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2003 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
Grand Prix	Czech Republic
flag	Czech Republic
Location	Brno Circuit
Course_mi	3.357
Course_km	5.403
Race_No	10
Season_No	16
Date	17 August
Year	2003
Official Name	Gauloises Grand Prix České republiky
Image	Brno (formerly Masarykův okruh).svg
Pole_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Pole_Time_MotoGP	1:58.769
Fast_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Fast_Time_MotoGP	1:59.966 on lap 22
First_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
First_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
First_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Second_Rider_MotoGP	Sete Gibernau
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Third_Rider_MotoGP	Troy Bayliss
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Australia
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Ducati
Pole_Rider_250	Manuel Poggiali
Pole_Rider_250_Country	San Marino
Pole_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Pole_Time_250	2:03.872
Fast_Rider_250	Toni Elías
Fast_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Fast_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Fast_Time_250	2:03.969 on lap 11
First_Rider_250	Randy de Puniet
First_Rider_250_Country	France
First_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Second_Rider_250	Toni Elías
Second_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Third_Rider_250	Manuel Poggiali
Third_Rider_250_Country	San Marino
Third_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Pole_Rider_125	Alex de Angelis
Pole_Rider_125_Country	San Marino
Pole_Rider_125_Bike	Aprilia
Pole_Time_125	2:08.100
Fast_Rider_125	Lucio Cecchinello
Fast_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Fast_Rider_125_Bike	Aprilia
Fast_Time_125	2:07.836 on lap 4
First_Rider_125	Daniel Pedrosa
First_Rider_125_Country	Spain
First_Rider_125_Bike	Honda
Second_Rider_125	Stefano Perugini
Second_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_125_Bike	Aprilia
Third_Rider_125	Alex de Angelis
Third_Rider_125_Country	San Marino
Third_Rider_125_Bike	Aprilia

The 2003 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 15–17 August 2003 at the Brno Circuit located in Brno, Czech Republic.

Chris Burns, riding a ROC Yamaha, would become the last rider to start a race in Grand Prix motorcycle racing's premier class with a 2-stroke 500cc bike. His teammate, José David de Gea, also entered the race riding the Sabre V4 500cc bike, but he did not take the start.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
46	ITA Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda	Honda	22	44:18.907	1	25
15	ESP Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	22	+0.042	2	20
12	AUS Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	22	+0.668	6	16
7	ESP Carlos Checa	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	22	+5.390	5	13
3	ITA Max Biaggi	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	22	+8.729	3	11
69	USA Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda	Honda	22	+11.043	7	10
4	BRA Alex Barros	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	22	+11.439	9	9
11	JPN Tohru Ukawa	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	22	+13.574	8	8
6	JPN Makoto Tamada	Pramac Honda	Honda	22	+23.273	10	7
33	ITA Marco Melandri	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	22	+26.404	17	6
19	FRA Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	22	+26.685	11	5
45	USA Colin Edwards	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	22	+30.728	12	4
41	JPN Noriyuki Haga	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	22	+39.531	18	3
56	JPN Shinya Nakano	d'Antín Yamaha Team	Yamaha	22	+41.240	14	2
23	JPN Ryuichi Kiyonari	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	22	+44.623	15	1
88	AUS Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	22	+55.499	22
21	USA John Hopkins	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	22	+55.677	13
8	AUS Garry McCoy	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	22	+1:00.700	19
66	DEU Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	22	+1:08.130	20
10	USA Kenny Roberts Jr.	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	22	+1:14.524	16
65	ITA Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	19	Retirement	4
99	GBR Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	12	Retirement	21
9	JPN Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	11	Retirement	23
35	GBR Chris Burns	WCM	ROC Yamaha	9	Retirement	25
52	ESP David de Gea	WCM	Sabre V4	0	Did not start	24

