2005 World Touring Car Championship season

Andy Priaulx won the Drivers' Championship at the wheel of a BMW 320i

The 2005 World Touring Car Championship season was the second season of World Touring Car Championship motor racing, and the first since 1987. It featured the 2005 FIA World Touring Car Championship which was contested over a ten event, twenty race series which commenced on 10 April and ended on 20 November. The championship was open to Super 2000 cars, Diesel 2000 cars and Super Production cars as defined by the FIA.^[1] Andy Priaulx won the Drivers’ Championship and BMW won the Manufacturers’ title.^[2]

Organised by KSO, a subsidiary of Eurosport, the championship was an evolution of the former European Touring Car Championship, elevated to World Championship status by the FIA for 2005 with the introduction of races outside Europe. The European title was given to the new European Touring Car Cup, a one-off event.

Drivers and teams

According to 2005 Entry List

Team Car No. Drivers Class Rounds BMW Team UK BMW 320i 1 Andy Priaulx All Squadra Corse Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo 156 2 Gabriele Tarquini All 3 James Thompson All 6 Fabrizio Giovanardi All 7 Augusto Farfus All 56 André Couto 10 BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320i 4 Alessandro Zanardi All 5 Antonio García All SEAT Sport SEAT Toledo Cupra 8 Rickard Rydell 1-8 9 Jordi Gené 1-6 10 Peter Terting 1-8 11 Jason Plato 3-6 12 Marc Carol 9 SEAT León 8 Rickard Rydell 9-10 9 Jordi Gené 7-10 10 Peter Terting 9-10 Ford Hotfiel Sport Ford Focus 14 Thomas Klenke 1-4, 6-9 15 Thomas Jäger 1-4 16 Michael Funke 6-10 17 Patrick Bernhardt 10 GR Asia SEAT Toledo Cupra 18 Carlos Mastretta Aguilera I 4-5 19 Valle Mäkelä I 1-3, 6-7 20 Tom Coronel I All 38 Erkut Kizilirmak I 8 40 Polo Villaamil I 9 99 Lo Ka Fai I 10 Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Lacetti 21 Robert Huff All 22 Nicola Larini All 23 Alain Menu All Peugeot Sport Denmark Peugeot 407 24 Soheil Ayari 6 25 Eric Hélary 7 JAS Motorsport Honda Accord Euro R 26 Roberto Colciago 1-6 27 Adriano De Micheli I 1-5, 7-10 39 Simon Harrison I 10 Crawford Racing BMW 320i 28 Carl Rosenblad I All Team Oreca PlayStation SEAT Toledo Cupra 29 Stéphane Ortelli 7-9 Proteam Motorsport BMW 320i 30 Stefano D'Aste I All 31 Giuseppe Cirò I All Wiechers-Sport BMW 320i 32 Marc Hennerici I All IEP Team Alfa Romeo 156 Gta 33 Adam Lacko I 1 BMW 320i 2, 6 Honda Dealer Team Sweden Honda Accord Euro R 34 Tomas Engström I 1, 9 Honda Civic Type-R 35 Jens Hellström I 1 RS-Line IPZ Racing Ford Focus ST170 36 Sascha Plöderl I 2, 4, 7 37 Frank Diefenbacher I 2 BMW Team Holland BMW 320i 41 Duncan Huisman 10 BMW Team Deutschland BMW 320i 42 Jörg Müller All 43 Dirk Müller All DB Motorsport Alfa Romeo 156 51 Salvatore Tavano I 1-2, 4 52 Andrea Larini I 1-2, 4 GDL Racing BMW 320i 53 Gianluca De Lorenzi I 1-2, 4 Zerocinque Motorsport BMW 320i 54 Stefano Valli I 1-2, 4 Scuderia del Girasole SEAT Toledo Cupra 55 Alessandro Balzan I 1-2, 4 Ao's Racing Team BMW 320i 62 Ao Chi Hong 10 Toyota Altezza 65 Hironori Takeuchi 10 Engstler Motorsport BMW 320i 63 Paul Poon 10 64 Peter Scharmach 10

