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  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
250 cc
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
125 cc
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

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.

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
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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
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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.

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