2003 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix

  2003 Portuguese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 11 of 16 races in the 2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	7 September 2003
Official name	GP Marlboro de Portugal
Location	Autódromo do Estoril
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.182 km (2.599 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Loris Capirossi	Ducati
Time	1:38.412
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi	Honda
Time	1:39.189
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi	Honda
Second	Max Biaggi	Honda
Third	Loris Capirossi	Ducati
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Toni Elías	Aprilia
Time	1:42.255
Fastest lap
Rider	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia
Time	1:42.215
Podium
First	Toni Elías	Aprilia
Second	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia
Third	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia
Time	1:45.580
Fastest lap
Rider	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia
Time	1:46.225
Podium
First	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia
Second	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia
Third	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia

The 2003 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 5–7 September 2003 at the Autódromo do Estoril.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Honda	28	46:48.005	3	25
2	3	Max Biaggi	Honda	28	+2.094	2	20
3	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati	28	+5.254	1	16
4	15	Sete Gibernau	Honda	28	+5.269	4	13
5	11	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	28	+10.581	10	11
6	12	Troy Bayliss	Ducati	28	+14.246	8	10
7	33	Marco Melandri	Yamaha	28	+16.143	11	9
8	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	28	+18.083	7	8
9	69	Nicky Hayden	Honda	28	+18.284	15	7
10	6	Makoto Tamada	Honda	28	+21.815	9	6
11	4	Alex Barros	Yamaha	28	+24.059	12	5
12	56	Shinya Nakano	Yamaha	28	+27.082	6	4
13	19	Olivier Jacque	Yamaha	28	+27.651	5	3
14	45	Colin Edwards	Aprilia	28	+31.505	13	2
15	41	Noriyuki Haga	Aprilia	28	+57.118	17	1
16	23	Ryuichi Kiyonari	Honda	28	+1:01.412	19
17	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Suzuki	28	+1:01.544	14
18	21	John Hopkins	Suzuki	28	+1:06.601	16
19	99	Jeremy McWilliams	Proton KR	28	+1:10.958	18
20	9	Nobuatsu Aoki	Proton KR	28	+1:11.523	23
21	88	Andrew Pitt	Kawasaki	28	+1:18.550	20
22	52	José David de Gea	Harris WCM	27	+1 Lap	21
Ret	8	Garry McCoy	Kawasaki	26	Retirement	22
DNS	35	Chris Burns	Harris WCM		Did not start	24

250 cc

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	24	Toni Elías	Aprilia	26	44:37.770	28	25
2	54	Manuel Poggiali	Aprilia	26	+4.731	3	20
3	7	Randy de Puniet	Aprilia	26	+5.987	1	16
4	3	Roberto Rolfo	Honda	26	+6.470	6	13
5	5	Sebastián Porto	Honda	26	+25.023	4	11
6	21	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	26	+25.273	5	10
7	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	26	+27.791	2	9
8	8	Naoki Matsudo	Yamaha	26	+27.913	7	8
9	10	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	26	+43.047	12	7
10	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	26	+43.112	9	6
11	6	Alex Debón	Honda	26	+44.796	8	5
12	34	Eric Bataille	Honda	26	+1:10.765	10	4
13	33	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	26	+1:11.702	18	3
14	26	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	26	+1:11.714	19	2
15	15	Christian Gemmel	Honda	26	+1:13.983	14	1
16	36	Erwan Nigon	Aprilia	26	+1:19.238	17
17	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+1:36.515	16
18	66	Vesa Kallio	Yamaha	25	+1 Lap	22
19	40	Álvaro Molina	Aprilia	25	+1 Lap	23
20	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	25	+1 Lap	13
21	51	Frederik Watz	Yamaha	25	+1 Lap	21
22	41	Miguel Praia	Yamaha	25	+1 Lap	25
23	18	Henk vd Lagemaat	Honda	25	+1 Lap	26
Ret	9	Hugo Marchand	Aprilia	10	Retirement	11
Ret	11	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	5	Accident	15
Ret	96	Jakub Smrž	Honda	5	Accident	24
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Yamaha	2	Accident	20
Ret	98	Katja Poensgen	Honda	0	Accident	27
DNS	16	Johan Stigefelt	Aprilia		Did not start	29

125 cc

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	23	41:08.307	5	25
2	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	23	+0.022	22	20
3	15	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	23	+0.308	1	16
4	3	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	23	+0.560	2	13
5	1	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	23	+3.326	13	11
6	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Derbi	23	+8.143	3	10
7	79	Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	23	+8.287	10	9
8	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	23	+13.353	8	8
9	24	Simone Corsi	Honda	23	+13.574	18	7
10	6	Mirko Giansanti	Aprilia	23	+13.869	16	6
11	10	Roberto Locatelli	KTM	23	+24.879	23	5
12	32	Fabrizio Lai	Malaguti	23	+39.570	25	4
13	8	Masao Azuma	Honda	23	+46.623	15	3
14	33	Stefano Bianco	Gilera	23	+46.983	17	2
15	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	23	+47.176	21	1
16	60	Mattia Angeloni	Honda	23	+47.278	24
17	93	Manuel Manna	Aprilia	23	+47.614	28
18	70	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	23	+1:22.395	30
19	26	Emilio Alzamora	Derbi	23	+1:25.014	34
20	81	Ismael Ortega	Aprilia	23	+1:25.533	36
21	11	Max Sabbatani	Aprilia	23	+1:26.476	35
Ret	7	Stefano Perugini	Aprilia	13	Accident	4
Ret	50	Andrea Ballerini	Honda	13	Retirement	27
Ret	17	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	10	Retirement	9
Ret	78	Peter Lenart	Honda	7	Retirement	32
Ret	12	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	6	Accident	14
Ret	88	Robbin Harms	Aprilia	5	Retirement	29
Ret	42	Gioele Pellino	Aprilia	4	Accident	26
Ret	31	Julián Simón	Malaguti	4	Retirement	20
Ret	25	Imre Tóth	Honda	1	Retirement	33
Ret	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	0	Accident	7
Ret	4	Lucio Cecchinello	Aprilia	0	Accident	11
Ret	69	David Bonache	Honda	0	Accident	31
DNS	41	Youichi Ui	Gilera		Did not start	12
DNS	58	Marco Simoncelli	Aprilia		Did not start	6
DSQ	36	Mika Kallio	KTM		Disqualified	19
DNS	27	Casey Stoner	Aprilia		Did not start