2005 British motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2005 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2005 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 22–24 July 2005 at the Donington Park circuit. It was also marked the final victory of Valentino Rossi in the wet race at the British circuit until the 2015 event was held at the Silverstone Circuit.

Valentino Rossi, riding his Yamaha in the MotoGP race. Rossi went on to win the race.

  2005 British Grand Prix

Race details
Race 9 of 17 races in the 2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	24 July 2005
Official name	betandwin.com British Grand Prix[1][2][3]
Location	Donington Park
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.023 km (2.500 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:27.897 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:45.377 on lap 24 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Kenny Roberts Jr. Third Alex Barros
250 cc
Pole position Rider Dani Pedrosa Time 1:31.834 Fastest lap Rider Anthony West Time 1:47.025 on lap 17 Podium First Randy de Puniet Second Anthony West Third Casey Stoner
125 cc
Pole position Rider Mika Kallio Time 1:37.295 Fastest lap Rider Álvaro Bautista Time 1:38.408 on lap 6 (first part) Podium First Julián Simón Second Mike Di Meglio Third Fabrizio Lai

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	29	52:58.675	1	25
2	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	29	+3.169	16	20
3	4	Alex Barros	Camel Honda	Honda	29	+4.006	4	16
4	5	Colin Edwards	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	29	+10.292	6	13
5	7	Carlos Checa	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	29	+13.020	13	11
6	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	29	+23.321	11	10
7	6	Makoto Tamada	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	29	+37.833	9	9
8	66	Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	29	+44.617	15	8
9	24	Toni Elías	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+1 lap	17	7
10	44	Roberto Rolfo	Team d'Antin Pramac	Ducati	28	+1 lap	19	6
11	21	John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	27	+2 laps	10	5
Ret	27	Franco Battaini	Blata WCM	Blata	25	Accident	21
Ret	77	James Ellison	Blata WCM	Blata	7	Accident	20
Ret	67	Shane Byrne	Team Roberts	Proton KR	4	Accident	18
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	3	Accident	2
Ret	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	3	Accident	12
Ret	3	Max Biaggi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	3	Accident	8
Ret	33	Marco Melandri	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	2	Accident	3
Ret	12	Troy Bayliss	Camel Honda	Honda	2	Accident	7
Ret	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	2	Retirement	5
Ret	11	Rubén Xaus	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	1	Accident	14
Sources: [4][5][6]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	27	49:11.337	6	25
2	14	Anthony West	KTM	27	+1.236	15	20
3	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	27	+16.740	10	16
4	1	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	27	+47.825	1	13
5	19	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	27	+1:03.449	5	11
6	24	Simone Corsi	Aprilia	27	+1:32.437	14	10
7	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	27	+1:34.560	4	9
8	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Honda	27	+1:45.964	2	8
9	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	12	7
10	8	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	20	6
11	32	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	22	5
12	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	11	4
13	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	19	3
14	38	Grégory Leblanc	Aprilia	25	+2 laps	24	2
15	64	Radomil Rous	Honda	25	+2 laps	25	1
16	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	25	+2 laps	17
17	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	25	+2 laps	18
18	41	Álvaro Molina	Aprilia	25	+2 laps	29
19	20	Gabriele Ferro	Fantic	23	+4 laps	31
Ret	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	22	Accident	16
Ret	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Aprilia	21	Accident	26
Ret	80	Héctor Barberá	Honda	16	Accident	7
Ret	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	12	Accident	8
Ret	42	Yves Polzer	Aprilia	12	Accident	28
Ret	5	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	8	Accident	3
Ret	36	Martín Cárdenas	Aprilia	4	Retirement	23
Ret	28	Dirk Heidolf	Honda	2	Retirement	21
Ret	21	Arnaud Vincent	Fantic	0	Retirement	27
Ret	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	0	Retirement	9
Ret	6	Alex Debón	Honda	0	Retirement	13
DSQ	26	Andreas Mårtensson	Yamaha	10	Black flag	30
DNQ	23	Nicklas Cajback	Yamaha		Did not qualify
Source: [7]

125 cc classification

The race, scheduled to be run for 25 laps, was stopped after 7 full laps due to heavy rain. It was later restarted for 9 laps, with the grid determined by the running order before the suspension. The second part of the race determined the final result.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	60	Julián Simón	KTM	9	17:35.523	6	25
2	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	9	+2.406	9	20
3	32	Fabrizio Lai	Honda	9	+8.896	5	16
4	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	9	+9.169	3	13
5	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	9	+13.837	17	11
6	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	9	+18.323	4	10
7	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	9	+23.453	1	9
8	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	9	+31.424	15	8
9	94	Dan Linfoot	Honda	9	+33.865	39	7
10	9	Toshihisa Kuzuhara	Honda	9	+40.094	30	6
11	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	9	+40.345	14	5
12	56	Christian Elkin	Honda	9	+40.761	41	4
13	28	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	9	+42.789	26	3
14	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	9	+42.833	27	2
15	11	Sandro Cortese	Honda	9	+43.420	28	1
16	16	Raymond Schouten	Honda	9	+43.587	25
17	44	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	9	+45.101	36
18	42	Gioele Pellino	Malaguti	9	+47.077	38
19	10	Federico Sandi	Honda	9	+48.901	31
20	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	9	+49.088	21
21	18	Nicolás Terol	Derbi	9	+54.566	18
22	95	James Westmoreland	Honda	9	+59.769	37
23	26	Vincent Braillard	Aprilia	9	+1:00.672	33
24	46	Mateo Túnez	Aprilia	9	+1:02.134	24
25	54	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	9	+1:26.419	11
26	45	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	9	+1:28.411	34
Ret	7	Alexis Masbou	Honda	8	Accident	10
Ret	19	Álvaro Bautista	Honda	5	Accident	12
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Honda	5	Retirement	19
Ret	14	Gábor Talmácsi	KTM	4	Accident	7
Ret	57	Rob Guiver	Honda	3	Accident	40
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	1	Retirement	20
Ret	15	Michele Pirro	Malaguti	0	Accident	32
Ret	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	0	Accident	22
Ret	43	Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	0	Retirement	16
Ret	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	0	Did not restart	2
Ret	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Honda	0	Accident in 1st part	8
Ret	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	0	Accident in 1st part	13
Ret	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Honda	0	Retirement in 1st part	23
Ret	96	Kev Coghlan	Honda	0	Retirement in 1st part	35
DNS	25	Dario Giuseppetti	Aprilia	0	Did not start 1st part	29
Source: [8]

Championship standings after the race (motoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 211 2 Marco Melandri 107 3 Colin Edwards 106 4 Max Biaggi 100 5 Sete Gibernau 95

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 215 2 Honda 182 3 Kawasaki 83 4 Ducati 75 5 Suzuki 55

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

References

1. "2005 British MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "2005 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
3. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Donington Park - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
4. "2005 British MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
5. "betandwin.com British Grand Prix – MotoGP – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 24 July 2005. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
6. "BRITISH GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2005". Motogp.com. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
7. "betandwin.com British Grand Prix – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 24 July 2005. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
8. "betandwin.com British Grand Prix – 125cc – Race PART 2 Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 24 July 2005. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
9. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2005. Retrieved 22 August 2019.

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