United Kingdom  2005 British Grand Prix
Race details
Race 9 of 17 races in the
2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date24 July 2005
Official namebetandwin.com British Grand Prix[1][2][3]
LocationDonington Park
Course
  • Permanent racing facility
  • 4.023 km (2.500 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider Italy Valentino Rossi
Time 1:27.897
Fastest lap
Rider Italy Valentino Rossi
Time 1:45.377 on lap 24
Podium
First Italy Valentino Rossi
Second United States Kenny Roberts Jr.
Third Brazil Alex Barros
250 cc
Pole position
Rider Spain Daniel Pedrosa
Time 1:31.834
Fastest lap
Rider Australia Anthony West
Time 1:47.025 on lap 17
Podium
First France Randy de Puniet
Second Australia Anthony West
Third Australia Casey Stoner
125 cc
Pole position
Rider Finland Mika Kallio
Time 1:37.295
Fastest lap
Rider Spain Álvaro Bautista
Time 1:38.408 on lap 6 (first part)
Podium
First Spain Julián Simón
Second France Mike Di Meglio
Third Italy Fabrizio Lai

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.

MotoGP classification

Pos. No. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 46 Italy Valentino Rossi Gauloises Yamaha Team Yamaha 29 52:58.675 1 25
2 10 United States Kenny Roberts Jr. Team Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 29 +3.169 16 20
3 4 Brazil Alex Barros Camel Honda Honda 29 +4.006 4 16
4 5 United States Colin Edwards Gauloises Yamaha Team Yamaha 29 +10.292 6 13
5 7 Spain Carlos Checa Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 29 +13.020 13 11
6 65 Italy Loris Capirossi Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 29 +23.321 11 10
7 6 Japan Makoto Tamada Konica Minolta Honda Honda 29 +37.833 9 9
8 66 Germany Alex Hofmann Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki 29 +44.617 15 8
9 24 Spain Toni Elías Fortuna Yamaha Team Yamaha 28 +1 lap 17 7
10 44 Italy Roberto Rolfo Team d'Antin Pramac Ducati 28 +1 lap 19 6
11 21 United States John Hopkins Team Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 27 +2 laps 10 5
Ret 27 Italy Franco Battaini Blata WCM Blata 25 Accident 21
Ret 77 United Kingdom James Ellison Blata WCM Blata 7 Accident 20
Ret 67 United Kingdom Shane Byrne Team Roberts Proton KR 4 Accident 18
Ret 15 Spain Sete Gibernau Movistar Honda MotoGP Honda 3 Accident 2
Ret 56 Japan Shinya Nakano Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki 3 Accident 12
Ret 3 Italy Max Biaggi Repsol Honda Team Honda 3 Accident 8
Ret 33 Italy Marco Melandri Movistar Honda MotoGP Honda 2 Accident 3
Ret 12 Australia Troy Bayliss Camel Honda Honda 2 Accident 7
Ret 69 United States Nicky Hayden Repsol Honda Team Honda 2 Retirement 5
Ret 11 Spain 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 France Randy de Puniet Aprilia 27 49:11.337 6 25
2 14 Australia Anthony West KTM 27 +1.236 15 20
3 27 Australia Casey Stoner Aprilia 27 +16.740 10 16
4 1 Spain Daniel Pedrosa Honda 27 +47.825 1 13
5 19 Argentina Sebastián Porto Aprilia 27 +1:03.449 5 11
6 24 Italy Simone Corsi Aprilia 27 +1:32.437 14 10
7 34 Italy Andrea Dovizioso Honda 27 +1:34.560 4 9
8 48 Spain Jorge Lorenzo Honda 27 +1:45.964 2 8
9 50 France Sylvain Guintoli Aprilia 26 +1 lap 12 7
10 8 Italy Andrea Ballerini Aprilia 26 +1 lap 20 6
11 32 Italy Mirko Giansanti Aprilia 26 +1 lap 22 5
12 15 Italy Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 26 +1 lap 11 4
