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2003 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
flag	Tochigi
Grand Prix	Pacific
Official Name	Gauloises Pacific Grand Prix of Motegi
Location	Twin Ring Motegi
Image	Twin Ring Motegi map-2.svg
Course_mi	2.983
Course_km	4.801
Race_No	13
Season_No	16
Date	5 October
Year	2003
Pole_Rider_MotoGP	Max Biaggi
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Pole_Time_MotoGP	1:47.696
Fast_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Fast_Time_MotoGP	1:48.885 on lap 16
First_Rider_MotoGP	Max Biaggi
First_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
First_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Second_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Third_Rider_MotoGP	Nicky Hayden
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Country	USA
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Pole_Rider_250	Toni Elías
Pole_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Pole_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Pole_Time_250	1:52.849
Fast_Rider_250	Toni Elías
Fast_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Fast_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Fast_Time_250	1:53.612 on lap 6
First_Rider_250	Toni Elías
First_Rider_250_Country	Spain
First_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Second_Rider_250	Roberto Rolfo
Second_Rider_250_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_250_Bike	Honda
Third_Rider_250	Manuel Poggiali
Third_Rider_250_Country	San Marino
Third_Rider_250_Bike	Aprilia
Pole_Rider_125	Daniel Pedrosa
Pole_Rider_125_Country	Spain
Pole_Rider_125_Bike	Honda
Pole_Time_125	1:57.736
Fast_Rider_125	Jorge Lorenzo
Fast_Rider_125_Country	Spain
Fast_Rider_125_Bike	Derbi
Fast_Time_125	1:58.545 on lap 8
First_Rider_125	Héctor Barberá
First_Rider_125_Country	Spain
First_Rider_125_Bike	Aprilia
Second_Rider_125	Casey Stoner
Second_Rider_125_Country	Australia
Second_Rider_125_Bike	Aprilia
Third_Rider_125	Andrea Dovizioso
Third_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Third_Rider_125_Bike	Honda

The 2003 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 3–5 October 2003 at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
3	ITA Max Biaggi	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	24	43:57.590	1	25
46	ITA Valentino Rossi	Repsol Honda	Honda	24	+3.754	3	20
69	USA Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda	Honda	24	+5.641	5	16
15	ESP Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	24	+19.456	4	13
33	ITA Marco Melandri	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+19.909	9	11
4	BRA Alex Barros	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+20.938	8	10
11	JPN Tohru Ukawa	Camel Pramac Pons	Honda	24	+22.307	11	9
65	ITA Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	24	+27.887	6	8
56	JPN Shinya Nakano	d'antin Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+41.731	12	7
43	JPN Akira Ryō	Team Suzuki	Suzuki	24	+50.106	14	6
23	JPN Ryuichi Kiyonari	Telefónica Movistar Honda	Honda	24	+53.214	20	5
41	JPN Noriyuki Haga	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	24	+53.589	25	4
19	FRA Olivier Jacque	Gauloises Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+1:05.620	15	3
9	JPN Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	24	+1:07.535	18	2
10	USA Kenny Roberts Jr.	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	24	+1:09.055	19	1
88	AUS Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	24	+1:11.533	22
45	USA Colin Edwards	Alice Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	24	+1:27.583	13
25	JPN Tamaki Serizawa	Moriwaki Racing	Moriwaki	24	+1:33.001	23
52	ESP José David de Gea	WCM	Harris WCM	23	+1 lap	24
8	AUS Garry McCoy	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	10	Retirement	21
99	GBR Jeremy McWilliams	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	2	Accident	17
35	GBR Chris Burns	WCM	Harris WCM	1	Retirement	26
12	AUS Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	0	Accident	10
21	USA John Hopkins	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	0	Accident	16
7	ESP Carlos Checa	Fortuna Yamaha Team	Yamaha	0	Accident	7
6	JPN Makoto Tamada	Pramac Honda	Honda	24	(+4.864)	2