Icon Class I Independents' Trophy

Calendar

Alain Menu leads a spinning Fabrizio Giovanardi at Oschersleben on 28.08.2005

The championship was contested over ten events, each featuring two 50 kilometre races. The starting grid order for the first race at each event was determined by the results of qualifying and that of the second race by the results of the first race, but with the top eight cars in reverse order.^[1]

Event		Race Name	Track	Date
1	R1	Race of Italy	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	10 April
	R2
2	R3	Race of France	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	1 May
	R4
3	R5	Race of UK	Silverstone Circuit	15 May
	R6
4	R7	Race of San Marino	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	29 May
	R8
5	R9	Race of Mexico	Autódromo Miguel E. Abed	26 June
	R10
6	R11	Race of Belgium	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	30 July
	R12
7	R13	Race of the Germany	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	28 August
	R14
8	R15	Race of Turkey	Istanbul Park	18 September
	R16
9	R17	Race of Spain	Circuit Ricardo Tormo	2 October
	R18
10	R19	Guia Race of Macau	Guia Circuit	20 November
	R20

Race results

Race	Race Name	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Winning independent	Report
1	Race of Italy	Dirk Müller	Dirk Müller	Dirk Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	Marc Hennerici	Report
2			Jörg Müller	James Thompson	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Marc Hennerici
3	Race of France	Jörg Müller	Jörg Müller	Jörg Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	Marc Hennerici	Report
4			Jörg Müller	Jörg Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	Carl Rosenblad
5	Race of UK	Gabriele Tarquini	Fabrizio Giovanardi	Gabriele Tarquini	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Tom Coronel	Report
6			Andy Priaulx	Rickard Rydell	SEAT Sport	Marc Hennerici
7	Race of San Marino	Fabrizio Giovanardi	Fabrizio Giovanardi	Fabrizio Giovanardi	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alessandro Balzan	Report
8			Fabrizio Giovanardi	Dirk Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	Stefano D'Aste
9	Race of Mexico	Fabrizio Giovanardi	Gabriele Tarquini	Fabrizio Giovanardi	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Tom Coronel	Report
10			Fabrizio Giovanardi	Peter Terting	SEAT Sport	Tom Coronel
11	Race of Belgium	Augusto Farfus	Dirk Müller	Dirk Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	Tom Coronel	Report
12			Augusto Farfus	Fabrizio Giovanardi	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Stefano D'Aste
13	Race of Germany	James Thompson	Jörg Müller	Andy Priaulx	BMW Team UK	Adriano de Micheli	Report
14			Gabriele Tarquini	Alessandro Zanardi	BMW Team Italy-Spain	Tom Coronel
15	Race of Turkey	Gabriele Tarquini	James Thompson	Fabrizio Giovanardi	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Carl Rosenblad	Report
16			Gabriele Tarquini	Gabriele Tarquini	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Marc Hennerici
17	Race of Spain	Jordi Gené	Dirk Müller	Jordi Gené	SEAT Sport	Adriano de Micheli	Report
18			Jörg Müller	Jörg Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	Tomas Engström
19	Guia Race of Macau	Andy Priaulx	Andy Priaulx	Augusto Farfus	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Stefano D'Aste	Report
20			Andy Priaulx	Duncan Huisman	BMW Team Holland	Giuseppe Cirò

