2004 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

  2004 Italian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 4 of 16 races in the 2004 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	6 June 2004
Official name	Gran Premio Cinzano d'Italia[1][2][3]
Location	Mugello Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.245 km (3.259 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Sete Gibernau Time 1:49.553 Fastest lap Rider Sete Gibernau Time 1:51.133 on lap 3 (first part) Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Sete Gibernau Third Max Biaggi
250 cc
Pole position Rider Sebastián Porto Time 1:53.691 Fastest lap Rider Sebastián Porto Time 1:54.599 on lap 21 Podium First Sebastián Porto Second Daniel Pedrosa Third Manuel Poggiali
125 cc
Pole position Rider Steve Jenkner Time 1:58.575 Fastest lap Rider Pablo Nieto Time 1:59.400 on lap 3 Podium First Roberto Locatelli Second Casey Stoner Third Héctor Barberá

The 2004 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 2004 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 4–6 June 2004 at the Mugello Circuit.

MotoGP classification

The race, scheduled to be run for 23 laps, was stopped after 17 full laps due to rain. It was later restarted for the remaining 6 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	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	6	12:06.803	3	25
2	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	6	+0.361	1	20
3	3	Max Biaggi	Camel Honda	Honda	6	+1.540	6	16
4	12	Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	6	+1.782	15	13
5	11	Rubén Xaus	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	6	+2.389	14	11
6	4	Alex Barros	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	6	+2.446	4	10
7	17	Norifumi Abe	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	6	+5.842	16	9
8	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	6	+6.228	8	8
9	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	6	+6.461	5	7
10	67	Shane Byrne	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	6	+7.198	17	6
11	50	Neil Hodgson	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	6	+9.048	19	5
12	45	Colin Edwards	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	6	+9.626	12	4
13	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	KR	6	+14.201	20	3
14	66	Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	6	+48.091	13	2
15	84	Michel Fabrizio	WCM	Harris WCM	6	+50.498	23	1
16	99	Jeremy McWilliams	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	6	+56.572	18
17	88	Andrew Pitt	Moriwaki Racing	Moriwaki	6	+59.267	22
Ret	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	0	Retirement in 1st part	9
Ret	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	0	Accident in 1st part	10
Ret	6	Makoto Tamada	Camel Honda	Honda	0	Retirement in 1st part	7
Ret	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	0	Retirement in 1st part	2
Ret	7	Carlos Checa	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	0	Accident in 1st part	11
Ret	80	Kurtis Roberts	Proton Team KR	KR	0	Retirement in 1st part	21
DNQ	35	Chris Burns	WCM	Harris WCM		Did not qualify
Sources: [4][5][6]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	19	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	21	40:32.672	1	25
2	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	21	+6.147	2	20
3	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	21	+8.415	6	16
4	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	21	+11.226	3	13
5	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	21	+11.876	9	11
6	24	Toni Elías	Honda	21	+11.888	4	10
7	2	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	21	+24.398	8	9
8	51	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	21	+27.550	5	8
9	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	21	+28.126	11	7
10	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	21	+38.025	16	6
11	11	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	21	+38.207	10	5
12	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	21	+45.788	7	4
13	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	21	+1:01.150	15	3
14	33	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	21	+1:06.887	13	2
15	6	Alex Debón	Honda	21	+1:07.022	25	1
16	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	21	+1:07.037	14
17	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	21	+1:07.196	20
18	77	Grégory Lefort	Aprilia	21	+1:17.464	21
19	16	Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	21	+1:19.655	26
20	15	Christian Gemmel	Honda	21	+1:25.112	27
21	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	21	+1:33.088	29
Ret	63	Jarno Ronzoni	Yamaha	15	Accident	28
Ret	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	11	Accident	12
Ret	36	Erwan Nigon	Yamaha	10	Retirement	23
Ret	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	8	Accident	18
Ret	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	8	Accident	19
Ret	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	8	Retirement	17
Ret	12	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	0	Accident	22
Ret	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	0	Accident	24
Ret	40	Max Sabbatani	Yamaha	0	Accident	30
Source: [7]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	20	40:13.158	5	25
2	27	Casey Stoner	KTM	20	+0.152	2	20
3	3	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	20	+0.197	7	16
4	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	20	+0.573	4	13
5	6	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	20	+0.595	11	11
6	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	20	+0.879	12	10
7	21	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	20	+5.980	1	9
8	54	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	20	+19.206	3	8
9	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	20	+28.656	19	7
10	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	20	+28.671	8	6
11	24	Simone Corsi	Honda	20	+28.717	21	5
12	50	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	20	+28.831	17	4
13	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Malaguti	20	+28.955	22	3
14	26	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	20	+44.766	34	2
15	52	Lukáš Pešek	Honda	20	+44.875	13	1
16	25	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	20	+45.682	27
17	75	Alessio Aldrovandi	Honda	20	+56.328	25
18	53	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	20	+56.658	32
19	61	Michele Pirro	Aprilia	20	+56.674	36
20	10	Julián Simón	Honda	20	+1:07.291	15
21	28	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	20	+1:28.660	37
22	41	Youichi Ui	Aprilia	20	+2:29.626	14
23	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	33
Ret	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	17	Retirement	6
Ret	11	Mattia Angeloni	Honda	12	Retirement	39
Ret	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	10	Retirement	18
Ret	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	8	Accident	16
Ret	16	Raymond Schouten	Honda	8	Accident	35
Ret	66	Vesa Kallio	Aprilia	8	Accident	31
Ret	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Derbi	8	Accident	23
Ret	77	Lorenzo Zanetti	Honda	8	Retirement	38
Ret	42	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	6	Accident	24
Ret	32	Fabrizio Lai	Gilera	6	Accident	10
Ret	7	Stefano Perugini	Gilera	6	Retirement	26
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	2	Accident	9
Ret	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	2	Accident	20
Ret	69	Robbin Harms	Honda	0	Accident	30
Ret	76	Michele Danese	Aprilia	0	Accident	28
Ret	8	Manuel Manna	Malaguti	0	Accident	29
Source: [8]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Sete Gibernau 86 2 Valentino Rossi 76 3 Max Biaggi 72 4 Alex Barros 48 5 Carlos Checa 36

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 90 2 Yamaha 83 3 Ducati 35 4 Suzuki 15 5 Kawasaki 13

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

References