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2004 South African motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
Grand Prix	South African
flag	South Africa
Official Name	betandwin.com Africa's Grand Prix
Location	Phakisa Freeway
Course_mi	2.636
Course_km	4.242
Race_No	1
Season_No	16
Date	18 April
Year	2004
Image	Phakisa Freeway - Road course.svg
Pole_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Pole_Time_MotoGP	1:32.647
Fast_Rider_MotoGP	Max Biaggi
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Fast_Time_MotoGP	1:33.208 on lap 28
First_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
First_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_MotoGP	Max Biaggi
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Third_Rider_MotoGP	Sete Gibernau
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Pole_Rider_250	Randy de Puniet
Pole_Rider_250_Country	France
Pole_Time_250	1:35.300
Fast_Rider_250	Sebastián Porto
Fast_Rider_250_Country	Argentina
Fast_Time_250	1:35.593 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	Sebastián Porto
Third_Rider_250_Country	Argentina
Pole_Rider_125	Andrea Dovizioso
Pole_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Pole_Time_125	1:40.942
Fast_Rider_125	Roberto Locatelli
Fast_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Fast_Time_125	1:40.711 on lap 21
First_Rider_125	Andrea Dovizioso
First_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_125	Roberto Locatelli
Second_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Third_Rider_125	Casey Stoner
Third_Rider_125_Country	Australia

The 2004 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2004 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 16–18 April 2004 at the Phakisa Freeway. This was the last South African MotoGP round at Phakisa, because the race was not contracted for 2005 and beyond.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
46	ITA Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	28	43:50.218	1	25
3	ITA Max Biaggi	Camel Honda	Honda	28	+0.210	3	20
15	ESP Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+7.255	2	16
4	BRA Alex Barros	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+18.667	8	13
69	USA Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+24.094	4	11
65	ITA Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+24.375	9	10
45	USA Colin Edwards	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+28.855	5	9
6	JPN Makoto Tamada	Camel Honda	Honda	28	+36.535	12	8
17	JPN Norifumi Abe	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+36.643	18	7
7	ESP Carlos Checa	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	28	+39.284	14	6
33	ITA Marco Melandri	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+43.806	7	5
56	JPN Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	28	+43.920	6	4
21	USA John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	+56.028	11	3
12	AUS Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+56.558	21	2
67	GBR Shane Byrne	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	28	+1:13.831	19	1
99	GBR Jeremy McWilliams	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	28	+1:22.206	17
9	JPN Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	28	+1:26.933	20
84	ITA Michel Fabrizio	WCM	Harris WCM	25	+3 laps	22
66	DEU Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	15	Accident	13
50	GBR Neil Hodgson	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	15	Retirement	15
10	USA Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	6	Retirement	10
11	ESP Rubén Xaus	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	4	Retirement	16
80	USA Kurtis Roberts	Proton Team KR	Proton KR		Withdrew

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
26	ESP Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	26	42:04.690	4	25
7	FRA Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	26	+0.536	1	20
19	ARG Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	26	+5.859	2	16
54	SMR Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	26	+24.561	3	13
51	SMR Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	26	+30.018	5	11
6	ESP Alex Debón	Honda	26	+30.653	15	10
10	ESP Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	26	+31.458	6	9
24	ESP Toni Elías	Honda	26	+31.872	11	8
2	ITA Roberto Rolfo	Honda	26	+31.940	7	7
21	ITA Franco Battaini	Aprilia	26	+35.643	10	6
73	JPN Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	26	+36.418	9	5
33	ESP Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	26	+36.864	12	4
12	FRA Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	26	+39.105	24	3
28	DEU Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+43.027	22	2
50	FRA Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	26	+51.493	19	1
14	AUS Anthony West	Aprilia	26	+51.699	20
11	ESP Joan Olivé	Aprilia	26	+52.883	18
8	JPN Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	26	+59.900	14
9	FRA Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	26	+1:02.819	16
36	FRA Erwan Nigon	Yamaha	26	+1:14.844	23
96	CZE Jakub Smrž	Honda	26	+1:15.026	21
44	JPN Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	26	+1:19.230	28
16	SWE Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	26	+1:21.627	26
40	ITA Max Sabbatani	Yamaha	26	+1:28.990	29
77	FRA Grégory Lefort	Aprilia	26	+1:29.832	27
15	DEU Christian Gemmel	Honda	24	Retirement	25
25	ITA Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	0	Accident	17
34	FRA Eric Bataille	Honda	0	Accident	8
57	GBR Chaz Davies	Aprilia	0	Accident	13

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
34	ITA Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	24	40:34.318	1	25
15	ITA Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	24	+0.071	2	20
27	AUS Casey Stoner	KTM	24	+2.203	5	16
22	ESP Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	24	+2.416	6	13
63	FRA Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	24	+12.312	4	11
23	ITA Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	24	+13.270	12	10
6	ITA Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	24	+14.457	3	9
21	DEU Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	24	+15.046	18	8
19	ESP Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	24	+24.835	8	7
3	ESP Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	24	+25.266	11	6
10	ESP Julián Simón	Honda	24	+29.356	10	5
36	FIN Mika Kallio	KTM	24	+33.134	15	4
54	ITA Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	24	+33.237	20	3
24	ITA Simone Corsi	Honda	24	+33.682	21	2
41	JPN Youichi Ui	Aprilia	24	+36.977	9	1
48	ESP Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	24	+43.650	13
7	ITA Stefano Perugini	Gilera	24	+45.230	19
69	DNK Robbin Harms	Honda	24	+45.389	22
26	DEU Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	24	+45.590	16
52	CZE Lukáš Pešek	Honda	24	+45.715	27
32	ITA Fabrizio Lai	Gilera	24	+45.961	17
25	HUN Imre Tóth	Aprilia	24	+46.129	25
33	ESP Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	24	+1:04.990	24
66	FIN Vesa Kallio	Aprilia	24	+1:05.784	26
11	ITA Mattia Angeloni	Honda	24	+1:23.541	32
8	ITA Manuel Manna	Malaguti	24	+1:23.753	31
28	ESP Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	24	+1:24.960	33
12	CHE Thomas Lüthi	Honda	17	Accident	23
58	ITA Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	16	Accident	7
50	ITA Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	13	Retirement	29
47	ESP Ángel Rodríguez	Derbi	7	Retirement	28
42	ITA Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	7	Retirement	30
16	NLD Raymond Schouten	Honda	4	Retirement	34
14	HUN Gábor Talmácsi	Malaguti	3	Retirement	14

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

;Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	ITA Valentino Rossi	25
2	ITA Max Biaggi	20
3	SPA Sete Gibernau	16
4	BRA Alex Barros	13
5	USA Nicky Hayden	11

;Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	JPN Yamaha	25
2	JPN Honda	20
3	ITA Ducati	10
4	JPN Kawasaki	4
5	JPN Suzuki	3

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

References

| Previous_year's_race = 2003 South African Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = None

References

(13 June 2017). "2004 South African MotoGP".
(13 June 2017). "2004 South African MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database".
(18 April 2004). "betandwin.com Africa's Grand Prix – MotoGP – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
"SOUTH AFRICAN GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2004".
(18 April 2004). "betandwin.com Africa's Grand Prix – 250cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(18 April 2004). "betandwin.com Africa's Grand Prix – 125cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(2004). "Standings".

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