2005 World Touring Car Championship

The 2005 World Touring Car Championship 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.2005 FIA WTCC Sporting Regulations Retrieved from web.archive.org on 16 July 2009 Andy Priaulx won the Drivers' Championship and BMW won the Manufacturers' title.2005 Championship point standings, fiawtcc.com, as archived at web.archive.org on 14 December 2010 Retrieved on 18 July 2013

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.

Teams and drivers According to 2005 Entry List.

TeamCarNo.DriversRounds Manufacturer Teams BMW Team UK BMW 320i 1 Andy Priaulx All BMW Team Italy-Spain 4 Alessandro Zanardi All 5 Antonio García All BMW Team Holland 41 Duncan Huisman 10 BMW Team Deutschland 42 Jörg Müller All 43 Dirk Müller All Alfa Romeo Racing Team Alfa Romeo 156 2 Gabriele Tarquini All 3 James Thompson All 6 Fabrizio Giovanardi All 7 Augusto Farfus All 56 André Couto 10 SEAT SportSEAT Toledo Cupra8 Rickard Rydell 1–8SEAT León 9–10SEAT Toledo Cupra 9 Jordi Gené 1–6SEAT León 7–10SEAT Toledo Cupra10 Peter Terting 1–8SEAT León 9–10SEAT Toledo Cupra 11 Jason Plato 3–6 12 Marc Carol 9 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 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 Éric Hélary 7 JAS Motorsport Honda Accord Euro R 26 Roberto Colciago 1–6 Team Oreca PlayStationSEAT Toledo Cupra 29 Stéphane Ortelli 7–9 Michelin Independents Trophy GR Asia SEAT Toledo Cupra 18 Carlos Mastretta Aguilera 4–5 19 Valle Mäkelä 1–3, 6–7 20 Tom Coronel All 38 Erkut Kizilirmak 8 40 Polo Villaamil 9 99 Lo Ka Fai 10 JAS Motorsport Honda Accord Euro R 27 Adriano De Micheli 1–5, 7–10 39 Simon Harrison 1034 Tomas Engström 9 Honda Dealer Team Sweden Honda Accord Euro R 1 Honda Civic Type-R 35 Jens Hellström 1 Crawford Racing BMW 320i 28 Carl Rosenblad All Proteam Motorsport BMW 320i 30 Stefano D'Aste All 31 Giuseppe Cirò All Wiechers-Sport BMW 320i 32 Marc Hennerici All IEP Team Alfa Romeo 156 Gta 33 Adam Lacko 1 BMW 320i 2, 6 RS-Line IPZ Racing Ford Focus ST170 36 Sascha Plöderl 2, 4, 7 37 Frank Diefenbacher 2 DB Motorsport Alfa Romeo 156 51 Salvatore Tavano 1–2, 4 52 Andrea Larini 1–2, 4 GDL Racing BMW 320i 53 Gianluca De Lorenzi 1–2, 4 Zerocinque Motorsport BMW 320i 54 Stefano Valli 1–2, 4 Scuderia del Girasole SEAT Toledo Cupra 55 Alessandro Balzan 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

Calendar

The championship was contested over ten events, of which seven were held together with the 2005 FIA GT Championship. Each event featured two races with a distance of 50 kilometres. 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.

Event Race Name Track Date 1 R1 Race of Italy Autodromo Nazionale di 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 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

Results and standings

Races 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 standings Points system  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th 108654321

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver ITA FRA UK SMR MEX BEL GER TUR ESP MAC  Pts  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 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 24 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 DSQ 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 15 13 Ret 20 Ret 6 Ret NC 11 23 12 16 13 Ret DNS Ret Ret 3 22 Giuseppe Cirò Ret 18 21 17 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 16 17 9 Ret Ret 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 22 19 18 17 16 21 Ret 10 20 Ret 17 Ret DNS 0 – Carl Rosenblad DNS DNS 14 14 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 20 20 15 Ret DNS DNS DNS 15 18 15 16 11 19 15 Ret 0 – Adam Lacko 25 12 Ret DNS 20 13 0 – 25 18 15 17 0 – Polo Villaamil 15 21 0 – Salvatore Tavano 17 16 18 18 19 20 0 – Peter Scharmach 16 Ret 0 – Thomas Jäger 28 Ret 24 21 18 17 26 19 0 – Gianluca de Lorenzi 23 Ret 20 19 21 17 0 – Andrea Larini 19 20 Ret DNS 23 22† 0 – Stefano Valli 27 19 25 23 24 Ret 0 – Simon Harrison 20† DNS 0 – Jens Hellström 26 21 0 – Sascha Plöderl NC 25† Ret DNS 25 22† 0 – Soheil Ayari 23 Ret 0 – Éric 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 

Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Drivers' Championship points were awarded on a 10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1 basis to first eight finishers at each race.

