2005 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season

The 2005 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season was the sixth Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season since the series' resumption in 2000. The number of race weekends were increased from 10 events in 2004 to eleven in 2005 (although 2004 had eleven events including the non-championship race at Shanghai). Originally each track hosted one race each with the exception of Hockenheimring (two races, premier and finale), but when Avignon lost their race, EuroSpeedway also hosted two events.

Changes for 2005

• The cars built to 00-03 specs were banned from competition. Instead the whole field would be made up of cars built to the new 04 specs.
• Italy and Portugal lost their respective events. They were replaced by Belgium (Spa-Francorchamps) and Turkey (Istanbul Park).
• Opel went down from six to four cars, while Audi and Mercedes fielded eight each instead of the six they had run in 2004.
• Opel announced that they would withdraw from the series after the season.

Teams and drivers

Make	Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Audi	Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi A4 DTM 2005	1	Mattias Ekström	All
			2	Martin Tomczyk	All
			5	Tom Kristensen	All
			6	Allan McNish	All
	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi A4 DTM 2004	14	Christian Abt	All
			15	Pierre Kaffer	All
			18	Rinaldo Capello	All
			19	Frank Stippler	All
Mercedes-Benz	HWA Team	AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2005	3	Gary Paffett	All
			4	Jean Alesi	All
			7	Bernd Schneider	All
			8	Mika Häkkinen	All
	Mücke Motorsport	AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2004	16	Stefan Mücke	All
			17	Alexandros Margaritis	All
	Persson Motorsport	AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2004	20	Bruno Spengler	All
			21	Jamie Green	All
Opel	OPC Team Holzer	Opel Vectra GTS V8 2005	9	Marcel Fässler	All
			10	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	All
	OPC Team Phoenix	Opel Vectra GTS V8 2005	11	Laurent Aïello	All
			12	Manuel Reuter	All

Race calendar and winners

Round	Circuit	Date	Winning driver	Winning car	TV
1	Hockenheimring	17 April	Jean Alesi	Mercedes	ARD
2	EuroSpeedway	1 May	Gary Paffett	Mercedes	ARD
3	Spa-Francorchamps	15 May	Mika Häkkinen	Mercedes	ARD
4	Brno	5 June	Mattias Ekström	Audi	ARD
5	Oschersleben	26 June	Gary Paffett	Mercedes	ARD
6	Norisring	17 July	Gary Paffett	Mercedes	ARD
7	Nürburgring	7 August	Mattias Ekström	Audi	ARD
8	Zandvoort	28 August	Gary Paffett	Mercedes	ARD
9	EuroSpeedway	18 September	Mattias Ekström	Audi	ARD
10	Istanbul Park	2 October	Gary Paffett	Mercedes	ARD
11	Hockenheimring	23 October	Bernd Schneider	Mercedes	ARD

Standings

Pos Driver HOC1 LAU1 SPA BRN OSC NOR NÜR ZAN LAU2 IST HOC2 Pts 1 Gary Paffett 2 1 8 4 1 1 3 1 2 1 3 84 2 Mattias Ekström 5 4 2 1 2 3 1 2 1 12 7 71 3 Tom Kristensen Ret 2 3 2 5 7 2 4 3 5 4 56 4 Bernd Schneider 3 Ret Ret Ret 4 10 5 8 Ret 3 1 32 5 Mika Häkkinen 8 3 1 13 Ret Ret 4 12 12 2 12 30 6 Jamie Green 6 Ret Ret 5 3 Ret 8 7 Ret 4 2 29 7 Jean Alesi 1 7 4 9 13 Ret 7 Ret 8 7 13 22 8 Heinz-Harald Frentzen Ret 14 15 3 14 6 12 3 7 Ret Ret 17 9 Christian Abt 4 9 10 6 12 2 10 10 Ret Ret 14 16 10 Allan McNish 11 Ret Ret 7 6 4 6 Ret 9 15 17 13 11 Laurent Aïello Ret 10 7 16 7 Ret 9 14 4 6 9 12 12 Marcel Fässler 9 13 5 15 8 Ret 13 5 Ret 10 6 12 13 Martin Tomczyk Ret 12 6 14 Ret 5 11 6 10 16 Ret 10 14 Frank Stippler 10 6 11 8 9 Ret 14 Ret 13 13 5 8 15 Pierre Kaffer Ret 5 14 12 17 8 18 11 Ret Ret 10 5 16 Bruno Spengler 12 Ret Ret 11 16 Ret 15 9 6 8 8 5 17 Manuel Reuter Ret 16 Ret Ret 15 9 20 Ret 5 14 12 4 18 Stefan Mücke 7 8 12 Ret 11 Ret 17 Ret Ret 9 11 3 19 Alexandros Margaritis Ret Ret 9 Ret 18 11 16 13 14 11 NC 0 20 Rinaldo Capello Ret 11 13 10 10 Ret 19 Ret 11 Ret 16 0 Pos Driver HOC1 LAU1 SPA BRN OSC NOR NÜR ZAN LAU2 IST HOC2 Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Finished, in points Blue Finished, no points Not classified (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate Excluded (EX)

• Point system: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.

External links

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• Official DTM website