2005 FIA WTCC Race of Italy

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2005 Race of Italy
Race details
	Round 1 of 10 in the 2005 World Touring Car Championship at Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Monza, Italy.
Date	April 10, 2005
Location	Monza, Italy
Course	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza ; 5.793 kilometres (3.600 mi)
Race One
Laps	9
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Race Two
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Last updated June 25, 2020

The 2005 FIA WTCC Race of Italy was the opening round of the 2005 World Touring Car Championship season, the first season of the revived World Touring Car Championship, after a previous season in 1987. It was held at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza at Monza in Italy on April 10, 2005. BMW and Alfa Romeo took one victory each, Dirk Müller winning Race 1 for the former, and James Thompson winning Race 2.

Report

Qualifying

Dirk Müller took pole position for the first World Touring Car Championship race by topping the timesheets in the qualifying session with a time of 1:59.009. Two other BMWs had finished behind him, fellow BMW Team Deutschland driver Jörg Müller, and the BMW Team Italy-Spain car of Antonio García. However, Jörg had his best time disallowed by the stewards after he failed to stop at the weighing scales, dropping him to 18th. Alfa Romeo Racing Team drivers Gabriele Tarquini and Augusto Farfus qualified in third and fourth place, with reigning European Touring Car Champion Andy Priaulx fifth for BMW Team UK. The session was brought to a premature end after Alain Menu crashed his Chevrolet Lacetti, bringing out the red flags.^[1]

Race 1

Dirk Müller led the first race of the new FIA World Touring Car Championship from pole position to take the victory. Behind him, Gabriele Tarquini finished second, with his Alfa Romeo teammate Augusto Farfus finishing third after managing to keep Andy Priaulx at bay. Antonio García slipped back from his front row starting position to finish fifth after he had been nudged off the track by Farfus during an overtaking manoeuvre. The remaining Alfa Romeo drivers, Fabrizio Giovanardi and James Thompson, finished in sixth and seventh position, with SEAT Sport's Rickard Rydell taking the last point in eighth as well as pole position for Race 2, for which the top eight finishers from the first race are reversed on the race two grid. Marc Hennerici finished 13th overall to take the victory in the Independent's Trophy.^[2]

Race 2

Polesitter Rydell was passed by Thompson for the lead at the start of the second race. Meanwhile, Giovanardi stalled on the second row of the grid. García and Dirk Müller were able to pass Rydell for second and third and began chasing Thompson for the lead, but García made a mistake and lost three positions to Müller, Farfus and Tarquini. On the sixth lap, Farfus ran wide at the first chicane, while Müller and Tarquini clashed, putting the Italian out of the race. This allowed García to regain third behind Dirk Müller. Thompson crossed the line to win the race ahead of Dirk Müller and García. Jörg Müller recovered from 29th on the grid to finish in fourth, with Jordi Gené, Alessandro Zanardi and Giovanardi rounding out the points. Hennerici won the Independent's Trophy after finishing tenth.^[2]

Classification

Race 1

Pos	No		Driver	Team	Car	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	43		Dirk Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	BMW 320i	9	18:03.203	1	10
2	2		Gabriele Tarquini	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	9	+2.465	3	8
3	7		Augusto Farfus	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	9	+3.854	4	6
4	1		Andy Priaulx	BMW Team UK	BMW 320i	9	+3.977	5	5
5	5		Antonio García	BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320i	9	+8.088	2	4
6	6		Fabrizio Giovanardi	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	9	+8.248	8	3
7	3		James Thompson	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	9	+8.910	9	2
8	8		Rickard Rydell	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	9	+9.192	7	1
9	9		Jordi Gené	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	9	+9.414	6
10	4		Alex Zanardi	BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320i	9	+14.843	11
11	10		Peter Terting	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	9	+16.042	10
12	26		Roberto Colciago	JAS Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R	9	+20.441	13
13	32	IT	Marc Hennerici	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320i	9	+21.819	12
14	34	IT	Tomas Engström	Honda Dealer Team Sweden	Honda Accord Euro R	9	+26.396	17
15	20	IT	Tom Coronel	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	9	+26.571	20
16	30	IT	Stefano D'Aste	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320i	9	+26.837	16
17	51	IT	Salvatore Tavano	DB Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	9	+31.827	19
18	55	IT	Alessandro Balzan	Scuderia del Girasole	SEAT Toledo Cupra	9	+33.477	25
19	52	IT	Andrea Larini	DB Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	9	+37.711	15
20	21		Robert Huff	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	9	+37.720	21
21	27	IT	Adriano de Micheli	JAS Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R	9	+43.914	30
22	23		Alain Menu	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	9	+44.271	23
23	53	IT	Gianluca de Lorenzi	GDL Racing	BMW 320i	9	+44.827	31
24	22		Nicola Larini	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	9	+45.767	24
25	33	IT	Adam Lacko	IEP Team	Alfa Romeo 156 Gta	9	+49.641	22
26	35	IT	Jens Hellström	Honda Dealer Team Sweden	Honda Civic Type-R	9	+57.996	33
27	54	IT	Stefano Valli	Zerocinque Motorsport	BMW 320i	9	+58.363	32
28	15		Thomas Jäger	Ford Hotfiel Sport	Ford Focus	9	+1:05.240	25
29	42		Jörg Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	BMW 320i	8	+1 Lap	18
Ret	14		Thomas Klenke	Ford Hotfiel Sport	Ford Focus	4	Accident	28
Ret	19	IT	Valle Mäkelä	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	4	Accident	26
Ret	31	IT	Giuseppe Cirò	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320i	0	Mechanical	29
DNS	28	IT	Carl Rosenblad	Crawford Racing	BMW 320i	0		14

