The 2005 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2005 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 4–6 November 2005 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo.

Race

This race featured a battle between Marco Melandri and Nicky Hayden, and a fightback to third place from a bad qualifying from Valentino Rossi, who by then was already crowned world champion.

Before the start of the weekend, the Factory Yamaha Team had unveiled a special, one-off 'retro' livery to commemorate Yamaha's fiftieth anniversary and their very successful year in racing, replacing their main sponsor and its colours (Gauloises and dark blue) with the traditional white with red and black blocks/stripes. They ran a similar livery before at the United States round but that livery consisted of yellow instead of white.

After sixteen rounds, Valentino Rossi has already won the title at the Malaysian round. Rossi has since then increased his title lead to 351 points. Second is Marco Melandri with 195 points and a close third is Nicky Hayden with 186 points.

On Saturday, Sete Gibernau clinched his the final pole position of the season - his fifth - with a time of 1:31.874. Second is Marco Melandri who is +0.237 seconds behind and third is Nicky Hayden who is +0.343 seconds behind. The second row of the grid consists out of Carlos Checa in fourth place, Max Biaggi in fifth place and Colin Edwards in sixth place. World champion Valentino Rossi had a poor qualifying result after a crash and starts a lowly fifteenth. Suzuki test rider Nobuatsu Aoki replaces Kenny Roberts Jr. who is still recovering from a broken left wrist he sustained after a big highside during Friday practice at the Australian round, having then also confirmed his split with the team shortly after.

MotoGP classification Pos. No. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 33 Marco Melandri Movistar Honda MotoGP Honda 30 46:58.152 2 25 2 69 Nicky Hayden Repsol Honda Team Honda 30 +0.097 3 20 3 46 Valentino Rossi Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 30 +2.959 15 16 4 7 Carlos Checa Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 30 +18.718 4 13 5 4 Alex Barros Camel Honda Honda 30 +20.706 8 11 6 3 Max Biaggi Repsol Honda Team Honda 30 +21.254 5 10 7 65 Loris Capirossi Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 30 +23.142 7 9 8 5 Colin Edwards Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 30 +25.678 6 8 9 6 Makoto Tamada Konica Minolta Honda Honda 30 +36.710 10 7 10 24 Toni Elías Fortuna Yamaha Team Yamaha 30 +39.116 13 6 11 56 Shinya Nakano Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki 30 +41.136 9 5 12 54 Ryuichi Kiyonari Camel Honda Honda 30 +45.691 16 4 13 21 John Hopkins Team Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 30 +46.507 11 3 14 66 Alex Hofmann Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki 30 +49.856 12 2 15 11 Rubén Xaus Fortuna Yamaha Team Yamaha 30 +1:19.443 17 1 16 27 Franco Battaini Blata WCM Blata 29 +1 lap 21 Ret 80 Kurtis Roberts Team Roberts Proton KR 16 Retirement 20 Ret 77 James Ellison Blata WCM Blata 15 Retirement 19 Ret 9 Nobuatsu Aoki Team Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 8 Retirement 14 Ret 15 Sete Gibernau Movistar Honda MotoGP Honda 3 Retirement 1 Ret 44 Roberto Rolfo Team d'Antin Pramac Ducati 0 Accident 18 Sources:

