2005 Portuguese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 2 of 17 races in the 2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	17 April 2005
Official name	betandwin.com Grande Prémio Portugal [1]
Location	Autódromo do Estoril
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.182 km (2.599 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Alex Barros Time 1:37.202 Fastest lap Rider Alex Barros Time 1:38.480 on lap 7 Podium First Alex Barros Second Valentino Rossi Third Max Biaggi
250 cc
Pole position Rider Randy de Puniet Time 1:41.104 Fastest lap Rider Alex de Angelis Time 1:43.484 on lap 16 Podium First Casey Stoner Second Andrea Dovizioso Third Randy de Puniet
125 cc
Pole position Rider Mika Kallio Time 1:45.279 Fastest lap Rider Héctor Faubel Time 1:46.654 on lap 12 Podium First Mika Kallio Second Héctor Faubel Third Thomas Lüthi

The 2005 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2005 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 15–17 April 2005 at the Autódromo do Estoril. Alex Barros won the MotoGP race, his last career victory, as well the last victory for a Brazilian rider until then. ^[2]

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Alex Barros	Camel Honda	Honda	28	47:14.053	1	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+2.771	4	20
3	3	Max Biaggi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+6.071	8	16
4	33	Marco Melandri	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+29.546	5	13
5	7	Carlos Checa	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+29.774	3	11
6	5	Colin Edwards	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+44.216	7	10
7	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+57.121	9	9
8	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	28	+59.847	10	8
9	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+1:07.718	6	7
10	11	Rubén Xaus	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+1:22.431	12	6
11	12	Troy Bayliss	Camel Honda	Honda	28	+1:33.529	13	5
12	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	+1:34.051	14	4
13	44	Roberto Rolfo	D'Antin MotoGP – Pramac	Ducati	28	+1:35.956	16	3
14	24	Toni Elías	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+1:36.492	15	2
15	77	James Ellison	Blata WCM	Blata	26	+2 laps	17	1
16	67	Shane Byrne	Team Roberts	Proton KR	24	+4 laps	18
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	16	Accident	2
Ret	21	John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	16	Accident	11
Ret	27	Franco Battaini	Blata WCM	Blata	8	Retirement	19
DNS	6	Makoto Tamada	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda		Did not start
Sources: [3] [4] [5]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	26	45:36.009	12	25
2	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	26	+0.404	4	20
3	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	26	+0.431	1	16
4	1	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	26	+2.009	3	13
5	5	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	26	+2.204	6	11
6	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	26	+17.855	7	10
7	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	26	+17.914	11	9
8	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	26	+23.810	13	8
9	19	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	26	+26.407	2	7
10	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Honda	26	+45.921	8	6
11	80	Héctor Barberá	Honda	26	+51.533	5	5
12	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	26	+56.920	14	4
13	6	Alex Debón	Honda	26	+1:04.103	16	3
14	32	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	26	+1:09.512	17	2
15	36	Martín Cárdenas	Aprilia	26	+1:18.508	26	1
16	28	Dirk Heidolf	Honda	26	+1:23.940	21
17	24	Simone Corsi	Aprilia	26	+1:26.950	10
18	8	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	26	+1:27.179	24
19	64	Radomil Rous	Honda	26	+1:27.332	19
20	12	Gábor Rizmayer	Yamaha	25	+1 lap	25
21	42	Yves Polzer	Aprilia	24	+2 laps	27
Ret	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	19	Accident	15
Ret	38	Grégory Leblanc	Aprilia	10	Accident	23
Ret	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	9	Retirement	18
Ret	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	8	Accident	9
Ret	41	Álvaro Molina	Aprilia	7	Retirement	20
Ret	21	Arnaud Vincent	Fantic	4	Retirement	28
Ret	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	0	Retirement	22
DNQ	16	Franz Aschenbrenner	Yamaha		Did not qualify
DNQ	20	Gabriele Ferro	Fantic		Did not qualify
WD	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia		Withdrew
Source: [6]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	23	41:19.431	1	25
2	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	23	+0.008	4	20
3	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	23	+2.898	2	16
4	32	Fabrizio Lai	Honda	23	+2.940	8	13
5	54	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	23	+11.276	10	11
6	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Honda	23	+13.543	16	10
7	19	Álvaro Bautista	Honda	23	+13.547	11	9
8	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	23	+14.493	7	8
9	60	Julián Simón	KTM	23	+14.710	9	7
10	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	23	+15.194	3	6
11	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	23	+15.208	12	5
12	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	23	+36.518	14	4
13	7	Alexis Masbou	Honda	23	+36.858	20	3
14	9	Toshihisa Kuzuhara	Honda	23	+36.917	15	2
15	43	Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	23	+37.025	13	1
16	41	Aleix Espargaró	Honda	23	+37.073	17
17	28	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	23	+54.909	24
18	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	23	+56.816	18
19	15	Michele Pirro	Malaguti	23	+59.761	22
20	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	23	+1:01.246	23
21	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Honda	23	+1:01.344	33
22	45	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	23	+1:04.776	21
23	18	Nicolás Terol	Derbi	23	+1:10.415	25
24	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	23	+1:10.515	29
25	11	Sandro Cortese	Honda	23	+1:10.677	19
26	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	23	+1:11.309	28
27	10	Federico Sandi	Honda	23	+1:11.362	26
28	84	Julián Miralles	Aprilia	23	+1:13.203	27
29	25	Dario Giuseppetti	Aprilia	23	+1:14.968	31
30	16	Raymond Schouten	Honda	23	+1:18.257	32
31	26	Vincent Braillard	Aprilia	23	+1:18.879	30
32	87	Patrik Vostárek	Honda	22	+1 lap	35
Ret	44	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	12	Retirement	34
Ret	14	Gábor Talmácsi	KTM	2	Accident	6
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	2	Retirement	5
DNS	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia		Did not start
DNQ	31	Sascha Hommel	Malaguti		Did not qualify
DNQ	50	Carlos Ferreira	Honda		Did not qualify
Source: [7]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 45 2 Alex Barros 38 3 Marco Melandri 29 4 Max Biaggi 25 5 Sete Gibernau 20

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 45 2 Yamaha 45 3 Kawasaki 19 4 Ducati 17 5 Suzuki 6

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

References