# 2005 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

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 | Points |
| 1 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Movistar Honda MotoGP | Honda | 30 | 46:58.152 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | +0.097 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 30 | +2.959 | 15 | 16 |
| 4 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 30 | +18.718 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Alex Barros | Camel Honda | Honda | 30 | +20.706 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | +21.254 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 30 | +23.142 | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 30 | +25.678 | 6 | 8 |
| 9 | 6 | Makoto Tamada | Konica Minolta Honda | Honda | 30 | +36.710 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | 24 | Toni Elías | Fortuna Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 30 | +39.116 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 30 | +41.136 | 9 | 5 |
| 12 | 54 | Ryuichi Kiyonari | Camel Honda | Honda | 30 | +45.691 | 16 | 4 |
| 13 | 21 | John Hopkins | Team Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 30 | +46.507 | 11 | 3 |
| 14 | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 30 | +49.856 | 12 | 2 |
| 15 | 11 | Rubén Xaus | Fortuna Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 30 | +1:19.443 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 27 | Franco Battaini | Blata WCM | Blata | 29 | +1 lap | 21 | |
| Ret | 80 | Kurtis Roberts | Team Roberts | Proton KR | 16 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 77 | James Ellison | Blata WCM | Blata | 15 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Team Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 8 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Movistar Honda MotoGP | Honda | 3 | Retirement | 1 | |
| Ret | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Team d'Antin Pramac | Ducati | 0 | Accident | 18 | |
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## 250 cc classification

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

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

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seventeen has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 367 |
| 2 | Marco Melandri | 220 |
| 3 | Nicky Hayden | 206 |
| 4 | Colin Edwards | 179 |
| 5 | Max Biaggi | 173 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Yamaha | 381 |
| 2 | Honda | 341 |
| 3 | Ducati | 202 |
| 4 | Kawasaki | 126 |
| 5 | Suzuki | 100 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.