# 2005 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2005 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2005 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 8–10 April 2005 at Jerez.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Gauloises Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 27 | 45:43.156 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Movistar Honda MotoGP | Honda | 27 | +8.631 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Movistar Honda MotoGP | Honda | 27 | +18.460 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Alex Barros | Camel Honda | Honda | 27 | +26.938 | 8 | 13 |
| 5 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 27 | +27.659 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 12 | Troy Bayliss | Camel Honda | Honda | 27 | +28.509 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 27 | +30.618 | 16 | 9 |
| 8 | 6 | Makoto Tamada | JIR Konica Minolta Honda | Honda | 27 | +36.887 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Gauloises Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 27 | +37.608 | 15 | 7 |
| 10 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 27 | +39.678 | 12 | 6 |
| 11 | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 27 | +42.283 | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 24 | Toni Elías | Fortuna Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 27 | +55.457 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 27 | +1:02.372 | 6 | 3 |
| 14 | 21 | John Hopkins | Team Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 27 | +1:19.346 | 11 | 2 |
| 15 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | D'Antin MotoGP – Pramac | Ducati | 27 | +1:33.607 | 18 | 1 |
| 16 | 77 | James Ellison | Blata WCM | Blata | 26 | +1 lap | 21 | |
| 17 | 27 | Franco Battaini | Blata WCM | Blata | 26 | +1 lap | 19 | |
| 18 | 11 | Rubén Xaus | Fortuna Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 24 | +3 laps | 17 | |
| Ret | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 20 | Retirement | 4 | |
| Ret | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Team Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 11 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 67 | Shane Byrne | Team Roberts | Proton KR | 2 | Retirement | 20 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 1 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 26 | 45:36.679 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 19 | Sebastián Porto | Aprilia | 26 | +2.136 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 5 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 26 | +29.682 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 26 | +36.539 | 10 | 13 |
| 5 | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Honda | 26 | +37.499 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Honda | 26 | +37.728 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 26 | +45.038 | 8 | 9 |
| 8 | 6 | Alex Debón | Honda | 26 | +56.339 | 14 | 8 |
| 9 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Aprilia | 26 | +1:02.844 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 32 | Mirko Giansanti | Aprilia | 26 | +1:10.708 | 21 | 6 |
| 11 | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | 26 | +1:20.790 | 19 | 5 |
| 12 | 64 | Radomil Rous | Honda | 26 | +1:20.950 | 20 | 4 |
| 13 | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 25 | +1 lap | 18 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 | Andrea Ballerini | Aprilia | 25 | +1 lap | 23 | 2 |
| 15 | 38 | Grégory Leblanc | Aprilia | 25 | +1 lap | 25 | 1 |
| 16 | 12 | Gábor Rizmayer | Yamaha | 25 | +1 lap | 27 | |
| Ret | 96 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 25 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 41 | Álvaro Molina | Aprilia | 25 | Retirement | 17 | |
| Ret | 9 | Hugo Marchand | Aprilia | 19 | Retirement | 26 | |
| Ret | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 14 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 27 | Casey Stoner | Aprilia | 13 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 7 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 11 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 55 | Yuki Takahashi | Honda | 10 | Retirement | 11 | |
| Ret | 73 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 8 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Fantic | 8 | Retirement | 28 | |
| Ret | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Honda | 5 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 2 | Retirement | 16 | |
| Ret | 36 | Martín Cárdenas | Aprilia | 1 | Accident | 24 | |
| DNQ | 42 | Yves Polzer | Aprilia | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 16 | Franz Aschenbrenner | 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 | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Aprilia | 23 | 42:27.960 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 23 | +1.418 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 32 | Fabrizio Lai | Honda | 23 | +1.510 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 75 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | 23 | +8.282 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 14 | Gábor Talmácsi | KTM | 23 | +8.930 | 6 | 11 |
| 6 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 23 | +13.651 | 11 | 10 |
| 7 | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 23 | +14.590 | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | 6 | Joan Olivé | Aprilia | 23 | +17.164 | 24 | 8 |
| 9 | 60 | Julián Simón | KTM | 23 | +17.262 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 43 | Manuel Hernández | Aprilia | 23 | +31.147 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Honda | 23 | +34.737 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Derbi | 23 | +34.801 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 28 | Jordi Carchano | Aprilia | 23 | +37.146 | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Honda | 23 | +49.591 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Derbi | 23 | +51.629 | 26 | 1 |
| 16 | 45 | Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 23 | +54.608 | 19 | |
| 17 | 86 | Mateo Túnez | Aprilia | 23 | +54.747 | 32 | |
| 18 | 10 | Federico Sandi | Honda | 23 | +54.960 | 25 | |
| 19 | 84 | Julián Miralles | Aprilia | 23 | +55.527 | 30 | |
| 20 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Honda | 23 | +1:10.864 | 21 | |
| 21 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia | 23 | +1:22.697 | 29 | |
| 22 | 44 | Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 23 | +1:26.526 | 36 | |
| 23 | 16 | Raymond Schouten | Honda | 23 | +1:38.103 | 35 | |
| 24 | 31 | Sascha Hommel | Malaguti | 23 | +1:47.461 | 37 | |
| 25 | 26 | Vincent Braillard | Aprilia | 22 | +1 lap | 27 | |
| Ret | 71 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Honda | 21 | Retirement | 10 | |
| Ret | 7 | Alexis Masbou | Honda | 20 | Retirement | 28 | |
| Ret | 49 | Daniel Sáez | Aprilia | 19 | Retirement | 38 | |
| Ret | 25 | Dario Giuseppetti | Aprilia | 16 | Accident | 31 | |
| Ret | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 15 | Retirement | 3 | |
| Ret | 9 | Toshihisa Kuzuhara | Honda | 15 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 10 | Accident | 18 | |
| Ret | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Derbi | 9 | Retirement | 12 | |
| Ret | 47 | Ángel Rodríguez | Honda | 6 | Retirement | 33 | |
| Ret | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Aprilia | 3 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 15 | Michele Pirro | Malaguti | 0 | Accident | 34 | |
| Ret | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Honda | 0 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 48 | David Bonache | Honda | 0 | Retirement | 39 | |
| Ret | 8 | Lorenzo Zanetti | Aprilia | 0 | Did not start | 9 | |
| DNQ | 87 | Patrik Vostárek | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
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## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 25 |
| 2 | Sete Gibernau | 20 |
| 3 | Marco Melandri | 16 |
| 4 | Alex Barros | 13 |
| 5 | Shinya Nakano | 11 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Yamaha | 25 |
| 2 | Honda | 20 |
| 3 | Kawasaki | 11 |
| 4 | Ducati | 6 |
| 5 | Suzuki | 2 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.