2004 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2004 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventh round of the 2004 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 2–4 July 2004 at Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet.

  2004 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix

Race details
Race 7 of 16 races in the 2004 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	4 July 2004
Official name	Cinzano Rio Grand Prix
Location	Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.933 km (3.065 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Kenny Roberts Jr. Time 1:48.418 Fastest lap Rider Makoto Tamada Time 1:49.789 on lap 7 Podium First Makoto Tamada Second Max Biaggi Third Nicky Hayden
250cc
Pole position Rider Sebastián Porto Time 1:52.503 Fastest lap Rider Sebastián Porto Time 1:53.573 on lap 2 Podium First Manuel Poggiali Second Daniel Pedrosa Third Toni Elías
125cc
Pole position Rider Héctor Barberá Time 1:57.323 Fastest lap Rider Héctor Barberá Time 1:57.789 on lap 4 Podium First Héctor Barberá Second Casey Stoner Third Andrea Dovizioso

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	6	Makoto Tamada	Camel Honda	Honda	24	44:21.976	7	25
2	3	Max Biaggi	Camel Honda	Honda	24	2.019	2	20
3	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	5.764	3	16
4	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	24	11.145	6	13
5	4	Alex Barros	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	12.951	5	11
6	45	Colin Edwards	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	24	13.904	11	10
7	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	24	23.493	1	9
8	17	Norifumi Abe	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	24	27.498	15	8
9	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	24	27.802	9	7
10	7	Carlos Checa	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	24	36.808	12	6
11	66	Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	24	37.713	14	5
12	11	Rubén Xaus	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	24	48.924	16	4
13	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	24	57.102	13	3
14	99	Jeremy McWilliams	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	24	1:03.046	18	2
15	21	John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	24	1:10.296	17	1
16	50	Neil Hodgson	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	24	1:12.548	19
17	67	Shane Byrne	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	24	1:19.734	20
18	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	24	1:31.512	21
19	80	Kurtis Roberts	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	24	1:43.627	22
20	35	Chris Burns	WCM	Harris WCM	23	1 lap	23
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	12	Accident	8
Ret	52	José David de Gea	WCM	Harris WCM	7	Accident	24
Ret	12	Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	3	Accident	10
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	1	Accident	4
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	22	41:56.561	4	25
2	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	22	0.076	6	20
3	24	Toni Elías	Honda	22	3.792	2	16
4	51	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	22	4.678	5	13
5	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	22	20.393	10	11
6	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	22	20.576	15	10
7	2	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	22	30.399	9	9
8	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	22	34.742	3	8
9	6	Alex Debón	Honda	22	36.021	12	7
10	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	22	36.476	8	6
11	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	22	50.991	23	5
12	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	22	52.196	7	4
13	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	22	53.576	19	3
14	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	22	1:01.641	14	2
15	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	22	1:02.014	24	1
16	17	Klaus Nöhles	Honda	22	1:11.756	20
17	36	Erwan Nigon	Yamaha	22	1:11.999	25
18	77	Grégory Lefort	Aprilia	22	1:20.226	21
19	12	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	22	1:22.037	18
20	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	21	1 lap	27
Ret	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	21	Accident	17
Ret	19	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	20	Retirement	1
Ret	11	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	11	Retirement	13
Ret	40	Max Sabbatani	Yamaha	6	Retirement	28
Ret	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	2	Accident	11
Ret	16	Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	1	Accident	26
Ret	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	1	Retirement	16
Ret	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	0	Accident	22
DNS	33	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia		Did not start
Source:

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	21	41:41.459	1	25
2	27	Casey Stoner	KTM	21	0.096	5	20
3	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	21	0.202	2	16
4	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	21	0.359	6	13
5	6	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	21	0.737	7	11
6	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	21	7.614	20	10
7	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	21	7.769	8	9
8	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	21	12.725	18	8
9	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	21	13.950	14	7
10	54	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	21	19.938	4	6
11	50	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	21	25.983	9	5
12	63	Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	21	26.633	16	4
13	24	Simone Corsi	Honda	21	26.996	15	3
14	10	Julián Simón	Honda	21	27.131	13	2
15	52	Lukáš Pešek	Honda	21	30.697	17	1
16	42	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	21	30.806	22
17	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	21	38.591	12
18	25	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	21	52.505	19
19	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Malaguti	21	59.593	21
20	21	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	21	1:07.333	11
21	66	Vesa Kallio	Aprilia	21	1:20.065	27
22	7	Stefano Perugini	Gilera	21	1:48.237	24
23	8	Manuel Manna	Malaguti	21	1:48.311	28
24	16	Raymond Schouten	Honda	21	1:49.405	29
Ret	28	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	11	Retirement	30
Ret	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	10	Accident	3
Ret	41	Youichi Ui	Aprilia	7	Accident	10
Ret	38	Mikko Kyyhkynen	Honda	6	Accident	32
Ret	9	Markéta Janáková	Honda	6	Accident	31
Ret	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Derbi	1	Retirement	25
Ret	32	Fabrizio Lai	Gilera	0	Accident	26
Ret	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	0	Accident	23
Source:

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Valentino Rossi	126
2	Sete Gibernau	126
3	Max Biaggi	113
4	Colin Edwards	64
5	Carlos Checa	62

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	155
2	Yamaha	141
3	Ducati	67
4	Kawasaki	32
5	Suzuki	26

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