40:45.283	2	25
2	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	24	+0.761	1	20
3	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	24	+0.979	11	16
4	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	24	+1.285	14	13
5	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	24	+1.338	5	11
6	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	24	+3.708	7	10
7	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	24	+8.782	4	9
8	24	Simone Corsi	Honda	24	+12.425	13	8
9	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Malaguti	24	+12.515	10	7
10	21	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	24	+16.655	9	6
11	54	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	24	+19.936	15	5
12	6	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	24	+20.076	25	4
13	10	Julián Simón	Honda	24	+20.127	8	3
14	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	24	+31.001	17	2
15	32	Fabrizio Lai	Gilera	24	+38.040	12	1
16	37	Michele Pirro	Aprilia	24	+39.610	28
17	45	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	24	+39.951	21
18	88	Michael Ranseder	KTM	24	+45.884	36
19	70	Julián Miralles	Aprilia	24	+46.171	33
20	42	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	24	+46.357	32
21	25	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	24	+46.403	26
22	59	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia	24	+46.803	24
23	66	Vesa Kallio	Aprilia	24	+56.536	31
24	57	Aleix Espargaró	Honda	24	+56.557	29
25	43	Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	24	+59.931	22
26	71	Enrique Jerez	Honda	24	+1:02.191	34
27	28	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	24	+1:02.284	35
Ret	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	14	Accident	3
Ret	27	Casey Stoner	KTM	14	Accident	6
Ret	26	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	9	Accident	19
Ret	16	Raymond Schouten	Honda	6	Retirement	37
Ret	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	5	Accident	20
Ret	8	Manuel Manna	Malaguti	5	Retirement	30
Ret	31	Max Sabbatani	Honda	2	Retirement	38
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Honda	1	Retirement	16
Ret	7	Stefano Perugini	Gilera	1	Retirement	27
Ret	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Derbi	0	Accident	23
Ret	50	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	0	Accident	18
DNQ	9	Markéta Janáková	Honda		Did not qualify
Source: [7]

Championship standings after the race (motoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.[8]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 304 2 Sete Gibernau 257 3 Max Biaggi 217 4 Alex Barros 165 5 Colin Edwards 157

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 355 2 Yamaha 328 3 Ducati 169 4 Kawasaki 95 5 Suzuki 73

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

References

1. "2004 Valencia MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
2. "Suzuki confirm Lavilla to replace Roberts". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 29 October 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
3. "2004 Valencia MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
4. "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – MotoGP – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 31 October 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
5. "motogp.com · VALENCIA GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2004". Motogp.com. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
6. "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 31 October 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
7. "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 31 October 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
8. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2004. Retrieved 2019-08-22.

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