2005 FIA WTCC Race of San Marino

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2005 Race of San Marino
Race details
	Round 4 of 10 in the 2005 World Touring Car Championship at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy.
Date	May 29, 2005
Location	Imola, Italy
Course	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari ; 4.933 kilometres (3.065 mi)
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Last updated March 03, 2019

The 2005 FIA WTCC Race Of San Marino was the fourth round of the 2005 World Touring Car Championship season. It was held at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari. The two races were won by Fabrizio Giovanardi and Dirk Müller.

The Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari is a motorsport race circuit near the Italian town of Imola, 40 kilometres (24.9 mi) east of Bologna and 80 kilometres (49.7 mi) east of the Ferrari factory in Maranello. The circuit is named after Ferrari's late founder Enzo and his son Dino who had died in the 1950s. Before Enzo Ferrari's death in 1988 it was called 'Autodromo Dino Ferrari'. The circuit has FIA Grade 1 license.

Fabrizio Giovanardi is an Italian racing driver. During his career he has won ten touring car titles, including European and British crowns making him the most successful touring car driver worldwide. He has spent the majority of his career racing for Alfa Romeo and Vauxhall.

Dirk Müller is a German Ford factory racing driver, driving for Ford Chip Ganassi Racing in the 2016 IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Championship. His former Schnitzer BMW team-mate Jörg Müller is unrelated, as is French driver Yvan Muller.

Report

Qualifying

After a disappointing start to the season with only 13 points from the first three weekends, Fabrizio Giovanardi bounced back in Imola with a dominant pole position for Alfa Romeo after dominating qualifying with a time of 1:58.573. Antonio García was second for BMW nearly six-tenths of a second behind, and SEAT also did a good job with Jordi Gené qualifying third. Two more Alfas driven by Augusto Farfus and Gabriele Tarquini followed ahead of Roberto Colciago who was driving for Honda.^[1]

N.Technology is an Italian auto racing team, founded by Mauro Sipsz and Monica Bregoli.

Antonio García Navarro is a Spanish professional racing driver. He has three class wins in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, winning GT1 with Aston Martin Racing in 2008 and with Corvette Racing in 2009 (GT1) and 2011 (GTE-Pro).

ROAL Motorsport is an Italian auto racing team, which operated the BMW Team Italy-Spain team in the World Touring Car Championship, and currently competes as BMW Team Italia in the Italian GT Championship. It was founded in 2001 by 1987 World Touring Car champion Roberto Ravaglia and Aldo Preo.

Race 1

Gabriele Tarquini and Peter Terting, who qualified fifth and seventh were both given ten-lace grid penalties for an incident in the previous race and an engine change respectively. García started well and overtook polesitter Fabrizio Giovanardi at the line, with reigning champion Andy Priaulx jumping up to second in his BMW. Championship leader Dirk Müller got the better of second row starters Jordi Gené and Augusto Farfus, with Roberto Colciago and James Thompson, in another Alfa following. Tarquini and Jörg Müller, second and third in the championship, collided which sent the former to the back of the field, and the BMW man had to pit for repairs. At the front, Giovanardi dealt with Priaulx on the first lap, and García on the second, and was never caught again. Colciago overtook Farfus on the same lap, and then tried to do the same on Gené, however there was contact and the Spaniard crashed. Colciago continued, but was passed by Farfus on the next lap. The rest of the race was quiet, with Giovanardi easily winning from García in a lonely second. Priaulx was third ahead of Dirk Müller, Farfus, Colciago, Thompson and Alex Zanardi's BMW. A 12th-place finish was enough for Alessandro Balzan to win the Independent's Trophy.^[2]

Peter Terting is a German auto racing driver, born on 19 February 1984 in Kempten. He won the Volkswagen Lupo Cup in 2002, earning him a DTM drive for Abt Sportsline in 2003, although this proved to be too big a step up, and the teenager struggled to be competitive.

Andrew Graham "Andy" Priaulx, MBE is a British professional racing driver from Guernsey, currently racing for Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK in the FIA World Endurance Championship, having been a former BMW factory driver. He is a European Touring Car Championship champion, three times World Touring Car Championship champion and the only FIA Touring Car champion to win an international-level championship for four consecutive years. The previous record was Roberto Ravaglia's three successive championships (1986–1988).

