2007 French motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2007 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2007 MotoGP championship. It took place on the weekend of 18–20 May 2007 at the Le Mans Bugatti Circuit.

  2007 French Grand Prix

Race details
Race 5 of 18 races in the 2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	20 May 2007
Official name	Alice Grand Prix de France[1]
Location	Bugatti Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.180 km (2.597 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Colin Edwards Time 1:33.616 Fastest lap Rider John Hopkins Time 1:38.678 Podium First Chris Vermeulen Second Marco Melandri Third Casey Stoner
250 cc
Pole position Rider Jorge Lorenzo Time 1:37.934 Fastest lap Rider Andrea Dovizioso Time 1:38.566 Podium First Jorge Lorenzo Second Andrea Dovizioso Third Alex de Angelis
125 cc
Pole position Rider Mattia Pasini Time 1:43.111 Fastest lap Rider Lukáš Pešek Time 1:43.859 Podium First Sergio Gadea Second Lukáš Pešek Third Bradley Smith

The MotoGP race was subject to wet weather and the race saw the first time in the 800cc MotoGP formula era where riders changed bikes mid-race as a result of the conditions.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	71	Chris Vermeulen	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	50:58.713	12	25
2	33	Marco Melandri	Honda Gresini	Honda	28	+12.599	9	20
3	27	Casey Stoner	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+27.347	2	16
4	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+37.328	10	13
5	66	Alex Hofmann	Pramac d'Antin	Ducati	28	+49.166	17	11
6	46	Valentino Rossi	Fiat Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+53.563	4	10
7	21	John Hopkins	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	+1:01.073	5	9
8	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+1:21.241	15	8
9	6	Makoto Tamada	Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	27	+1 lap	16	7
10	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	27	+1 lap	11	6
11	11	Fonsi Nieto	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	27	+1 lap	19	5
12	5	Colin Edwards	Fiat Yamaha Team	Yamaha	25	+3 laps	1	4
Ret	4	Alex Barros	Pramac d'Antin	Ducati	27	Accident	13
Ret	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Team Roberts	KR212V	26	Retirement	18
Ret	1	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	25	Accident	7
Ret	56	Shinya Nakano	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	20	Accident	14
Ret	14	Randy de Puniet	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	8	Accident	8
Ret	24	Toni Elías	Honda Gresini	Honda	7	Accident	6
Ret	7	Carlos Checa	Honda LCR	Honda	6	Accident	3
[2][3][4]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Jorge Lorenzo	Aprilia	26	43:12.237	1	25
2	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	26	+0.156	8	20
3	3	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	26	+2.733	6	16
4	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	26	+5.971	3	13
5	60	Julián Simón	Honda	26	+6.111	2	11
6	58	Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	26	+22.753	7	10
7	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	26	+23.139	9	9
8	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	26	+27.416	5	8
9	73	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	26	+28.915	12	7
10	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	26	+33.950	11	6
11	8	Ratthapark Wilairot	Honda	26	+57.900	20	5
12	32	Fabrizio Lai	Aprilia	26	+58.011	13	4
13	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	26	+1:06.251	22	3
14	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Aprilia	26	+1:06.720	18	2
15	50	Eugene Laverty	Honda	26	+1:07.649	19	1
16	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+1:14.837	16
17	9	Arturo Tizón	Aprilia	26	+1:31.455	23
18	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	26	+1:39.701	14
Ret	10	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	15	Retirement	21
Ret	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	KTM	12	Retirement	10
Ret	16	Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	5	Accident	15
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	5	Accident	17
Ret	12	Thomas Lüthi	Aprilia	2	Retirement	4
DNS	15	Roberto Locatelli	Gilera	0	Did not start	24
OFFICIAL 250cc REPORT

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	24	41:50.112	6	25
2	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	24	+0.478	5	20
3	38	Bradley Smith	Honda	24	+2.963	2	16
4	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	24	+13.516	8	13
5	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	24	+13.845	18	11
6	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	24	+15.098	4	10
7	11	Sandro Cortese	Aprilia	24	+15.603	14	9
8	24	Simone Corsi	Aprilia	24	+15.664	13	8
9	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	24	+15.777	10	7
10	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	KTM	24	+19.108	3	6
11	44	Pol Espargaró	Aprilia	24	+23.920	19	5
12	7	Alexis Masbou	Honda	24	+24.210	11	4
13	34	Randy Krummenacher	KTM	24	+29.517	15	3
14	60	Michael Ranseder	Derbi	24	+29.701	9	2
15	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	24	+34.936[N 1]	17	1
16	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	24	+45.124	16
17	27	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	24	+45.308	20
18	53	Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	24	+46.142	21
19	18	Nicolás Terol	Derbi	24	+46.350	22
20	77	Dominique Aegerter	Aprilia	24	+1:00.825	25
21	13	Dino Lombardi	Honda	24	+1:00.948	23
22	20	Roberto Tamburini	Aprilia	24	+1:09.701	26
23	95	Robert Mureșan	Derbi	24	+1:10.101	24
24	56	Hugo van den Berg	Aprilia	24	+1:10.295	28
25	37	Joey Litjens	Honda	24	+1:10.471	29
26	15	Federico Sandi	Aprilia	24	+1:16.496	30
27	99	Danny Webb	Honda	24	+1:21.822	31
28	46	Romain Maitre	Honda	23	+1 lap	32
29	47	Steven Le Coquen	Honda	23	+1 lap	34
Ret	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	19	Retirement	1
Ret	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	15	Retirement	12
Ret	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	14	Accident	7
Ret	48	Julien Cartron	Honda	11	Retirement	33
Ret	51	Stevie Bonsey	KTM	3	Accident	27
DNS	12	Esteve Rabat	Honda		Did not start
DNS	45	Valentin Debise	Honda		Did not start
DNQ	49	Gwen Le Badezet	Honda		Did not qualify
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.[5]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Casey Stoner 102 2 Valentino Rossi 81 3 Dani Pedrosa 62 4 Marco Melandri 61 5 Chris Vermeulen 55

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Ducati 102 2 Honda 89 3 Yamaha 81 4 Suzuki 71 5 Kawasaki 28

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

Notes

1. Pablo Nieto received a 20-second penalty.

References

1. "2007 French MotoGP". Motorpsortmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
2. "2007 French MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
3. "OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT" (PDF).
4. "motogp.com · ALICE GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE · MotoGP Race Classification 2007". www.motogp.com.
5. "motogp.com · MotoGP World Standing 2007". www.motogp.com.

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