2005 V8 Supercar Championship Series

The 2005 V8 Supercar Championship Series was a motor racing championship for V8 Supercars. The series, which was the seventh V8 Supercar Championship Series, began on 18 March 2005 in Adelaide and ended on 27 November at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit after 13 rounds. The 46th Australian Touring Car Championship title was awarded to the series winner, Russell Ingall by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport.

Teams and drivers

The following drivers and teams competed in the 2005 championship.

ManufacturerModelTeamDriver nameRoundsCo-driver name Ford Falcon BA Stone Brothers Racing 1 Marcos Ambrose All Warren Luff 9 Russell Ingall All Luke Youlden Ford Performance Racing Greg Ritter 1–11 Cameron McLean David Brabham 12–13 6 Jason Bright All David Brabham WPS Racing 8 Craig Baird All Marcus Marshall Alex Tagliani 48 David Besnard All Larkham Motorsport 10 Jason Bargwanna 1–8 Alain Menu Matt Halliday 9–10 Mark Winterbottom 11–13 1–10 Jason Bargwanna Jason Bargwanna 11–13 Brad Jones Racing 12 John Bowe All John Cleland Dale Brede 21 Brad Jones All Dick Johnson Racing 17 Steven Johnson All Will Davison 18 Glenn Seton All Dean Canto Britek Motorsport 25 Steve Owen 1, 4, 6–10, 13 José Fernández Damien White 52 Matthew White All Triple Eight Race Engineering 88 Steven Ellery All Adam Macrow 888 Craig Lowndes All Yvan Muller Holden Commodore VY Rod Nash Racing () 7 Alex Davison 1 Perkins Engineering 11 Steven Richards 1–8 Christian D'Agostin Matthew Coleman 9–10 Paul Dumbrell 11–13 24 Paul Dumbrell 1–2, 4, 6–10 Steven Richards Steven Richards 11–13 Paul Little Racing () 75 Anthony Tratt All Tony Evangelou Commodore VZ Holden Racing Team 2 Mark Skaife All Jim Richards James Courtney 22 Todd Kelly All Tasman Motorsport 3 Jason Richards All Fabian Coulthard Tony D'Alberto 23 Jamie Whincup All Rod Nash Racing () 7 Alex Davison 4, 6–11 Allan Simonsen Paul Dumbrell 3, 5 Owen Kelly 12–13 HSV Dealer Team () 15 Rick Kelly All Tim Leahey Mark Noske 16 Garth Tander All Team Kiwi Racing Paul Morris Motorsport 021 Paul Radisich All John Faulkner Alan Gurr 67 Paul Morris All Garry Rogers Motorsport 33 Cameron McConville All Phillip Scifleet Lee Holdsworth 34 Andrew Jones 1–10 Dean Canto 11–12 Lee Holdsworth 13 Team DynamikLonghurst Racing Simon Wills 1–9, 13 Mark Porter Kayne Scott Tony Longhurst 10 Max Wilson All Paul Weel Racing 50 Paul Weel All Nathan Pretty Owen Kelly 51 Greg Murphy All

* = Drove in Sandown 500 only. ** = Drove in Bathurst 1000 only. Calendar The 2005 V8 Supercar Championship Series was contested over 13 rounds, including eleven single-driver 'sprint' rounds and two two-driver 'endurance' rounds. Rd. Event Circuit Location Date 1 Clipsal 500 AdelaideOfficial Program, Clipsal 500 Adelaide, page 6 Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia 17–20 March 2 PlaceMakers V8 InternationalRace Results Archive – 2005 Retrieved from www.natsoft.biz on 11 August 2012 Pukekohe Park Raceway Pukekohe, New Zealand 15–17 April 3 Perth 400 Barbagallo Raceway Perth, Western Australia 6–8 May 4 Eastern Creek Eastern Creek Raceway Eastern Creek, New South Wales 27–29 May 5 Buick V8 Supercars China Round Shanghai International Circuit Shanghai, China 10–12 June 6 Skycity V8 Supercars Hidden Valley Raceway Darwin, Northern Territory 1–3 July 7 Queensland 300 Queensland Raceway Ipswich, Queensland 22–24 July 8 Oran Park Oran Park Raceway Sydney, New South Wales 12–14 August 9 Betta Electrical 500Official Program, 2005 Betta Electrical 500, front cover Sandown International Raceway Melbourne, Victoria 9–11 September 10 Super Cheap Auto 1000Official Program, 2005 Super Cheap Auto 1000, front cover Mount Panorama Circuit Bathurst, New South Wales 6–9 October 11 Gillette V8 Supercar ChallengeRicho's race wrap – Gillette V8 Supercar Challenge, Surfers Paradise Retrieved from www.v8dailydump.com.au on 10 August 2012 Surfers Paradise Street Circuit Surfers Paradise, Queensland 20–23 October 12 Ferodo Triple Challenge Symmons Plains Raceway Launceston, Tasmania 12–13 November 13 BigPond Grand Finale Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit Phillip Island, Victoria 25–27 November