James Thompson is a British auto racing driver. He currently competes in the World Touring Car Championship. He has twice been champion of the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), and was third in the 2007 World Touring Car Championship.

Race 2

Alex Zanardi started on pole on the reversed grid, and he had no problem converting it into a lead early on. The other BMWs were all very strong off the line, with Dirk Müller, Priaulx and García jumping into 2nd, 3rd and 5th from 5th, 6th and 7th respectively. James Thompson's Alfa, who started 2nd was 4th splitting the BMWs, and his teammates Farfus and Giovanardi were 6th and 8th, with Rickard Rydell's SEAT splitting them. Giovanardi started to move up the order, passing both Rydell and Farfus on the second lap. Zanardi was unable to hold his lead for long, with his teammates Dirk Müller and Priaulx passing him and then pulling away. Behind, there was contact between García and Giovanardi while fighting for fifth, which pushed the Spaniard down the order, whereas Farfus took advantage and passed a rattled Giovanardi two laps later. Dirk Müller and Priaulx ran comfortably at the front, with the Englishman despite staying with a second, not able to make an impression on his teammate. Thompson in fourth had just started to put pressure on Zanardi when he made a mistake and was passed by his two teammates, Rydell and Jason Plato in another SEAT. There was contact with the latter, which sent Thompson packing down the order. Dirk Müller took his second win of the season, with Priaulx in second. The battle for third between Zanardi and Farfus reached a head on the final lap, when an overtaking attempt from Farfus resulted in a collision, sending both off the track. Giovanardi thus took third, with Rydell fourth, whereas Farfus rejoined fifth and Zanardi had to settle for sixth, with the SEATS of Peter Terting and Plato completing the points. Neither Gabriele Tarquini nor Jörg Müller was able to get into the points, despite fighting drives. Balzan won the Independent's Trophy after finishing 13th, however he was disqualified for an underweight car, handing it to countryman Stefano D'Aste. ^[2]

Rickard Rydell is a retired Swedish racing driver. He won the 1998 British Touring Car Championship, the 2011 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship, and has also been a frontrunner in the European/World Touring Car Championship.

Timothy Jason Plato is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) for Power Maxed Racing. He has twice been BTCC Champion, in 2001 for Vauxhall and 2010 for Silverline Chevrolet. He has finished in the top 3 in the Championship 12 times and holds the record for the most overall race wins in the BTCC. He is also a presenter on the motoring television series Fifth Gear from 2004 to present.

Stefano D'Aste is an Italian auto racing driver.

Classification

Race 1

Pos	No		Driver	Team	Car	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	6		Fabrizio Giovanardi	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	11	22:12.202	1	10
2	5		Antonio García	BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320i	11	+3.146	2	8
3	1		Andy Priaulx	BMW Team UK	BMW 320i	11	+8.131	5	6
4	43		Dirk Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	BMW 320i	11	+9.126	7	5
5	7		Augusto Farfus	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	11	+12.299	4	4
6	26		Roberto Colciago	JAS Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R	11	+15.175	6	3
7	3		James Thompson	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	11	+16.995	8	2
8	4		Alex Zanardi	BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320i	11	+17.476	13	1
9	8		Rickard Rydell	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	11	+17.974	9
10	10		Peter Terting	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	11	+18.341	17
11	11		Jason Plato	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	11	+23.788	11
12	55	IT	Alessandro Balzan	Scuderia del Girasole	SEAT Toledo Cupra	11	+25.680	15
13	22		Nicola Larini	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	11	+34.619	20
14	23		Alain Menu	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	11	+35.495	18
15	2		Gabriele Tarquini	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	11	+41.034	14
16	28	IT	Carl Rosenblad	Crawford Racing	BMW 320i	11	+41.816	16
17	14		Thomas Klenke	Ford Hotfiel Sport	Ford Focus	11	+43.746	25
18	20	IT	Tom Coronel	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	11	+47.156	21
19	51	IT	Salvatore Tavano	DB Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	11	+51.960	24
20	21		Robert Huff	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	11	+52.569	22
21	53	IT	Gianluca de Lorenzi	GDL Racing	BMW 320i	11	+55.599	28
22	30	IT	Stefano D'Aste	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320i	11	+57.302	19
23	52	IT	Andrea Larini	DB Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	11	+1:07.319	27
24	54	IT	Stefano Valli	Zerocinque Motorsport	BMW 320i	11	+1:07.922	29
25	18	IT	Carlos Mastretta	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	11	+1:08.253	30
26	15		Thomas Jäger	Ford Hotfiel Sport	Ford Focus	11	+2:13.774	31
27	42		Jörg Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	BMW 320i	10	+1 Lap	12
Ret	36	IT	Sascha Plöderl	RS-Line IPZ Racing	Ford Focus ST170	5	Accident	32
Ret	31	IT	Giuseppe Cirò	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320i	5	Retirement	23
Ret	27	IT	Adriano de Micheli	JAS Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R	2	Accident	10
Ret	32	IT	Marc Hennerici	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320i	2	Accident	26
Ret	9		Jordi Gené	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	1	Collision	3

