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2005 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
Grand Prix	Valencian Community
flag	Valencia
Official_Name	Gran Premio betandwin.com de la Comunitat Valenciana
Location	Circuit Ricardo Tormo
Course_mi	2.489
Course_km	4.005
Race_No	17
Season_No	17
Date	6 November
Year	2005
Image	Valencia (Ricardo Tormo) track map.svg
Pole_Rider_MotoGP	Sete Gibernau
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Pole_Time_MotoGP	1:31.874
Fast_Rider_MotoGP	Marco Melandri
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Fast_Time_MotoGP	1:33.043 on lap 4
First_Rider_MotoGP	Marco Melandri
First_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_MotoGP	Nicky Hayden
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Country	USA
Third_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Pole_Rider_250	Daniel Pedrosa
Pole_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Pole_Time_250	1:35.298
Fast_Rider_250	Daniel Pedrosa
Fast_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Fast_Time_250	1:35.792 on lap 17
First_Rider_250	Daniel Pedrosa
First_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_250	Jorge Lorenzo
Second_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Third_Rider_250	Casey Stoner
Third_Rider_250_Country	Australia
Pole_Rider_125	Sergio Gadea
Pole_Rider_125_Country	Spain
Pole_Time_125	1:39.830
Fast_Rider_125	Sergio Gadea
Fast_Rider_125_Country	Spain
Fast_Time_125	1:40.286 on lap 14
First_Rider_125	Mika Kallio
First_Rider_125_Country	Finland
Second_Rider_125	Gábor Talmácsi
Second_Rider_125_Country	Hungary
Third_Rider_125	Mattia Pasini
Third_Rider_125_Country	Italy

The 2005 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2005 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 4–6 November 2005 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo.

Race

This race featured a battle between Marco Melandri and Nicky Hayden, and a fightback to third place from a bad qualifying from Valentino Rossi, who by then was already crowned world champion.

Before the start of the weekend, the Factory Yamaha Team had unveiled a special, one-off 'retro' livery to commemorate Yamaha's fiftieth anniversary and their very successful year in racing, replacing their main sponsor and its colours (Gauloises and dark blue) with the traditional white with red and black blocks/stripes. They ran a similar livery before at the United States round but that livery consisted of yellow instead of white.

After sixteen rounds, Valentino Rossi has already won the title at the Malaysian round. Rossi has since then increased his title lead to 351 points. Second is Marco Melandri with 195 points and a close third is Nicky Hayden with 186 points.

On Saturday, Sete Gibernau clinched his the final pole position of the season - his fifth - with a time of 1:31.874. Second is Marco Melandri who is +0.237 seconds behind and third is Nicky Hayden who is +0.343 seconds behind. The second row of the grid consists out of Carlos Checa in fourth place, Max Biaggi in fifth place and Colin Edwards in sixth place. World champion Valentino Rossi had a poor qualifying result after a crash and starts a lowly fifteenth. Suzuki test rider Nobuatsu Aoki replaces Kenny Roberts Jr. who is still recovering from a broken left wrist he sustained after a big highside during Friday practice at the Australian round, having then also confirmed his split with the team shortly after.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
33	ITA Marco Melandri	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	30	46:58.152	2	25
69	USA Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+0.097	3	20
46	ITA Valentino Rossi	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	30	+2.959	15	16
7	ESP Carlos Checa	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	30	+18.718	4	13
4	BRA Alex Barros	Camel Honda	Honda	30	+20.706	8	11
3	ITA Max Biaggi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+21.254	5	10
65	ITA Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	30	+23.142	7	9
5	USA Colin Edwards	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	30	+25.678	6	8
6	JPN Makoto Tamada	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	30	+36.710	10	7
24	ESP Toni Elías	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+39.116	13	6
56	JPN Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	30	+41.136	9	5
54	JPN Ryuichi Kiyonari	Camel Honda	Honda	30	+45.691	16	4
21	USA John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	30	+46.507	11	3
66	DEU Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	30	+49.856	12	2
11	ESP Rubén Xaus	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+1:19.443	17	1
27	ITA Franco Battaini	Blata WCM	Blata	29	+1 lap	21
80	USA Kurtis Roberts	Team Roberts	Proton KR	16	Retirement	20
77	GBR James Ellison	Blata WCM	Blata	15	Retirement	19
9	JPN Nobuatsu Aoki	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	8	Retirement	14
15	ESP Sete Gibernau	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	3	Retirement	1
44	ITA Roberto Rolfo	Team d'Antin Pramac	Ducati	0	Accident	18

