2003_Valencian_Community_motorcycle_Grand_Prix

2003 Valencian Community Grand Prix
Race details
Race 16 of 16 races in the; 2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	2 November 2003
Official name	Gran Premio Marlboro de la Comunitat Valenciana
Location	Circuit Ricardo Tormo
Course	Permanent racing facility; 4.005 km (2.489 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:32.478
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:33.317 on lap 24
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Sete Gibernau
Third	Loris Capirossi
250 cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Randy de Puniet
Time	1:36.499
Fastest lap
Rider	Toni Elías
Time	1:36.840 on lap 14
Podium
First	Randy de Puniet
Second	Toni Elías
Third	Manuel Poggiali
125 cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Alex de Angelis
Time	1:40.440
Fastest lap
Rider	Steve Jenkner
Time	1:40.253 on lap 17
Podium
First	Casey Stoner
Second	Steve Jenkner
Third	Héctor Barberá

2003 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

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The 2003 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 31 October – 2 November 2003 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo.

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Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda	Honda	30	47:13.078	1	25
2	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	30	+0.681	2	20
3	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	30	+11.227	3	16
4	3	Max Biaggi	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	30	+16.293	6	13
5	7	Carlos Checa	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+20.868	5	11
6	4	Alex Barros	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+30.851	8	10
7	12	Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	30	+37.770	10	9
8	45	Colin Edwards	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	30	+38.922	7	8
9	17	Norifumi Abe	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+40.229	11	7
10	6	Makoto Tamada	Pramac Honda	Honda	30	+46.500	13	6
11	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	30	+1:01.496	18	5
12	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	30	+1:04.510	15	4
13	21	John Hopkins	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	30	+1:05.191	17	3
14	23	Ryuichi Kiyonari	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	30	+1:06.012	20	2
15	41	Noriyuki Haga	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	30	+1:06.154	22	1
16	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda	Honda	30	+1:11.432	4
17	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	30	+1:26.736	19
18	88	Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	30	+1:27.016	16
19	8	Garry McCoy	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	30	+1:27.450	14
20	52	José David de Gea	WCM	Harris WCM	29	+1 lap	23
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	Retirement	21
Ret	11	Tohru Ukawa	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	4	Accident	9
Ret	56	Shinya Nakano	d'Antín Yamaha Team	Yamaha	4	Accident	12
WD	35	Chris Burns	WCM	Harris WCM		Withdrew
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Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	27	44:01.924	1	25
2	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	27	+0.072	2	20
3	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	27	+12.810	4	16
4	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	27	+22.496	3	13
5	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	27	+30.731	7	11
6	5	Sebastián Porto	Honda	27	+32.381	9	10
7	3	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	27	+35.547	10	9
8	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	27	+36.987	6	8
9	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	27	+38.672	12	7
10	6	Alex Debón	Honda	27	+41.748	5	6
11	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	27	+55.156	8	5
12	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	27	+1:03.117	18	4
13	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	27	+1:08.018	15	3
14	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	27	+1:18.041	16	2
15	73	Radomil Rous	Aprilia	27	+1:24.071	19	1
16	40	Álvaro Molina	Aprilia	27	+1:29.994	26
17	16	Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	27	+1:32.471	21
18	18	Henk vd Lagemaat	Honda	26	+1 lap	27
19	52	Lukáš Pešek	Yamaha	26	+1 lap	25
20	83	Patrick Lakerveld	Aprilia	25	+2 laps	28
Ret	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	15	Retirement	17
Ret	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	14	Retirement	13
Ret	26	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	13	Retirement	24
Ret	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	11	Retirement	23
Ret	15	Christian Gemmel	Honda	8	Retirement	20
Ret	13	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	2	Accident	14
Ret	33	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	1	Retirement	11
Ret	11	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	1	Retirement	22
DNQ	84	Yves Polzer	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	42	Grégory Leblanc	Honda		Did not qualify
Source: ^[5]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	24	40:27.662	8	25
2	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	24	+0.268	13	20
3	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	24	+1.101	4	16
4	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	24	+3.205	3	13
5	6	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	24	+8.760	11	11
6	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	24	+8.888	7	10
7	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	24	+12.265	2	9
8	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	24	+16.738	5	8
9	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	24	+21.089	15	7
10	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	24	+30.673	9	6
11	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	24	+32.847	17	5
12	79	Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	24	+32.954	21	4
13	7	Stefano Perugini	Aprilia	24	+33.349	6	3
14	88	Robbin Harms	Aprilia	24	+34.889	14	2
15	8	Masao Azuma	Honda	24	+34.958	31	1
16	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	24	+40.633	24
17	10	Roberto Locatelli	KTM	24	+45.678	18
18	32	Fabrizio Lai	Malaguti	24	+50.241	19
19	31	Julián Simón	Malaguti	24	+50.313	22
20	70	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	24	+58.305	29
21	33	Stefano Bianco	Gilera	24	+58.315	23
22	25	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	24	+1:23.309	26
23	81	Ismael Ortega	Aprilia	24	+1:33.631	35
24	26	Emilio Alzamora	Derbi	24	+1:39.042	28
Ret	90	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	20	Accident	30
Ret	28	Michele Danese	Honda	17	Retirement	37
Ret	1	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	14	Retirement	12
Ret	42	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	9	Retirement	36
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	7	Retirement	25
Ret	24	Simone Corsi	Honda	3	Accident	33
Ret	50	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	3	Accident	32
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	1	Accident	1
Ret	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	1	Accident	10
Ret	41	Youichi Ui	Gilera	1	Retirement	16
DNS	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	0	Did not start	20
DNS	43	Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	0	Did not start	27
DNS	69	David Bonache	Honda	0	Did not start	34
Source: ^[6]

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2003 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

MotoGP classification

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (motoGP)

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