2005 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2005 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2005 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 4–6 November 2005 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo.

  2005 Valencian Community Grand Prix
Race details
Race 17 of 17 races in the
2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date6 November 2005
Official nameGran Premio betandwin.com de la Comunitat Valenciana[1]
LocationCircuit Ricardo Tormo
Course
  • Permanent racing facility
  • 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider Sete Gibernau
Time 1:31.874
Fastest lap
Rider Marco Melandri
Time 1:33.043 on lap 4
Podium
First Marco Melandri
Second Nicky Hayden
Third Valentino Rossi
250 cc
Pole position
Rider Dani Pedrosa
Time 1:35.298
Fastest lap
Rider Dani Pedrosa
Time 1:35.792 on lap 17
Podium
First Dani Pedrosa
Second Jorge Lorenzo
Third Casey Stoner
125 cc
Pole position
Rider Sergio Gadea
Time 1:39.830
Fastest lap
Rider Sergio Gadea
Time 1:40.286 on lap 14
Podium
First Mika Kallio
Second Gábor Talmácsi
Third Mattia Pasini

Race

This race featured a battle between Marco Melandri and Nicky Hayden, and a fightback to third place from a bad qualifying from Valentino Rossi, who by then was already crowned world champion.

Before the start of the weekend, the Factory Yamaha Team had unveiled a special, one-off 'retro' livery to commemorate Yamaha's fiftieth anniversary and their very successful year in racing, replacing their main sponsor and its colours (Gauloises and dark blue) with the traditional white with red and black blocks/stripes.[2][3] They ran a similar livery before at the United States round but that livery consisted of yellow instead of white.

After sixteen rounds, Valentino Rossi has already won the title at the Malaysian round.[4] Rossi has since then increased his title lead to 351 points. Second is Marco Melandri with 195 points and a close third is Nicky Hayden with 186 points.

On Saturday, Sete Gibernau clinched his the final pole position of the season - his fifth - with a time of 1:31.874. Second is Marco Melandri who is +0.237 seconds behind and third is Nicky Hayden who is +0.343 seconds behind. The second row of the grid consists out of Carlos Checa in fourth place, Max Biaggi in fifth place and Colin Edwards in sixth place. World champion Valentino Rossi had a poor qualifying result after a crash and starts a lowly fifteenth. Suzuki test rider Nobuatsu Aoki replaces Kenny Roberts Jr. who is still recovering from a broken left wrist he sustained after a big highside during Friday practice at the Australian round, having then also confirmed his split with the team shortly after.[5][6][7]

MotoGP classification
Pos. No. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 33 Marco Melandri Movistar Honda MotoGP Honda 30 46:58.152 2 25
2 69 Nicky Hayden Repsol Honda Team Honda 30 +0.097 3 20
3 46 Valentino Rossi Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 30 +2.959 15 16
4 7 Carlos Checa Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 30 +18.718 4 13
5 4 Alex Barros Camel Honda Honda 30 +20.706 8 11
6 3 Max Biaggi Repsol Honda Team Honda 30 +21.254 5 10
7 65 Loris Capirossi Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 30 +23.142 7 9
8 5 Colin Edwards Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 30 +25.678 6 8
9 6 Makoto Tamada Konica Minolta Honda Honda 30 +36.710 10 7
10 24 Toni Elías Fortuna Yamaha Team Yamaha 30 +39.116 13 6
11 56 Shinya Nakano Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki 30 +41.136 9 5
12 54 Ryuichi Kiyonari Camel Honda Honda 30 +45.691 16 4
13 21 John Hopkins Team Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 30 +46.507 11 3
14 66 Alex Hofmann Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki 30 +49.856 12 2
15 11 Rubén Xaus Fortuna Yamaha Team Yamaha 30 +1:19.443 17 1
16 27 Franco Battaini Blata WCM Blata 29 +1 lap 21
Ret 80 Kurtis Roberts Team Roberts Proton KR 16 Retirement 20
Ret 77 James Ellison Blata WCM Blata 15 Retirement 19
Ret 9 Nobuatsu Aoki Team Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 8 Retirement 14
Ret 15 Sete Gibernau Movistar Honda MotoGP Honda 3 Retirement 1
Ret 44 Roberto Rolfo Team d'Antin Pramac Ducati 0 Accident 18
Sources: [8][9][10]

