2005 Champ Car season

2005 Champ Car season
2005 Champ Car season
Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford
Season
Races	13
Start date	April 10
End date	November 6
Awards
Drivers' champion	Sébastien Bourdais
Constructors' Cup	Lola
Nations' Cup	France
Rookie of the Year	Timo Glock
	← 2004 2006 →

The 2005 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season was the 27th overall and the second season of the Champ Car World Series era of American open-wheel racing. It began on April 10, 2005 in Long Beach, California and ended on November 6 in Mexico City, Mexico after 13 races. The Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford Drivers' Champion was Sébastien Bourdais, his second consecutive championship. The Rookie of the Year was Timo Glock.

Drivers and teams[]

The 2.65 liter turbo V8 Ford-Cosworth XFE engine continued to be the exclusive power plant for the series. Bridgestone continued on as the exclusive series tire supplier as well. The two companies continued the marketing agreement that branded the series Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford. All teams ran the Lola B02/00 chassis after the 2002 bankruptcy of Reynard Motorsport prevented further development of their Reynard 02I, causing it to become uncompetitive against the Lola.

The following teams and drivers competed in the 2005 Champ Car season.

Team	No	Drivers	Races	Primary Sponsors
Newman/Haas Racing	1	Sébastien Bourdais	All	McDonald's
	2	Bruno Junqueira	1-2	PacifiCare
	2	Oriol Servià	3-13	PacifiCare
Forsythe Championship Racing	3	Paul Tracy	All	Indeck 10 Mountain Grand Lodge 3
Forsythe Championship Racing	7	Mario Domínguez	All	Indeck 12 Roshfrans 1
CTE Racing-HVM	4	Björn Wirdheim	1-11	Eurosport 7 Liqui Moly 4
	4	Fabrizio del Monte	12	CTE Racing
	50	Homero Richards	13	Nextel
	55	Ronnie Bremer	1-5	Ansan, Korea 8
		Alex Sperafico	6-7	Ansan, Korea 8
		Rodolfo Lavín	8-13	Corona 5
Team Australia	5	Marcus Marshall	1-12	Aussie Vineyards
	5	Will Power	13
	25	Will Power	12
	25	Charles Zwolsman Jr.	13
	15	Alex Tagliani	All
Rocketsports Racing	8	Timo Glock	All	Deutsche Post
	31	Ryan Hunter-Reay	1-11	Autobytel.com 1 Briggs & Stratton 3 Cytomax 4 Rocketsports Racing 1 Red Paw Systems 2 Commercial Defeasance 1 The Westin 1
	31	Michael McDowell	12-13
RuSPORT	9	Justin Wilson	All	SanDisk 2 Champ Car 2 Intel 4 RuSPORT 1 CDW 4
RuSPORT	10	A. J. Allmendinger	All	Beijing '06 5 Western Union 5 CDW 1 Intel 2
Dale Coyne Racing	11	Ricardo Sperafico	All	Dale Coyne Racing 2 American Medical Response 2 Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q 9
	19	Oriol Servià	1-2	American Medical Response
		Michael Valiante	4
		Tarso Marques	5
		Ryan Dalziel	6
		Ronnie Bremer	7-13
PKV Racing	12	Jimmy Vasser	All	Gulfstream
	21	Cristiano da Matta	All	Bell Micro
	52	Jorge Goeters	2	Team Mexico
Mi-Jack Conquest Racing	27	Andrew Ranger	All	Mi-Jack 10 Tide 3
Mi-Jack Conquest Racing	34	Nelson Philippe	All	Wellbox Body Optimizer
Jensen MotorSport	41	Fabrizio del Monte	1	Konica Minolta

Team and driver changes[]

Similar to the 2003 and 2004 seasons, there were once again many changes for the 2005 season.

Last season's rookie of the year runner-up Justin Wilson teamed up with the 2004 rookie of the year A. J. Allmendinger at RuSPORT.^[1]
PKV Racing brought 2002 CART champion Cristiano da Matta back to the Champ Car series after he spent two years driving for Toyota in Formula One.^[2]
Rocketsports Racing began the year with Formula One driver Timo Glock and Ryan Hunter-Reay.^[3]
Mi-Jack Conquest Racing signed 2004 Toyota Atlantic rookie of the year Andrew Ranger.^[4]
Mario Domínguez moved to Forsythe Championship Racing after 3 seasons with HVM Racing.^[5]
Domínguez replaced Patrick Carpentier who moved over to the IRL with Cheever Racing.
Forsythe's third driver in 2004, Rodolfo Lavín, began the 2005 season on the sidelines.
Walker Racing became Team Australia after a sponsor partnership was formed with Australian businessman Craig Gore. They ran Champ Car veteran Alex Tagliani and a rookie from Australia, Marcus Marshall.^[6]
Domínguez's former team, which renamed itself HVM Racing from Herdez Competition after the salsa company ended its title sponsorship, began the season with 2003 Formula 3000 champion Björn Wirdheim and Toyota Atlantic driver Ronnie Bremer.^[7]

