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2004 French motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
Grand Prix	French
flag	France
Official Name	Grand Prix Polini de France
Location	Bugatti Circuit
Course_mi	2.597
Course_km	4.180
Race_No	3
Season_No	16
Date	16 May
Year	2004
Image	Bugatti Circuit.svg
Pole_Rider_MotoGP	Sete Gibernau
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Pole_Time_MotoGP	1:33.425
Fast_Rider_MotoGP	Max Biaggi
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Fast_Time_MotoGP	1:34.088 on lap 27
First_Rider_MotoGP	Sete Gibernau
First_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_MotoGP	Carlos Checa
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Third_Rider_MotoGP	Max Biaggi
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Pole_Rider_250	Daniel Pedrosa
Pole_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Pole_Time_250	1:37.123
Fast_Rider_250	Daniel Pedrosa
Fast_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Fast_Time_250	1:38.202 on lap 5
First_Rider_250	Daniel Pedrosa
First_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_250	Randy de Puniet
Second_Rider_250_Country	France
Third_Rider_250	Toni Elías
Third_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Pole_Rider_125	Andrea Dovizioso
Pole_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Pole_Time_125	1:42.608
Fast_Rider_125	Andrea Dovizioso
Fast_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Fast_Time_125	1:42.651 on lap 14
First_Rider_125	Andrea Dovizioso
First_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_125	Roberto Locatelli
Second_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Third_Rider_125	Jorge Lorenzo
Third_Rider_125_Country	Spain

The 2004 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2004 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 14–16 May 2004 at the Bugatti Circuit located in Le Mans, France.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
15	ESP Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	44:22.750	1	25
7	ESP Carlos Checa	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	28	+1.671	2	20
3	ITA Max Biaggi	Camel Honda	Honda	28	+1.908	3	16
46	ITA Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	28	+4.272	4	13
45	USA Colin Edwards	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+15.755	5	11
33	ITA Marco Melandri	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+18.225	6	10
4	BRA Alex Barros	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+27.656	11	9
12	AUS Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+31.530	10	8
6	JPN Makoto Tamada	Camel Honda	Honda	28	+33.164	8	7
65	ITA Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+39.512	9	6
69	USA Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+47.625	7	5
10	USA Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	+1:12.140	13	4
99	GBR Jeremy McWilliams	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	28	+1:23.391	18	3
11	ESP Rubén Xaus	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	27	+1 lap	15	2
80	USA Kurtis Roberts	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	27	+1 lap	21	1
84	ITA Michel Fabrizio	WCM	Harris WCM	27	+1 lap	22
9	JPN Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	27	+1 lap	20
56	JPN Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	16	Retirement	12
35	GBR Chris Burns	WCM	Harris WCM	14	Retirement	23
66	DEU Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	5	Retirement	19
17	JPN Norifumi Abe	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	0	Accident	17
21	USA John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	0	Accident	16
50	GBR Neil Hodgson	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	0	Accident	14
67	GBR Shane Byrne	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia		Did not start

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
26	ESP Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	26	43:03.338	1	25
7	FRA Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	26	+7.711	2	20
24	ESP Toni Elías	Honda	26	+19.233	5	16
73	JPN Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	26	+20.427	9	13
51	SMR Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	26	+21.175	10	11
14	AUS Anthony West	Aprilia	26	+24.269	12	10
10	ESP Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	26	+38.537	7	9
21	ITA Franco Battaini	Aprilia	26	+39.827	6	8
6	ESP Alex Debón	Honda	26	+42.589	13	7
11	ESP Joan Olivé	Aprilia	26	+47.541	16	6
96	CZE Jakub Smrž	Honda	26	+47.874	18	5
57	GBR Chaz Davies	Aprilia	26	+51.623	19	4
33	ESP Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	26	+51.813	15	3
8	JPN Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	26	+58.880	20	2
25	ITA Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	26	+1:03.261	25	1
28	DEU Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+1:05.370	17
9	FRA Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	26	+1:05.906	22
36	FRA Erwan Nigon	Yamaha	26	+1:08.323	21
15	DEU Christian Gemmel	Honda	26	+1:19.342	26
77	FRA Grégory Lefort	Aprilia	26	+1:21.036	24
44	JPN Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	26	+1:39.861	30
42	FRA Grégory Leblanc	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	28
19	ARG Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	17	Accident	3
12	FRA Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	11	Accident	23
50	FRA Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	10	Retirement	11
43	CZE Radomil Rous	Aprilia	6	Accident	27
16	SWE Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	6	Retirement	29
2	ITA Roberto Rolfo	Honda	4	Retirement	8
54	SMR Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	1	Accident	4
34	FRA Eric Bataille	Honda	1	Retirement	14
45	FRA Samuel Aubry	Honda		Did not qualify
46	FRA Vincent Eisen	Honda		Did not qualify
47	FRA Marc-Antoine Scaccia	Yamaha		Did not qualify
40	ITA Max Sabbatani	Yamaha		Withdrew

125cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
34	ITA Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	24	41:26.747	1	25
15	ITA Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	24	+0.594	4	20
48	ESP Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	24	+6.680	2	16
6	ITA Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	24	+9.662	5	13
3	ESP Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	24	+10.178	3	11
36	FIN Mika Kallio	KTM	24	+20.698	20	10
22	ESP Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	24	+20.967	10	9
27	AUS Casey Stoner	KTM	24	+21.158	13	8
19	ESP Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	24	+21.645	11	7
21	DEU Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	24	+23.080	6	6
23	ITA Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	24	+26.699	15	5
54	ITA Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	24	+29.332	17	4
10	ESP Julián Simón	Honda	24	+33.187	18	3
52	CZE Lukáš Pešek	Honda	24	+37.002	21	2
24	ITA Simone Corsi	Honda	24	+40.239	12	1
14	HUN Gábor Talmácsi	Malaguti	24	+40.304	22
42	ITA Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	24	+51.919	24
47	ESP Ángel Rodríguez	Derbi	24	+54.523	31
26	DEU Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	24	+54.575	26
32	ITA Fabrizio Lai	Gilera	24	+54.922	19
25	HUN Imre Tóth	Aprilia	24	+1:05.458	25
33	ESP Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	24	+1:05.610	27
8	ITA Manuel Manna	Malaguti	24	+1:13.982	29
28	ESP Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	24	+1:14.248	34
70	ESP Julián Miralles	Aprilia	24	+1:14.539	33
66	FIN Vesa Kallio	Aprilia	24	+1:24.230	30
11	ITA Mattia Angeloni	Honda	24	+1:27.607	36
16	NLD Raymond Schouten	Honda	24	+1:36.938	32
74	FRA Mathieu Gines	Honda	23	+1 lap	38
73	FRA Yannick Deschamps	Honda	23	+1 lap	37
69	DNK Robbin Harms	Honda	22	Accident	28
41	JPN Youichi Ui	Aprilia	12	Accident	7
63	FRA Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	9	Accident	8
72	FRA Alexis Masbou	Honda	9	Retirement	35
50	ITA Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	7	Retirement	23
7	ITA Stefano Perugini	Gilera	7	Retirement	16
58	ITA Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	1	Accident	9
12	CHE Thomas Lüthi	Honda	0	Accident	14
20	DEU Georg Fröhlich	Honda		Did not start

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round three has concluded.

;Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	SPA Sete Gibernau	66
2	ITA Max Biaggi	56
3	ITA Valentino Rossi	51
4	BRA Alex Barros	38
5	SPA Carlos Checa	36

;Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	JPN Honda	70
2	JPN Yamaha	58
3	ITA Ducati	22
4	JPN Suzuki	15
5	JPN Kawasaki	11

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

References

| Previous_year's_race = 2003 French Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = 2005 French Grand Prix

References

(13 June 2017). "2004 French MotoGP".
(13 June 2017). "2004 French MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database".
(16 May 2004). "Grand Prix Polini de France – MotoGP – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
"motogp.com · FRENCH GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2004".
(16 May 2004). "Grand Prix Polini de France – 250cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(16 May 2004). "Grand Prix Polini de France – 125cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(2004). "Standings".

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