Results and standings Season summary Race Event Pole position Race winners Round winner 1 R1 Adelaide Rick Kelly Marcos Ambrose Marcos Ambrose report R2 Marcos Ambrose 2 R1 Pukekohe Craig Lowndes Greg Murphy Greg Murphy report R2 Greg Murphy R3 Greg Murphy 3 R1 Perth Craig Lowndes Mark Skaife Steven Richards report R2 Steven Richards R3 Russell Ingall 4 R1 Eastern Creek Craig Lowndes Marcos Ambrose Craig Lowndes report R2 Craig Lowndes 5 R1 Shanghai Mark Skaife Todd Kelly Todd Kelly report R2 Mark Skaife R3 Todd Kelly 6 R1 Darwin Mark Skaife Todd Kelly Todd Kelly report R2 Todd Kelly R3 Garth Tander 7 Ipswich Marcos Ambrose Craig Lowndes report 8 R1 Oran Park Marcos Ambrose Steven Richards Russell Ingall report R2 Russell Ingall 9 Sandown Garth Tander Craig Lowndes Yvan Muller report 10 Bathurst Craig Lowndes Mark Skaife Todd Kelly report 11 R1 Gold Coast Greg Murphy Greg Murphy Craig Lowndes report R2 Craig Lowndes R3 Craig Lowndes 12 R1 Launceston Steven Richards Garth Tander Garth Tander report R2 Garth Tander R3 Garth Tander 13 R1 Phillip Island Craig Lowndes Craig Lowndes Marcos Ambrose report R2 Marcos Ambrose R3 Marcos Ambrose

Points system Points were awarded on the results of each race as follows.Points system determined from Meeting Points for each round under http://www.natsoft.biz/cgi-bin/results.cgi?2005 together with championship points information from Graham Howard, Stewart Wilson, David Greenhaugh, The official history Australian Touring Car Championship 50 Years, page 459 Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th 31st 32nd 1 race per round 192 186 180 174 168 162 156 150 144 138 132 126 120 114 108 102 96 90 84 78 72 66 60 54 48 42 36 30 24 18 12 6 2 races per round 96 93 90 87 84 81 78 75 72 69 66 63 60 57 54 51 48 45 42 39 36 33 30 27 24 21 18 15 12 9 6 3 3 races per round 64 62 60 58 56 54 52 50 48 46 44 42 40 38 36 34 32 30 28 26 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2