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
1	ESP Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	27	43:33.395	1	25
48	ESP Jorge Lorenzo	Honda	27	+3.448	4	20
27	AUS Casey Stoner	Aprilia	27	+14.372	7	16
5	SMR Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	27	+17.771	3	13
80	ESP Héctor Barberá	Honda	27	+26.233	2	11
73	JPN Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	27	+31.244	6	10
55	JPN Yuki Takahashi	Honda	27	+35.518	8	9
7	FRA Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	27	+36.488	9	8
34	ITA Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	27	+43.129	5	7
15	ITA Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	27	+43.960	15	6
6	ESP Alex Debón	Honda	27	+55.494	12	5
96	CZE Jakub Smrž	Honda	27	+57.265	10	4
36	COL Martín Cárdenas	Aprilia	27	+58.185	18	3
50	FRA Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	27	+58.545	16	2
44	JPN Taro Sekiguchi	Aprilia	27	+1:01.485	13	1
57	GBR Chaz Davies	Aprilia	27	+1:12.112	19
17	DEU Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	27	+1:23.475	17
25	ITA Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	27	+1:30.535	14
32	ITA Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	27	+1:31.957	26
56	FRA Mathieu Gines	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	22
61	CHN Li Zheng Peng	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	29
8	ITA Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	26	Retirement	20
24	ITA Simone Corsi	Aprilia	26	Accident	24
28	DEU Dirk Heidolf	Honda	18	Accident	11
63	FRA Erwan Nigon	Yamaha	18	Retirement	27
60	CHN Wang Zhu	Aprilia	15	Retirement	28
33	ESP Arturo Tizón	Honda	9	Retirement	21
41	ESP Álvaro Molina	Aprilia	6	Accident	23
21	FRA Arnaud Vincent	Fantic	6	Accident	25
19	ARG Sebastián Porto	Aprilia		Did not start
23	SWE Nicklas Cajback	Yamaha		Did not qualify
20	ITA Gabriele Ferro	Fantic		Did not qualify

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
36	FIN Mika Kallio	KTM	24	40:26.640	3	25
14	HUN Gábor Talmácsi	KTM	24	+0.237	8	20
75	ITA Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	24	+0.367	2	16
55	ESP Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	24	+12.401	6	13
58	ITA Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	24	+17.009	11	11
71	JPN Tomoyoshi Koyama	Honda	24	+20.635	9	10
32	ITA Fabrizio Lai	Honda	24	+20.670	5	9
60	ESP Julián Simón	KTM	24	+20.809	12	8
12	CHE Thomas Lüthi	Honda	24	+23.517	4	7
22	ESP Pablo Nieto	Derbi	24	+32.805	24	6
41	ESP Aleix Espargaró	Honda	24	+35.930	14	5
19	ESP Álvaro Bautista	Honda	24	+36.015	22	4
35	ITA Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	24	+43.436	21	3
6	ESP Joan Olivé	Aprilia	24	+47.651	27	2
29	ITA Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	24	+49.387	16	1
18	ESP Nicolás Terol	Derbi	24	+53.187	26
28	ESP Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	24	+57.976	23
51	ESP Enrique Jerez	Derbi	24	+1:00.860	36
43	ESP Manuel Hernández	Honda	24	+1:01.055	19
27	ESP Mateo Túnez	Aprilia	24	+1:06.276	28
45	HUN Imre Tóth	Aprilia	24	+1:06.915	31
42	ITA Gioele Pellino	Malaguti	24	+1:08.479	34
26	CHE Vincent Braillard	Aprilia	24	+1:13.289	38
59	ESP Esteve Rabat	Honda	24	+1:22.682	35
84	ESP Julián Miralles	Aprilia	24	+1:23.174	37
31	DEU Sascha Hommel	Honda	24	+1:39.732	39
7	FRA Alexis Masbou	Honda	22	Accident	18
33	ESP Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	18	Accident	1
11	DEU Sandro Cortese	Honda	17	Accident	7
89	FRA Jules Cluzel	Malaguti	17	Accident	17
54	SMR Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	16	Accident	15
8	ITA Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	14	Accident	20
52	CZE Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	14	Accident	13
49	ESP Daniel Sáez	Aprilia	14	Retirement	32
44	CZE Karel Abraham	Aprilia	10	Accident	33
10	ITA Federico Sandi	Honda	6	Accident	25
63	FRA Mike Di Meglio	Honda	5	Accident	10
25	DEU Dario Giuseppetti	Aprilia	0	Accident	30
48	ESP David Bonache	Honda	0	Accident	29

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

;Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	ITA Valentino Rossi	367
2	ITA Marco Melandri	220
3	USA Nicky Hayden	206
4	USA Colin Edwards	179
5	ITA Max Biaggi	173

;Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	JPN Yamaha	381
2	JPN Honda	341
3	ITA Ducati	202
4	JPN Kawasaki	126
5	JPN Suzuki	100

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

References

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

References

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(November 3, 2005). "Yamaha confirms 'retro' Valencia livery.".
(November 3, 2005). "Pictures: Yamaha unveils 'retro' Valencia livery.".
(September 25, 2005). "Capirossi wins, Rossi crowned 2005 champion.".
(October 14, 2005). "200kph Roberts highside 'as bad as it gets'.".
(October 22, 2005). "Roberts and Suzuki split.".
(November 4, 2005). "'Secret software' helps Aoki.".
(13 June 2017). "2005 Valencia MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database".
(6 November 2005). "G. P. betandwin.com Comunitat Valenciana – MotoGP – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
"G. P. betandwin.com COMUNITAT VALENCIANA · MotoGP Race Classification 2005".
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