Race 2

Pos	No		Driver	Team	Car	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3		James Thompson	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	9	18:13.906	2	10
2	43		Dirk Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	BMW 320i	9	+0.530	8	8
3	5		Antonio García	BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320i	9	+0.765	4	6
4	42		Jörg Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	BMW 320i	9	+1.248	29	5
5	1		Andy Priaulx	BMW Team UK	BMW 320i	9	+1.467	5	4
6	9		Jordi Gené	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	9	+2.470	9	3
7	4		Alex Zanardi	BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320i	9	+5.976	10	2
8	6		Fabrizio Giovanardi	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	9	+6.767	3	1
9	7		Augusto Farfus	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	9	+8.904	6
10	32	IT	Marc Hennerici	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320i	9	+18.231	13
11	55	IT	Alessandro Balzan	Scuderia del Girasole	SEAT Toledo Cupra	9	+24.527	18
12	33	IT	Adam Lacko	IEP Team	Alfa Romeo 156 Gta	9	+31.611	25
13	19	IT	Valle Mäkelä	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	9	+31.991	32
14	27	IT	Adriano de Micheli	JAS Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R	9	+32.555	21
15	22		Nicola Larini	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	9	+33.545	22
16	51	IT	Salvatore Tavano	DB Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	9	+34.121	17
17	10		Peter Terting	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	9	+37.443	11
18	31	IT	Giuseppe Cirò	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320i	9	+37.480	31
19	54	IT	Stefano Valli	Zerocinque Motorsport	BMW 320i	9	+42.228	27
20	52	IT	Andrea Larini	DB Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	9	+44.679	19
21	35	IT	Jens Hellström	Honda Dealer Team Sweden	Honda Civic Type-R	9	+1:12.036	26
22	30	IT	Stefano D'Aste	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320i	8	+1 Lap	16
23	34	IT	Tomas Engström	Honda Dealer Team Sweden	Honda Accord Euro R	8	+1 Lap	14
RET	23		Alain Menu	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	6	Engine	22
Ret	2		Gabriele Tarquini	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	5	Spun off	7
Ret	21		Robert Huff	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	5	Collision	20
Ret	53	IT	Gianluca de Lorenzi	GDL Racing	BMW 320i	5	Collision	23
Ret	20	IT	Tom Coronel	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	4	Mechanical	15
Ret	26		Roberto Colciago	JAS Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R	4	Accident	12
Ret	8		Rickard Rydell	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	1	Accident	1
Ret	15		Thomas Jäger	Ford Hotfiel Sport	Ford Focus	0	Mechanical	28
DNS	14		Thomas Klenke	Ford Hotfiel Sport	Ford Focus	0		30
DNS	28	IT	Carl Rosenblad	Crawford Racing	BMW 320i	0		33

Standings after the races

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Dirk Müller	18
2	James Thompson	12
3	Antonio García	10
4	Andy Priaulx	9
5	Gabriele Tarquini	8

Manufacturers' Championship standings

Pos	Constructor	Points
1	BMW	29
2	Alfa Romeo	28
3	SEAT	15
4	Chevrolet	6
5	Ford	0

Note: Only the top five positions are included for the drivers standings.

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References

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1 2 http://www.fiawtcc.com/archives/2005/reports/R01_02_Races.pdf Archived 2010-11-22 at the Wayback Machine Race report

External links

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2005 FIA WTCC Race of Italy

Contents

Report

Qualifying

Race 1

Race 2

Classification

Race 1

Race 2

Standings after the races

Related Research Articles

References

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