2004 Portuguese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 11 of 16 races in the 2004 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	5 September 2004
Official name	Grande Prémio Marlboro de Portugal [1]
Location	Autódromo do Estoril
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.182 km (2.599 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Makoto Tamada Time 1:37.933 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:38.423 on lap 4 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Makoto Tamada Third Alex Barros
250 cc
Pole position Rider Daniel Pedrosa Time 1:41.417 Fastest lap Rider Toni Elías Time 1:41.595 on lap 26 Podium First Toni Elías Second Sebastián Porto Third Randy de Puniet
125 cc
Pole position Rider Andrea Dovizioso Time 1:46.280 Fastest lap Rider Héctor Barberá Time 1:45.573 on lap 4 Podium First Héctor Barberá Second Mika Kallio Third Jorge Lorenzo

The 2004 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 2004 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 3–5 September 2004 at the Autódromo do Estoril.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	28	46:34.911	2	25
2	6	Makoto Tamada	Camel Honda	Honda	28	+5.111	1	20
3	4	Alex Barros	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+8.157	5	16
4	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+8.312	3	13
5	7	Carlos Checa	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	28	+17.966	10	11
6	21	John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	+18.631	6	10
7	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+23.670	11	9
8	12	Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+25.126	13	8
9	45	Colin Edwards	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+25.611	8	7
10	17	Norifumi Abe	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+26.727	14	6
11	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	28	+44.704	12	5
12	99	Jeremy McWilliams	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	28	+50.511	16	4
13	66	Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	28	+54.372	17	3
14	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	+59.518	9	2
15	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	28	+1:32.853	20	1
16	77	James Ellison	WCM	Harris WCM	27	+1 lap	21
Ret	11	Rubén Xaus	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	18	Retirement	18
Ret	50	Neil Hodgson	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	16	Retirement	15
Ret	84	Michel Fabrizio	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	11	Retirement	19
Ret	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	7	Accident	7
Ret	3	Max Biaggi	Camel Honda	Honda	0	Accident	4
DNS	35	Chris Burns	WCM	Harris WCM		Did not start
Sources: [2] [3] [4]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	24	Toni Elías	Honda	26	44:23.399	3	25
2	19	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	26	+0.323	2	20
3	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	26	+9.918	4	16
4	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	26	+9.935	1	13
5	51	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	26	+21.441	5	11
6	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	26	+27.638	11	10
7	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	26	+27.866	8	9
8	6	Alex Debón	Honda	26	+34.673	7	8
9	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	26	+45.923	9	7
10	2	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	26	+54.238	14	6
11	33	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	26	+58.751	19	5
12	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	26	+59.123	10	4
13	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	26	+1:11.620	27	3
14	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	26	+1:11.785	21	2
15	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+1:12.305	17	1
16	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	26	+1:14.925	16
17	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	26	+1:14.982	24
18	11	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	26	+1:22.255	18
19	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	26	+1:25.071	20
20	16	Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	26	+1:26.573	23
21	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	26	+1:28.740	22
22	42	Grégory Leblanc	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	26
23	17	Klaus Nöhles	Honda	25	+1 lap	28
Ret	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	24	Retirement	15
Ret	43	Radomil Rous	Yamaha	23	Retirement	29
Ret	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	21	Retirement	6
Ret	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	3	Accident	12
Ret	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	2	Retirement	13
Ret	12	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	1	Accident	25
DNQ	88	Gergő Talmácsi	Yamaha		Did not qualify
Source: [5]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	23	41:01.272	10	25
2	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	23	+0.151	9	20
3	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	23	+8.824	7	16
4	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	23	+8.888	11	13
5	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	23	+9.666	16	11
6	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	23	+10.347	5	10
7	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Malaguti	23	+11.919	15	9
8	52	Lukáš Pešek	Honda	23	+11.962	13	8
9	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	23	+19.186	4	7
10	7	Stefano Perugini	Gilera	23	+19.548	14	6
11	63	Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	23	+26.981	23	5
12	32	Fabrizio Lai	Gilera	23	+31.708	12	4
13	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	23	+32.492	20	3
14	26	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	23	+32.896	26	2
15	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	23	+34.820	19	1
16	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	23	+34.845	21
17	54	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	23	+58.409	18
18	66	Vesa Kallio	Aprilia	23	+1:00.159	27
19	45	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	23	+1:26.362	29
20	28	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	23	+1:26.498	31
21	16	Raymond Schouten	Honda	23	+1:36.654	32
22	8	Manuel Manna	Malaguti	23	+1:36.716	30
23	43	Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	22	+1 lap	33
24	9	Markéta Janáková	Honda	22	+1 lap	34
Ret	25	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	14	Retirement	24
Ret	42	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	12	Retirement	28
Ret	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Derbi	11	Retirement	17
Ret	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	11	Retirement	1
Ret	27	Casey Stoner	KTM	5	Retirement	3
Ret	24	Simone Corsi	Honda	4	Accident	2
Ret	69	Robbin Harms	Honda	4	Accident	25
Ret	6	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	2	Accident	6
Ret	50	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	2	Accident	22
Ret	21	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	0	Accident	8
DNQ	91	Vincent Braillard	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	90	Carlos Ferreira	Honda		Did not qualify
WD	10	Julián Simón	Honda		Withdrew
Source: [6]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 209 2 Sete Gibernau 180 3 Max Biaggi 158 4 Colin Edwards 111 5 Alex Barros 102

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 245 2 Yamaha 224 3 Ducati 103 4 Suzuki 58 5 Kawasaki 51

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

References