Mid-season changes[]

The Jensen MotorSport team only appeared at the opening race of the season with Fabrizio del Monte at the wheel of the #41 car.
PKV Racing gave Mexican driver Jorge Goeters a one-off drive at the Monterrey race.^[8]
Bruno Junqueira was injured in the 2005 Indianapolis 500 and was replaced in the Newman/Haas team by Oriol Servià who departed Dale Coyne Racing.^[9] Servià was replaced by various drivers at Dale Coyne during the season - Michael Valiante in Portland,^[10] Tarso Marques in Cleveland, Ryan Dalziel in Toronto^[11] and Ronnie Bremer for the remainder of the season. Coyne ran one car at Milwaukee, where Ricardo Sperafico drove the #19 car instead of his usual #11 car for that race.
Alex Sperafico replaced Ronnie Bremer at HVM Racing for the races in Toronto and Edmonton,^[12] with Rodolfo Lavín taking over for the rest of the season.^[13]
Björn Wirdheim did not complete the season with HVM Racing. Fabrizio del Monte joined the team for the Surfers Paradise round^[14] and was slated to drive at the finale in Mexico City but suffered a concussion in a crash in practice at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez and was not medically cleared to race.^[15]
Team Australia fielded a third car in Surfers Paradise and Mexico City. Will Power made his Champ Car debut with the team at Surfers Paradise.^[16] After Marcus Marshall was released from the team after the race at Surfers Paradise, Power took over his car.^[17] In Mexico the team's third car was driven by 2005 Toyota Atlantic champion Charles Zwolsman.^[18]
2004 Star Mazda champion Michael McDowell replaced Ryan Hunter-Reay in the Rocketsports team for the final two races of the season.^[19]
Cedric the Entertainer entered into a partnership with HVM Racing in October 2005. The race team was rebranded CTE Racing-HVM from that point forward.^[20]
CTE Racing-HVM gave Mexican driver Homero Richards a one-off drive at the race in Mexico City.

Season summary[]

Schedule[]

Rnd	Date	Race Name	Circuit	City/Location
1	April 10	Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach	S Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach, California
2	May 22	Tecate/Telmex Grand Prix of Monterrey	S Fundidora Park	Monterrey, Mexico
3	June 4	Time Warner Cable Road Runner 225, Presented by US Bank	O Milwaukee Mile	West Allis, Wisconsin
4	June 18	G.I. Joe's presents the Champ Car Grand Prix of Portland	R Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
5	June 26	Champ Car Grand Prix of Cleveland presented by U.S. Bank	S Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport	Cleveland, Ohio
6	July 10	Molson Indy Toronto	S Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario
7	July 17	West Edmonton Mall Grand Prix of Edmonton	S Edmonton City Centre Airport	Edmonton, Alberta
8	July 31	Taylor Woodrow Grand Prix of San Jose	S Streets of San Jose	San Jose, California
9	August 14	Centrix Financial Grand Prix of Denver presented by PacifiCare	S Denver Civic Center	Denver, Colorado
10	August 28	Molson Indy Montreal	R Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	Montreal, Quebec
11	September 24	Champ Car Hurricane Relief 400	O Las Vegas Motor Speedway	Las Vegas, Nevada
12	October 22	Lexmark Indy 300	S Surfers Paradise Street Circuit	Surfers Paradise, Australia
13	November 6	Gran Premio Telmex-Tecate presented by Banamex	R Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	Mexico City, Mexico

O Oval/Speedway
R Dedicated road course
S Temporary street circuit

The initial 2005 schedule announced by Champ Car included 14 races,^[21] but only 13 races actually took place during the season. The 14th race was scheduled to take place at a newly constructed permanent road circuit in the city of Ansan, South Korea on October 16, the week before the race at Surfers Paradise. The race was canceled in September when it was determined that the circuit was not ready to host the race.^[22] It was the second year in a row that a race in Korea was canceled, as a street circuit race in the capital of Seoul was removed from the 2004 schedule. A date at the Ansan circuit was placed on Champ Car's initial 2006 schedule but that race would never take place either.

