# 2004 French motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2004 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2004 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 14–16 May 2004 at the Bugatti Circuit located in Le Mans, France.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP | Honda | 28 | 44:22.750 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha | Yamaha | 28 | +1.671 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 3 | Max Biaggi | Camel Honda | Honda | 28 | +1.908 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha | Yamaha | 28 | +4.272 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 45 | Colin Edwards | Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP | Honda | 28 | +15.755 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3 | Yamaha | 28 | +18.225 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 4 | Alex Barros | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | +27.656 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 12 | Troy Bayliss | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 28 | +31.530 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 6 | Makoto Tamada | Camel Honda | Honda | 28 | +33.164 | 8 | 7 |
| 10 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 28 | +39.512 | 9 | 6 |
| 11 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | +47.625 | 7 | 5 |
| 12 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Team Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 28 | +1:12.140 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | MS Aprilia Racing | Aprilia | 28 | +1:23.391 | 18 | 3 |
| 14 | 11 | Rubén Xaus | D'Antin MotoGP | Ducati | 27 | +1 lap | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 80 | Kurtis Roberts | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 27 | +1 lap | 21 | 1 |
| 16 | 84 | Michel Fabrizio | WCM | Harris WCM | 27 | +1 lap | 22 | |
| 17 | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 27 | +1 lap | 20 | |
| Ret | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 16 | Retirement | 12 | |
| Ret | 35 | Chris Burns | WCM | Harris WCM | 14 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 5 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 17 | Norifumi Abe | Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3 | Yamaha | 0 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 21 | John Hopkins | Team Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 0 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 50 | Neil Hodgson | D'Antin MotoGP | Ducati | 0 | Accident | 14 | |
| DNS | 67 | Shane Byrne | MS Aprilia Racing | Aprilia | | Did not start | | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 26 | 43:03.338 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 7 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 26 | +7.711 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 24 | Toni Elías | Honda | 26 | +19.233 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 73 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 26 | +20.427 | 9 | 13 |
| 5 | 51 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 26 | +21.175 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 14 | Anthony West | Aprilia | 26 | +24.269 | 12 | 10 |
| 7 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 26 | +38.537 | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 26 | +39.827 | 6 | 8 |
| 9 | 6 | Alex Debón | Honda | 26 | +42.589 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 11 | Joan Olivé | Aprilia | 26 | +47.541 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 96 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 26 | +47.874 | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | 26 | +51.623 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 33 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 26 | +51.813 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 26 | +58.880 | 20 | 2 |
| 15 | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 26 | +1:03.261 | 25 | 1 |
| 16 | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Aprilia | 26 | +1:05.370 | 17 | |
| 17 | 9 | Hugo Marchand | Aprilia | 26 | +1:05.906 | 22 | |
| 18 | 36 | Erwan Nigon | Yamaha | 26 | +1:08.323 | 21 | |
| 19 | 15 | Christian Gemmel | Honda | 26 | +1:19.342 | 26 | |
| 20 | 77 | Grégory Lefort | Aprilia | 26 | +1:21.036 | 24 | |
| 21 | 44 | Taro Sekiguchi | Yamaha | 26 | +1:39.861 | 30 | |
| 22 | 42 | Grégory Leblanc | Aprilia | 25 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| Ret | 19 | Sebastián Porto | Aprilia | 17 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 12 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 11 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 10 | Retirement | 11 | |
| Ret | 43 | Radomil Rous | Aprilia | 6 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret | 16 | Johan Stigefelt | Aprilia | 6 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret | 2 | Roberto Rolfo | Honda | 4 | Retirement | 8 | |
| Ret | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Aprilia | 1 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 34 | Eric Bataille | Honda | 1 | Retirement | 14 | |
| DNQ | 45 | Samuel Aubry | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 46 | Vincent Eisen | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 47 | Marc-Antoine Scaccia | Yamaha | | Did not qualify | | |
| WD | 40 | Max Sabbatani | Yamaha | | Withdrew | | |
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## 125cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 24 | 41:26.747 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 24 | +0.594 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Derbi | 24 | +6.680 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Aprilia | 24 | +9.662 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 3 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 24 | +10.178 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 24 | +20.698 | 20 | 10 |
| 7 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Aprilia | 24 | +20.967 | 10 | 9 |
| 8 | 27 | Casey Stoner | KTM | 24 | +21.158 | 13 | 8 |
| 9 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 24 | +21.645 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 21 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 24 | +23.080 | 6 | 6 |
| 11 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 24 | +26.699 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | 24 | +29.332 | 17 | 4 |
| 13 | 10 | Julián Simón | Honda | 24 | +33.187 | 18 | 3 |
| 14 | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Honda | 24 | +37.002 | 21 | 2 |
| 15 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Honda | 24 | +40.239 | 12 | 1 |
| 16 | 14 | Gábor Talmácsi | Malaguti | 24 | +40.304 | 22 | |
| 17 | 42 | Gioele Pellino | Aprilia | 24 | +51.919 | 24 | |
| 18 | 47 | Ángel Rodríguez | Derbi | 24 | +54.523 | 31 | |
| 19 | 26 | Dario Giuseppetti | Honda | 24 | +54.575 | 26 | |
| 20 | 32 | Fabrizio Lai | Gilera | 24 | +54.922 | 19 | |
| 21 | 25 | Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 24 | +1:05.458 | 25 | |
| 22 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 24 | +1:05.610 | 27 | |
| 23 | 8 | Manuel Manna | Malaguti | 24 | +1:13.982 | 29 | |
| 24 | 28 | Jordi Carchano | Aprilia | 24 | +1:14.248 | 34 | |
| 25 | 70 | Julián Miralles | Aprilia | 24 | +1:14.539 | 33 | |
| 26 | 66 | Vesa Kallio | Aprilia | 24 | +1:24.230 | 30 | |
| 27 | 11 | Mattia Angeloni | Honda | 24 | +1:27.607 | 36 | |
| 28 | 16 | Raymond Schouten | Honda | 24 | +1:36.938 | 32 | |
| 29 | 74 | Mathieu Gines | Honda | 23 | +1 lap | 38 | |
| 30 | 73 | Yannick Deschamps | Honda | 23 | +1 lap | 37 | |
| Ret | 69 | Robbin Harms | Honda | 22 | Accident | 28 | |
| Ret | 41 | Youichi Ui | Aprilia | 12 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Aprilia | 9 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 72 | Alexis Masbou | Honda | 9 | Retirement | 35 | |
| Ret | 50 | Andrea Ballerini | Aprilia | 7 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Gilera | 7 | Retirement | 16 | |
| Ret | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Aprilia | 1 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 0 | Accident | 14 | |
| DNS | 20 | Georg Fröhlich | 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 three has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Sete Gibernau | 66 |
| 2 | Max Biaggi | 56 |
| 3 | Valentino Rossi | 51 |
| 4 | Alex Barros | 38 |
| 5 | Carlos Checa | 36 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 70 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 58 |
| 3 | Ducati | 22 |
| 4 | Suzuki | 15 |
| 5 | Kawasaki | 11 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.