# 2005 French motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2005 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 2005 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 13–15 May 2005 at the Bugatti Circuit located in Le Mans, France.

## MotoGP classification

Makoto Tamada was replaced by Jurgen van den Goorbergh after the first practice session due to a wrist injury he had sustained at the Portuguese Grand Prix.
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Gauloises Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 28 | 44:12.223 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Movistar Honda MotoGP | Honda | 28 | +0.382 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Gauloises Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 28 | +5.711 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Movistar Honda MotoGP | Honda | 28 | +7.276 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | +7.703 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | +21.770 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 28 | +24.664 | 10 | 9 |
| 8 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 28 | +35.940 | 6 | 8 |
| 9 | 24 | Toni Elías | Fortuna Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 28 | +38.062 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 12 | Troy Bayliss | Camel Honda | Honda | 28 | +52.607 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 28 | +53.302 | 13 | 5 |
| 12 | 11 | Rubén Xaus | Fortuna Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 28 | +1:00.342 | 16 | 4 |
| 13 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Team Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 28 | +1:00.514 | 14 | 3 |
| 14 | 16 | Jurgen vd Goorbergh | Konica Minolta Honda | Honda | 28 | +1:17.993 | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Team d'Antin Pramac | Ducati | 28 | +1:32.233 | 18 | 1 |
| 16 | 21 | John Hopkins | Team Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 27 | +1 lap | 7 | |
| 17 | 27 | Franco Battaini | Blata WCM | Blata | 27 | +1 lap | 21 | |
| Ret | 4 | Alex Barros | Camel Honda | Honda | 12 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 77 | James Ellison | Blata WCM | Blata | 2 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 67 | Shane Byrne | Team Roberts | Proton KR | 0 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 7 | Carlos Checa | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 0 | Accident | 9 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 1 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 26 | 42:55.152 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 7 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 26 | +0.251 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 26 | +1.554 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 27 | Casey Stoner | Aprilia | 26 | +4.230 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Honda | 26 | +6.027 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 73 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 26 | +23.969 | 10 | 10 |
| 7 | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Honda | 26 | +30.667 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 6 | Alex Debón | Honda | 26 | +32.039 | 15 | 8 |
| 9 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 26 | +32.452 | 8 | 7 |
| 10 | 55 | Yuki Takahashi | Honda | 26 | +37.772 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Aprilia | 26 | +49.285 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | 26 | +49.509 | 11 | 4 |
| 13 | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 26 | +49.530 | 19 | 3 |
| 14 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 26 | +49.771 | 16 | 2 |
| 15 | 8 | Andrea Ballerini | Aprilia | 26 | +49.895 | 14 | 1 |
| 16 | 96 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 26 | +1:02.122 | 12 | |
| 17 | 32 | Mirko Giansanti | Aprilia | 26 | +1:02.612 | 18 | |
| 18 | 14 | Anthony West | Aprilia | 26 | +1:17.358 | 25 | |
| 19 | 38 | Grégory Leblanc | Aprilia | 26 | +1:17.502 | 22 | |
| 20 | 63 | Erwan Nigon | Aprilia | 26 | +1:18.382 | 21 | |
| 21 | 64 | Radomil Rous | Honda | 26 | +1:22.698 | 24 | |
| 22 | 12 | Gábor Rizmayer | Yamaha | 25 | +1 lap | 26 | |
| Ret | 19 | Sebastián Porto | Aprilia | 13 | Retirement | 4 | |
| Ret | 5 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 7 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 18 | Fredrik Watz | Yamaha | 6 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Honda | 0 | Accident | 23 | |
| DNS | 9 | Hugo Marchand | Aprilia | | Did not start | | |
| DNQ | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Fantic | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 65 | Samuel Aubry | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 20 | Gabriele Ferro | Fantic | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 47 | Marc-Antoine Scaccia | Yamaha | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 61 | Li Zheng Peng | Aprilia | | Did not qualify | | |
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## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 24 | 41:52.772 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 24 | +3.080 | 10 | 20 |
| 3 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 24 | +3.263 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Honda | 24 | +4.237 | 9 | 13 |
| 5 | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Aprilia | 24 | +4.311 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 14 | Gábor Talmácsi | KTM | 24 | +4.882 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Derbi | 24 | +25.823 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 60 | Julián Simón | KTM | 24 | +26.349 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 45 | Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 24 | +31.611 | 18 | 7 |
| 10 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 24 | +32.853 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 8 | Lorenzo Zanetti | Aprilia | 24 | +33.270 | 21 | 5 |
| 12 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Honda | 24 | +40.620 | 23 | 4 |
| 13 | 25 | Dario Giuseppetti | Aprilia | 24 | +43.477 | 25 | 3 |
| 14 | 43 | Manuel Hernández | Aprilia | 24 | +45.390 | 16 | 2 |
| 15 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Honda | 24 | +53.924 | 19 | 1 |
| 16 | 84 | Julián Miralles | Aprilia | 24 | +56.940 | 22 | |
| 17 | 42 | Gioele Pellino | Malaguti | 24 | +1:01.388 | 38 | |
| 18 | 88 | Matthieu Lussiana | Honda | 24 | +1:07.555 | 31 | |
| 19 | 10 | Federico Sandi | Honda | 24 | +1:07.750 | 28 | |
| 20 | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Aprilia | 24 | +1:08.159 | 29 | |
| 21 | 44 | Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 24 | +1:09.907 | 36 | |
| 22 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Derbi | 24 | +1:11.161 | 32 | |
| 23 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia | 24 | +1:16.897 | 33 | |
| 24 | 16 | Raymond Schouten | Honda | 24 | +1:17.642 | 35 | |
| Ret | 32 | Fabrizio Lai | Honda | 18 | Retirement | 7 | |
| Ret | 7 | Alexis Masbou | Honda | 16 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 74 | Mathieu Gines | Honda | 16 | Retirement | 30 | |
| Ret | 71 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Honda | 15 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 89 | Jules Cluzel | Honda | 15 | Accident | 24 | |
| Ret | 28 | Jordi Carchano | Aprilia | 11 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret | 15 | Michele Pirro | Malaguti | 11 | Accident | 34 | |
| Ret | 26 | Vincent Braillard | Aprilia | 11 | Accident | 26 | |
| Ret | 90 | Alexis Michel | Honda | 10 | Accident | 39 | |
| Ret | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Honda | 9 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 7 | Retirement | 3 | |
| Ret | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Derbi | 6 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 6 | Joan Olivé | Aprilia | 6 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret | 47 | Ángel Rodríguez | Honda | 4 | Retirement | 20 | |
| DNS | 73 | Yannick Deschamps | Honda | 0 | Did not start | 37 | |
| DNS | 75 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | | Did not start | | |
| DNS | 9 | Toshihisa Kuzuhara | Honda | | Did not start | | |
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## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round four has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 95 |
| 2 | Marco Melandri | 58 |
| 3 | Sete Gibernau | 53 |
| 4 | Max Biaggi | 47 |
| 5 | Alex Barros | 43 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Yamaha | 95 |
| 2 | Honda | 81 |
| 3 | Kawasaki | 47 |
| 4 | Ducati | 30 |
| 5 | Suzuki | 18 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.