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
7	FRA Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	20	41:45.354	2	25
24	ESP Toni Elías	Aprilia	20	+0.527	4	20
54	SMR Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	20	+0.951	1	16
3	ITA Roberto Rolfo	Honda	20	+5.492	6	13
5	ARG Sebastián Porto	Honda	20	+10.407	10	11
10	ESP Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	20	+10.875	3	10
21	ITA Franco Battaini	Aprilia	20	+15.278	5	9
50	FRA Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	20	+15.565	7	8
8	JPN Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	20	+32.752	9	7
33	ESP Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	20	+36.167	14	6
9	FRA Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	20	+36.608	12	5
34	FRA Eric Bataille	Honda	20	+50.700	15	4
28	DEU Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	20	+52.299	17	3
57	GBR Chaz Davies	Aprilia	20	+52.870	20	2
15	DEU Christian Gemmel	Honda	20	+53.063	16	1
11	ESP Joan Olivé	Aprilia	20	+58.903	22
52	CZE Lukáš Pešek	Yamaha	20	+1:08.193	24
66	FIN Vesa Kallio	Yamaha	20	+1:35.989	25
74	CZE Michal Filla	Yamaha	20	+1:44.230	26
98	DEU Katja Poensgen	Honda	20	+1:59.070	28
47	NLD Arie Vos	Yamaha	20	+2:01.799	27
75	HUN Gábor Rizmayer	Honda	19	+1 lap	29
96	CZE Jakub Smrž	Honda	19	Accident	21
16	SWE Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	13	Retirement	18
18	NLD Henk vd Lagemaat	Honda	12	Retirement	30
26	ITA Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	6	Retirement	23
14	AUS Anthony West	Aprilia	3	Retirement	8
36	FRA Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	0	Accident	19
73	CZE Radomil Rous	Aprilia	0	Accident	11
6	ESP Alex Debón	Honda	0	Did not start	13

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
3	ESP Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	19	40:59.354	4	25
7	ITA Stefano Perugini	Aprilia	19	+3.981	5	20
15	SMR Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	19	+10.454	1	16
36	FIN Mika Kallio	KTM	19	+11.052	17	13
80	ESP Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	19	+12.351	9	11
34	ITA Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	19	+12.968	10	10
6	ITA Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	19	+21.109	11	9
23	ITA Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	19	+21.513	12	8
41	JPN Youichi Ui	Aprilia	19	+24.841	14	7
42	ITA Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	19	+34.942	15	6
79	HUN Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	19	+35.213	8	5
48	ESP Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	19	+41.042	13	4
8	JPN Masao Azuma	Honda	19	+41.362	19	3
58	ITA Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	19	+41.540	23	2
63	FRA Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	19	+41.662	22	1
19	ESP Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	19	+42.513	30
10	ITA Roberto Locatelli	KTM	19	+43.010	26
32	ITA Fabrizio Lai	Malaguti	19	+43.068	16
88	DNK Robbin Harms	Aprilia	19	+1:02.481	25
33	ITA Stefano Bianco	Gilera	19	+1:02.611	21
26	ESP Emilio Alzamora	Derbi	19	+1:02.747	27
31	ESP Julián Simón	Malaguti	19	+1:10.272	24
25	HUN Imre Tóth	Honda	19	+1:10.398	29
55	CZE Igor Kaláb	Honda	19	+1:20.158	32
56	CZE Markéta Janáková	Honda	19	+1:31.093	33
57	SVN Luka Nedog	Honda	18	+1 lap	36
92	CZE Václav Bittman	Honda	18	Accident	34
50	ITA Andrea Ballerini	Honda	16	Retirement	31
22	ESP Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	11	Accident	6
12	CHE Thomas Lüthi	Honda	11	Accident	7
11	ITA Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	10	Retirement	28
4	ITA Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	9	Accident	3
17	DEU Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	9	Accident	2
24	ITA Simone Corsi	Honda	8	Accident	18
78	HUN Péter Lénárt	Honda	7	Retirement	35
39	JPN Hiroyuki Kikuchi	Honda	0	Did not start	20
27	AUS Casey Stoner	Aprilia		Did not start

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

;Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	ITA Valentino Rossi	212
2	SPA Sete Gibernau	178
3	ITA Max Biaggi	141
4	ITA Loris Capirossi	97
5	AUS Troy Bayliss	96

;Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	JPN Honda	245
2	ITA Ducati	145
3	JPN Yamaha	115
4	ITA Aprilia	58
5	MYS/USA Proton KR	27

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

References

| Previous_year's_race = 2002 Czech Republic Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = 2004 Czech Republic Grand Prix

References

(13 June 2017). "2003 Czech MotoGP".
Mitchell, Malcolm. "Brno Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
(13 June 2017). "2003 Czech MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database".
(17 August 2003). "Gauloises GP České republiky – MotoGP – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
"CZECH REPUBLIC GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2003".
(17 August 2003). "Gauloises GP České republiky – 250cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(17 August 2003). "Gauloises GP České republiky – 125cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(August 17, 2003). "World championship standings.".
(2003). "Standings".

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