2005 MotoGP - CATALUNYA 250 / 125 GP

2005 MotoGP : MotoGP R6 of 17: June 12, 2005, BARCELONA, SPAIN

CIRCUIT:

• MONTMELLO CIRCUIT, Catalunya, SPAIN
• 4.727 km / 2.937 mile
• located near Barcelona
• fast track; av speed over 100 mph; top speed over 200 mph
• long main straight 1.4 km long

• PREVIOUS WINNERS
• 2004: 250cc: DE PUNIET , 125cc: BARBERA
• 2003: 250cc: DE PUNIET , 125cc: PEDROSA
• 2002: 250cc MELANDRI; 125cc: POGGIALI

250cc GP:

250 RACE

• 1 Daniel Pedrosa (Sp) Honda 41m 29.428s
  2 Casey Stoner (Aus) Aprilia + 5.6
  3 Andrea Dovizioso (It) Honda + 10.5
  4 Hiroshi Aoyama (Jpn) Honda + 17.6
  5 Simone Corsi (It) Aprilia + 19.4
  6 Randy de Puniet (Fr) Aprilia
  7 Yuki Takahashi (Jpn) Honda
  8 Sylvain Guintoli (Fr) Aprilia
  9 Mirko Giansanti (It) Aprilia
  10 Alex Baldolini (It) Aprilia
  11 Alex Debon (Sp) Honda
  12 Roberto Locatelli (It) Aprilia
  13 Erwan Nigon (Fr) Honda
  14 Hugo Marchand (Fr) Aprilia
  15 Gregory Leblanc (Fr) Aprilia

PEDROSA (HONDA), WINNER: “I’ve never won three in a row before so to do so at my home race is fantastic. I’m really happy because we’ve worked very hard all weekend and it was so tough at the start of the race. I was a bit nervous as the start – I didn’t know if first gear was in properly, let the clutch go too quick and almost stalled it. I was really surprised. I got going again but it was a bad start – a schoolboy error. It was difficult to get to the front in the race although I put my rhythm together as soon as I saw that the pace wasn’t too hot. Once I was leading I managed to get a few crucial seconds ahead and held on to the gap until the end. We’ve also had front tyre problems here although that’s been the same in every category. We’ve worked all weekend to improve my position on the bike so that the tires wouldn’t suffer as much. We’ve had three great races so I hope that continues at Assen”.

STONER (APRILIA) 2ND: “This week end has been very difficult for us I thought we would have been more competitive from the beginning but we had a lot of problems with the set up. I went out n this morning warm up and found a good setting for the race but we did not tested for the race distance because the tome was not enough. So we had a little bit of gamble going into the race to see what tyres and everything we should use. Fortunately we made the right choice and made the right setting. Even my bad start we were fast enough to make away through… there’s a few crazy riders out there; they were making things very difficult for me but at the end I got the second place. I tried to catch Dani but it was impossible because after I got into second place I was only able to match the lap time of Dani so it was impossible to close the gap on him”.

DOVOZIOSO, 3RD: “First of all I want to thank my team for the great work they have done. I have heavy pain in my shoulder: it was a bad briuse but in Clinica Mobile have done good ‘work’. I started as normal and I could run with the leaders. We have chosen a too soft tyre and,on the fifth lap, in a corner I lost the front… I used my knee to not crash out. I was in the first group but I couldn’t recover the gap from Pedrosa because of the problem with the front. From the middle of the race the pain started to get bad again to … I gritted my teeth. Considering this morning I didn’t know if I had the force to start I’m now very happy. During the race I gave my best. After the crash of yesterday these 16 points are really a good result but, even if the championship is still long to the end, I’m sorry to loose important points. The Spaniard has one year experience more but one good race is enough to reach the top of the standing. Lorenzo is really competitive but today he made a mistake colliding with Alex De Angelis, who, with Aprilia, was making a good race. I reached the podium thanks to this mistake, too”.

250 GRID

• 1 Daniel Pedrosa Honda ESP 1m 46.2
  2 J. Lorenzo Honda SPA, 1m 46.6
  3 S. Porto Aprilia ARG 1m 46.7
  4 De Puniet
  5 Aoyama
  6 De Angelis
  7 Barbera
  8 Stoner
  9 Dovizioso
  10 Corsi
  
• FRI QUALIFYING
• 1 Lorenzo 1m 46.2
  2 Porto
  3 Pedrosa
  4 De Puniet
  5 Aoyama
  6 Stoner
  7 De Angelis
  8 Barbera
  9 Corsi
  10 Dovizioso

125cc GP:

125 RACE

• 1 Mattia Pasini (It) Aprilia 41m 15.125s
  2 Marco Simoncelli (It) Aprilia + 9.03secs
  3 Mika Kallio (Fin) KTM + 12.4
  4 Gabor Talmacsi (Hun) KTM + 18.2
  5 Tomoyoshi Koyama (Jpn) Honda + 18.4
  6 Manuel Poggiali (Smr) Gilera + 18.5
  7 Thomas Luthi (Swi) Honda + 21.4
  8 Julian Simon (Sp) KTM + 21.5
  9 Lorenzo Zanetti (It) Aprilia
  10 Fabrizio Lai (It) Honda
  11 Andrea Iannone (Ita) Aprilia
  12 Michael Ranseder (Aut) KTM
  13 Sergio Gadea (Spa) Aprilia
  14 Alvaro Bautista (Spa) Honda
  15 Aleix Espargaro (Spa) Honda

125 GRID:

• 1 Mika Kallio, KTM 1m 51.4
  2 Pasini 1m 51.5
  3 Simoncelli 1m 51.5
  4 Zane
  5 Kuzuhara
  6 Talmacsi
  7 Faubel
  8 Lai
  9 Poggiali
  10 Luthi

FRI QUALIFYING

• 1 Mika Kallio, KTM 1m 51.5
  2 Pasini
  3 Luthi
  4 Gadea
  5 Simoncelli
  6 Nieto
  7 Simon
  8 Talmacsi
  9 Lai
  10 Faubel