2004 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix

2004 Czech Republic Grand Prix
Race details
Race 10 of 16 races in the; 2004 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	22 August 2004
Official name	Gauloises Grand Prix České republiky
Location	Brno Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility; 5.403 km (3.357 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Sete Gibernau
Time	2:09.782
Fastest lap
Rider	Alex Barros
Time	1:59.302 on lap 6
Podium
First	Sete Gibernau
Second	Valentino Rossi
Third	Max Biaggi
250 cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Sebastián Porto
Time	2:14.261
Fastest lap
Rider	Daniel Pedrosa
Time	2:03.332 on lap 17
Podium
First	Sebastián Porto
Second	Randy de Puniet
Third	Daniel Pedrosa
125 cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Marco Simoncelli
Time	2:24.458
Fastest lap
Rider	Steve Jenkner
Time	2:08.891 on lap 9
Podium
First	Jorge Lorenzo
Second	Andrea Dovizioso
Third	Roberto Locatelli

The 2004 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 2004 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 20–22 August 2004 at the Brno Circuit located in Brno, Czech Republic.

MotoGP classification edit

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	22	44:03.480	1	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	22	+3.514	3	20
3	3	Max Biaggi	Camel Honda	Honda	22	+4.330	8	16
4	6	Makoto Tamada	Camel Honda	Honda	22	+16.257	16	13
5	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	22	+17.930	9	11
6	7	Carlos Checa	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	22	+21.181	6	10
7	45	Colin Edwards	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	22	+22.471	5	9
8	17	Norifumi Abe	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	22	+31.079	13	8
9	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	22	+31.158	11	7
10	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	22	+31.625	15	6
11	50	Neil Hodgson	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	22	+34.094	12	5
12	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	22	+54.124	23	4
13	66	Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	22	+54.288	24	3
14	99	Jeremy McWilliams	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	22	+57.471	14	2
15	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	22	+1:18.515	20	1
16	88	Andrew Pitt	Moriwaki Racing	Moriwaki	22	+1:18.691	18
17	84	Michel Fabrizio	WCM	Harris WCM	22	+1:53.138	17
Ret	12	Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	20	Accident	4
Ret	77	James Ellison	WCM	Harris WCM	20	Accident	22
Ret	11	Rubén Xaus	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	19	Accident	10
Ret	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	18	Accident	7
Ret	4	Alex Barros	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	14	Accident	2
Ret	21	John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	12	Retirement	19
Ret	32	Gregorio Lavilla	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	4	Retirement	21
DNS	80	Kurtis Roberts	Proton Team KR	Proton KR		Did not start
DNS	67	Shane Byrne	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia		Did not start
Sources: ^[4]^[5]^[6]

250 cc classification edit

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	19	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	20	42:03.061	1	25
2	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	20	+4.309	11	20
3	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	20	+10.919	13	16
4	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	20	+13.792	12	13
5	24	Toni Elías	Honda	20	+14.132	7	11
6	2	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	20	+21.170	5	10
7	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	20	+22.040	8	9
8	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	20	+33.426	19	8
9	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	20	+48.326	17	7
10	33	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	20	+1:03.461	25	6
11	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	20	+1:03.800	23	5
12	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	20	+1:04.132	22	4
13	42	Grégory Leblanc	Aprilia	20	+1:04.630	27	3
14	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	20	+1:10.960	16	2
15	11	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	20	+1:11.432	26	1
16	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	20	+1:23.168	10
17	16	Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	20	+1:24.665	18
18	43	Radomil Rous	Yamaha	20	+1:33.030	24
19	71	Henk van de Lagemaat	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	28
Ret	51	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	17	Accident	3
Ret	17	Klaus Nöhles	Honda	17	Accident	29
Ret	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	15	Accident	4
Ret	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	15	Retirement	30
Ret	88	Gergő Talmácsi	Yamaha	13	Retirement	31
Ret	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	10	Accident	20
Ret	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	10	Accident	2
Ret	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	10	Accident	15
Ret	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	6	Accident	21
Ret	12	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	4	Retirement	9
Ret	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	0	Accident	6
DNS	27	Valerio Anghetti	Aprilia	0	Did not start	32
DNS	6	Alex Debón	Honda	0	Did not start	14
Source: ^[7]

125 cc classification edit

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	19	41:19.475	4	25
2	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	19	+0.036	2	20
3	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	19	+0.146	25	16
4	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	19	+0.186	26	13
5	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	19	+1.105	10	11
6	21	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	19	+1.197	13	10
7	3	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	19	+1.579	24	9
8	6	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	19	+1.587	14	8
9	24	Simone Corsi	Honda	19	+12.488	7	7
10	10	Julián Simón	Honda	19	+12.523	3	6
11	69	Robbin Harms	Honda	19	+15.947	12	5
12	50	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	19	+16.087	11	4
13	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	19	+16.186	16	3
14	54	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	19	+25.084	23	2
15	32	Fabrizio Lai	Gilera	19	+28.271	19	1
16	88	Michael Ranseder	KTM	19	+28.329	18
17	7	Stefano Perugini	Gilera	19	+33.895	31
18	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	19	+37.754	21
19	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	19	+44.541	1
20	26	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	19	+46.827	33
21	45	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	19	+55.405	8
22	89	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Yamaha	19	+55.445	15
23	66	Vesa Kallio	Aprilia	19	+55.658	38
24	63	Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	19	+59.020	27
25	20	Georg Fröhlich	Honda	19	+1:24.084	36
26	16	Raymond Schouten	Honda	19	+1:53.072	35
27	87	Patrik Vostárek	Honda	19	+2:14.214	34
28	9	Markéta Janáková	Honda	18	+1 lap	32
Ret	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	16	Retirement	20
Ret	35	Václav Bittman	Honda	15	Retirement	30
Ret	28	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	15	Retirement	29
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Honda	9	Accident	9
Ret	25	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	7	Retirement	22
Ret	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Malaguti	6	Retirement	5
Ret	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	4	Retirement	17
Ret	8	Manuel Manna	Malaguti	3	Retirement	37
Ret	27	Casey Stoner	KTM	1	Accident	6
Ret	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Derbi	1	Accident	39
Ret	42	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	1	Accident	28
Source: ^[8]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP) edit

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

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Valentino Rossi	184
2	Sete Gibernau	167
3	Max Biaggi	158
4	Colin Edwards	104
5	Alex Barros	86

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	225
2	Yamaha	199
3	Ducati	94
4	Suzuki	48
5	Kawasaki	46

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

References edit

^ "2004 Czech MotoGP". Motormagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "2004 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Brno Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
^ "2004 Czech MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com=. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
^ "Gauloises Grand Prix České republiky – MotoGP – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
^ "motogp.com · CZECH REPUBLIC GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2004". Motogp.com. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
^ "Gauloises Grand Prix České republiky – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
^ ".Gauloises Grand Prix České republiky – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
^ "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2004. Retrieved 2019-08-22.

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[1] "2004 Czech MotoGP". Motormagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.

[2] Mitchell, Malcolm. "2004 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 26 August 2018.

[3] Mitchell, Malcolm. "Brno Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 17 May 2018.

[4] "2004 Czech MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com=. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2018.

[5] "Gauloises Grand Prix České republiky – MotoGP – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2018.

[6] "motogp.com · CZECH REPUBLIC GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2004". Motogp.com. Retrieved 26 August 2018.

[7] "Gauloises Grand Prix České republiky – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2018.

[8] ".Gauloises Grand Prix České republiky – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2018.

[9] "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2004. Retrieved 2019-08-22.

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