Race results[]

Rnd	Race Name	Pole position	Fastest lap	Lead most laps	Winning driver	Winning team	Report
1	Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach	Paul Tracy	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais	Newman/Haas Racing	Report
2	Tecate/Telmex Grand Prix of Monterrey	Sébastien Bourdais	Timo Glock	Nelson Philippe	Bruno Junqueira	Newman/Haas Racing	Report
3	Time Warner Cable Road Runner 225, Presented by US Bank	Jimmy Vasser	Paul Tracy	Paul Tracy	Paul Tracy	Forsythe Championship Racing	Report
4	G.I. Joe's presents the Champ Car Grand Prix of Portland	Justin Wilson	Sébastien Bourdais	Cristiano da Matta	Cristiano da Matta	PKV Racing	Report
5	Champ Car Grand Prix of Cleveland presented by U.S. Bank	Paul Tracy	Oriol Servià	Paul Tracy	Paul Tracy	Forsythe Championship Racing	Report
6	Molson Indy Toronto	Sébastien Bourdais	Justin Wilson	Sébastien Bourdais	Justin Wilson	RuSPORT	Report
7	West Edmonton Mall Grand Prix of Edmonton	A. J. Allmendinger	A. J. Allmendinger	A. J. Allmendinger	Sébastien Bourdais	Newman/Haas Racing	Report
8	Taylor Woodrow Grand Prix of San Jose	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais	Newman/Haas Racing	Report
9	Centrix Financial Grand Prix of Denver presented by PacifiCare	Paul Tracy	Sébastien Bourdais	Paul Tracy	Sébastien Bourdais	Newman/Haas Racing	Report
10	Molson Indy Montreal	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais	Oriol Servià	Newman/Haas Racing	Report
11	Champ Car Hurricane Relief 400	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais	Paul Tracy	Sébastien Bourdais	Newman/Haas Racing	Report
12	Lexmark Indy 300	Oriol Servià	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais	Newman/Haas Racing	Report
13	Gran Premio Telmex-Tecate presented by Banamex	Justin Wilson	Justin Wilson	Justin Wilson	Justin Wilson	RuSPORT	Report

Final driver standings[]

Pos	Driver	LBH	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	MTL	LVS	SRF	MXC	Pts
1	Sébastien Bourdais	1*	5	6	2	5	5*	1	1*	1	4*	1	1*	17	348
2	Oriol Servià	11	9	3	16	3	2	2	3	4	1	2	5	4	288
3	Justin Wilson	4	4	4	17	7	1	4	4	17	3	11	7	1*	265
4	Paul Tracy	2	15	1*	3	1*	16	3	2	16*	8	17*	17	3	246
5	A. J. Allmendinger	8	10	2	5	2	12	14*	17	3	9	13	2	2	227
6	Jimmy Vasser	9	14	5	6	6	4	11	11	15	7	3	3	6	217
7	Alex Tagliani	15	3	10	18	4	3	7	9	14	5	7	4	8	207
8	Timo Glock RY	6	11	9	10	10	7	13	6	13	2	8	6	5	202
9	Mario Domínguez	5	13	7	4	17	13	5	5	2	10	4	18	12	198
10	Andrew Ranger R	17	2	16	7	8	11	18	16	10	11	14	10	9	140
11	Cristiano da Matta	10	6	11	1*	16	17	17	10	18	6	12	19	14	139
12	Ronnie Bremer R	7	19	8	8	14		6	7	7	17	18	8	19	139
13	Nelson Philippe	18	12*	12	12	13	10	9	15	9	15	16	14	7	117
14	Björn Wirdheim R	12	8	15	9	15	15	15	8	11	13	6			115
15	Ryan Hunter-Reay	13	7	17	15	18	6	16	14	6	12	10			110
16	Marcus Marshall R	14	16	13	14	12	14	8	12	12	16	9	11		104
17	Ricardo Sperafico R	19	17	14	13	9	18	10	18	8	18	15	9	18	92
18	Rodolfo Lavín								13	5	14	5	13	15	72
19	Bruno Junqueira	3	1												59
20	Alex Sperafico						8	12							24
21	Michael McDowell R												12	11	19
22	Will Power R												15	10	17
23	Ryan Dalziel R						9								13
24	Tarso Marques					11									10
25	Michael Valiante R				11										10
26	Fabrizio del Monte R	16											16		10
27	Charles Zwolsman R													13	8
28	Homero Richards R													16	5
29	Jorge Goeters R		18												3
Pos	Driver	LBH	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	MTL	LVS	SRF	MXC	Pts

