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2005 British motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
flag	UK
Grand Prix	British
Official Name	betandwin.com British Grand Prix
Location	Donington Park
Image	Donington as of 2006.svg
Course_mi	2.5
Course_km	4.023
Race_No	9
Season_No	17
Date	24 July
Year	2005
Pole_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Pole_Time_MotoGP	1:27.897
Fast_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Fast_Time_MotoGP	1:45.377 on lap 24
First_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
First_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_MotoGP	Kenny Roberts Jr.
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Country	USA
Third_Rider_MotoGP	Alex Barros
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Brazil
Pole_Rider_250	Daniel Pedrosa
Pole_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Pole_Time_250	1:31.834
Fast_Rider_250	Anthony West
Fast_Rider_250_Country	Australia
Fast_Time_250	1:47.025 on lap 17
First_Rider_250	Randy de Puniet
First_Rider_250_Country	France
Second_Rider_250	Anthony West
Second_Rider_250_Country	Australia
Third_Rider_250	Casey Stoner
Third_Rider_250_Country	Australia
Pole_Rider_125	Mika Kallio
Pole_Rider_125_Country	Finland
Pole_Time_125	1:37.295
Fast_Rider_125	Álvaro Bautista
Fast_Rider_125_Country	Spain
Fast_Time_125	1:38.408 on lap 6 (first part)
First_Rider_125	Julián Simón
First_Rider_125_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_125	Mike Di Meglio
Second_Rider_125_Country	France
Third_Rider_125	Fabrizio Lai
Third_Rider_125_Country	Italy

The 2005 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2005 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 22–24 July 2005 at the Donington Park circuit. It was also marked the final victory of Valentino Rossi in the wet race at the British circuit until the 2015 event was held at the Silverstone Circuit.

Valentino Rossi, riding his Yamaha in the MotoGP race. Rossi went on to win the race.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
46	ITA Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	29	52:58.675	1	25
10	USA Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	29	+3.169	16	20
4	BRA Alex Barros	Camel Honda	Honda	29	+4.006	4	16
5	USA Colin Edwards	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	29	+10.292	6	13
7	ESP Carlos Checa	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	29	+13.020	13	11
65	ITA Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	29	+23.321	11	10
6	JPN Makoto Tamada	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	29	+37.833	9	9
66	DEU Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	29	+44.617	15	8
24	ESP Toni Elías	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+1 lap	17	7
44	ITA Roberto Rolfo	Team d'Antin Pramac	Ducati	28	+1 lap	19	6
21	USA John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	27	+2 laps	10	5
27	ITA Franco Battaini	Blata WCM	Blata	25	Accident	21
77	GBR James Ellison	Blata WCM	Blata	7	Accident	20
67	GBR Shane Byrne	Team Roberts	Proton KR	4	Accident	18
15	ESP Sete Gibernau	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	3	Accident	2
56	JPN Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	3	Accident	12
3	ITA Max Biaggi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	3	Accident	8
33	ITA Marco Melandri	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	2	Accident	3
12	AUS Troy Bayliss	Camel Honda	Honda	2	Accident	7
69	USA Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	2	Retirement	5
11	ESP Rubén Xaus	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	1	Accident	14

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
7	FRA Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	27	49:11.337	6	25
14	AUS Anthony West	KTM	27	+1.236	15	20
27	AUS Casey Stoner	Aprilia	27	+16.740	10	16
1	ESP Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	27	+47.825	1	13
19	ARG Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	27	+1:03.449	5	11
24	ITA Simone Corsi	Aprilia	27	+1:32.437	14	10
34	ITA Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	27	+1:34.560	4	9
48	ESP Jorge Lorenzo	Honda	27	+1:45.964	2	8
50	FRA Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	12	7
8	ITA Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	20	6
32	ITA Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	22	5
15	ITA Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	11	4
25	ITA Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	19	3
38	FRA Grégory Leblanc	Aprilia	25	+2 laps	24	2
64	CZE Radomil Rous	Honda	25	+2 laps	25	1
96	CZE Jakub Smrž	Honda	25	+2 laps	17
17	DEU Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	25	+2 laps	18
41	ESP Álvaro Molina	Aprilia	25	+2 laps	29
20	ITA Gabriele Ferro	Fantic	23	+4 laps	31
57	GBR Chaz Davies	Aprilia	22	Accident	16
44	JPN Taro Sekiguchi	Aprilia	21	Accident	26
80	ESP Héctor Barberá	Honda	16	Accident	7
73	JPN Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	12	Accident	8
42	AUT Yves Polzer	Aprilia	12	Accident	28
5	SMR Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	8	Accident	3
36	COL Martín Cárdenas	Aprilia	4	Retirement	23
28	DEU Dirk Heidolf	Honda	2	Retirement	21
21	FRA Arnaud Vincent	Fantic	0	Retirement	27
55	JPN Yuki Takahashi	Honda	0	Retirement	9
6	ESP Alex Debón	Honda	0	Retirement	13
26	SWE Andreas Mårtensson	Yamaha	10	Black flag	30
23	SWE Nicklas Cajback	Yamaha		Did not qualify

