2004 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix

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Losail International Circuit
Course
  • Permanent racing facility
  • 5.380 km (3.343 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider Spain Carlos Checa
Time 1:58.988
Fastest lap
Rider United States Colin Edwards
Time 1:59.293 on lap 11
Podium
First Spain Sete Gibernau
Second United States Colin Edwards
Third Spain Rubén Xaus
250 cc
Pole position
Rider Argentina Sebastián Porto
Time 2:02.710
Fastest lap
Rider San Marino Alex de Angelis
Time 2:03.015 on lap 4
Podium
First Argentina Sebastián Porto
Second
Daniel Pedrosa
Third Japan Hiroshi Aoyama
125 cc
Pole position
Rider Spain Jorge Lorenzo
Time 2:09.644
Fastest lap
Rider Spain Jorge Lorenzo
Time 2:09.569 on lap 8
Podium
First Spain Jorge Lorenzo
Second Italy Andrea Dovizioso
Third Spain Álvaro Bautista

The 2004 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the

Losail International Circuit
. It was the first running of the event.

This would be Sete Gibernau 9th and his final race win.

MotoGP classification

Pos. No. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 15 Spain Sete Gibernau Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP Honda 22 44:01.741 3 25
2 45 United States Colin Edwards Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP Honda 22 +1.315 10 20
3 11 Spain Rubén Xaus D'Antin MotoGP Ducati 22 +23.844 7 16
4 4 Brazil Alex Barros Repsol Honda Team Honda 22 +25.458 2 13
5 69 United States Nicky Hayden Repsol Honda Team Honda 22 +31.417 4 11
6 3 Italy Max Biaggi Camel Honda Honda 22 +39.209 24[N 1] 10
7 17 Japan Norifumi Abe Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3 Yamaha 22 +53.373 17 9
8 21 United States John Hopkins Team Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 22 +58.006 11 8
9 66 Germany Alex Hofmann Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki 22 +1:04.320 18 7
10 6 Japan Makoto Tamada Camel Honda Honda 22 +1:18.518 13 6
11 71 Japan Yukio Kagayama Team Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 22 +1:49.438 19 5
12 36 United Kingdom James Haydon Proton Team KR
KR
 		22 +1:52.158 21 4
13 77 United Kingdom James Ellison WCM Harris WCM 22 +1:53.900 22 3
Ret 7 Spain Carlos Checa Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha Yamaha 19 Retirement 1
Ret 33 Italy Marco Melandri Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3 Yamaha 13 Retirement 16
Ret 65 Italy Loris Capirossi Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 13 Retirement 6
Ret 99 United Kingdom Jeremy McWilliams MS Aprilia Racing Aprilia 12 Retirement 14
Ret 50 United Kingdom Neil Hodgson D'Antin MotoGP Ducati 10 Retirement 15
Ret 9 Japan Nobuatsu Aoki Proton Team KR
KR
 6 Accident 20
Ret 46 Italy Valentino Rossi Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha Yamaha 5 Accident 23[N 2]
Ret 12 Australia Troy Bayliss Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 5 Retirement 9
Ret 56 Japan Shinya Nakano Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki 3 Retirement 5
DNQ 41 Japan Youichi Ui WCM Harris WCM Did not qualify
Sources: [4][5][6]

250 cc classification

Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 19 Argentina Sebastián Porto Aprilia 20 41:17.343 1 25
2 26
Daniel Pedrosa
 Honda 20 +1.614 2 20
3 73 Japan Hiroshi Aoyama Honda 20 +43.312 6 16
4 21 Italy Franco Battaini Aprilia 20 +45.127 7 13
5 10 Spain Fonsi Nieto Aprilia 20 +47.182 8 11
6 24 Spain Toni Elías Honda 20 +59.471 5 10
7 2 Italy Roberto Rolfo Honda 20 +1:11.413 16 9
8 6 Spain Alex Debón Honda 20 +1:22.120 11 8
9 9 France Hugo Marchand Aprilia 20 +1:22.162 23 7
10 11 Spain Joan Olivé Aprilia 20 +1:29.038 14 6
11 50 France Sylvain Guintoli Aprilia 20 +1:40.121 9 5
12 36 France Erwan Nigon Aprilia 20 +1:43.016 18 4
13 44 Japan Taro Sekiguchi Yamaha 20 +1:43.056 21 3
14 16 Sweden Johan Stigefelt Aprilia 20 +1:50.884 22 2
15 52 Spain José David de Gea Honda 20 +1:53.027 24 1
16 57 United Kingdom Chaz Davies Aprilia 20 +1:53.335 13
17 96 Czech Republic Jakub Smrž Honda 20 +1:54.871 17
18 25 Italy Alex Baldolini Aprilia 20 +2:25.588 15
19 17 Germany Klaus Nöhles Honda 19 +1 lap 26
Ret 14 Australia Anthony West Aprilia 19 Retirement 10
Ret 51 San Marino Alex de Angelis Aprilia 18 Retirement 3
Ret 8 Japan Naoki Matsudo Yamaha 15 Retirement 20
Ret 28 Germany Dirk Heidolf Aprilia 8 Retirement 19
Ret 43 Czech Republic Radomil Rous Yamaha 5 Retirement 27
Ret 7 France Randy de Puniet Aprilia 4 Accident 4
Ret 33 Spain Héctor Faubel Aprilia 2 Retirement 12
Ret 42 France Grégory Leblanc Aprilia 0 Accident 25
DNQ 88 Hungary Gergő Talmácsi Yamaha Did not qualify
Source: [7]

