2004 South African motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2004 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2004 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 16–18 April 2004 at the Phakisa Freeway. This was the last South African MotoGP round at Phakisa, because the race was not contracted for 2005 and beyond.

  2004 South African Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 16 races in the 2004 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	18 April 2004
Official name	betandwin.com Africa's Grand Prix[1]
Location	Phakisa Freeway
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.242 km (2.636 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:32.647 Fastest lap Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:33.208 on lap 28 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Max Biaggi Third Sete Gibernau
250cc
Pole position Rider Randy de Puniet Time 1:35.300 Fastest lap Rider Sebastián Porto Time 1:35.593 on lap 5 Podium First Daniel Pedrosa Second Randy de Puniet Third Sebastián Porto
125cc
Pole position Rider Andrea Dovizioso Time 1:40.942 Fastest lap Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:40.711 on lap 21 Podium First Andrea Dovizioso Second Roberto Locatelli Third Casey Stoner

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	28	43:50.218	1	25
2	3	Max Biaggi	Camel Honda	Honda	28	+0.210	3	20
3	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+7.255	2	16
4	4	Alex Barros	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+18.667	8	13
5	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+24.094	4	11
6	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+24.375	9	10
7	45	Colin Edwards	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+28.855	5	9
8	6	Makoto Tamada	Camel Honda	Honda	28	+36.535	12	8
9	17	Norifumi Abe	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+36.643	18	7
10	7	Carlos Checa	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	28	+39.284	14	6
11	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+43.806	7	5
12	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	28	+43.920	6	4
13	21	John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	+56.028	11	3
14	12	Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+56.558	21	2
15	67	Shane Byrne	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	28	+1:13.831	19	1
16	99	Jeremy McWilliams	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	28	+1:22.206	17
17	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	28	+1:26.933	20
18	84	Michel Fabrizio	WCM	Harris WCM	25	+3 laps	22
Ret	66	Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	15	Accident	13
Ret	50	Neil Hodgson	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	15	Retirement	15
Ret	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	6	Retirement	10
Ret	11	Rubén Xaus	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	4	Retirement	16
WD	80	Kurtis Roberts	Proton Team KR	Proton KR		Withdrew
Sources: [2][3][4]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	26	42:04.690	4	25
2	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	26	+0.536	1	20
3	19	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	26	+5.859	2	16
4	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	26	+24.561	3	13
5	51	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	26	+30.018	5	11
6	6	Alex Debón	Honda	26	+30.653	15	10
7	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	26	+31.458	6	9
8	24	Toni Elías	Honda	26	+31.872	11	8
9	2	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	26	+31.940	7	7
10	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	26	+35.643	10	6
11	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	26	+36.418	9	5
12	33	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	26	+36.864	12	4
13	12	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	26	+39.105	24	3
14	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+43.027	22	2
15	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	26	+51.493	19	1
16	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	26	+51.699	20
17	11	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	26	+52.883	18
18	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	26	+59.900	14
19	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	26	+1:02.819	16
20	36	Erwan Nigon	Yamaha	26	+1:14.844	23
21	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	26	+1:15.026	21
22	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	26	+1:19.230	28
23	16	Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	26	+1:21.627	26
24	40	Max Sabbatani	Yamaha	26	+1:28.990	29
25	77	Grégory Lefort	Aprilia	26	+1:29.832	27
Ret	15	Christian Gemmel	Honda	24	Retirement	25
Ret	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	0	Accident	17
Ret	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	0	Accident	8
Ret	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	0	Accident	13
Source: [5]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	24	40:34.318	1	25
2	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	24	+0.071	2	20
3	27	Casey Stoner	KTM	24	+2.203	5	16
4	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	24	+2.416	6	13
5	63	Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	24	+12.312	4	11
6	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	24	+13.270	12	10
7	6	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	24	+14.457	3	9
8	21	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	24	+15.046	18	8
9	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	24	+24.835	8	7
10	3	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	24	+25.266	11	6
11	10	Julián Simón	Honda	24	+29.356	10	5
12	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	24	+33.134	15	4
13	54	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	24	+33.237	20	3
14	24	Simone Corsi	Honda	24	+33.682	21	2
15	41	Youichi Ui	Aprilia	24	+36.977	9	1
16	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	24	+43.650	13
17	7	Stefano Perugini	Gilera	24	+45.230	19
18	69	Robbin Harms	Honda	24	+45.389	22
19	26	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	24	+45.590	16
20	52	Lukáš Pešek	Honda	24	+45.715	27
21	32	Fabrizio Lai	Gilera	24	+45.961	17
22	25	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	24	+46.129	25
23	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	24	+1:04.990	24
24	66	Vesa Kallio	Aprilia	24	+1:05.784	26
25	11	Mattia Angeloni	Honda	24	+1:23.541	32
26	8	Manuel Manna	Malaguti	24	+1:23.753	31
27	28	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	24	+1:24.960	33
Ret	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	17	Accident	23
Ret	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	16	Accident	7
Ret	50	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	13	Retirement	29
Ret	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Derbi	7	Retirement	28
Ret	42	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	7	Retirement	30
Ret	16	Raymond Schouten	Honda	4	Retirement	34
Ret	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Malaguti	3	Retirement	14
Source: [6]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 25 2 Max Biaggi 20 3 Sete Gibernau 16 4 Alex Barros 13 5 Nicky Hayden 11

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 25 2 Honda 20 3 Ducati 10 4 Kawasaki 4 5 Suzuki 3

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

References

1. "2004 South African MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
2. "2004 South African MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
3. "betandwin.com Africa's Grand Prix – MotoGP – Race Classification" (PDF). Motogp.com. Dorna Sports. 18 April 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
4. "SOUTH AFRICAN GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2004". Motogp.com. Archived from the original on 28 November 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
5. "betandwin.com Africa's Grand Prix – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 18 April 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
6. "betandwin.com Africa's Grand Prix – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 18 April 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
7. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2004. Retrieved 21 August 2019.

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