Championship results

Drivers’ Championship

Pos [2] Driver ITA FRA UK SMR MEX BEL GER TUR ESP MAC  Pts [2] 1 Andy Priaulx 4 5 2 3 5 20 3 2 NC 8 2 Ret 1 2 3 9 4 3 2 2 101 2 Dirk Müller 1 2 6 2 10 6 4 1 18 16 1 5 4 6 9 5 2 4 10 Ret 86 3 Fabrizio Giovanardi 6 8 10 7 3 8 1 3 1 3 7 1 26 Ret 1 6 6 2 19 DNS 81 4 Augusto Farfus Jr. 3 9 8 5 4 4 5 5 9 10 DSQ 4 9 5 8 2 NC 7 1 3 65 5 Jörg Müller 29 4 1 1 9 7 27 12 DNS DNS 3 16 3 3 Ret 12 5 1 Ret DNS 59 6 Rickard Rydell 8 Ret 3 11 7 1 9 4 3 6 11 Ret 2 7 5 7 Ret 11 3 7 57 7 Gabriele Tarquini 2 Ret 4 8 1 3 15 10 2 Ret 4 17 13 14 7 1 16 23 DNS DNS 55 8 James Thompson 7 1 11 9 2 Ret 7 21 4 4 5 7 19 Ret 2 4 Ret 15 7 Ret 53 9 Antonio García 5 3 5 4 15 Ret 2 9 5 2 6 8 14 9 4 Ret 14 6 9 DNS 51 10 Alessandro Zanardi 10 7 15 25 23 DNS 8 6 13 Ret WD WD 8 1 6 3 8 5 13 4 36 11 Jordi Gené 9 6 7 6 11 5 Ret 13 Ret 19 12 Ret 7 4 17 Ret 1 14 18 5 33 12 Peter Terting 11 17 9 10 6 16 10 7 7 1 10 10 5 Ret NC 10 3 12 8 6 31 13 Duncan Huisman 6 1 13 14 Tom Coronel 15 Ret 23 14 14 14 18 Ret 8 5 13 3 21 13 Ret DNS NC 13 Ret DNS 11 15 Jason Plato 8 2 11 8 11 12 9 14 10 16 Nicola Larini 24 15 17 13 Ret DNS 13 11 10 7 17 18 17 11 NC Ret 7 Ret 4 10 9 17 Alain Menu 22 24 Ret DNS Ret 13 14 14 NC 13 14 6 11 8 10 8 Ret DNS 5 DSQ 9 18 Stefano D'Aste 16 22 Ret DNS Ret Ret 22 15 12 11 16 2 20 19 14 15 17 17 11 Ret 8 19 Roberto Colciago 12 Ret 12 12 12 19 6 Ret Ret 18 8 Ret 4 20 Stéphane Ortelli 6 15 Ret Ret 9 22 3 = Robert Huff 20 Ret 19 16 13 Ret 20 Ret 6 Ret NC 11 23 16 16 13 Ret DNS Ret Ret 3 22 Giuseppe Cirò Ret 18 21 18 22 11 Ret DNS 14 9 15 15 24 16 12 14 12 10 Ret 8 1 = Marc Carol 10 8 1 - Marc Hennerici 13 10 13 17 17 9 Ret DNS 17 14 18 9 16 21 13 11 Ret 20 14 Ret 0 - Tomas Engström 14 23 13 9 0 - Patrick Bernhardt 21 9 0 - Michael Funke Ret DNS 12 10 Ret DNS Ret 18 17 DNS 0 - Valle Mäkelä Ret 13 16 Ret 16 10 19 Ret 18 Ret 0 - Thomas Klenke Ret DNS Ret 23 19 18 17 16 21 Ret 10 20 Ret 17 Ret DNS 0 - Carl Rosenblad DNS DNS 14 15 21 12 16 Ret 16 15 22 12 22 17 11 18 Ret 16 12 Ret 0 - Alessandro Balzan 18 11 Ret DNS 12 DSQ 0 - Adriano de Micheli 21 14 22 21 20 15 Ret DNS DNS DNS 15 18 15 16 11 19 15 Ret 0 - Adam Lacko 25 12 Ret DNS 20 13 0 - Carlos Mastretta Aguilera 25 18 15 17 0 - Polo Villaamil 15 21 0 - Salvatore Tavano 17 16 18 19 19 20 0 - Peter Scharmach 16 Ret 0 - Thomas Jäger 28 Ret 24 22 18 17 26 19 0 - Gianluca de Lorenzi 23 Ret 20 20 21 17 0 - Andrea Larini 19 20 Ret DNS 23 22 0 - Stefano Valli 27 19 25 24 24 DNS 0 - Simon Harrison 20 DNS 0 - Jens Hellström 26 21 0 - Sascha Plöderl NC 26 Ret DNS 25 22 0 - Soheil Ayari 23 Ret 0 - Eric Hélary Ret DNS 0 - Erkut Kizilirmak Ret DNS 0 - André Couto Ret DNS 0 - Frank Diefenbacher DNS DNS - - Ao Chi Hong DNS DNS - - Lo Ka Fai DNQ DNQ - - Paul Poon DNQ DNQ - - Hironori Takeuchi DNQ DNQ - Pos Driver ITA FRA UK SMR MEX BEL GER TUR ESP MAC  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) Bold - Pole Italics - Fastest Lap

