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[1]
Location	Circuit Ricardo Tormo
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 1:32.478 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 1:33.317 on lap 24 Podium First Valentino Rossi Honda Second Sete Gibernau Honda Third Loris Capirossi Ducati
250cc
Pole position Rider Randy de Puniet Aprilia Time 1:36.499 Fastest lap Rider Toni Elías Aprilia Time 1:36.840 on lap 14 Podium First Randy de Puniet Aprilia Second Toni Elías Aprilia Third Manuel Poggiali Aprilia
125cc
Pole position Rider Alex de Angelis Aprilia Time 1:40.440 Fastest lap Rider Steve Jenkner Aprilia Time 1:40.253 on lap 17 Podium First Casey Stoner Aprilia Second Steve Jenkner Aprilia Third Héctor Barberá Aprilia

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.

MotoGP classification

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
Sources: [2][3][4]

250 cc classification

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]

125 cc classification

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]

Championship standings after the race (motoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.^[7][8]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 357 2 Sete Gibernau 277 3 Max Biaggi 228 4 Loris Capirossi 177 5 Nicky Hayden 130

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 395 2 Ducati 225 3 Yamaha 175 4 Aprilia 81 5 Suzuki 43

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

References

1. "2003 Valencia MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
2. "2003 Valencia MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
3. "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – MotoGP – Race Classification" (PDF). Motogp.com. Dorna Sports. 2 November 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
4. "VALENCIA GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2003". Motogp.com. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
5. "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 2 November 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
6. "GP Marlboro Comunitat Valenciana – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 2 November 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
7. "2003 world championship standings". Crash. November 2, 2003.
8. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2003. Retrieved 2023-04-17.

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