125 cc classification

The race, scheduled to be run for 25 laps, was stopped after 7 full laps due to heavy rain. It was later restarted for 9 laps, with the grid determined by the running order before the suspension. The second part of the race determined the final result.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
60	ESP Julián Simón	KTM	9	17:35.523	6	25
63	FRA Mike Di Meglio	Honda	9	+2.406	9	20
32	ITA Fabrizio Lai	Honda	9	+8.896	5	16
58	ITA Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	9	+9.169	3	13
22	ESP Pablo Nieto	Derbi	9	+13.837	17	11
12	CHE Thomas Lüthi	Honda	9	+18.323	4	10
36	FIN Mika Kallio	KTM	9	+23.453	1	9
6	ESP Joan Olivé	Aprilia	9	+31.424	15	8
94	GBR Dan Linfoot	Honda	9	+33.865	39	7
9	JPN Toshihisa Kuzuhara	Honda	9	+40.094	30	6
33	ESP Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	9	+40.345	14	5
56	GBR Christian Elkin	Honda	9	+40.761	41	4
28	ESP Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	9	+42.789	26	3
8	ITA Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	9	+42.833	27	2
11	DEU Sandro Cortese	Honda	9	+43.420	28	1
16	NLD Raymond Schouten	Honda	9	+43.587	25
44	CZE Karel Abraham	Aprilia	9	+45.101	36
42	ITA Gioele Pellino	Malaguti	9	+47.077	38
10	ITA Federico Sandi	Honda	9	+48.901	31
35	ITA Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	9	+49.088	21
18	ESP Nicolás Terol	Derbi	9	+54.566	18
95	GBR James Westmoreland	Honda	9	+59.769	37
26	CHE Vincent Braillard	Aprilia	9	+1:00.672	33
46	ESP Mateo Túnez	Aprilia	9	+1:02.134	24
54	SMR Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	9	+1:26.419	11
45	HUN Imre Tóth	Aprilia	9	+1:28.411	34
7	FRA Alexis Masbou	Honda	8	Accident	10
19	ESP Álvaro Bautista	Honda	5	Accident	12
41	ESP Aleix Espargaró	Honda	5	Retirement	19
14	HUN Gábor Talmácsi	KTM	4	Accident	7
57	GBR Rob Guiver	Honda	3	Accident	40
52	CZE Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	1	Retirement	20
15	ITA Michele Pirro	Malaguti	0	Accident	32
29	ITA Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	0	Accident	22
43	ESP Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	0	Retirement	16
75	ITA Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	0	Did not restart	2
71	JPN Tomoyoshi Koyama	Honda	0	Accident in 1st part	8
55	ESP Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	0	Accident in 1st part	13
47	ESP Ángel Rodríguez	Honda	0	Retirement in 1st part	23
96	GBR Kev Coghlan	Honda	0	Retirement in 1st part	35
25	DEU Dario Giuseppetti	Aprilia	0	Did not start 1st part	29

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

;Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	ITA Valentino Rossi	211
2	ITA Marco Melandri	107
3	USA Colin Edwards	106
4	ITA Max Biaggi	100
5	SPA Sete Gibernau	95

;Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	JPN Yamaha	215
2	JPN Honda	182
3	JPN Kawasaki	83
4	ITA Ducati	75
5	JPN Suzuki	55

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

References

| Previous_year's_race = 2004 British Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = 2006 British Grand Prix

References

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Mitchell, Malcolm. "2005 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes – The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
Mitchell, Malcolm. "Donington Park – The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
(13 June 2017). "2005 British MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database".
(24 July 2005). "betandwin.com British Grand Prix – MotoGP – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
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(24 July 2005). "betandwin.com British Grand Prix – 125cc – Race PART 2 Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(2005). "Standings".

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