How was the title won? The figures are rarely misleading, as the following data demonstrates
2004 MotoGP statistics
| rider | pts | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | top 6 | poles | FLs |
| Valentino Rossi | 304 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 3 | |
| Sete Gibernau | 257 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 3 |
| Max Biaggi | 217 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 3 |
| Alex Barros | 165 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 2 | ||
| Colin Edwards | 157 | 2 | 8 | 2 | |||
| Makoto Tamada | 150 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | |
| Nicky Hayden | 117 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Carlos Checa | 117 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |||
| Loris Capirossi | 117 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |||
| Shin’ya Nakano | 83 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Rubén Xaus | 77 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Marco Melandri | 75 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Norick Abe | 74 | ||||||
| Troy Bayliss | 71 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Alex Hofmann | 51 | ||||||
| John Hopkins | 45 | 1 | |||||
| Neil Hodgson | 38 | ||||||
| Kenny Roberts | 37 | 1 |
other points scorers:
Jeremy McWilliams 26; Shane Byrne 18; Nobuatsu Aoki 10; Michel Fabrizio 8; Yukio Kagayama 7; Olivier Jacque 5; James Haydon 4; James Ellison 3; Andrew Pitt 2; Kurtis Roberts 1.
no points scored:
Chris Burns, Gregorio Lavilla, David de Gea, Tohru Ukawa, Garry McCoy, Youichi Ui.
| date | venue | winners |
| 18-4 | Welkom | Rossi |
| 2-5 | Jeréz | Gibernau |
| 16-5 | Le Mans | Gibernau |
| 6-6 | Mugello | Rossi |
| 13-6 | Catalunya | Rossi |
| 26-6 | Assen | Rossi |
| 4-7 | Río de Janeiro | Tamada |
| 18-7 | Sachsenring | Biaggi |
| 25-7 | Donington | Rossi |
| 22-8 | Brno | Gibernau |
| 5-9 | Estoril | Rossi |
| 19-9 | Motegi | Tamada |
| 2-10 | Losail | Gibernau |
| 10-10 | Sepang | Rossi |
| 17-10 | Philip Island | Rossi |
| 31-10 | Valencia | Rossi |
career GP1 victories
42 • Valentino Rossi (2000 to 2004)
13 • Max Biaggi (1998 to 2004)
9 • Sete Gibernau (2001 to 2004)
8 • Kenny Roberts (1999 to 2000)
6 • Alex Barros (1993 to 2002)
3 • Norick Abe (1996 to 2000)
3 • Loris Capirossi (1996 to 2003)
3 • Garry McCoy (2000)
2 • Carlos Checa (1996 to 1998)
2 • Makoto Tamada (2004)
1 • Tohru Ukawa (2002)
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