2003 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix

  2003 Catalan Grand Prix

Race details
Race 6 of 16 races in the 2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	15 June 2003
Official name	Gran Premi Marlboro de Catalunya
Location	Circuit de Catalunya
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.727 km (2.937 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:43.927 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:45.472 Podium First Loris Capirossi Second Valentino Rossi Third Sete Gibernau
250 cc
Pole position Rider Randy de Puniet Time 1:47.117 Fastest lap Rider Manuel Poggiali Time 1:48.483 Podium First Randy de Puniet Second Fonsi Nieto Third Anthony West
125 cc
Pole position Rider Pablo Nieto Time 1:51.043 Fastest lap Rider Casey Stoner Time 1:51.190 Podium First Dani Pedrosa Second Thomas Lüthi Third Alex de Angelis

The 2003 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 13–15 June 2003 at the Circuit de Catalunya located in Montmeló, Catalonia, Spain.

MotoGP classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Loris Capirossi	Ducati	44:21.758	2	25
2	Valentino Rossi	Honda	+3.075	1	20
3	Sete Gibernau	Honda	+4.344	4	16
4	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	+4.935	8	13
5	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	+5.003	6	11
6	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	+20.587	11	10
7	Makoto Tamada	Honda	+22.982	10	9
8	Alex Barros	Yamaha	+24.989	5	8
9	Nicky Hayden	Honda	+27.159	18	7
10	Troy Bayliss	Ducati	+30.376	12	6
11	Ryuichi Kiyonari	Honda	+33.193	20	5
12	Noriyuki Haga	Aprilia	+40.443	15	4
13	Marco Melandri	Yamaha	+40.445	14	3
14	Max Biaggi	Honda	+42.325	9	2
15	John Hopkins	Suzuki	+48.659	13	1
16	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton	+1:04.721	21
17	Garry McCoy	Kawasaki	+1:36.914	19
Ret	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	Retirement	3
Ret	Colin Edwards	Aprilia	Retirement	7
Ret	Akira Yanagawa	Kawasaki	Retirement	16
Ret	Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki	Retirement	22
Ret	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton	Retirement	17

250 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	41:59.893	1	25
2	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	+0.244	6	20
3	Anthony West	Aprilia	+2.641	9	16
4	Toni Elías	Aprilia	+4.329	3	13
5	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	+7.896	7	11
6	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	+11.432	4	10
7	Sebastián Porto	Honda	+11.883	5	9
8	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	+15.761	10	8
9	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	+24.270	8	7
10	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	+29.370	14	6
11	Alex Debón	Honda	+32.091	17	5
12	Klaus Nohles	Aprilia	+34.948	12	4
13	Johann Stigefelt	Aprilia	+44.259	13	3
14	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	+46.384	15	2
15	Christian Gemmel	Honda	+59.767	19	1
16	Lukáš Pešek	Yamaha	+1:36.297	22
17	Katja Poensgen	Honda	+1 Lap	26
18	Henk vd Lagemaat	Honda	+1 Lap	24
Ret	Jakub Smrž	Honda	Retirement	21
Ret	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	Retirement	2
Ret	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	Retirement	23
Ret	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	Retirement	16
Ret	Cristophe Rastel	Honda	Retirement	27
Ret	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	Retirement	11
Ret	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	Retirement	20
Ret	Eric Bataille	Honda	Retirement	18

125 cc classification

Pos	Rider	Manufacturer	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	41:16.672	6	25
2	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	+0.137	14	20
3	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	+0.315	5	16
4	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	+1.589	8	13
5	Stefano Perugini	Aprilia	+19.874	9	11
6	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	+22.560	11	10
7	Mika Kallio	Honda	+22.647	19	9
8	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	+22.856	18	8
9	Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	+22.916	12	7
10	Roberto Locatelli	KTM	+23.415	23	6
11	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	+31.815	13	5
12	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	+34.948	20	4
13	Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	+40.938	15	3
14	Arnaud Vincent	KTM	+41.163	17	2
15	Simone Corsi	Honda	+41.405	16	1
16	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia	+41.888	22
17	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	+51.330	1
18	Andrea Ballerini	Gilera	+51.993	26
19	Fabrizio Lai	Malaguti	+52.289	21
20	Imre Tóth	Honda	+54.364	30
21	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	+1:08.127	33
22	Masao Azuma	Honda	+1:09.768	24
23	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	+1:22.794	27
24	Julian Simon	Malaguti	+1:22.672	28
25	Jordi Carchano	Honda	+1:40.507	35
26	Peter Lenart	Honda	+1:40.604	36
27	Leon Camier	Honda	+1:40.730	32
28	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	+5 Laps	29
Ret	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	Retirement	4
Ret	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	Retirement	2
Ret	David Bonache	Aprilia	Retirement	31
Ret	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	Retirement	3
Ret	Youichi Ui	Aprilia	Retirement	7
Ret	Emilio Alzamora	Derbi	Retirement	25
Ret	Casey Stoner	Aprilia	Retirement	10
Ret	Chris Martin	Aprilia	Retirement	34