2005 F.I.M. Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
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The 2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 57th F.I.M. Road racing World Championship season.

Season summary

The 2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season began on April 10 at Jerez and closing on November 6 at Valencia. There were seventeen Grands Prix for the MotoGP class, and sixteen for the 250cc and 125cc classes.

The MotoGP championship was won by Valentino Rossi on a Yamaha, 250cc title by Daniel Pedrosa on a Honda and 125cc title by Thomas Lüthi on a Honda.

It was a season which featured a lot of dramatic races including 4 rain-affected races in Portugal, China, France and Great Britain. It also saw the domination of Valentino Rossi with 16 podiums out of 17 races and 11 wins, beating Marco Melandri by a distant 147 points in the championship.

Grands Prix

Round	Date	Race	Location	125cc winner	250cc winner	MotoGp winner	Report
1	April 10	Spanish Grand Prix	Jerez	Marco Simoncelli	Dani Pedrosa	Valentino Rossi	Report
2	April 17	Portuguese Grand Prix	Estoril	Mika Kallio	Casey Stoner	Alex Barros	Report
3	May 1	Chinese Grand Prix	Shanghai	Mattia Pasini	Casey Stoner	Valentino Rossi	Report
4	May 15	French Grand Prix	Le Mans	Thomas Lüthi	Dani Pedrosa	Valentino Rossi	Report
5	June 5	Italian Grand Prix	Mugello	Gábor Talmácsi	Dani Pedrosa	Valentino Rossi	Report
6	June 12	Catalan Grand Prix	Catalunya	Mattia Pasini	Dani Pedrosa	Valentino Rossi	Report
7	June 25	Dutch TT	Assen	Gábor Talmácsi	Sebastian Porto	Valentino Rossi	Report
8	July 10	United States Grand Prix	Laguna Seca	No 125cc and 250cc race		Nicky Hayden	Report
9	July 24	British Grand Prix	Donington Park	Julián Simón	Randy de Puniet	Valentino Rossi	Report
10	July 31	German Grand Prix	Sachsenring	Mika Kallio	Dani Pedrosa	Valentino Rossi	Report
11	August 20	Czech Republic Grand Prix	Brno	Thomas Lüthi	Dani Pedrosa	Valentino Rossi	Report
12	September 18	Japanese Grand Prix	Motegi	Mika Kallio	Hiroshi Aoyama	Loris Capirossi	Report
13	September 25	Malaysian Grand Prix	Sepang	Thomas Lüthi	Casey Stoner	Loris Capirossi	Report
14	October 10	Qatar Grand Prix	Losail	Gábor Talmácsi	Casey Stoner	Valentino Rossi	Report
15	October 16	Australian Grand Prix	Philip Island	Thomas Lüthi	Dani Pedrosa	Valentino Rossi	Report
16	October 23	Turkish Grand Prix	Istanbul	Mike Di Meglio	Casey Stoner	Marco Melandri	Report
17	November 6	Valencian Grand Prix	Valencia	Mika Kallio	Dani Pedrosa	Marco Melandri	Report

Riders standings

• Rounds marked with light blue background were ran under wet race conditions.
• Point system: 25 for 1st, 20 for 2nd, 16 for 3rd, 13 for 4th, 11 for 5th and then one point less for each position so 15th gets one point. Rider has to finish race to earn points.

MotoGP

Pos Rider Team ESP POR CHN FRA ITA CAT NED USA GBR GER CZE JPN MAL QAT AUS TUR VAL Pts 1 Rossi Yamaha 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 Ret 2 1 1 2 3 367 2 Melandri Honda 3 4 3 4 4 3 2 Ret Ret 7 6 Ret 5 2 4 1 1 220 3 Hayden Honda Ret 7 9 6 6 5 4 1 Ret 3 5 7 4 3 2 3 2 206 4 Edwards Yamaha 9 6 8 3 9 7 3 2 4 8 7 6 10 4 6 7 8 179 5 Biaggi Honda 7 3 5 5 2 6 6 4 Ret 4 3 2 6 Ret Ret 12 6 173 6 Capirossi Ducati 13 9 12 7 3 12 10 10 6 9 2 1 1 10 7 157 7 Gibernau Honda 2 Ret 4 2 Ret 2 5 5 Ret 2 Ret Ret Ret 5 5 4 Ret 150 8 Barros Honda 4 1 11 Ret 7 4 7 Ret 3 5 4 Ret 8 9 Ret 9 5 147 9 C. Checa Ducati 10 5 Ret Ret 5 11 9 Ret 5 Ret 8 4 3 6 3 5 4 138 10 Nakano Kawasaki 5 8 Ret 8 10 9 8 9 Ret 6 12 Ret Ret 7 7 10 11 98 11 Tamada Honda 8 8 Ret 14 7 7 10 10 3 12 Ret 8 8 9 91 12 Elias Yamaha 12 14 14 9 13 9 12 14 9 11 8 9 6 10 74 13 Ke. Roberts Suzuki Ret 12 Ret 13 15 15 16 14 2 11 11 8 7 11 63 14 Hopkins Suzuki 14 Ret 7 16 11 Ret 13 8 11 DNS 13 5 9 17 10 15 13 63 15 Bayliss Honda 6 11 Ret 10 13 8 11 6 Ret DNS 9 54 16 Xaus Yamaha 18 10 10 12 14 10 12 11 Ret 13 18 10 15 14 12 14 15 52 17 Jacque Kawasaki 2 11 DNS Ret 18 13 28 18 Rolfo Ducati 15 13 16 15 16 14 18 Ret 14 14 17 Ret 13 12 13 16 Ret 25 19 Hofmann Kawasaki 11 12 17 Ret 12 8 DNS 15 Ret 14 24 20 vd Goorbergh Honda 6 14 12 21 Vermeulen Honda 11 11 10 22 Battaini Blata 17 Ret Ret 17 18 19 20 17 Ret 15 20 11 16 16 15 17 16 7 23 Ellison Blata 16 15 13 Ret Ret 18 19 16 Ret Ret 19 Ret 15 14 18 Ret 7 24 Byrne KTM Ret 16 Ret 16 16 17 15 Ret Ret 14 13 6 25 Kiyonari Honda 12 4 26 D. Checa Yamaha 19 13 15 4 27 Ukawa Moriwaki 15 Ret 1 — Aoki Suzuki Ret 0 — McWilliams Proton Ret 0 — Ku. Roberts Proton Ret 0 Pos Rider Team ESP POR CHN FRA ITA CAT NED USA GBR GER CZE JPN MAL QAT AUS TUR VAL Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Finished, in points Blue Finished, no points Purple Did not finish (Ret) Not classified (NC) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Blank Did not participate Withdrawn due to injury (INJ) Excluded (EX)

