2003 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2003 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 18–20 September 2003 at Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet.

  2003 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix

Race details
Race 12 of 16 races in the 2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	20 September 2003
Official name	Cinzano Rio Grand Prix[1]
Location	Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.933 km (3.065 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 1:49.038 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Honda Time 1:50.453 on lap 10 Podium First Valentino Rossi Honda Second Sete Gibernau Honda Third Makoto Tamada Honda
250cc
Pole position Rider Toni Elías Aprilia Time 1:53.457 Fastest lap Rider Manuel Poggiali Aprilia Time 1:54.215 on lap 7 Podium First Manuel Poggiali Aprilia Second Roberto Rolfo Honda Third Randy de Puniet Aprilia
125cc
Pole position Rider Daniel Pedrosa Honda Time 1:58.052 Fastest lap Rider Daniel Pedrosa Honda Time 1:58.121 on lap 3 Podium First Jorge Lorenzo Derbi Second Casey Stoner Aprilia Third Alex de Angelis Aprilia

The 125cc race marked the first Grand Prix motorcycle racing victory for a young Jorge Lorenzo.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda	Honda	24	44:36.633	1	25
2	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	24	+3.109	3	20
3	6	Makoto Tamada	Pramac Honda	Honda	24	+7.298	9	16
4	3	Max Biaggi	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	24	+9.235	4	13
5	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda	Honda	24	+11.165	7	11
6	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	24	+14.826	2	10
7	11	Tohru Ukawa	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	24	+17.361	8	9
8	56	Shinya Nakano	d'Antín Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+21.239	6	8
9	7	Carlos Checa	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+21.522	10	7
10	12	Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	24	+22.971	5	6
11	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+32.910	16	5
12	4	Alex Barros	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+40.136	11	4
13	45	Colin Edwards	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	24	+54.099	12	3
14	41	Noriyuki Haga	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	24	+57.234	19	2
15	23	Ryuichi Kiyonari	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	24	+57.678	15	1
16	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	24	+1:06.069	20
17	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	24	+1:09.444	18
18	88	Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	24	+1:22.463	21
19	52	David de Gea	WCM	Harris WCM	23	+1 lap	22
Ret	8	Garry McCoy	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	14	Retirement	13
Ret	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	11	Retirement	17
Ret	35	Chris Burns	WCM	Harris WCM	8	Retirement	23
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	7	Retirement	14
DNS	21	John Hopkins	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki		Did not start
Sources: [2][3][4]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	22	42:09.055	2	25
2	3	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	22	+12.901	3	20
3	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	22	+12.965	4	16
4	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	22	+25.317	7	13
5	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	22	+47.468	9	11
6	33	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	22	+55.694	10	10
7	11	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	22	+58.264	14	9
8	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	22	+58.339	16	8
9	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	22	+1:00.193	15	7
10	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	22	+1:02.606	19	6
11	6	Alex Debón	Honda	22	+1:03.500	13	5
12	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	22	+1:09.904	11	4
13	16	Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	22	+1:14.199	17	3
14	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	22	+1:14.370	20	2
15	13	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	22	+1:16.913	22	1
16	15	Christian Gemmel	Honda	22	+1:17.037	23
17	52	Lukáš Pešek	Yamaha	22	+1:19.838	21
18	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	22	+1:27.198	1
19	18	Henk vd Lagemaat	Honda	21	+1 lap	24
Ret	26	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	11	Retirement	18
Ret	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	4	Retirement	12
Ret	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	3	Retirement	5
Ret	5	Sebastián Porto	Honda	2	Accident	6
Ret	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	2	Accident	8
DNS	98	Katja Poensgen	Honda		Did not start
Source: [5]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	21	41:51.624	5	25
2	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	21	+0.232	9	20
3	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	21	+0.372	2	16
4	3	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	21	+0.589	1	13
5	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	21	+0.771	14	11
6	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	21	+0.899	3	10
7	7	Stefano Perugini	Aprilia	21	+1.240	6	9
8	79	Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	21	+3.835	4	8
9	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	21	+4.117	7	7
10	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	21	+15.268	8	6
11	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	21	+19.087	16	5
12	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	21	+19.445	10	4
13	1	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	21	+19.584	11	3
14	6	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	21	+19.673	15	2
15	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	21	+20.466	12	1
16	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	21	+27.902	20
17	10	Roberto Locatelli	KTM	21	+27.992	21
18	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	21	+32.727	13
19	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	21	+36.138	23
20	33	Stefano Bianco	Gilera	21	+40.544	26
21	41	Youichi Ui	Gilera	21	+41.610	22
22	24	Simone Corsi	Honda	21	+49.980	19
23	88	Robbin Harms	Aprilia	21	+50.136	30
24	32	Fabrizio Lai	Malaguti	21	+50.179	18
25	31	Julián Simón	Malaguti	21	+55.624	24
26	42	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	21	+1:00.747	31
27	28	Michele Danese	Honda	21	+1:52.184	32
Ret	50	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	16	Accident	28
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	15	Retirement	29
Ret	8	Masao Azuma	Honda	10	Retirement	17
Ret	26	Emilio Alzamora	Derbi	6	Retirement	25
Ret	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	3	Retirement	33
Ret	25	Imre Tóth	Honda	1	Retirement	27
Source: [6]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 262 2 Sete Gibernau 211 3 Max Biaggi 174 4 Loris Capirossi 123 5 Troy Bayliss 112

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 295 2 Ducati 171 3 Yamaha 132 4 Aprilia 63 5 / Proton KR 27

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