2005 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix explained

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.

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	Daniel 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]

Riders' Championship standings

	Rider	Points
1	Valentino Rossi	367
2	Marco Melandri	220
3	Nicky Hayden	206
4	Colin Edwards	179
5	Max Biaggi	173

Constructors' Championship standings

	Constructor	Points
1	Yamaha	381
2	Honda	341
3	Ducati	202
4	Kawasaki	126
5	Suzuki	100

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

Notes and References

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