2003 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2003 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 5–7 September 2003 at the Autódromo do Estoril.

  2003 Portuguese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 11 of 16 races in the 2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	7 September 2003
Official name	Grande Prémio Marlboro de Portugal[1]
Location	Autódromo do Estoril
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.182 km (2.599 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Loris Capirossi Ducati Time 1:38.412 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 1:39.189 on lap 3 Podium First Valentino Rossi Honda Second Max Biaggi Honda Third Loris Capirossi Ducati
250cc
Pole position Rider Toni Elías Aprilia Time 1:42.255 Fastest lap Rider Manuel Poggiali Aprilia Time 1:42.215 on lap 5 Podium First Toni Elías Aprilia Second Manuel Poggiali Aprilia Third Randy de Puniet Aprilia
125cc
Pole position Rider Alex de Angelis Aprilia Time 1:45.580 Fastest lap Rider Héctor Barberá Aprilia Time 1:46.225 on lap 22 Podium First Pablo Nieto Aprilia Second Héctor Barberá Aprilia Third Alex de Angelis Aprilia

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda	Honda	28	46:48.005	3	25
2	3	Max Biaggi	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	28	+2.094	2	20
3	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+5.254	1	16
4	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	28	+5.269	4	13
5	11	Tohru Ukawa	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	28	+10.581	10	11
6	12	Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+14.246	8	10
7	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+16.143	11	9
8	7	Carlos Checa	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+18.083	7	8
9	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda	Honda	28	+18.284	15	7
10	6	Makoto Tamada	Pramac Honda	Honda	28	+21.815	9	6
11	4	Alex Barros	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+24.059	12	5
12	56	Shinya Nakano	d'Antín Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+27.082	6	4
13	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+27.651	5	3
14	45	Colin Edwards	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	28	+31.505	13	2
15	41	Noriyuki Haga	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	28	+57.118	18	1
16	23	Ryuichi Kiyonari	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	28	+1:01.412	19
17	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	28	+1:01.542	14
18	21	John Hopkins	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	28	+1:06.601	17
19	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	28	+1:10.958	16
20	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	28	+1:11.523	23
21	88	Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	28	+1:18.550	20
22	52	José David de Gea	WCM	Harris WCM	27	+1 lap	21
Ret	8	Garry McCoy	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	26	Retirement	22
DNS	35	Chris Burns	WCM	Harris WCM	0	Did not start	24
Sources: [2][3][4]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	26	44:37.770	1	25
2	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	26	+4.731	4	20
3	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	26	+5.987	2	16
4	3	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	26	+6.470	7	13
5	5	Sebastián Porto	Honda	26	+25.023	5	11
6	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	26	+25.273	6	10
7	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	26	+27.791	3	9
8	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	26	+27.913	9	8
9	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	26	+43.047	8	7
10	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	26	+43.112	11	6
11	6	Alex Debón	Honda	26	+44.796	10	5
12	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	26	+1:10.765	12	4
13	33	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	26	+1:11.702	21	3
14	26	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	26	+1:11.714	16	2
15	15	Christian Gemmel	Honda	26	+1:13.983	15	1
16	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	26	+1:19.238	20
17	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+1:36.515	18
18	66	Vesa Kallio	Yamaha	25	+1 lap	25
19	40	Álvaro Molina	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	26
20	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	14
21	51	Frederik Watz	Yamaha	25	+1 lap	24
22	41	Miguel Praia	Yamaha	25	+1 lap	27
23	18	Henk vd Lagemaat	Honda	25	+1 lap	28
Ret	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	10	Retirement	13
Ret	11	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	5	Accident	17
Ret	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	5	Accident	22
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Yamaha	2	Accident	23
Ret	98	Katja Poensgen	Honda	0	Accident	29
DNS	16	Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	0	Did not start	19
Source: [5]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	23	41:08.307	5	25
2	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	23	+0.022	22	20
3	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	23	+0.308	1	16
4	3	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	23	+0.560	2	13
5	1	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	23	+3.326	13	11
6	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	23	+8.143	3	10
7	79	Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	23	+8.287	10	9
8	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	23	+13.353	8	8
9	24	Simone Corsi	Honda	23	+13.574	18	7
10	6	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	23	+13.869	16	6
11	10	Roberto Locatelli	KTM	23	+24.879	23	5
12	32	Fabrizio Lai	Malaguti	23	+39.570	25	4
13	8	Masao Azuma	Honda	23	+46.623	15	3
14	33	Stefano Bianco	Gilera	23	+46.983	17	2
15	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	23	+47.176	21	1
16	60	Mattia Angeloni	Honda	23	+47.278	24
17	93	Manuel Manna	Aprilia	23	+47.614	28
18	70	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	23	+1:22.395	30
19	26	Emilio Alzamora	Derbi	23	+1:25.014	34
20	81	Ismael Ortega	Aprilia	23	+1:25.533	36
21	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	23	+1:26.476	35
Ret	7	Stefano Perugini	Aprilia	13	Accident	4
Ret	50	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	13	Retirement	27
Ret	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	10	Retirement	9
Ret	78	Péter Lénárt	Honda	7	Retirement	32
Ret	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	6	Accident	14
Ret	88	Robbin Harms	Aprilia	5	Retirement	29
Ret	42	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	4	Accident	26
Ret	31	Julián Simón	Malaguti	4	Retirement	20
Ret	25	Imre Tóth	Honda	1	Retirement	33
Ret	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	0	Accident	7
Ret	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	0	Accident	11
Ret	69	David Bonache	Honda	0	Accident	31
DNS	41	Youichi Ui	Gilera	0	Did not start	12
DNS	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	0	Did not start	6
DSQ	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	23	(+46.646)[N 1]	19
DNS	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia		Did not start
Source: [6]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eleven has concluded.^[7][8]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 237 2 Sete Gibernau 191 3 Max Biaggi 161 4 Loris Capirossi 113 5 Troy Bayliss 106

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 270 2 Ducati 161 3 Yamaha 124 4 Aprilia 60 5 / Proton KR 27

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Notes

1. Disqualified due to a weight-related technical infringement.