# 2003 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2003 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the penultimate round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 17–19 October 2003 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit. The MotoGP race was famous after Valentino Rossi won the world title after getting a 10-second penalty after overtaking under yellow flags after Troy Bayliss had crashed.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Repsol Honda | Honda | 27 | 41:53.543 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 27 | +5.212 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Repsol Honda | Honda | 27 | +12.039 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Honda | Honda | 27 | +12.070 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Camel Pramac Pons | Honda | 27 | +12.294 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Gauloises Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 27 | +28.017 | 15 | 10 |
| 7 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | d'Antín Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 27 | +28.044 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Fortuna Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 27 | +40.112 | 9 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 27 | +41.410 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 6 | Makoto Tamada | Pramac Honda | Honda | 27 | +49.902 | 17 | 6 |
| 11 | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 27 | +51.260 | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 21 | John Hopkins | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 27 | +54.101 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 8 | Garry McCoy | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 27 | +54.779 | 12 | 3 |
| 14 | 41 | Noriyuki Haga | Alice Aprilia Racing | Aprilia | 27 | +1:01.520 | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 88 | Andrew Pitt | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 27 | +1:06.080 | 21 | 1 |
| 16 | 45 | Colin Edwards | Alice Aprilia Racing | Aprilia | 27 | +1:06.630 | 18 | |
| 17 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Camel Pramac Pons | Honda | 27 | +1:14.003 | 6 | |
| 18 | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 26 | +1 lap | 20 | |
| 19 | 23 | Ryuichi Kiyonari | Telefónica Movistar Honda | Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 22 | |
| 20 | 35 | Chris Burns | WCM | Harris WCM | 26 | +1 lap | 24 | |
| Ret | 33 | Marco Melandri | Fortuna Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 14 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 4 | Alex Barros | Gauloises Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 9 | Retirement | 16 | |
| Ret | 12 | Troy Bayliss | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 3 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 52 | José David de Gea | WCM | Harris WCM | 0 | Accident | 23 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 3 | Roberto Rolfo | Honda | 25 | 45:14.993 | 8 | 25 |
| 2 | 14 | Anthony West | Aprilia | 25 | +14.040 | 11 | 20 |
| 3 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 25 | +33.511 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 25 | +54.252 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 6 | Alex Debón | Honda | 25 | +1:06.895 | 13 | 11 |
| 6 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 25 | +1:06.943 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 36 | Erwan Nigon | Aprilia | 25 | +1:13.421 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 13 | Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 25 | +1:22.119 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Aprilia | 25 | +1:22.163 | 7 | 7 |
| 10 | 16 | Johan Stigefelt | Aprilia | 25 | +1:25.303 | 22 | 6 |
| 11 | 24 | Toni Elías | Aprilia | 25 | +1:41.591 | 1 | 5 |
| 12 | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Yamaha | 25 | +2:49.682 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Aprilia | 24 | +1 lap | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 9 | Hugo Marchand | Aprilia | 24 | +1 lap | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | 24 | +1 lap | 15 | 1 |
| 16 | 33 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 24 | +1 lap | 16 | |
| 17 | 18 | Henk vd Lagemaat | Honda | 23 | +2 laps | 25 | |
| 18 | 11 | Joan Olivé | Aprilia | 22 | +3 laps | 20 | |
| Ret | 7 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 23 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 15 | Christian Gemmel | Honda | 19 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 34 | Eric Bataille | Honda | 16 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 5 | Sebastián Porto | Honda | 5 | Accident | 2 | |
| Ret | 98 | Katja Poensgen | Honda | 4 | Accident | 24 | |
| Ret | 79 | Geoff Hardcastle | Yamaha | 4 | Retirement | 26 | |
| Ret | 26 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 2 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 6 | |
| DNQ | 77 | Mark Rowling | Yamaha | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 78 | Peter Taplin | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 80 | Rodney Camm | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 76 | Brett Underwood | Yamaha | | Did not qualify | | |
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## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 50 | Andrea Ballerini | Honda | 23 | 43:41.886 | 23 | 25 |
| 2 | 8 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 23 | +8.849 | 17 | 20 |
| 3 | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 23 | +14.187 | 9 | 16 |
| 4 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 23 | +14.752 | 16 | 13 |
| 5 | 1 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 23 | +16.387 | 22 | 11 |
| 6 | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 23 | +22.852 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 23 | +23.167 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Derbi | 23 | +39.210 | 5 | 8 |
| 9 | 79 | Gábor Talmácsi | Aprilia | 23 | +45.888 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 88 | Robbin Harms | Aprilia | 23 | +48.500 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Gilera | 23 | +1:07.473 | 20 | 5 |
| 12 | 31 | Julián Simón | Malaguti | 23 | +1:08.499 | 28 | 4 |
| 13 | 32 | Fabrizio Lai | Malaguti | 23 | +1:25.817 | 18 | 3 |
| 14 | 26 | Emilio Alzamora | Derbi | 23 | +1:46.395 | 27 | 2 |
| 15 | 33 | Stefano Bianco | Gilera | 23 | +1:50.845 | 25 | 1 |
| 16 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 12 | |
| 17 | 28 | Michele Danese | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 31 | |
| Ret | 25 | Imre Tóth | Honda | 20 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Aprilia | 19 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 46 | Matthew Kuhne | Honda | 19 | Retirement | 33 | |
| Ret | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Aprilia | 17 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 17 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 4 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 14 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Aprilia | 14 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 10 | Roberto Locatelli | KTM | 12 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 9 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Aprilia | 8 | Retirement | 26 | |
| Ret | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Aprilia | 7 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 6 | Retirement | 8 | |
| Ret | 27 | Casey Stoner | Aprilia | 5 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 44 | Joshua Waters | Honda | 5 | Retirement | 30 | |
| Ret | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Honda | 1 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 42 | Gioele Pellino | Aprilia | 1 | Retirement | 32 | |
| DNS | 24 | Simone Corsi | Honda | | Did not start | | |
| DNQ | 45 | Brett Simmonds | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
| WD | 3 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | | Withdrew | | |
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## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fifteen has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 332 |
| 2 | Sete Gibernau | 257 |
| 3 | Max Biaggi | 215 |
| 4 | Loris Capirossi | 161 |
| 5 | Nicky Hayden | 130 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 370 |
| 2 | Ducati | 209 |
| 3 | Yamaha | 164 |
| 4 | Aprilia | 73 |
| 5 | Suzuki | 38 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.