Drivers’ Championship points were awarded on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis to first eight finishers at each race.^[1]

Note: Drivers who did not score points during the season were not classified into Drivers’ Championship positions.^[2]

Manufacturers’ Championship

The Manufacturers’ title was awarded to the manufacturer which had scored the highest number of points, taking into account all the results obtained by the best two cars classified per manufacturer in each race.^[1] All the other cars of that same manufacturer were considered invisible as far as scoring points was concerned.^[1] Points were awarded on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for each race.^[1]

Michelin Trophies results

Michelin Independent Drivers’ Trophy

Pos [3]	Driver	Team	Car	Wins	Points
1	Marc Hennerici	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320i	5	114
2	Giuseppe Cirò	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320i	1	107
3	Stefano D'Aste	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320i	3	96
4	Carl Rosenblad	Crawford Racing	BMW 320i	2	94
5	Tom Coronel	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	5	85
6	Adriano de Micheli	JAS Motorspot	Honda Accord Euro R	2	65
7	Valle Mäkelä	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	0	37
8	Salvatore Tavano	DB Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	0	27
9	Tomas Engström	Engström Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R	1	24
10	Alessandro Balzan	Scuderia del Girasole	SEAT Toledo Cupra	1	21
11	Gianluca de Lorenzi	GDL Racing	BMW 320i	0	20
12	Carlos Mastretta Aguilera	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	0	14
13	Adam Lacko	IEP Team	Alfa Romeo 156GTA BMW 320i	0	13
14	Simon Harrison	JAS Motorspot	Honda Accord Euro R	0	8
15	Andrea Larini	DB Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	0	8
16	Polo Villaamil	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	0	6
17	Sascha Plöderl	RS-Line IPZ Racing	Ford Focus ST170	0	4
=	Stefano Valli	Zerocinque Motorsport	BMW 320i	0	4

Championship promoter KSO organised the Michelin Independent Drivers’ Trophy within the 2005 FIA World Touring Car Championship.^[4] A driver’s eligibility to compete for the Trophy was determined exclusively by KSO, taking into consideration various criteria relating to the team, driver and car.^[4] Points were awarded to eligible drivers on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for races 1 to 18 and on a 20-16-12-10-8-6-4-2 basis for races 19 & 20.^[4]

Michelin Teams’ Trophy

Championship promoter KSO organised the Michelin Teams’ Trophy within the 2005 FIA World Touring Car Championship.^[4] All teams participating in the Championship were eligible to score points towards the Trophy, however points were only awarded for the two best classified cars of each team, providing they are driven by drivers classified by KSO as Independent Drivers.^[4] Any other cars of that same team were invisible as far as point scoring was concerned.^[4] Points towards the Michelin Teams’ Trophy were awarded on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis at all races.^[4]

References

External links

• FIA World Touring Car Championship official website: Archives
  • 2005 Entry list
  • 2005 Race results & images
  • 2005 Championship point standings
  • 2005 Michelin Trophies point standings
• Specific Regulations for Modified Production Cars on Circuits (Super-2000), www.fia.com via web.archive.org