# 2005 British motorcycle Grand Prix

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.

## MotoGP classification

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

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 7 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 27 | 49:11.337 | 6 | 25 |
| 2 | 14 | Anthony West | KTM | 27 | +1.236 | 15 | 20 |
| 3 | 27 | Casey Stoner | Aprilia | 27 | +16.740 | 10 | 16 |
| 4 | 1 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 27 | +47.825 | 1 | 13 |
| 5 | 19 | Sebastián Porto | Aprilia | 27 | +1:03.449 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Aprilia | 27 | +1:32.437 | 14 | 10 |
| 7 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 27 | +1:34.560 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Honda | 27 | +1:45.964 | 2 | 8 |
| 9 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 26 | +1 lap | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 8 | Andrea Ballerini | Aprilia | 26 | +1 lap | 20 | 6 |
| 11 | 32 | Mirko Giansanti | Aprilia | 26 | +1 lap | 22 | 5 |
| 12 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 26 | +1 lap | 11 | 4 |
| 13 | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 26 | +1 lap | 19 | 3 |
| 14 | 38 | Grégory Leblanc | Aprilia | 25 | +2 laps | 24 | 2 |
| 15 | 64 | Radomil Rous | Honda | 25 | +2 laps | 25 | 1 |
| 16 | 96 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 25 | +2 laps | 17 | |
| 17 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 25 | +2 laps | 18 | |
| 18 | 41 | Álvaro Molina | Aprilia | 25 | +2 laps | 29 | |
| 19 | 20 | Gabriele Ferro | Fantic | 23 | +4 laps | 31 | |
| Ret | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | 22 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 44 | Taro Sekiguchi | Aprilia | 21 | Accident | 26 | |
| Ret | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Honda | 16 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 73 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 12 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 42 | Yves Polzer | Aprilia | 12 | Accident | 28 | |
| Ret | 5 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 8 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 36 | Martín Cárdenas | Aprilia | 4 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Honda | 2 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Fantic | 0 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret | 55 | Yuki Takahashi | Honda | 0 | Retirement | 9 | |
| Ret | 6 | Alex Debón | Honda | 0 | Retirement | 13 | |
| DSQ | 26 | Andreas Mårtensson | Yamaha | 10 | Black flag | 30 | |
| DNQ | 23 | Nicklas Cajback | Yamaha | | Did not qualify | | |
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## 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 | Points |
| 1 | 60 | Julián Simón | KTM | 9 | 17:35.523 | 6 | 25 |
| 2 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Honda | 9 | +2.406 | 9 | 20 |
| 3 | 32 | Fabrizio Lai | Honda | 9 | +8.896 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Aprilia | 9 | +9.169 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Derbi | 9 | +13.837 | 17 | 11 |
| 6 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 9 | +18.323 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 9 | +23.453 | 1 | 9 |
| 8 | 6 | Joan Olivé | Aprilia | 9 | +31.424 | 15 | 8 |
| 9 | 94 | Dan Linfoot | Honda | 9 | +33.865 | 39 | 7 |
| 10 | 9 | Toshihisa Kuzuhara | Honda | 9 | +40.094 | 30 | 6 |
| 11 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 9 | +40.345 | 14 | 5 |
| 12 | 56 | Christian Elkin | Honda | 9 | +40.761 | 41 | 4 |
| 13 | 28 | Jordi Carchano | Aprilia | 9 | +42.789 | 26 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 | Lorenzo Zanetti | Aprilia | 9 | +42.833 | 27 | 2 |
| 15 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Honda | 9 | +43.420 | 28 | 1 |
| 16 | 16 | Raymond Schouten | Honda | 9 | +43.587 | 25 | |
| 17 | 44 | Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 9 | +45.101 | 36 | |
| 18 | 42 | Gioele Pellino | Malaguti | 9 | +47.077 | 38 | |
| 19 | 10 | Federico Sandi | Honda | 9 | +48.901 | 31 | |
| 20 | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Aprilia | 9 | +49.088 | 21 | |
| 21 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Derbi | 9 | +54.566 | 18 | |
| 22 | 95 | James Westmoreland | Honda | 9 | +59.769 | 37 | |
| 23 | 26 | Vincent Braillard | Aprilia | 9 | +1:00.672 | 33 | |
| 24 | 46 | Mateo Túnez | Aprilia | 9 | +1:02.134 | 24 | |
| 25 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 9 | +1:26.419 | 11 | |
| 26 | 45 | Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 9 | +1:28.411 | 34 | |
| Ret | 7 | Alexis Masbou | Honda | 8 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Honda | 5 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Honda | 5 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 14 | Gábor Talmácsi | KTM | 4 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 57 | Rob Guiver | Honda | 3 | Accident | 40 | |
| Ret | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Derbi | 1 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 15 | Michele Pirro | Malaguti | 0 | Accident | 32 | |
| Ret | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 22 | |
| Ret | 43 | Manuel Hernández | Aprilia | 0 | Retirement | 16 | |
| Ret | 75 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | 0 | Did not restart | 2 | |
| Ret | 71 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Honda | 0 | Accident in 1st part | 8 | |
| Ret | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 0 | Accident in 1st part | 13 | |
| Ret | 47 | Ángel Rodríguez | Honda | 0 | Retirement in 1st part | 23 | |
| Ret | 96 | Kev Coghlan | Honda | 0 | Retirement in 1st part | 35 | |
| DNS | 25 | Dario Giuseppetti | Aprilia | 0 | Did not start 1st part | 29 | |
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## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round nine has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 211 |
| 2 | Marco Melandri | 107 |
| 3 | Colin Edwards | 106 |
| 4 | Max Biaggi | 100 |
| 5 | Sete Gibernau | 95 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Yamaha | 215 |
| 2 | Honda | 182 |
| 3 | Kawasaki | 83 |
| 4 | Ducati | 75 |
| 5 | Suzuki | 55 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.