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Race details
Race 13 of 17 races in the 2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	25 September 2005
Official name	Marlboro Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix
Location	Sepang International Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.548 km (3.447 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Loris Capirossi Time 2:01.731 Fastest lap Rider Nicky Hayden Time 2:02.993 on lap 3 Podium First Loris Capirossi Second Valentino Rossi Third Carlos Checa
250cc
Pole position Rider Hiroshi Aoyama Time 2:07.860 Fastest lap Rider Casey Stoner Time 2:08.853 on lap 2 Podium First Casey Stoner Second Alex de Angelis Third Sebastián Porto
125cc
Pole position Rider Thomas Lüthi Time 2:14.546 Fastest lap Rider Gábor Talmácsi Time 2:14.839 on lap 3 Podium First Thomas Lüthi Second Mika Kallio Third Mattia Pasini

The 2005 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 23–25 September 2005 at the Sepang International Circuit.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	21	43:27.523	1	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	21	+1.999	7	20
3	7	Carlos Checa	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	21	+2.069	8	16
4	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	21	+9.227	6	13
5	33	Marco Melandri	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	21	+15.886	9	11
6	3	Max Biaggi	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	21	+16.826	12	10
7	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	21	+17.249	5	9
8	4	Alex Barros	Camel Honda	Honda	21	+18.221	11	8
9	21	John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	21	+20.125	3	7
10	5	Colin Edwards	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	21	+22.275	10	6
11	24	Toni Elías	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	21	+29.856	14	5
12	6	Makoto Tamada	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	21	+51.672	15	4
13	44	Roberto Rolfo	Team d'Antin Pramac	Ducati	21	+1:05.365	17	3
14	67	Shane Byrne	Camel Honda	Honda	21	+1:19.106	18	2
15	11	Rubén Xaus	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	21	+1:19.356	16	1
16	27	Franco Battaini	Blata WCM	Blata	21	+1:55.882	19
Ret	77	James Ellison	Blata WCM	Blata	17	Retirement	20
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	4	Retirement	13
Ret	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	1	Accident	4
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	1	Accident	2
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	20	43:23.138	4	25
2	5	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	20	+3.133	3	20
3	19	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	20	+4.111	5	16
4	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	20	+7.569	7	13
5	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	20	+10.109	1	11
6	80	Héctor Barberá	Honda	20	+26.123	8	10
7	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	20	+27.301	18	9
8	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	20	+28.006	14	8
9	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	20	+59.478	9	7
10	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Aprilia	20	+59.579	23	6
11	28	Dirk Heidolf	Honda	20	+1:01.437	15	5
12	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	20	+1:04.004	20	4
13	32	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	20	+1:04.803	21	3
14	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	20	+1:12.500	22	2
15	36	Martín Cárdenas	Aprilia	20	+1:21.073	24	1
16	63	Erwan Nigon	Yamaha	20	+1:31.925	25
17	56	Mathieu Gines	Aprilia	20	+1:51.975	26
18	23	Nicklas Cajback	Yamaha	19	+1 lap	28
19	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	19	+1 lap	13
Ret	24	Simone Corsi	Aprilia	7	Accident	10
Ret	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	7	Retirement	19
Ret	14	Anthony West	KTM	5	Retirement	17
Ret	1	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	1	Accident	2
Ret	8	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	1	Accident	11
Ret	21	Arnaud Vincent	Fantic	1	Retirement	27
Ret	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	0	Accident	6
Ret	6	Alex Debón	Honda	0	Accident	12
Ret	64	Radomil Rous	Honda	0	Accident	16
DNQ	20	Gabriele Ferro	Fantic		Did not qualify
DNQ	60	Wang Zhu	Aprilia		Did not qualify
DNQ	61	Li Zheng Peng	Aprilia		Did not qualify
Source:

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	19	43:02.214	1	25
2	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	19	+0.002	4	20
3	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	19	+9.684	2	16
4	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	19	+9.709	9	13
5	14	Gábor Talmácsi	KTM	19	+9.892	3	11
6	60	Julián Simón	KTM	19	+11.936	8	10
7	32	Fabrizio Lai	Honda	19	+19.632	13	9
8	54	Manuel Poggiali	Gilera	19	+19.755	7	8
9	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	19	+19.967	5	7
10	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Honda	19	+20.071	11	6
11	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	19	+20.158	10	5
12	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	19	+20.427	6	4
13	22	Pablo Nieto	Derbi	19	+21.178	23	3
14	7	Alexis Masbou	Honda	19	+24.199	15	2
15	41	Aleix Espargaró	Honda	19	+24.266	14	1
16	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	19	+24.481	18
17	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	19	+24.615	12
18	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	19	+48.038	24
19	51	Enrique Jerez	Derbi	19	+48.157	17
20	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	19	+49.093	19
21	11	Sandro Cortese	Honda	19	+49.207	22
22	45	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	19	+1:02.994	26
23	25	Dario Giuseppetti	Aprilia	19	+1:03.000	25
24	43	Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	19	+1:03.756	21
25	46	Mateo Túnez	Aprilia	19	+1:11.588	31
26	19	Álvaro Bautista	Honda	19	+1:20.152	20
27	48	David Bonache	Honda	19	+1:23.094	29
28	28	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	19	+1:32.733	28
29	38	Cheung Wai On	Honda	19	+1:47.362	37
30	31	Sascha Hommel	Malaguti	19	+1:47.672	35
31	72	Doni Tata Pradita	Yamaha	19	+2:20.854	36
Ret	9	Toshihisa Kuzuhara	Honda	17	Accident	27
Ret	15	Michele Pirro	Malaguti	4	Accident	30
Ret	10	Federico Sandi	Honda	0	Accident	34
Ret	26	Vincent Braillard	Aprilia	0	Accident	32
Ret	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	0	Accident	16
Ret	44	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	0	Accident	33
Source:

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 281 2 Max Biaggi 159 3 Loris Capirossi 142 4 Colin Edwards 139 5 Marco Melandri 137

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 295 2 Honda 251 3 Ducati 152 4 Kawasaki 97 5 Suzuki 85

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

References

1. "2005 Malaysian MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
2. "2005 Malaysian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
3. "Marlboro Malaysian Motorcycle G.P. – MotoGP – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 25 September 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
4. "motogp.com · MARLBORO MALAYSIAN MOTORCYCLE G.P. · MotoGP Race Classification 2005". www.motogp.com.
5. "Marlboro Malaysian Motorcycle G.P. – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 25 September 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
6. "Marlboro Malaysian Motorcycle G.P. – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 25 September 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
7. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2005. Retrieved 2019-08-22.

External links

• List of past winners

• Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix
• 2005 MotoGP race reports
• 2005 in Malaysian motorsport