Drivers championship Driver ADE PUK BAR EAS SHA HID QLD ORA SAN BAT SUR SYM PHI 1 Russell Ingall 9 2 18 2 2 2 4 2 1 5 6 13 6 26 14 4 Ret 4 2 1 7 5 4 10 24 8 9 10 5 5 5 0 2 Craig Lowndes 888 3 2 14 5 Ret 21 3 Ret 2 1 4 Ret Ret 3 32 11 1 9 4 1 15 2 1 1 5 3 3 1 3 15 0 3 Marcos Ambrose 1 1 1 5 3 4 2 5 3 1 2 5 4 12 4 28 9 2 4 2 14 Ret Ret 26 11 4 27 6 3 1 1 25 1856 4 Todd Kelly 22 8 4 8 Ret 9 Ret 23 7 6 4 1 3 1 1 1 2 6 Ret 22 2 1 Ret 14 8 15 11 7 13 16 6 0 5 Mark Skaife 2 Ret 3 3 4 5 1 29 6 7 7 3 1 23 2 2 26 12 16 30 2 1 3 3 2 25 12 9 15 10 8 0 6 Garth Tander 16 7 Ret 17 20 9 29 14 13 9 10 12 21 22 5 3 1 3 26 5 4 16 10 4 4 1 1 1 2 2 4 0 7 Steven Richards 11/24 5 26 28 8 3 3 1 2 3 5 2 2 2 22 12 4 5 1 11 13 Ret 27 28 18 2 2 4 27 12 26 0 1669 8 Rick Kelly 15 15 9 16 Ret 15 14 16 15 31 14 Ret 16 Ret 9 5 3 15 5 6 4 16 9 5 6 3 4 2 4 4 3 0 9 Jason Bright 6 19 11 7 11 7 16 7 22 33 23 7 20 6 Ret 9 8 9 7 7 6 14 8 9 9 7 17 16 31 13 7 0 10 33 17 6 21 18 Ret 8 9 19 15 13 16 9 9 18 31 22 17 8 8 10 4 5 6 5 14 15 17 18 14 21 0 11 Greg Murphy 51 6 Ret 1 1 1 5 30 Ret 4 3 10 Ret 7 13 16 Ret 8 3 3 Ret Ret 1 2 3 20 5 5 6 7 2 6 1500 12 Steven Johnson 17 4 15 13 26 Ret 11 4 5 13 9 11 26 21 12 11 7 10 10 31 18 19 14 11 12 10 7 8 22 19 18 0 13 Steven Ellery 88 Ret DNS 4 7 22 30 13 10 28 8 15 24 27 28 13 6 7 DNS DNS 5 3 7 7 7 9 13 18 8 6 10 0 1424 14 Paul Radisich 021 23 10 6 6 6 6 8 Ret 32 18 6 5 3 6 8 27 29 12 9 8 Ret 13 13 27 12 10 12 7 8 14 0 1384 15 Glenn Seton 18 9 25 26 13 12 12 15 9 20 27 14 7 24 8 7 5 11 18 13 12 9 23 23 20 22 19 20 29 24 11 0 16 Jamie Whincup 23 10 22 10 28 11 13 24 14 24 15 9 8 4 15 14 17 28 Ret 15 3 2 15 8 10 18 Ret 30 12 18 Ret 0 17 Jason Richards 3 20 Ret 18 29 14 7 25 17 10 12 8 Ret Ret 25 6 15 Ret 6 28 3 2 6 Ret 19 11 8 14 17 11 16 0 1295 18 John Bowe 12 12 Ret 12 10 8 15 11 8 12 8 22 15 14 10 10 12 22 20 19 9 21 16 15 17 23 28 29 23 29 27 0 19 Paul Morris 67 14 16 9 19 16 10 17 11 11 Ret 17 22 25 7 18 18 26 Ret 18 8 Ret 24 21 25 Ret 16 13 14 28 13 0 1059 20 Paul Dumbrell 24/11 16 5 26 16 Ret 22 Ret 24 16 Ret 19 12 11 Ret 15 10 18 17 24 13 Ret 22 18 22 6 6 11 9 15 19 75 1046 21 Brad Jones 21 13 20 22 Ret 20 25 19 Ret 14 11 25 17 10 17 30 Ret 20 23 20 9 21 17 16 28 17 21 19 24 Ret 24 0 22 Paul Weel 50 11 8 11 9 10 27 6 4 27 26 20 11 19 26 26 14 Ret 14 14 Ret Ret Ret 22 16 13 24 21 10 9 9 0 1000 23 Craig Baird 8 Ret 17 Ret 12 Ret 19 20 16 21 17 24 19 15 27 20 16 16 Ret Ret 19 8 11 12 29 26 18 27 30 28 29 0 980 24 Max Wilson 45 Ret 7 15 15 Ret 31 18 Ret 26 16 Ret 14 5 16 33 13 14 13 10 DNS Ret 26 25 14 16 14 15 20 21 12 4 931 25 David Besnard 48 18 23 29 27 Ret 17 12 20 30 24 