2005 German motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2005 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 2005 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 29–31 July 2005 at the Sachsenring.

  2005 German Grand Prix

Race details
Race 10 of 17 races in the 2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	31 July 2005
Official name	Alice Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland[1][2][3]
Location	Sachsenring
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.671 km (2.281 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Nicky Hayden Time 1:22.785 Fastest lap Rider Sete Gibernau Time 1:23.705 on lap 3 (first part) Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Sete Gibernau Third Nicky Hayden
250cc
Pole position Rider Alex de Angelis Time 1:24.618 Fastest lap Rider Daniel Pedrosa Time 1:25.327 on lap 16 Podium First Daniel Pedrosa Second Alex de Angelis Third Hiroshi Aoyama
125cc
Pole position Rider Mika Kallio Time 1:27.965 Fastest lap Rider Mika Kallio Time 1:28.522 on lap 6 Podium First Mika Kallio Second Thomas Lüthi Third Marco Simoncelli

MotoGP classification

The race, scheduled to be run for 30 laps, was stopped after 5 full laps due to an accident. It was later restarted for 25 laps, with the grid determined by the running order before the suspension. The second part of the race determined the final result.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	25	35:04.434	4	25
2	15	Sete Gibernau	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	25	+0.685	2	20
3	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	25	+0.885	1	16
4	3	Max Biaggi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	25	+2.365	6	13
5	4	Alex Barros	Camel Honda	Honda	25	+2.855	3	11
6	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	25	+4.557	12	10
7	33	Marco Melandri	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	25	+12.269	5	9
8	5	Colin Edwards	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	25	+14.849	7	8
9	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	25	+23.489	8	7
10	6	Makoto Tamada	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	25	+27.829	15	6
11	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	25	+42.099	9	5
12	24	Toni Elías	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	25	+47.304	17	4
13	11	Rubén Xaus	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	25	+1:00.175	18	3
14	44	Roberto Rolfo	Team d'Antin Pramac	Ducati	25	+1:07.714	20	2
15	27	Franco Battaini	Blata WCM	Blata	24	+1 lap	22	1
Ret	7	Carlos Checa	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	4	Accident	11
Ret	21	John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	0	Did not restart	10
Ret	12	Troy Bayliss	Camel Honda	Honda	0	Accident in 1st part	16
Ret	77	James Ellison	Blata WCM	Blata	0	Retirement in 1st part	19
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	0	Accident in 1st part	14
Ret	66	Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	0	Accident in 1st part	13
Ret	67	Shane Byrne	Team Roberts	Proton KR	0	Accident in 1st part	21
Sources: [4][5][6]

Dani Pedrosa, riding his bike during the 250cc race, which he went on to win.

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	29	41:35.089	2	25
2	5	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	29	+7.940	1	20
3	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	29	+11.171	5	16
4	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	29	+11.346	10	13
5	19	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	29	+11.444	4	11
6	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	29	+17.536	8	10
7	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	29	+17.949	7	9
8	80	Héctor Barberá	Honda	29	+22.193	9	8
9	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	29	+42.288	6	7
10	14	Anthony West	KTM	29	+42.696	12	6
11	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	29	+51.283	13	5
12	6	Alex Debón	Honda	29	+1:01.959	21	4
13	28	Dirk Heidolf	Honda	29	+1:03.260	18	3
14	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	29	+1:13.348	16	2
15	36	Martín Cárdenas	Aprilia	29	+1:13.813	26	1
16	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	29	+1:13.876	19
17	32	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	29	+1:14.151	20
18	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Aprilia	29	+1:18.289	23
19	41	Álvaro Molina	Aprilia	28	+1 lap	28
20	64	Radomil Rous	Honda	28	+1 lap	25
21	26	Andreas Mårtensson	Yamaha	28	+1 lap	29
22	23	Nicklas Cajback	Yamaha	28	+1 lap	31
23	52	Thomas Walther	Honda	27	+2 laps	32
Ret	38	Grégory Leblanc	Aprilia	20	Retirement	22
Ret	24	Simone Corsi	Aprilia	20	Retirement	14
Ret	16	Franz Aschenbrenner	Honda	19	Accident	30
Ret	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	8	Retirement	15
Ret	8	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	8	Retirement	24
Ret	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	5	Accident	17
Ret	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Honda	4	Accident	3
Ret	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	2	Accident	11
Ret	21	Arnaud Vincent	Fantic	2	Retirement	27
DNQ	53	Patrick Lakerveld	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	42	Yves Polzer	Aprilia		Did not qualify
DNQ	20	Gabriele Ferro	Fantic		Did not qualify
Source: [7]

125 cc classification

The race, scheduled to be run for 27 laps, was stopped after 20 full laps due to an accident and did not restart as two thirds of the race distance had been completed.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	20	29:46.795	1	25
2	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	20	+0.134	3	20
3	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	20	+0.288	2	16
4	14	Gábor Talmácsi	KTM	20	+0.481	8	13
5	60	Julián Simón	KTM	20	+1.435	5	11
6	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	20	+1.628	7	10
7	32	Fabrizio Lai	Honda	20	+15.039	13	9
8	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	20	+15.256	17	8
9	41	Aleix Espargaró	Honda	20	+15.305	11	7
10	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	20	+15.524	18	6
11	54	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	20	+15.577	21	5
12	76	Michael Ranseder	KTM	20	+20.873	27	4
13	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	20	+21.045	12	3
14	11	Sandro Cortese	Honda	20	+21.186	15	2
15	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	20	+25.343	25	1
16	77	Stefan Bradl	KTM	20	+26.261	26
17	44	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	20	+27.185	30
18	25	Dario Giuseppetti	Aprilia	20	+31.138	29
19	46	Mateo Túnez	Aprilia	20	+32.802	36
20	45	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	20	+33.273	23
21	13	Patrick Unger	Aprilia	20	+34.418	37
22	26	Vincent Braillard	Aprilia	20	+44.072	39
23	43	Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	20	+48.367	22
24	98	Manuel Mickan	Honda	20	+1:06.745	41
25	78	Hugo van den Berg	Aprilia	20	+1:06.857	40
26	28	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	18	+2 laps	28
Ret	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Honda	16	Accident	6
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	16	Accident	20
Ret	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Honda	16	Retirement	33
Ret	16	Raymond Schouten	Honda	9	Accident	31
Ret	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	9	Retirement	4
Ret	31	Sascha Hommel	Malaguti	8	Retirement	38
Ret	10	Federico Sandi	Honda	7	Accident	35
Ret	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	4	Accident	10
Ret	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	1	Accident	14
Ret	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	1	Accident	9
Ret	18	Nicolás Terol	Derbi	1	Retirement	34
Ret	15	Michele Pirro	Malaguti	0	Accident	32
Ret	19	Álvaro Bautista	Honda	0	Accident	19
Ret	9	Toshihisa Kuzuhara	Honda	0	Accident	16
DSQ	7	Alexis Masbou	Honda	9	Black flag	24
Source: [8]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round ten was concluded.^[9]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 236 2 Marco Melandri 116 3 Sete Gibernau 115 4 Colin Edwards 114 5 Max Biaggi 113

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 240 2 Honda 202 3 Kawasaki 93 4 Ducati 82 5 Suzuki 60

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