250cc

Place	Rider	Number	Country	Team	Points	Wins
1	Daniel Pedrosa	1	Spain	Telefonica Movistar 250 Honda	309	8
2	Casey Stoner	27	Australia	Carrera Sunglasses - LCR Aprilia	254	5
3	Andrea Dovizioso	34	Italy	Team Scot Honda	189	0
4	Hiroshi Aoyama	73	Japan	Telefonica Movistar 250 Honda	180	1
5	Jorge Lorenzo	48	Spain	Fortuna Honda	167	0
6	Sebastian Porto	19	Argentina	Aprilia Aspar 250cc	152	1
7	Alex De Angelis	5	San Marino	MS Aprilia Italia Corse	151	0
8	Randy de Puniet	7	France	Aprilia Aspar 250cc	138	1
9	Héctor Barberá	80	Spain	Fortuna Honda	120	0
10	Sylvain Guintoli	50	France	Equipe de France - Scrab Aprilia	83	0

125cc

Place	Rider	Number	Country	Team	Points	Wins
1	Thomas Lüthi	12	Switzerland	Elit Grand Prix Honda	242	4
2	Mika Kallio	36	Finland	Red Bull KTM	237	4
3	Gábor Talmácsi	14	Hungary	Red Bull KTM	198	3
4	Mattia Pasini	75	Italy	Totti Top Sport - NGS Aprilia	183	2
5	Marco Simoncelli	58	Italy	Nocable.it Race Aprilia	177	1
6	Fabrizio Lai	32	Italy	Kopron Racing World Honda	141	0
7	Julián Simón	60	Spain	Red Bull KTM	123	1
8	Tomoyoshi Koyama	71	Japan	Ajo Motorsport Honda	119	0
9	Héctor Faubel	55	Spain	MVA Master Aspar Team Aprilia	113	0
10	Manuel Poggiali	54	San Marino	Metis Racing Team Gilera	107	0
11	Mike Di Meglio	63	France	Kopron Racing World Honda	104	1

Riders

MotoGP

Number	Rider	Country	Team	Notes
3	Max Biaggi		Repsol Honda
4	Alex Barros		Camel Honda
5	Colin Edwards		Yamaha Factory
6	Makoto Tamada		Konica Minolta Honda
7	Carlos Checa		Marlboro Ducati
10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.		Suzuki MotoGP
11	Ruben Xaus		Fortuna Yamaha
12	Troy Bayliss		Camel Honda
15	Sete Gibernau		Movistar Honda Gresini
16	Jurgen van den Goorbergh		Konica Minolta Honda
19	Olivier Jacque		Kawasaki Racing Team
21	John Hopkins		Suzuki MotoGP
24	Toni Elías		Fortuna Yamaha
27	Franco Battaini		Blata WCM
33	Marco Melandri		Movistar Honda Gresini
44	Roberto Rolfo		Ducati D'Antin
46	Valentino Rossi		Yamaha Factory
56	Shinya Nakano		Kawasaki Racing Team
65	Loris Capirossi		Marlboro Ducati
66	Alex Hofmann		Kawasaki Racing Team
67	Shane Byrne		Team Roberts
69	Nicky Hayden		Repsol Honda
72	Tohru Ukawa		Moriwaki Racing
77	James Ellison		Blata WCM
94	David Checa		Fortuna Yamaha

250cc

Number	Rider	Country	Team	Notes
1	Daniel Pedrosa		Honda
5	Alex De Angelis		Aprilia
6	Alex Debon		Honda
7	Randy de Puniet		Aprilia
8	Andrea Ballerini		Aprilia
9	Hugo Marchand		Aprilia
12	Gabor Rizmayer		Yamaha
14	Anthony West		Aprilia
15	Roberto Locatelli		Aprilia
16	Franz Aschenbrenner		Yamaha
17	Steve Jenkner		Honda
18	Frederik Watz		Yamaha
19	Sebastian Porto		Aprilia
20	Gabriele Ferro		Fantic Motor
21	Arnaud Vincent		Fantic Motor
24	Simone Corsi		Aprilia
25	Alex Baldolini		Aprilia
27	Casey Stoner		Aprilia
28	Dirk Heidolf		Honda
32	Mirko Giansanti		Aprilia
34	Andrea Dovizioso		Honda
36	Martin Cardenas		Aprilia
38	Gregory Leblanc		Aprilia
44	Taro Sekiguchi		Aprilia
48	Jorge Lorenzo		Honda
50	Sylvain Guintoli		Aprilia
55	Yuki Takahashi		Honda
57	Chaz Davies		Aprilia
64	Radomil Rous		Honda
73	Hiroshi Aoyama		Honda
80	Hector Barbera