2004 French motorcycle Grand Prix

  2004 French Grand Prix

Race details
Race 3 of 16 races in the 2004 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	16 May 2004
Official name	Grand Prix Polini de France
Location	Bugatti Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.180 km (2.597 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Sete Gibernau Time 1:33.425 Fastest lap Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:34.088 on lap 27 Podium First Sete Gibernau Second Carlos Checa Third Max Biaggi
250cc
Pole position Rider Daniel Pedrosa Time 1:37.123 Fastest lap Rider Daniel Pedrosa Time 1:38.202 on lap 5 Podium First Daniel Pedrosa Second Randy de Puniet Third Toni Elías
125cc
Pole position Rider Andrea Dovizioso Time 1:42.608 Fastest lap Rider Andrea Dovizioso Time 1:42.651 on lap 14 Podium First Andrea Dovizioso Second Roberto Locatelli Third Jorge Lorenzo

The 2004 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2004 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 14–16 May 2004 at the Bugatti Circuit located in Le Mans, France.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	15	Sete Gibernau	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	44:22.750	1	25
2	7	Carlos Checa	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	28	+1.671	2	20
3	3	Max Biaggi	Camel Honda	Honda	28	+1.908	3	16
4	46	Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Fortuna Yamaha	Yamaha	28	+4.272	4	13
5	45	Colin Edwards	Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+15.755	5	11
6	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+18.225	6	10
7	4	Alex Barros	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+27.656	11	9
8	12	Troy Bayliss	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+31.530	10	8
9	6	Makoto Tamada	Camel Honda	Honda	28	+33.164	8	7
10	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+39.512	9	6
11	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+47.625	7	5
12	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	+1:12.140	13	4
13	99	Jeremy McWilliams	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	28	+1:23.391	18	3
14	11	Rubén Xaus	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	27	+1 lap	15	2
15	80	Kurtis Roberts	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	27	+1 lap	21	1
16	84	Michel Fabrizio	WCM	Harris WCM	27	+1 lap	22
17	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton Team KR	Proton KR	27	+1 lap	20
Ret	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	16	Retirement	12
Ret	35	Chris Burns	WCM	Harris WCM	14	Retirement	23
Ret	66	Alex Hofmann	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	5	Retirement	19
Ret	17	Norifumi Abe	Fortuna Gauloises Tech 3	Yamaha	0	Accident	17
Ret	21	John Hopkins	Team Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	0	Accident	16
Ret	50	Neil Hodgson	D'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	0	Accident	14
DNS	67	Shane Byrne	MS Aprilia Racing	Aprilia		Did not start
Source:

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	26	43:03.338	1	25
2	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	26	+7.711	2	20
3	24	Toni Elías	Honda	26	+19.233	5	16
4	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	26	+20.427	9	13
5	51	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	26	+21.175	10	11
6	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	26	+24.269	12	10
7	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	26	+38.537	7	9
8	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	26	+39.827	6	8
9	6	Alex Debón	Honda	26	+42.589	13	7
10	11	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	26	+47.541	16	6
11	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	26	+47.874	18	5
12	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	26	+51.623	19	4
13	33	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	26	+51.813	15	3
14	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	26	+58.880	20	2
15	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	26	+1:03.261	25	1
16	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+1:05.370	17
17	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	26	+1:05.906	22
18	36	Erwan Nigon	Yamaha	26	+1:08.323	21
19	15	Christian Gemmel	Honda	26	+1:19.342	26
20	77	Grégory Lefort	Aprilia	26	+1:21.036	24
21	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Yamaha	26	+1:39.861	30
22	42	Grégory Leblanc	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	28
Ret	19	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	17	Accident	3
Ret	12	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	11	Accident	23
Ret	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	10	Retirement	11
Ret	43	Radomil Rous	Aprilia	6	Accident	27
Ret	16	Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia	6	Retirement	29
Ret	2	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	4	Retirement	8
Ret	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	1	Accident	4
Ret	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	1	Retirement	14
DNQ	45	Samuel Aubry	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	46	Vincent Eisen	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	47	Marc-Antoine Scaccia	Yamaha		Did not qualify
WD	40	Max Sabbatani	Yamaha		Withdrew
Source:

125cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	24	41:26.747	1	25
2	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	24	+0.594	4	20
3	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	24	+6.680	2	16
4	6	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	24	+9.662	5	13
5	3	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	24	+10.178	3	11
6	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	24	+20.698	20	10
7	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	24	+20.967	10	9
8	27	Casey Stoner	KTM	24	+21.158	13	8
9	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	24	+21.645	11	7
10	21	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	24	+23.080	6	6
11	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	24	+26.699	15	5
12	54	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	24	+29.332	17	4
13	10	Julián Simón	Honda	24	+33.187	18	3
14	52	Lukáš Pešek	Honda	24	+37.002	21	2
15	24	Simone Corsi	Honda	24	+40.239	12	1
16	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Malaguti	24	+40.304	22
17	42	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	24	+51.919	24
18	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Derbi	24	+54.523	31
19	26	Dario Giuseppetti	Honda	24	+54.575	26
20	32	Fabrizio Lai	Gilera	24	+54.922	19
21	25	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	24	+1:05.458	25
22	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	24	+1:05.610	27
23	8	Manuel Manna	Malaguti	24	+1:13.982	29
24	28	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	24	+1:14.248	34
25	70	Julián Miralles	Aprilia	24	+1:14.539	33
26	66	Vesa Kallio	Aprilia	24	+1:24.230	30
27	11	Mattia Angeloni	Honda	24	+1:27.607	36
28	16	Raymond Schouten	Honda	24	+1:36.938	32
29	74	Mathieu Gines	Honda	23	+1 lap	38
30	73	Yannick Deschamps	Honda	23	+1 lap	37
Ret	69	Robbin Harms	Honda	22	Accident	28
Ret	41	Youichi Ui	Aprilia	12	Accident	7
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	9	Accident	8
Ret	72	Alexis Masbou	Honda	9	Retirement	35
Ret	50	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	7	Retirement	23
Ret	7	Stefano Perugini	Gilera	7	Retirement	16
Ret	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	1	Accident	9
Ret	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	0	Accident	14
DNS	20	Georg Fröhlich	Honda		Did not start
Source:

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Sete Gibernau	66
2	Max Biaggi	56
3	Valentino Rossi	51
4	Alex Barros	38
5	Carlos Checa	36

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	70
2	Yamaha	58
3	Ducati	22
4	Suzuki	15
5	Kawasaki	11

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