250 cc classification Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 Daniel Pedrosa Honda 27 43:33.395 1 25 2 48 Jorge Lorenzo Honda 27 +3.448 4 20 3 27 Casey Stoner Aprilia 27 +14.372 7 16 4 5 Alex de Angelis Aprilia 27 +17.771 3 13 5 80 Héctor Barberá Honda 27 +26.233 2 11 6 73 Hiroshi Aoyama Honda 27 +31.244 6 10 7 55 Yuki Takahashi Honda 27 +35.518 8 9 8 7 Randy de Puniet Aprilia 27 +36.488 9 8 9 34 Andrea Dovizioso Honda 27 +43.129 5 7 10 15 Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 27 +43.960 15 6 11 6 Alex Debón Honda 27 +55.494 12 5 12 96 Jakub Smrž Honda 27 +57.265 10 4 13 36 Martín Cárdenas Aprilia 27 +58.185 18 3 14 50 Sylvain Guintoli Aprilia 27 +58.545 16 2 15 44 Taro Sekiguchi Aprilia 27 +1:01.485 13 1 16 57 Chaz Davies Aprilia 27 +1:12.112 19 17 17 Steve Jenkner Aprilia 27 +1:23.475 17 18 25 Alex Baldolini Aprilia 27 +1:30.535 14 19 32 Mirko Giansanti Aprilia 27 +1:31.957 26 20 56 Mathieu Gines Aprilia 26 +1 lap 22 21 61 Li Zheng Peng Aprilia 26 +1 lap 29 Ret 8 Andrea Ballerini Aprilia 26 Retirement 20 Ret 24 Simone Corsi Aprilia 26 Accident 24 Ret 28 Dirk Heidolf Honda 18 Accident 11 Ret 63 Erwan Nigon Yamaha 18 Retirement 27 Ret 60 Wang Zhu Aprilia 15 Retirement 28 Ret 33 Arturo Tizón Honda 9 Retirement 21 Ret 41 Álvaro Molina Aprilia 6 Accident 23 Ret 21 Arnaud Vincent Fantic 6 Accident 25 DNS 19 Sebastián Porto Aprilia Did not start DNQ 23 Nicklas Cajback Yamaha Did not qualify DNQ 20 Gabriele Ferro Fantic Did not qualify Source:

125 cc classification Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 36 Mika Kallio KTM 24 40:26.640 3 25 2 14 Gábor Talmácsi KTM 24 +0.237 8 20 3 75 Mattia Pasini Aprilia 24 +0.367 2 16 4 55 Héctor Faubel Aprilia 24 +12.401 6 13 5 58 Marco Simoncelli Aprilia 24 +17.009 11 11 6 71 Tomoyoshi Koyama Honda 24 +20.635 9 10 7 32 Fabrizio Lai Honda 24 +20.670 5 9 8 60 Julián Simón KTM 24 +20.809 12 8 9 12 Thomas Lüthi Honda 24 +23.517 4 7 10 22 Pablo Nieto Derbi 24 +32.805 24 6 11 41 Aleix Espargaró Honda 24 +35.930 14 5 12 19 Álvaro Bautista Honda 24 +36.015 22 4 13 35 Raffaele De Rosa Aprilia 24 +43.436 21 3 14 6 Joan Olivé Aprilia 24 +47.651 27 2 15 29 Andrea Iannone Aprilia 24 +49.387 16 1 16 18 Nicolás Terol Derbi 24 +53.187 26 17 28 Jordi Carchano Aprilia 24 +57.976 23 18 51 Enrique Jerez Derbi 24 +1:00.860 36 19 43 Manuel Hernández Honda 24 +1:01.055 19 20 27 Mateo Túnez Aprilia 24 +1:06.276 28 21 45 Imre Tóth Aprilia 24 +1:06.915 31 22 42 Gioele Pellino Malaguti 24 +1:08.479 34 23 26 Vincent Braillard Aprilia 24 +1:13.289 38 24 59 Esteve Rabat Honda 24 +1:22.682 35 25 84 Julián Miralles Aprilia 24 +1:23.174 37 26 31 Sascha Hommel Honda 24 +1:39.732 39 Ret 7 Alexis Masbou Honda 22 Accident 18 Ret 33 Sergio Gadea Aprilia 18 Accident 1 Ret 11 Sandro Cortese Honda 17 Accident 7 Ret 89 Jules Cluzel Malaguti 17 Accident 17 Ret 54 Manuel Poggiali Gilera 16 Accident 15 Ret 8 Lorenzo Zanetti Aprilia 14 Accident 20 Ret 52 Lukáš Pešek Derbi 14 Accident 13 Ret 49 Daniel Sáez Aprilia 14 Retirement 32 Ret 44 Karel Abraham Aprilia 10 Accident 33 Ret 10 Federico Sandi Honda 6 Accident 25 Ret 63 Mike Di Meglio Honda 5 Accident 10 Ret 25 Dario Giuseppetti Aprilia 0 Accident 30 Ret 48 David Bonache Honda 0 Accident 29 Source:

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seventeen has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 367 2 Marco Melandri 220 3 Nicky Hayden 206 4 Colin Edwards 179 5 Max Biaggi 173

Constructors' Championship standings Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 381 2 Honda 341 3 Ducati 202 4 Kawasaki 126 5 Suzuki 100

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

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