# 2005 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2005 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 2005 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 26–28 August 2005 at the Brno Circuit located in Brno, Czech Republic. The race saw the beginning of the end of tobacco advertising in Grand Prix motorcycle racing due to a Europe-wide ban.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Gauloises Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 22 | 43:56.539 | 4 | 25 |
| 2 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 22 | +1.837 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 22 | +3.444 | 10 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Alex Barros | Camel Honda | Honda | 22 | +4.148 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 22 | +4.363 | 2 | 11 |
| 6 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Movistar Honda MotoGP | Honda | 22 | +11.150 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Gauloises Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 22 | +13.532 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 22 | +19.331 | 6 | 8 |
| 9 | 12 | Troy Bayliss | Camel Honda | Honda | 22 | +27.125 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 6 | Makoto Tamada | Konica Minolta Honda | Honda | 22 | +27.248 | 12 | 6 |
| 11 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Team Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 22 | +27.684 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 22 | +27.803 | 11 | 4 |
| 13 | 21 | John Hopkins | Team Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 22 | +28.278 | 8 | 3 |
| 14 | 24 | Toni Elías | Fortuna Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 22 | +28.571 | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 22 | +29.768 | 14 | 1 |
| 16 | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Team Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 22 | +41.778 | 16 | |
| 17 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Team d'Antin Pramac | Ducati | 22 | +57.800 | 19 | |
| 18 | 11 | Rubén Xaus | Fortuna Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 22 | +1:08.082 | 20 | |
| 19 | 77 | James Ellison | Blata WCM | Blata | 22 | +1:42.169 | 18 | |
| 20 | 27 | Franco Battaini | Blata WCM | Blata | 22 | +1:54.784 | 21 | |
| Ret | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Movistar Honda MotoGP | Honda | 21 | Retirement | 1 | |
| Ret | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Team Roberts | Proton KR | 7 | Retirement | 22 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 1 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 20 | 41:24.944 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Honda | 20 | +1.303 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 27 | Casey Stoner | Aprilia | 20 | +4.253 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 5 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 20 | +5.326 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 73 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 20 | +8.392 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 20 | +8.471 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 19 | Sebastián Porto | Aprilia | 20 | +25.545 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 7 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 20 | +32.159 | 5 | 8 |
| 9 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 20 | +33.969 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 20 | +35.544 | 10 | 6 |
| 11 | 96 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 20 | +51.827 | 14 | 5 |
| 12 | 14 | Anthony West | KTM | 20 | +52.049 | 23 | 4 |
| 13 | 6 | Alex Debón | Honda | 20 | +58.214 | 19 | 3 |
| 14 | 64 | Radomil Rous | Honda | 20 | +58.604 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 20 | +58.911 | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 8 | Andrea Ballerini | Aprilia | 20 | +1:06.203 | 16 | |
| 17 | 32 | Mirko Giansanti | Aprilia | 20 | +1:14.453 | 21 | |
| 18 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Fantic | 20 | +1:27.753 | 25 | |
| 19 | 36 | Martín Cárdenas | Aprilia | 20 | +1:28.522 | 27 | |
| 20 | 41 | Álvaro Molina | Aprilia | 20 | +1:48.266 | 29 | |
| 21 | 38 | Grégory Leblanc | Aprilia | 20 | +1:49.455 | 26 | |
| 22 | 70 | Michal Filla | Aprilia | 19 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| 23 | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 19 | +1 lap | 17 | |
| 24 | 23 | Nicklas Cajback | Yamaha | 19 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| Ret | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Honda | 19 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 44 | Taro Sekiguchi | Aprilia | 19 | Accident | 24 | |
| Ret | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | 4 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 24 | Simone Corsi | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 55 | Yuki Takahashi | Honda | 0 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Honda | 0 | Accident | 12 | |
| DNQ | 20 | Gabriele Ferro | Fantic | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 22 | Alexander Todorov | Yamaha | | Did not qualify | | |
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## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 19 | 41:32.409 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 19 | +3.212 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Aprilia | 19 | +3.326 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 19 | +7.754 | 20 | 13 |
| 5 | 8 | Lorenzo Zanetti | Aprilia | 19 | +14.453 | 15 | 11 |
| 6 | 32 | Fabrizio Lai | Honda | 19 | +25.156 | 7 | 10 |
| 7 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Honda | 19 | +25.247 | 17 | 9 |
| 8 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 19 | +25.509 | 14 | 8 |
| 9 | 14 | Gábor Talmácsi | KTM | 19 | +25.773 | 5 | 7 |
| 10 | 60 | Julián Simón | KTM | 19 | +26.066 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia | 19 | +28.977 | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Honda | 19 | +30.360 | 21 | 4 |
| 13 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Honda | 19 | +30.375 | 23 | 3 |
| 14 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Honda | 19 | +30.759 | 6 | 2 |
| 15 | 77 | Stefan Bradl | KTM | 19 | +33.726 | 26 | 1 |
| 16 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Derbi | 19 | +36.880 | 19 | |
| 17 | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Aprilia | 19 | +38.339 | 10 | |
| 18 | 45 | Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 19 | +38.415 | 25 | |
| 19 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Derbi | 19 | +41.510 | 30 | |
| 20 | 43 | Manuel Hernández | Aprilia | 19 | +44.672 | 22 | |
| 21 | 26 | Vincent Braillard | Aprilia | 19 | +47.255 | 32 | |
| 22 | 6 | Joan Olivé | Aprilia | 19 | +1:02.693 | 31 | |
| 23 | 31 | Sascha Hommel | Malaguti | 19 | +1:32.186 | 36 | |
| 24 | 99 | Thomas Mayer | Aprilia | 19 | +1:32.368 | 37 | |
| 25 | 84 | Julián Miralles | Aprilia | 19 | +2:09.147 | 39 | |
| 26 | 48 | David Bonache | Honda | 19 | +2:17.127 | 38 | |
| Ret | 75 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | 17 | Accident | 2 | |
| Ret | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 17 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 87 | Patrik Vostárek | Honda | 17 | Accident | 33 | |
| Ret | 28 | Jordi Carchano | Aprilia | 17 | Retirement | 35 | |
| Ret | 97 | Lukáš Rážek | Honda | 17 | Accident | 40 | |
| Ret | 10 | Federico Sandi | Honda | 13 | Retirement | 34 | |
| Ret | 25 | Dario Giuseppetti | Aprilia | 11 | Retirement | 28 | |
| Ret | 44 | Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 10 | Accident | 24 | |
| Ret | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Derbi | 9 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 71 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Honda | 5 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 7 | Alexis Masbou | Honda | 5 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 76 | Michael Ranseder | KTM | 5 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 16 | Raymond Schouten | Honda | 5 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret | 15 | Michele Pirro | Malaguti | 5 | Retirement | 29 | |
| 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 eleven has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 261 |
| 2 | Max Biaggi | 129 |
| 3 | Marco Melandri | 126 |
| 4 | Colin Edwards | 123 |
| 5 | Sete Gibernau | 115 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Yamaha | 265 |
| 2 | Honda | 218 |
| 3 | Ducati | 102 |
| 4 | Kawasaki | 97 |
| 5 | Suzuki | 65 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.