Color	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	4th & 5th place
Light Blue	6th-10th place
Dark Blue	Finished (Outside Top 10)
Purple	Did not finish
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Brown	Withdrawn (Wth)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
Blank	Did not participate (DNP)
Blank	Not competing

In-line notation
Bold	Pole position
Italics	Ran fastest race lap
*	Led most race laps
RY Rookie of the Year
R Rookie

Nation's Cup[]

Top result per race counts towards the Nation's Cup

Pos	Country	LBH	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	MTL	LVS	SRF	MXC	Pts
1	France	1	5	6	2	5	5	1	1	1	4	1	1	7	346
2	Canada	2	2	1	3	1	3	3	2	10	5	7	4	3	322
3	Spain	11	9	3	16	3	2	2	3	4	1	2	5	4	283
4	United States	8	7	2	5	2	4	11	11	3	7	3	2	2	274
5	England	4	4	4	17	7	1	4	4	17	3	11	7	1	257
6	Brazil	3	1	11	1	9	8	10	10	8	6	12	9	14	211
7	Mexico	5	13	7	4	17	13	5	5	2	10	4	13	12	201
8	Germany	6	11	9	10	10	7	13	6	13	2	8	6	5	198
9	Denmark	7	19	8	8	14		6	7	7	17	18	8	19	133
10	Australia	14	16	13	14	12	14	8	12	12	16	9	11	10	115
11	Sweden	12	8	15	9	15	15	15	8	11	13	6			113
12	Scotland						9								13
13	Italy	16											16		10
14	Netherlands													13	8
Pos	Country	LBH	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	MTL	LVS	SRF	MXC	Pts

Driver breakdown[]

Pos	Driver	Team	Entries	Wins	Podiums	Top 5	Top 10	Poles	Laps Led	Pts
1	Bourdais	Newman-Haas Racing	13	6	7	11	12	5	358	348
2	Servià	Dale Coyne Racing Newman-Haas Racing	13	1	7	10	11	1	29	288
3	Wilson	RuSPORT	13	2	3	8	10	2	123	265
4	Tracy	Forsythe Championship Racing	13	2	7	7	8	3	512	246
5	Allmendinger	RuSPORT	13	--	5	6	9	1	59	227
6	Vasser	PKV Racing	13	--	2	4	9	1	27	217
7	Tagliani	Team Australia	13	--	2	5	10	--	5	207
8	Glock	Rocketsports Racing	13	--	1	2	10	--	19	202
9	Domínguez	Forsythe Championship Racing	13	--	1	6	8	--	2	198
10	Ranger	Mi-Jack Conquest Racing	13	--	1	1	6	--	--	140
11	da Matta	PKV Racing	13	1	1	1	5	--	71	139
12	Bremer R	CTE Racing - HVM Dale Coyne Racing	12	--	--	--	7	--	31	139
13	Philippe	Mi-Jack Conquest Racing	13	--	--	--	4	--	23	117
14	Wirdheim R	CTE Racing - HVM	11	--	--	--	4	--	29	115
15	Hunter-Reay	Rocketsports Racing	11	--	--	--	4	--	--	110
16	Marshall R	Team Australia	12	--	--	--	2	--	--	104
17	R. Sperafico R	Dale Coyne Racing	13	--	--	--	4	--	--	92
18	Lavín	CTE Racing - HVM	6	--	--	2	2	--	5	72
19	Junqueira	Newman-Haas Racing	2	1	2	2	2	--	17	59
20	A. Sperafico	CTE Racing - HVM	2	--	--	--	1	--	--	24
21	McDowell R	Rocketsports Racing	2	--	--	--	--	--	--	19
22	Power R	Team Australia	2	--	--	--	1	--	--	17
23	Dalziel R	Dale Coyne Racing	1	--	--	--	1	--	--	13
24	Marques	Dale Coyne Racing	1	--	--	--	--	--	--	10
25	Valiante R	Dale Coyne Racing	1	--	--	--	--	--	--	10
26	del Monte R	Jensen Motorsport CTE Racing - HVM	2	--	--	--	--	--	--	10
27	Zwolsman R	Team Australia	1	--	--	--	--	--	--	8
28	Richards R	CTE Racing - HVM	1	--	--	--	--	--	--	5
29	Goeters R	PKV Racing	1	--	--	--	--	--	--	3

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