Ret Ret Ret Ret 29 25 13 19 16 19 8 12 30 21 24 25 31 Ret 25 20 0 904 26 Jason Bargwanna 10/20 Ret Ret Ret 14 Ret 9 10 12 17 21 21 Ret 13 Ret 24 19 19 11 12 16 Ret Ret 19 Ret 19 30 28 16 17 17 0 883 27 Greg Ritter 5 Ret Ret 19 24 21 28 Ret Ret 18 Ret 23 10 8 11 23 24 Ret 15 29 15 18 19 20 15 0 739 28 Andrew Jones 34 22 27 27 21 19 26 21 25 28 Ret 26 18 17 19 Ret Ret 21 25 25 10 4 0 29 Mark Winterbottom 20/10 24 14 24 22 17 20 27 21 23 Ret Ret DNS DNS 24 27 20 25 Ret 27 16 Ret 21 29 26 21 22 25 19 20 25 0 668 30 Matthew White 52 Ret 12 25 25 Ret 24 22 26 22 19 27 23 18 21 22 23 27 24 Ret 23 Ret 25 27 Ret 27 26 22 28 31 30 0 619 31 Anthony Tratt 75 21 24 23 23 18 23 26 23 24 Ret 28 25 16 Ret 25 Ret Ret 22 21 25 Ret 18 Ret 30 28 31 32 DNS DNS DNS 0 511 32 Steve Owen 25 25 13 19 22 20 19 21 24 27 26 23 Ret 21 Ret 22 0 480 33 Alex Davison 7 Ret 21 29 25 23 17 Ret Ret 21 23 17 20 Ret 24 23 0 469 34 Simon Wills 44 Ret 19 30 17 Ret 18 28 18 34 20 18 13 20 Ret 21 Ret 23 Ret 17 DNS Ret 26 23 0 437 35 Dean Canto 18/34 12 9 20 17 13 29 20 23 0 36 David Brabham 6/5 6 14 EX 23 24 11 22 31 0 37 Owen Kelly 50/7 Ret 6 30 29 26 26 30 Ret 0 320 38 Yvan Muller 888 1 15 0 39 Adam Macrow 88 5 3 0 40 Luke Youlden 9 7 5 0 41 Nathan Pretty 50 Ret 6 0 172 42 Dale Brede 12 21 7 0 John Cleland 12 21 7 0 44 Lee Holdsworth 33/34 20 Ret 25 23 28 0 162 45 John Faulkner 021 Ret 10 0 156 Alan Gurr 021 Ret 10 0 156 47 James Courtney 22 11 Ret 0 152 Jim Richards 22 11 Ret 0 152 Mark Porter 45 Ret 11 0 152 Kayne Scott 45 Ret 11 0 152 51 Alain Menu 10 Ret 12 0 148 Matt Halliday 10 Ret 12 0 148 53 Marcus Marshall 8 22 13 0 Alex Tagliani 8 22 13 0 55 Warren Luff 1 14 Ret 0 140 56 Cameron McLean 5 15 18 0 57 Allan Simonsen 7 17 20 0 58 José Fernández 52 24 17 0 Damien White 52 24 17 0 60 Will Davison 17 18 19 0 61 Phillip Scifleet 33 20 Ret 0 116 62 Tony Evangelou 75 25 Ret 0 96 63 Matthew Coleman 11 26 Ret 0 92 Christian D'Agostin 11 26 Ret 0 92 – Fabian Coulthard 23 Ret Ret 0 0 Tony D'Alberto 23 Ret Ret 0 0 Mark Noske 15 Ret Ret 0 0 Tim Leahey 15 Ret Ret 0 0 Tony Longhurst 44 Ret 0 0 Driver ADE PUK BAR EAS SHA HID QLD ORA SAN BAT SUR SYM PHI

Each round carried a maximum of 192, 186, 180 points etc. with each race at two-race rounds carrying half points and each race at three-race rounds carrying one third points.Graham Howard, Stewart Wilson, David Greenhaugh, The official history Australian Touring Car Championship 50 Years, page 459 Each driver was required to drop his/her worst score from the first ten rounds. Gross total points are shown within brackets.

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