13 25 Italy Alex Baldolini Aprilia 26 +1 lap 19 3
14 38 France Grégory Leblanc Aprilia 25 +2 laps 24 2
15 64 Czech Republic Radomil Rous Honda 25 +2 laps 25 1
16 96 Czech Republic Jakub Smrž Honda 25 +2 laps 17
17 17 Germany Steve Jenkner Aprilia 25 +2 laps 18
18 41 Spain Álvaro Molina Aprilia 25 +2 laps 29
19 20 Italy Gabriele Ferro Fantic 23 +4 laps 31
Ret 57 United Kingdom Chaz Davies Aprilia 22 Accident 16
Ret 44 Japan Taro Sekiguchi Aprilia 21 Accident 26
Ret 80 Spain Héctor Barberá Honda 16 Accident 7
Ret 73 Japan Hiroshi Aoyama Honda 12 Accident 8
Ret 42 Austria Yves Polzer Aprilia 12 Accident 28
Ret 5 San Marino Alex de Angelis Aprilia 8 Accident 3
Ret 36 Colombia Martín Cárdenas Aprilia 4 Retirement 23
Ret 28 Germany Dirk Heidolf Honda 2 Retirement 21
Ret 21 France Arnaud Vincent Fantic 0 Retirement 27
Ret 55 Japan Yuki Takahashi Honda 0 Retirement 9
Ret 6 Spain Alex Debón Honda 0 Retirement 13
DSQ 26 Sweden Andreas Mårtensson Yamaha 10 Black flag 30
DNQ 23 Sweden 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 Spain Julián Simón KTM 9 17:35.523 6 25
2 63 France Mike Di Meglio Honda 9 +2.406 9 20
3 32 Italy Fabrizio Lai Honda 9 +8.896 5 16
4 58 Italy Marco Simoncelli Aprilia 9 +9.169 3 13
5 22 Spain Pablo Nieto Derbi 9 +13.837 17 11
6 12 Switzerland Thomas Lüthi Honda 9 +18.323 4 10
7 36 Finland Mika Kallio KTM 9 +23.453 1 9
8 6 Spain Joan Olivé Aprilia 9 +31.424 15 8
9 94 United Kingdom Dan Linfoot Honda 9 +33.865 39 7
10 9 Japan Toshihisa Kuzuhara Honda 9 +40.094 30 6
11 33 Spain Sergio Gadea Aprilia 9 +40.345 14 5
12 56 United Kingdom Christian Elkin Honda 9 +40.761 41 4
13 28 Spain Jordi Carchano Aprilia 9 +42.789 26 3
14 8 Italy Lorenzo Zanetti Aprilia 9 +42.833 27 2
15 11 Germany Sandro Cortese Honda 9 +43.420 28 1
16 16 Netherlands Raymond Schouten Honda 9 +43.587 25
17 44 Czech Republic Karel Abraham Aprilia 9 +45.101 36
18 42 Italy Gioele Pellino Malaguti 9 +47.077 38
19 10 Italy Federico Sandi Honda 9 +48.901 31
20 35 Italy Raffaele De Rosa Aprilia 9 +49.088 21
21 18 Spain Nicolás Terol Derbi 9 +54.566 18
22 95 United Kingdom James Westmoreland Honda 9 +59.769 37
23 26 Switzerland Vincent Braillard Aprilia 9 +1:00.672 33
24 46 Spain Mateo Túnez Aprilia 9 +1:02.134 24
25 54 San Marino Manuel Poggiali Gilera 9 +1:26.419 11
26 45 Hungary Imre Tóth Aprilia 9 +1:28.411 34
Ret 7 France Alexis Masbou Honda 8 Accident 10
Ret 19 Spain Álvaro Bautista Honda 5 Accident 12
Ret 41 Spain Aleix Espargaró Honda 5 Retirement 19
Ret 14 Hungary Gábor Talmácsi KTM 4 Accident 7
Ret 57 United Kingdom Rob Guiver Honda 3 Accident 40
Ret 52 Czech Republic Lukáš Pešek Derbi 1 Retirement 20
Ret 15 Italy Michele Pirro Malaguti 0 Accident 32
Ret 29 Italy Andrea Iannone Aprilia 0 Accident 22
Ret 43 Spain Manuel Hernández Aprilia 0 Retirement 16
Ret 75 Italy Mattia Pasini Aprilia 0 Did not restart 2
Ret 71 Japan Tomoyoshi Koyama Honda 0 Accident in 1st part 8
Ret 55 Spain Héctor Faubel Aprilia 0 Accident in 1st part 13
Ret 47 Spain Ángel Rodríguez Honda 0 Retirement in 1st part 23
Ret 96 United Kingdom Kev Coghlan Honda 0 Retirement in 1st part 35
DNS 25 Germany 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]

  • 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. Archived from the original on 28 August 2018. 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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