2005 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

  2005 Japanese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 12 of 17 races in the 2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	18 September 2005
Official name	Grand Prix of Japan[1][2][3]
Location	Twin Ring Motegi
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.801 km (2.983 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:46.363 Fastest lap Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:47.968 on lap 3 Podium First Loris Capirossi Second Max Biaggi Third Makoto Tamada
250cc
Pole position Rider Hiroshi Aoyama Time 1:51.843 Fastest lap Rider Daniel Pedrosa Time 1:53.199 on lap 14 Podium First Hiroshi Aoyama Second Daniel Pedrosa Third Casey Stoner
125cc
Pole position Rider Gábor Talmácsi Time 1:58.653 Fastest lap Rider Mateo Túnez Time 1:59.018 on lap 7 Podium First Mika Kallio Second Thomas Lüthi Third Héctor Faubel

The 2005 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2005 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 16–18 September 2005 at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit. In the 250cc class Jorge Lorenzo was handed a 1 race ban for riding in a irresponsible manner.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	24	43:30.499	1	25
2	3	Max Biaggi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	+1.479	5	20
3	6	Makoto Tamada	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	24	+16.227	4	16
4	7	Carlos Checa	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	24	+22.148	9	13
5	21	John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	24	+33.212	2	11
6	5	Colin Edwards	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+34.915	13	10
7	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	+45.894	6	9
8	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	24	+56.498	8	8
9	24	Toni Elías	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+1:12.037	17	7
10	11	Rubén Xaus	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+1:34.927	19	6
11	27	Franco Battaini	Blata WCM	Blata	23	+1 lap	20	5
Ret	33	Marco Melandri	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	12	Accident	3
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	12	Accident	11
Ret	4	Alex Barros	Camel Honda	Honda	12	Accident	10
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	11	Accident	7
Ret	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	8	Retirement	14
Ret	72	Tohru Ukawa	Camel Honda	Honda	4	Retirement	15
Ret	44	Roberto Rolfo	Team d'Antin Pramac	Ducati	2	Accident	16
Ret	66	Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	2	Accident	12
Ret	45	Naoki Matsudo	Moriwaki Racing	Moriwaki	0	Retirement	18
DNS	77	James Ellison	Blata WCM	Blata		Did not start
Sources: [4][5][6]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	23	43:52.454	1	25
2	1	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	23	+5.313	7	20
3	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	23	+7.781	9	16
4	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	23	+10.222	6	13
5	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	23	+10.763	8	11
6	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	23	+11.054	5	10
7	5	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	23	+19.199	4	9
8	80	Héctor Barberá	Honda	23	+24.665	13	8
9	6	Alex Debón	Honda	23	+37.683	16	7
10	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	23	+38.122	11	6
11	24	Simone Corsi	Aprilia	23	+38.194	24	5
12	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	23	+53.211	15	4
13	32	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	23	+56.364	21	3
14	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	23	+1:08.640	27	2
15	64	Radomil Rous	Honda	23	+1:09.205	22	1
16	93	Kouki Takahashi	Honda	23	+1:17.982	28
17	36	Martín Cárdenas	Aprilia	23	+1:25.096	29
18	28	Dirk Heidolf	Honda	23	+1:26.088	20
19	77	Mamoru Akiya	Yamaha	23	+1:33.286	30
20	79	Masaki Tokudome	Yamaha	23	+1:35.598	25
21	56	Mathieu Gines	Aprilia	23	+1:37.552	32
Ret	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Honda	22	Accident	2
Ret	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Aprilia	21	Retirement	12
Ret	19	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	10	Accident	10
Ret	8	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	10	Retirement	26
Ret	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	5	Accident	23
Ret	75	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	2	Accident	3
Ret	14	Anthony West	KTM	2	Accident	14
Ret	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	0	Accident	17
Ret	21	Arnaud Vincent	Fantic	0	Accident	31
Ret	78	Ryuji Yokoe	Yamaha	0	Accident	18
Ret	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	0	Accident	19
DNQ	23	Nicklas Cajback	Yamaha		Did not qualify
DNQ	20	Gabriele Ferro	Fantic		Did not qualify
DNQ	22	Alexander Todorov	Yamaha		Did not qualify
Source: [7]

125 cc classification

The race, scheduled to be run for 21 laps, was stopped after 15 full laps due to an accident and did not restart as two thirds of the race distance had been completed.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	15	30:10.854	5	25
2	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	15	+0.111	7	20
3	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	15	+1.517	6	16
4	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Honda	15	+2.349	2	13
5	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	15	+2.406	3	11
6	54	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	15	+2.619	8	10
7	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	15	+2.761	10	9
8	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	15	+2.961	13	8
9	19	Álvaro Bautista	Honda	15	+3.720	9	7
10	32	Fabrizio Lai	Honda	15	+9.936	14	6
11	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	15	+14.546	12	5
12	41	Aleix Espargaró	Honda	15	+14.693	24	4
13	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	15	+15.699	19	3
14	9	Toshihisa Kuzuhara	Honda	15	+20.833	20	2
15	51	Enrique Jerez	Derbi	15	+22.562	17	1
16	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	15	+24.038	22
17	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	15	+25.907	18
18	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	15	+27.014	27
19	43	Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	15	+27.502	26
20	7	Alexis Masbou	Honda	15	+27.548	21
21	45	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	15	+47.987	25
22	68	Hiroaki Kuzuhara	Honda	15	+48.337	31
23	10	Federico Sandi	Honda	15	+48.524	34
24	64	Yuki Hamamoto	Honda	15	+51.086	32
25	20	Takumi Takahashi	Honda	15	+53.530	29
26	66	Arata Mori	Honda	15	+53.610	33
27	26	Vincent Braillard	Aprilia	15	+54.652	38
28	44	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	15	+55.454	30
29	67	Kazuki Hanafusa	Honda	15	+1:03.564	41
30	28	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	13	+2 laps	36
Ret	14	Gábor Talmácsi	KTM	13	Accident	1
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	13	Retirement	23
Ret	25	Dario Giuseppetti	Aprilia	12	Retirement	28
Ret	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	9	Accident	4
Ret	31	Sascha Hommel	Malaguti	9	Accident	40
Ret	46	Mateo Túnez	Aprilia	7	Accident	15
Ret	65	Hiroomi Iwata	Honda	6	Retirement	35
Ret	15	Michele Pirro	Malaguti	5	Accident	37
Ret	11	Sandro Cortese	Honda	3	Accident	16
Ret	48	David Bonache	Honda	0	Retirement	39
Ret	60	Julián Simón	KTM	0	Accident	11
Source: [8]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round twelve has concluded.^[9]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 261 2 Max Biaggi 149 3 Colin Edwards 133 4 Marco Melandri 126 5 Nicky Hayden 121

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 275 2 Honda 238 3 Ducati 127 4 Kawasaki 97 5 Suzuki 76

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

References

1. "2005 Japanese MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "2005 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
3. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Twin Ring Motegi - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
4. "2005 Japanese MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
5. "Grand Prix of Japan – MotoGP – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 18 September 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
6. "motogp.com · GRAND PRIX OF JAPAN · MotoGP Race Classification 2005". www.motogp.com.
7. "Grand Prix of Japan – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 18 September 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
8. "Grand Prix of Japan – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 18 September 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
9. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2005. Retrieved 2019-08-22.

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