Race 2

Pos	No		Driver	Team	Car	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	43		Dirk Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	BMW 320i	11	22:17.549	5	10
2	1		Andy Priaulx	BMW Team UK	BMW 320i	11	+2.027	6	8
3	6		Fabrizio Giovanardi	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	11	+5.822	8	6
4	8		Rickard Rydell	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	11	+6.786	9	5
5	7		Augusto Farfus	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	11	+8.795	4	4
6	4		Alex Zanardi	BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320i	11	+10.447	1	3
7	10		Peter Terting	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	11	+10.713	10	2
8	11		Jason Plato	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	11	+11.135	11	1
9	5		Antonio García	BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320i	11	+12.115	7
10	2		Gabriele Tarquini	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	11	+12.446	15
11	22		Nicola Larini	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	11	+15.644	13
12	42		Jörg Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	BMW 320i	11	+15.805	27
13	9		Jordi Gené	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	11	+20.370	32
14	23		Alain Menu	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	11	+23.138	14
15	30	IT	Stefano D'Aste	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320i	11	+34.187	22
16	14		Thomas Klenke	Ford Hotfiel Sport	Ford Focus	11	+35.640	17
17	53	IT	Gianluca de Lorenzi	GDL Racing	BMW 320i	11	+39.018	21
18	18	IT	Carlos Mastretta	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	11	+40.000	25
19	15		Thomas Jäger	Ford Hotfiel Sport	Ford Focus	11	+44.651	26
20	51	IT	Salvatore Tavano	DB Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	11	+2:13.246	19
21	3		James Thompson	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	10	+1 Lap	2
22	52	IT	Andrea Larini	DB Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	8	+3 Laps	23
Ret	26		Roberto Colciago	JAS Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R	4	Accident	3
Ret	28	IT	Carl Rosenblad	Crawford Racing	BMW 320i	4	Retirement	16
Ret	20	IT	Tom Coronel	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	4	Accident	18
Ret	21		Robert Huff	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	0	Retirement	20
DNS	54	IT	Stefano Valli	Zerocinque Motorsport	BMW 320i	0		24
DNS	36	IT	Sascha Plöderl	RS-Line IPZ Racing	Ford Focus ST170	0		28
DNS	31	IT	Giuseppe Cirò	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320i	0		29
DNS	27	IT	Adriano de Micheli	JAS Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R	0		30
DNS	32	IT	Marc Hennerici	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320i	0		31
DSQ	55	IT	Alessandro Balzan	Scuderia del Girasole	SEAT Toledo Cupra	11	Disqualified	12

Standings after the races

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Dirk Müller	47
2	Andy Priaulx	41
3	Gabriele Tarquini	30
4	Fabrizio Giovanardi	29
5	Augusto Farfus	29

Manufacturers' Championship standings

Pos	Constructor	Points
1	BMW	113
2	Alfa Romeo	100
3	SEAT	75
4	Chevrolet	22
5	Ford	2

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References

↑ http://www.fiawtcc.com/archives/2005/reports/R07_08_Qualifying.pdf Qualifying report
1 2 http://www.fiawtcc.com/archives/2005/reports/R07_08_Races.pdf Race report

External links

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2005 FIA WTCC Race of San Marino

Contents

Report

Qualifying

Race 1

Race 2

Classification

Race 1

Race 2

Standings after the races

Related Research Articles

References

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