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    Valentino Rossi won his third MotoGP championship in 2003, taking nine race wins. The season was marked by the death of Daijiro Kato at Suzuka in the opening race. Rookies that season included Nicky Hayden and Marco Melandri. Ducati made an impressive return to MotoGP with their Desmosedici GP3 motorcycle.

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    Valentino Rossi won his third MotoGP championship in 2003, taking nine race wins. The season was marked by the death of Daijiro Kato at Suzuka in the opening race. Rookies that season included Nicky Hayden and Marco Melandri. Ducati made an impressive return to MotoGP with their Desmosedici GP3 motorcycle.

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    Valentino Rossi won his third MotoGP championship in 2003, taking nine race wins. The season was marked by the death of Daijiro Kato at Suzuka in the opening race. Rookies that season included Nicky Hayden and Marco Melandri. Ducati made an impressive return to MotoGP with their Desmosedici GP3 motorcycle.

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    The 

    2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 55th F.I.M. Road racing World


    Championship season. The season consisted of 16 races, beginning with the Japanese motorcycle
    Grand Prix on 6 April 2003 and ending with the Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix on 2
    November.
    Defending champion Valentino Rossi won his 3rd MotoGP championship in 2003, winning 9 races,
    highlighted by his win at Phillip Island where he was given a 10-second penalty for passing under a
    yellow flag and he overcame the penalty by winning the race with more than 10 seconds in hand.
    Rossi had become dissatisfied with his relationship with the Honda Racing Corporation[1] and as the
    season progressed and HRC tried to get Rossi to sign a new contract, Rossi demurred until finally
    announcing at the end of the year that he would be leaving Honda. He soon signed
    with Yamaha and took Jeremy Burgess with him to be his crew chief.
    The season was marred by Daijiro Kato being killed at the first round at Suzuka. He lost control of
    his motorcycle on the approach to the Casio Triangle and hit a barrier at high speed. His heart was
    restarted by track paramedics, but he did not wake from a coma and died 2 weeks later. Controversy
    arose because the race was not red-flagged to allow Kato to be removed from the track with
    maximum care.[2] Suzuka has since been removed from the MotoGP calendar. Teammate Sete
    Gibernau would inherit Kato's factory-spec RC211V.
    MotoGP rookies for 2003 included Nicky Hayden (Rookie of the Year), Troy Bayliss, Marco
    Melandri and Colin Edwards. A new constructor also arrived: Ducati. After much success
    in Superbike racing, Ducati returned to the premier-class of GP with their GP3. It made an
    immediate impression with its raw speed, and they finished the constructor's championship in
    second place, ahead of Yamaha and behind Honda.

    MotoGP participants[edit]
    No
    Team Constructor Motorcycle Tyre Rider Rounds
    .

    41  Noriyuki Haga All

     Alice Aprilia Racing Aprilia Aprilia RS Cube M

    45  Colin Edwards All

    12  Troy Bayliss All


    Ducati Desmosedici
     Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati M
    GP3
    65  Loris Capirossi All

     WCM Harris WCM Harris WCM D 35  Chris Burns 1, 11–16

    52  José David de 11–16


    Gea

    ROC
    ROC Yamaha 35  Chris Burns 8–10
    Yamaha

     José David de
    Sabre V4 Sabre V4 52 8–10
    Gea

    46  Valentino Rossi All

     Repsol Honda

    69  Nicky Hayden All

    3  Max Biaggi All

     Camel Pramac Pons

    M 11  Tohru Ukawa All

    Honda Honda RC211V

    15  Sete Gibernau All

     Telefónica Movistar
    74  Daijiro Kato 1
    Honda

    23  Ryuichi Kiyonari 4–16

     Pramac Honda B 6  Makoto Tamada All

     Kawasaki Racing Kawasaki Kawasaki ZX-RR D 8  Garry McCoy All


    Team

    88  Andrew Pitt All

    48  Akira Yanagawa 1, 6
    3, 5, 7, 9–
    66  Alex Hofmann
    10

     Moriwaki Racing Moriwaki MD211VF Proto D 25  Tamaki Serizawa 1, 13

    9  Nobuatsu Aoki All

     Jeremy
    99 All
    McWilliams

     Kenny Roberts,
    10 1–5, 9–16
    Jr.

    1–13, 15–
    21  John Hopkins
    16

    71  Yukio Kagayama 7–8

    14

    13

    Yamaha Yamaha YZR-M1 M 7  Carlos Checa All

    33  Marco Melandri 1, 3–15

    1–2, 16

     Yamaha Racing Team 4, 9

     Gauloises Yamaha 4  Alex Barros All


    Team

    19  Olivier Jacque All

     D'Antin Yamaha Team 56  Shinya Nakano All

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