2003 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

2003 Italian Grand Prix
Race details
Race 5 of 16 races in the; 2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	8 June 2003
Official name	Gran Premio Cinzano d'Italia
Location	Mugello Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility; 5.245 km (3.259 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:51.927
Fastest lap
Rider	Loris Capirossi
Time	1:52.623 on lap 20
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Loris Capirossi
Third	Max Biaggi
250cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Randy de Puniet
Time	1:53.586
Fastest lap
Rider	Randy de Puniet
Time	1:54.994 on lap 8
Podium
First	Manuel Poggiali
Second	Fonsi Nieto
Third	Franco Battaini
125cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Casey Stoner
Time	1:58.914
Fastest lap
Rider	Gino Borsoi
Time	1:58.969 on lap 5
Podium
First	Lucio Cecchinello
Second	Daniel Pedrosa
Third	Pablo Nieto

Date8 June 2003

Official nameGran Premio Cinzano d'Italia^[1]

LocationMugello Circuit

Course

Permanent racing facility
5.245 km (3.259 mi)

The 2003 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 6–8 June 2003 at the Mugello Circuit.

[1]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda	Honda	23	43:28.008	1	25
2	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	23	+1.416	2	20
3	3	Max Biaggi	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	23	+4.576	4	16
4	6	Makoto Tamada	Pramac Honda	Honda	23	+13.210	10	13
5	56	Shinya Nakano	d'Antín Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+13.411	3	11
6	11	Tohru Ukawa	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	23	+13.666	5	10
7	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	23	+14.253	6	9
8	7	Carlos Checa	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+22.811	7	8
9	45	Colin Edwards	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	23	+33.056	13	7
10	19	Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+38.882	8	6
11	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+38.977	12	5
12	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda	Honda	23	+48.639	17	4
13	23	Ryuichi Kiyonari	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	23	+50.183	22	3
14	66	Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	23	+54.213	15	2
15	8	Garry McCoy	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	23	+1:23.281	20	1
16	88	Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	23	+1:37.284	21
Ret	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	18	Retirement	19
Ret	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	14	Retirement	23
Ret	12	Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	10	Accident	11
Ret	41	Noriyuki Haga	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	7	Accident	16
Ret	4	Alex Barros	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	2	Accident	9
Ret	21	John Hopkins	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	2	Accident	14
Ret	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	2	Accident	18
Sources: ^[1]^[2]^[3]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	20	38:40.038	2	25
2	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	20	+22.445	3	20
3	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	20	+23.446	4	16
4	3	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	20	+24.432	6	13
5	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	20	+31.679	8	11
6	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	20	+39.837	5	10
7	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	20	+44.832	9	9
8	5	Sebastián Porto	Honda	20	+44.905	7	8
9	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	20	+1:02.385	13	7
10	11	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	20	+1:06.020	12	6
11	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	20	+1:11.197	16	5
12	6	Alex Debón	Honda	20	+1:11.257	15	4
13	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	20	+1:17.964	17	3
14	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	20	+1:21.573	21	2
15	33	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	20	+1:25.294	14	1
16	15	Christian Gemmel	Honda	20	+1:26.780	18
17	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	20	+1:35.206	10
18	18	Henk vd Lagemaat	Honda	19	+1 lap	22
19	29	Christian Pistoni	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	23
Ret	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	16	Accident	1
Ret	26	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	10	Accident	20
Ret	16	Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	0	Retirement	11
DNS	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	0	Did not start	19
DNS	13	Jaroslav Huleš	Yamaha		Did not start
DNQ	98	Katja Poensgen	Honda		Did not qualify
Source: ^[4]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	20	40:01.738	6	25
2	3	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	20	+0.730	10	20
3	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	20	+0.801	4	16
4	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	20	+0.810	7	13
5	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	20	+1.454	3	11
6	41	Youichi Ui	Aprilia	20	+7.656	8	10
7	7	Stefano Perugini	Aprilia	20	+7.702	2	9
8	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	20	+7.708	9	8
9	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	20	+21.704	12	7
10	42	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	20	+22.132	13	6
11	6	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	20	+22.208	16	5
12	24	Simone Corsi	Honda	20	+34.326	17	4
13	36	Mika Kallio	Honda	20	+34.434	24	3
14	8	Masao Azuma	Honda	20	+34.493	22	2
15	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	20	+34.879	21	1
16	79	Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	20	+35.035	14
17	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	20	+45.352	15
18	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	20	+46.072	1
19	50	Andrea Ballerini	Gilera	20	+46.428	27
20	10	Roberto Locatelli	KTM	20	+46.436	20
21	1	Arnaud Vincent	KTM	20	+46.615	11
22	87	Michele Conti	Honda	20	+52.953	26
23	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	20	+53.338	19
24	60	Mattia Angeloni	Honda	20	+1:04.110	28
25	88	Robbin Harms	Aprilia	20	+1:04.186	31
26	62	Alessio Aldrovandi	Malaguti	20	+1:11.059	29
27	25	Imre Tóth	Honda	20	+1:16.722	25
28	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	20	+1:16.830	35
29	61	Michele Pirro	Aprilia	20	+1:22.815	33
30	21	Leon Camier	Honda	19	+1 lap	37
31	78	Péter Lénárt	Honda	19	+1 lap	38
Ret	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	19	Accident	5
Ret	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	19	Retirement	18
Ret	32	Fabrizio Lai	Malaguti	11	Retirement	32
Ret	31	Julián Simón	Malaguti	10	Retirement	34
Ret	26	Emilio Alzamora	Derbi	9	Retirement	23
Ret	14	Chris Martin	Aprilia	7	Retirement	36
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	0	Retirement	30
Source: ^[5]

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2003 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

References

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