250 cc classification
Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 1 Dani Pedrosa Honda 27 43:33.395 1 25
2 48 Jorge Lorenzo Honda 27 +3.448 4 20
3 27 Casey Stoner Aprilia 27 +14.372 7 16
4 5 Alex de Angelis Aprilia 27 +17.771 3 13
5 80 Héctor Barberá Honda 27 +26.233 2 11
6 73 Hiroshi Aoyama Honda 27 +31.244 6 10
7 55 Yuki Takahashi Honda 27 +35.518 8 9
8 7 Randy de Puniet Aprilia 27 +36.488 9 8
9 34 Andrea Dovizioso Honda 27 +43.129 5 7
10 15 Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 27 +43.960 15 6
11 6 Alex Debón Honda 27 +55.494 12 5
12 96 Jakub Smrž Honda 27 +57.265 10 4
13 36 Martín Cárdenas Aprilia 27 +58.185 18 3
14 50 Sylvain Guintoli Aprilia 27 +58.545 16 2
15 44 Taro Sekiguchi Aprilia 27 +1:01.485 13 1
16 57 Chaz Davies Aprilia 27 +1:12.112 19
17 17 Steve Jenkner Aprilia 27 +1:23.475 17
18 25 Alex Baldolini Aprilia 27 +1:30.535 14
19 32 Mirko Giansanti Aprilia 27 +1:31.957 26
20 56 Mathieu Gines Aprilia 26 +1 lap 22
21 61 Li Zheng Peng Aprilia 26 +1 lap 29
Ret 8 Andrea Ballerini Aprilia 26 Retirement 20
Ret 24 Simone Corsi Aprilia 26 Accident 24
Ret 28 Dirk Heidolf Honda 18 Accident 11
Ret 63 Erwan Nigon Yamaha 18 Retirement 27
Ret 60 Wang Zhu Aprilia 15 Retirement 28
Ret 33 Arturo Tizón Honda 9 Retirement 21
Ret 41 Álvaro Molina Aprilia 6 Accident 23
Ret 21 Arnaud Vincent Fantic 6 Accident 25
DNS 19 Sebastián Porto Aprilia Did not start
DNQ 23 Nicklas Cajback Yamaha Did not qualify
DNQ 20 Gabriele Ferro Fantic Did not qualify
Source: [11]

125 cc classification
Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 36 Mika Kallio KTM 24 40:26.640 3 25
2 14 Gábor Talmácsi KTM 24 +0.237 8 20
3 75 Mattia Pasini Aprilia 24 +0.367 2 16
4 55 Héctor Faubel Aprilia 24 +12.401 6 13
5 58 Marco Simoncelli Aprilia 24 +17.009 11 11
6 71 Tomoyoshi Koyama Honda 24 +20.635 9 10
7 32 Fabrizio Lai Honda 24 +20.670 5 9
8 60 Julián Simón KTM 24 +20.809 12 8
9 12 Thomas Lüthi Honda 24 +23.517 4 7
10 22 Pablo Nieto Derbi 24 +32.805 24 6
11 41 Aleix Espargaró Honda 24 +35.930 14 5
12 19 Álvaro Bautista Honda 24 +36.015 22 4
13 35 Raffaele De Rosa Aprilia 24 +43.436 21 3
14 6 Joan Olivé Aprilia 24 +47.651 27 2
15 29 Andrea Iannone Aprilia 24 +49.387 16 1
16 18 Nicolás Terol Derbi 24 +53.187 26
17 28 Jordi Carchano Aprilia 24 +57.976 23
18 51 Enrique Jerez Derbi 24 +1:00.860 36
19 43 Manuel Hernández Honda 24 +1:01.055 19
20 27 Mateo Túnez Aprilia 24 +1:06.276 28
21 45 Imre Tóth Aprilia 24 +1:06.915 31
22 42 Gioele Pellino Malaguti 24 +1:08.479 34
23 26 Vincent Braillard Aprilia 24 +1:13.289 38
24 59 Esteve Rabat Honda 24 +1:22.682 35
25 84 Julián Miralles Aprilia 24 +1:23.174 37
26 31 Sascha Hommel Honda 24 +1:39.732 39
Ret 7 Alexis Masbou Honda 22 Accident 18
Ret 33 Sergio Gadea Aprilia 18 Accident 1
Ret 11 Sandro Cortese Honda 17 Accident 7
Ret 89 Jules Cluzel Malaguti 17 Accident 17
Ret 54 Manuel Poggiali Gilera 16 Accident 15
Ret 8 Lorenzo Zanetti Aprilia 14 Accident 20
Ret 52 Lukáš Pešek Derbi 14 Accident 13
Ret 49 Daniel Sáez Aprilia 14 Retirement 32
Ret 44 Karel Abraham Aprilia 10 Accident 33
Ret 10 Federico Sandi Honda 6 Accident 25
Ret 63 Mike Di Meglio Honda 5 Accident 10
Ret 25 Dario Giuseppetti Aprilia 0 Accident 30
Ret 48 David Bonache Honda 0 Accident 29
Source: [12]

Championship standings after the race (motoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seventeen has concluded.[13]

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

References
  1. "2005 Valencia MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  2. "Yamaha confirms 'retro' Valencia livery". Crash. November 3, 2005.
  3. "Pictures: Yamaha unveils 'retro' Valencia livery". Crash. November 3, 2005.
  4. "Capirossi wins, Rossi crowned 2005 champion". Crash. September 25, 2005.
  5. "200kph Roberts highside 'as bad as it gets'". Crash. October 14, 2005.
  6. "Roberts and Suzuki split". Crash. October 22, 2005.
  7. "'Secret software' helps Aoki". Crash. November 4, 2005.
  8. "2005 Valencia MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  9. "G. P. betandwin.com Comunitat Valenciana – MotoGP – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 6 November 2005. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  10. "G. P. betandwin.com COMUNITAT VALENCIANA · MotoGP Race Classification 2005". Motogp.com. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  11. "G. P. betandwin.com Comunitat Valenciana – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 6 November 2005. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  12. "G. P. betandwin.com Comunitat Valenciana – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 6 November 2005. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  13. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2005. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
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