# 2003 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2003 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 3–5 October 2003 at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Camel Pramac Pons | Honda | 24 | 43:57.590 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Repsol Honda | Honda | 24 | +3.754 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Repsol Honda | Honda | 24 | +5.641 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Honda | Honda | 24 | +19.456 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Fortuna Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 24 | +19.909 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | 4 | Alex Barros | Gauloises Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 24 | +20.938 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Camel Pramac Pons | Honda | 24 | +22.307 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 24 | +27.887 | 6 | 8 |
| 9 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | d'antin Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 24 | +41.731 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 43 | Akira Ryō | Team Suzuki | Suzuki | 24 | +50.106 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 23 | Ryuichi Kiyonari | Telefónica Movistar Honda | Honda | 24 | +53.214 | 20 | 5 |
| 12 | 41 | Noriyuki Haga | Alice Aprilia Racing | Aprilia | 24 | +53.589 | 25 | 4 |
| 13 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Gauloises Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 24 | +1:05.620 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 24 | +1:07.535 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 24 | +1:09.055 | 19 | 1 |
| 16 | 88 | Andrew Pitt | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 24 | +1:11.533 | 22 | |
| 17 | 45 | Colin Edwards | Alice Aprilia Racing | Aprilia | 24 | +1:27.583 | 13 | |
| 18 | 25 | Tamaki Serizawa | Moriwaki Racing | Moriwaki | 24 | +1:33.001 | 23 | |
| 19 | 52 | José David de Gea | WCM | Harris WCM | 23 | +1 lap | 24 | |
| Ret | 8 | Garry McCoy | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 10 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 2 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 35 | Chris Burns | WCM | Harris WCM | 1 | Retirement | 26 | |
| Ret | 12 | Troy Bayliss | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 0 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 21 | John Hopkins | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 0 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 7 | Carlos Checa | Fortuna Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 0 | Accident | 7 | |
| DSQ | 6 | Makoto Tamada | Pramac Honda | Honda | 24 | (+4.864) | 2 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 24 | Toni Elías | Aprilia | 23 | 43:57.125 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 3 | Roberto Rolfo | Honda | 23 | +1.483 | 11 | 20 |
| 3 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Aprilia | 23 | +2.159 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 55 | Yuki Takahashi | Honda | 23 | +6.018 | 10 | 13 |
| 5 | 92 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 23 | +6.163 | 6 | 11 |
| 6 | 7 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 23 | +20.407 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 23 | +25.938 | 8 | 9 |
| 8 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 23 | +28.417 | 15 | 8 |
| 9 | 6 | Alex Debón | Honda | 23 | +39.804 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 70 | Choujun Kameya | Honda | 23 | +39.919 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | 23 | +49.703 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 15 | Christian Gemmel | Honda | 23 | +55.921 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 26 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 23 | +1:01.015 | 22 | 3 |
| 14 | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Aprilia | 23 | +1:03.387 | 24 | 2 |
| 15 | 69 | Masaki Tokudome | Yamaha | 23 | +1:03.530 | 20 | 1 |
| 16 | 9 | Hugo Marchand | Aprilia | 23 | +1:04.299 | 19 | |
| 17 | 36 | Erwan Nigon | Aprilia | 23 | +1:04.621 | 16 | |
| 18 | 96 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 23 | +1:21.680 | 26 | |
| 19 | 11 | Joan Olivé | Aprilia | 23 | +1:44.192 | 28 | |
| 20 | 18 | Henk vd Lagemaat | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| Ret | 5 | Sebastián Porto | Honda | 18 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 67 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Yamaha | 11 | Retirement | 9 | |
| Ret | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 9 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 13 | Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 9 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret | 14 | Anthony West | Aprilia | 8 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 34 | Eric Bataille | Honda | 6 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 33 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 5 | Retirement | 17 | |
| Ret | 16 | Johan Stigefelt | Aprilia | 3 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 2 | Accident | 2 | |
| Ret | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Yamaha | 1 | Retirement | 25 | |
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## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 21 | 41:54.483 | 4 | 25 |
| 2 | 27 | Casey Stoner | Aprilia | 21 | +0.164 | 10 | 20 |
| 3 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 21 | +0.304 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Aprilia | 21 | +2.731 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 21 | +2.970 | 16 | 11 |
| 6 | 3 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 21 | +3.215 | 1 | 10 |
| 7 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 21 | +3.264 | 13 | 9 |
| 8 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Aprilia | 21 | +9.200 | 6 | 8 |
| 9 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 21 | +13.016 | 8 | 7 |
| 10 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 21 | +13.195 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Aprilia | 21 | +13.353 | 19 | 5 |
| 12 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 21 | +19.848 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 8 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 21 | +20.107 | 21 | 3 |
| 14 | 79 | Gábor Talmácsi | Aprilia | 21 | +20.616 | 12 | 2 |
| 15 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Honda | 21 | +23.402 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 33 | Stefano Bianco | Gilera | 21 | +24.840 | 9 | |
| 17 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Gilera | 21 | +30.548 | 24 | |
| 18 | 32 | Fabrizio Lai | Malaguti | 21 | +47.008 | 23 | |
| 19 | 1 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 21 | +52.431 | 22 | |
| 20 | 50 | Andrea Ballerini | Honda | 21 | +52.675 | 30 | |
| 21 | 66 | Shuhei Aoyama | Honda | 21 | +57.467 | 29 | |
| 22 | 88 | Robbin Harms | Aprilia | 21 | +1:11.694 | 33 | |
| 23 | 59 | Hiroaki Kuzuhara | Honda | 21 | +1:11.770 | 36 | |
| 24 | 31 | Julián Simón | Malaguti | 21 | +1:13.195 | 25 | |
| 25 | 94 | Sadahito Suma | Honda | 21 | +1:16.576 | 31 | |
| 26 | 25 | Imre Tóth | Honda | 21 | +1:28.964 | 32 | |
| Ret | 10 | Roberto Locatelli | KTM | 20 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Derbi | 19 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 14 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Aprilia | 14 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 95 | Yuki Hatano | Honda | 12 | Accident | 37 | |
| Ret | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Honda | 7 | Accident | 26 | |
| Ret | 4 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 5 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 28 | Michele Danese | Honda | 5 | Retirement | 38 | |
| Ret | 65 | Toshihisa Kuzuhara | Honda | 4 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Aprilia | 4 | Retirement | 35 | |
| Ret | 26 | Emilio Alzamora | Derbi | 3 | Accident | 28 | |
| Ret | 42 | Gioele Pellino | Aprilia | 3 | Accident | 34 | |
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## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round thirteen has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 282 |
| 2 | Sete Gibernau | 224 |
| 3 | Max Biaggi | 199 |
| 4 | Loris Capirossi | 131 |
| 5 | Troy Bayliss | 112 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 320 |
| 2 | Ducati | 179 |
| 3 | Yamaha | 143 |
| 4 | Aprilia | 67 |
| 5 | Suzuki | 29 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.