Note: Drivers who did not score points during the season were not classified into Drivers' Championship positions.

Manufacturers' Championship

Pos Manufacturer ITA FRA UK SMR MEX BEL GER TUR ESP MAC  Pts  1 BMW 1 2 1 1 5 6 2 1 5 2 1 2 1 1 3 3 2 1 2 1 273 4 3 2 2 9 7 3 2 12 8 2 5 3 2 4 5 4 3 6 2 2 Alfa Romeo 2 1 4 5 1 3 1 3 1 3 4 1 9 5 1 1 6 2 1 3 237 3 8 8 7 2 4 5 5 2 4 5 4 13 14 2 2 16 7 7 Ret 3 SEAT 8 6 3 6 6 1 9 4 3 1 9 3 2 4 5 7 1 8 3 5 186 9 17 7 10 7 2 10 7 7 5 10 10 5 7 17 10 3 11 8 6 4 Chevrolet 20 15 17 13 13 13 13 11 6 7 14 6 11 8 10 8 7 Ret 4 10† 68 22 24† 19 16 Ret Ret 14 14 10 13 17 11 17 11 16 13 Ret DNS 5 Ret 5 Ford 28 Ret 24 22 18 17 17 16 21 Ret 10 10 Ret 17 Ret 18 17† 9 13 Ret DNS Ret 23 19 18 26 19 Ret DNS 12 20 Ret DNS Ret DNS 21 DNS Pos Manufacturer ITA FRA UK SMR MEX BEL GER TUR ESP MAC  Pts 

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. All the other cars of that same manufacturer were considered invisible as far as scoring points was concerned. Points were awarded on a 10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1 basis for each race.

Michelin Independents' Trophy

Pos Driver ITA FRA UK SMR MEX BEL GER TUR ESP MAC  Pts  1 Marc Hennerici 13 10 13 16 17 9 Ret Ret 17 14 18 9 16 21 13 11 Ret 20 14 Ret 114 2 Giuseppe Cirò Ret 18 21 17 22 11 Ret DNS 14 9 15 15 24 16 12 14 12 10 Ret 8 107 3 Stefano D'Aste 16 22† Ret DNS Ret Ret 22 15 12 11 16 2 20 19 14 15 17 17 11 Ret 96 4 Carl Rosenblad DNS DNS 14 14 21 12 16 Ret 16 15 22 12 22 17 11 18 Ret 16 12 Ret 94 5 Tom Coronel 15 Ret 23 DSQ 14 14 18 Ret 8 5 13 3 21 13 Ret DNS NC 13 Ret DNS 85 6 Adriano de Micheli 21 14 22 20 20 15 Ret DNS DNS DNS 15 18 15 16 11 19 15 Ret 65 7 Valle Mäkelä Ret 13 16 Ret 16 10 19 Ret 18 Ret 37 8 Salvatore Tavano 17 16 18 18 19 20 27 9 Tomas Engström 14 23 13 9 24 10 Alessandro Balzan 18 11 Ret DNS 12 DSQ 21 11 Gianluca de Lorenzi 23 Ret 20 19 21 17 20 12 Carlos Mastretta Aguilera 25 18 15 17 14 13 Adam Lacko 25 12 Ret DNS 20 13 13 14 Simon Harrison 20† DNS 8 15 Andrea Larini 19 20 Ret DNS 23 22† 8 16 Polo Villaamil 15 21 6 17 Stefano Valli 27 19 25 23 24 Ret 4 18 Sascha Plöderl NC 25† Ret DNS 25 22† 4 - Jens Hellström 26 21 0 – Erkut Kizilirmak Ret DNS 0 – Frank Diefenbacher DNS DNS – – Lo Ka Fai DNQ DNQ – Pos Driver ITA FRA UK SMR MEX BEL GER TUR ESP MAC  Pts