125 cc classification

The race produced a dead heat for first place between Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso. After a photo finish could not separate the riders, Lorenzo was awarded first place on the basis that he set a faster laptime during the race.[8]

Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 48 Spain Jorge Lorenzo Derbi 18 39:11.620 1 25
2 34 Italy Andrea Dovizioso Honda 18 +0.000 2 20
3 19 Spain Álvaro Bautista Aprilia 18 +4.018 12 16
4 36 Finland Mika Kallio KTM 18 +18.753 10 13
5 32 Italy Fabrizio Lai Gilera 18 +35.458 16 11
6 22 Spain Pablo Nieto Aprilia 18 +37.890 6 10
7 10 Spain Julián Simón Honda 18 +39.023 8 9
8 23 Italy Gino Borsoi Aprilia 18 +39.409 22 8
9 54 Italy Mattia Pasini Aprilia 18 +42.901 15 7
10 6 Italy Mirko Giansanti Aprilia 18 +42.918 9 6
11 21 Germany Steve Jenkner Aprilia 18 +47.425 3 5
12 3 Spain Héctor Barberá Aprilia 18 +48.015 14 4
13 12 Switzerland Thomas Lüthi Honda 18 +52.652 13 3
14 50 Italy Andrea Ballerini Aprilia 18 +1:03.092 21 2
15 42 Italy Gioele Pellino Aprilia 18 +1:06.804 27 1
16 7 Italy Stefano Perugini Gilera 18 +1:07.043 18
17 52 Czech Republic Lukáš Pešek Honda 18 +1:20.718 30
18 33 Spain Sergio Gadea Aprilia 18 +1:23.808 19
19 26 Germany Dario Giuseppetti Honda 18 +1:26.869 24
20 15 Italy Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 18 +1:28.482 5
21 45 Italy Lorenzo Zanetti Aprilia 18 +1:29.779 25
22 28 Spain Jordi Carchano Aprilia 18 +1:37.395 26
23 8 Italy Manuel Manna Malaguti 18 +1:37.540 31
24 16 Netherlands Raymond Schouten Honda 18 +1:38.401 29
25 25 Hungary Imre Tóth Aprilia 18 +1:54.617 28
Ret 24 Italy Simone Corsi Honda 15 Retirement 11
Ret 14 Hungary Gábor Talmácsi Malaguti 9 Retirement 17
Ret 27 Australia Casey Stoner KTM 8 Retirement 4
Ret 31 Italy Max Sabbatani Honda 2 Retirement 32
Ret 47 Spain Ángel Rodríguez Derbi 0 Accident 23
Ret 66 Finland Vesa Kallio Aprilia 0 Accident 20
DNS 58 Italy Marco Simoncelli Aprilia 0 Did not start 7
DNQ 9 Czech Republic Markéta Janáková Honda Did not qualify
DNQ 63 France Mike Di Meglio Aprilia Did not qualify
Source: [9]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round thirteen has concluded.[10]

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

Notes

  1. ^ A 6-second penalty was applied to his qualifying time due to a team member washing and brushing his grid slot;[2] his original starting position (12th) remained unassigned.[3]
  2. ^ A 6-second penalty was applied to his qualifying time due to a team member laying down tyre rubber on his grid slot;[2] his original starting position (8th) remained unassigned.[3]

References

  1. ^ "2004 Qatar MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Marlboro Grand Prix of Qatar – MotoGP – Official Combined Practice Time" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 1 October 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Marlboro Grand Prix of Qatar – MotoGP – Official Starting Grid" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 2 October 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  4. ^ "2004 Qatar MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Marlboro Grand Prix of Qatar – MotoGP – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 2 October 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  6. ^ "motogp.com · GRAND PRIX OF QATAR · MotoGP Race Classification 2004". Motogp.com. Archived from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Marlboro Grand Prix of Qatar – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 2 October 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  8. ^ "Lorenzo vince, Dovizioso anche". gazzetta.it (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. 2 October 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  9. ^ "Marlboro Grand Prix of Qatar – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 2 October 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  10. ^ "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2004. Retrieved 2019-08-22.


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