Chinese Grand Prix (motorcycle)

Circuit diagram of the Shanghai International Circuit

The Chinese Grand Prix for Motorcycles was a motorcycle race that was held four times between 2005 and 2008 at the Shanghai International Circuit near Shanghai and was part of the Motorcycle World Championship .

Record winners are the Australian Casey Stoner , the Finn Mika Kallio and the Italian Valentino Rossi , who each won the race twice.

Chinese Grand Prix statistics

Edition	year	route	class	winner	Second	Third	Pole position	Nice Race lap
1	2005	Shanghai	125 cc	Mattia Pasini ( Aprilia )	Fabrizio Lai ( Honda )	Gábor Talmácsi ( KTM )	Mika Kallio ( KTM )	Fabrizio Lai ( Honda )
			250 cc	Casey Stoner ( Aprilia )	Andrea Dovizioso ( Honda )	Hiroshi Aoyama ( Honda )	Casey Stoner ( Aprilia )	Andrea Dovizioso ( Honda )
			MotoGP	Valentino Rossi ( Yamaha )	Olivier Jacque ( Kawasaki )	Marco Melandri ( Honda )	Sete Gibernau ( Honda )	Alex Barros ( Honda )
2	2006	Shanghai	125 cc	Mika Kallio ( KTM )	Mattia Pasini ( Aprilia )	Álvaro Bautista ( Aprilia )	Mika Kallio ( KTM )	Álvaro Bautista ( Aprilia )
			250 cc	Héctor Barberá ( Aprilia )	Andrea Dovizioso ( Honda )	Hiroshi Aoyama ( KTM )	Héctor Barberá ( Aprilia )	Andrea Dovizioso ( Honda )
			MotoGP	Dani Pedrosa ( Honda )	Nicky Hayden ( Honda )	Colin Edwards ( Yamaha )	Dani Pedrosa ( Honda )	Dani Pedrosa ( Honda )
3	2007	Shanghai	125 cc	Lukáš Pešek ( Derbi )	Héctor Faubel ( Aprilia )	Esteve Rabat ( Honda )	Mattia Pasini ( Aprilia )	Lukáš Pešek ( Derbi )
			250 cc	Jorge Lorenzo ( Aprilia )	Álvaro Bautista ( Aprilia )	Andrea Dovizioso ( Honda )	Jorge Lorenzo ( Aprilia )	Jorge Lorenzo ( Aprilia )
			MotoGP	Casey Stoner ( Ducati )	Valentino Rossi ( Yamaha )	John Hopkins ( Suzuki )	Valentino Rossi ( Yamaha )	Casey Stoner ( Ducati )
4th	2008	Shanghai	125 cc	Andrea Iannone ( Aprilia )	Mike Di Meglio ( Derbi )	Gábor Talmácsi ( Aprilia )	Bradley Smith ( Aprilia )	Michael Ranseder ( Aprilia )
			250 cc	Mika Kallio ( KTM )	Hiroshi Aoyama ( KTM )	Mattia Pasini ( Aprilia )	Álvaro Bautista ( Aprilia )	Mika Kallio ( KTM )
			MotoGP	Valentino Rossi ( Yamaha )	Dani Pedrosa ( Honda )	Casey Stoner ( Ducati )	Colin Edwards ( Yamaha )	Valentino Rossi ( Yamaha )

References

Web links

• Official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (multilingual)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Officially, the number of editions was not met.