How was the title won? The figures are rarely misleading, as the following data demonstrates
2005 MotoGP statistics
| rider | pts | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | top 6 | poles | FLs |
| Valentino Rossi | 367 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 6 |
| Marco Melandri | 220 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 3 | |
| Nicky Hayden | 206 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 2 |
| Colin Edwards | 179 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | ||
| Max Biaggi | 173 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 1 | ||
| Loris Capirossi | 157 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Sete Gibernau | 150 | 4 | 10 | 5 | |||
| Alex Barros | 147 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | |
| Carlos Checa | 138 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Shin’ya Nakano | 98 | 2 | |||||
| Makoto Tamada | 90 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Toní Elías | 75 | 1 | |||||
| Kenny Roberts | 63 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| John Hopkins | 63 | 1 | |||||
| Troy Bayliss | 54 | 2 | |||||
| Rubén Xaus | 52 | ||||||
| Olivier Jacque | 28 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Roberto Rolfo | 25 | ||||||
| Alex Hofmann | 24 | ||||||
| Jürgen van den Goorbergh | 12 | 1 |
other points scorers:
Chris Vermeulen 10; Franco Battaini & James Ellison 7; Shane Byrne 6; David Checa & Ryuichi Kiyonari 4; Tohru Ukawa 1
no points scored:
Nobuatsu Aoki, Jeremy McWilliams, Naoki Matsudo, Shin’ichi Itoh, Kurtis Roberts
| date | venue | winners |
| 10-4 | Jeréz | Rossi |
| 17-4 | Estoril | Barros |
| 1-5 | Shanghai | Rossi |
| 15-5 | Le Mans | Rossi |
| 5-6 | Mugello | Rossi |
| 12-6 | Catalunya | Rossi |
| 25-6 | Assen | Rossi |
| 10-7 | Laguna Seca | Hayden |
| 24-7 | Donington | Rossi |
| 31-7 | Sachsenring | Rossi |
| 28-8 | Brno | Rossi |
| 18-9 | Motegi | Capirossi |
| 25-9 | Sepang | Capirossi |
| 1-10 | Losail | Rossi |
| 16-10 | Philip Island | Rossi |
| 23-10 | Istanbul | Melandri |
| 6-11 | Valencia | Melandri |
career GP1 victories
53 · Valentino Rossi (2000 to 2005)
13 · Max Biaggi (1998 to 2004)
9 · Sete Gibernau (2001 to 2004)
8 · Kenny Roberts (1999 to 2000)
7 · Alex Barros (1993 to 2005)
5 · Loris Capirossi (1996 to 2005)
2 · Carlos Checa (1996 to 1998)
2 · Makoto Tamada (2004)
2 · Marco Melandri (2005)
1 · Tohru Ukawa (2002)
1 · Nicky Hayden (2005)
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