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
24	ESP Toni Elías	Aprilia	23	43:57.125	1	25
3	ITA Roberto Rolfo	Honda	23	+1.483	11	20
54	SMR Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	23	+2.159	7	16
55	JPN Yuki Takahashi	Honda	23	+6.018	10	13
92	JPN Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	23	+6.163	6	11
7	FRA Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	23	+20.407	3	10
8	JPN Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	23	+25.938	8	9
10	ESP Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	23	+28.417	15	8
6	ESP Alex Debón	Honda	23	+39.804	13	7
70	JPN Choujun Kameya	Honda	23	+39.919	14	6
57	GBR Chaz Davies	Aprilia	23	+49.703	12	5
15	DEU Christian Gemmel	Honda	23	+55.921	18	4
26	ITA Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	23	+1:01.015	22	3
28	DEU Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	23	+1:03.387	24	2
69	JPN Masaki Tokudome	Yamaha	23	+1:03.530	20	1
9	FRA Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	23	+1:04.299	19
36	FRA Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	23	+1:04.621	16
96	CZE Jakub Smrž	Honda	23	+1:21.680	26
11	ESP Joan Olivé	Aprilia	23	+1:44.192	28
18	NLD Henk vd Lagemaat	Honda	22	+1 lap	30
5	ARG Sebastián Porto	Honda	18	Accident	4
67	JPN Tomoyoshi Koyama	Yamaha	11	Retirement	9
50	FRA Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	9	Accident	5
13	CZE Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	9	Retirement	29
14	AUS Anthony West	Aprilia	8	Retirement	23
34	FRA Eric Bataille	Honda	6	Retirement	21
33	ESP Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	5	Retirement	17
16	SWE Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	3	Retirement	27
21	ITA Franco Battaini	Aprilia	2	Accident	2
52	CZE Lukáš Pešek	Yamaha	1	Retirement	25

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
80	ESP Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	21	41:54.483	4	25
27	AUS Casey Stoner	Aprilia	21	+0.164	10	20
34	ITA Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	21	+0.304	5	16
7	ITA Stefano Perugini	Aprilia	21	+2.731	2	13
17	DEU Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	21	+2.970	16	11
3	ESP Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	21	+3.215	1	10
36	FIN Mika Kallio	KTM	21	+3.264	13	9
22	ESP Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	21	+9.200	6	8
15	SMR Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	21	+13.016	8	7
12	CHE Thomas Lüthi	Honda	21	+13.195	15	6
6	ITA Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	21	+13.353	19	5
19	ESP Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	21	+19.848	18	4
8	JPN Masao Azuma	Honda	21	+20.107	21	3
79	HUN Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	21	+20.616	12	2
24	ITA Simone Corsi	Honda	21	+23.402	17	1
33	ITA Stefano Bianco	Gilera	21	+24.840	9
41	JPN Youichi Ui	Gilera	21	+30.548	24
32	ITA Fabrizio Lai	Malaguti	21	+47.008	23
1	FRA Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	21	+52.431	22
50	ITA Andrea Ballerini	Honda	21	+52.675	30
66	JPN Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	21	+57.467	29
88	DNK Robbin Harms	Aprilia	21	+1:11.694	33
59	JPN Hiroaki Kuzuhara	Honda	21	+1:11.770	36
31	ESP Julián Simón	Malaguti	21	+1:13.195	25
94	JPN Sadahito Suma	Honda	21	+1:16.576	31
25	HUN Imre Tóth	Honda	21	+1:28.964	32
10	ITA Roberto Locatelli	KTM	20	Retirement	20
48	ESP Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	19	Accident	3
23	ITA Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	14	Accident	11
58	ITA Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	14	Retirement	14
95	JPN Yuki Hatano	Honda	12	Accident	37
63	FRA Mike Di Meglio	Honda	7	Accident	26
4	ITA Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	5	Accident	7
28	ITA Michele Danese	Honda	5	Retirement	38
65	JPN Toshihisa Kuzuhara	Honda	4	Retirement	27
11	ITA Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	4	Retirement	35
26	ESP Emilio Alzamora	Derbi	3	Accident	28
42	ITA Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	3	Accident	34

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	ITA Valentino Rossi	282
2	SPA Sete Gibernau	224
3	ITA Max Biaggi	199
4	ITA Loris Capirossi	131
5	AUS Troy Bayliss	112

;Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	JPN Honda	320
2	ITA Ducati	179
3	JPN Yamaha	143
4	ITA Aprilia	67
5	JPN Suzuki	29

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

Notes

References

| Previous_year's_race = 2002 Pacific Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = None

References

(13 June 2017). "2003 Pacific MotoGP".
"2003 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
"Twin Ring Motegi | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
(13 June 2017). "2003 Pacific MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database".
(5 October 2003). "Gauloises Pacific GP of Motegi – MotoGP – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
"PACIFIC GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2003".
(5 October 2003). "Gauloises Pacific GP of Motegi – 250cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(5 October 2003). "Gauloises Pacific GP of Motegi – 125cc – Race Classification". [[Dorna Sports]].
(October 5, 2003). "World championship standings.".
(2003). "Standings".

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