2005 San Marino Grand Prix

The 2005 San Marino Grand Prix (formally the XXV Gran Premio Foster's di San Marino) was a Formula One motor race held on 24 April 2005 at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy. The 62-lap race was the fourth round of the 2005 Formula One season, and the 25th running of the San Marino Grand Prix.

2005 San Marino Grand Prix
Race 4 of 19 in the 2005 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date April 24, 2005
Official name XXV Gran Premio Foster's di San Marino
Location Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 4.933 km (3.065 mi)
Distance 62 laps, 305.609 km (189.897 mi)
Weather Fine
Pole position
Driver
McLaren-Mercedes
Time 2:42.880 (aggregate)
Fastest lap
Driver Michael Schumacher Ferrari
Time 1:21.858 on lap 48
Podium
First
Renault
Second
Ferrari
Third
McLaren-Mercedes

The race was won by Renault driver Fernando Alonso, who extended his lead in the Drivers' Championship after his third win and fourth podium from four races. Michael Schumacher finished the race in second position for the Ferrari team, only two-tenths of a second behind Alonso having challenged him for the win late into the race. BAR driver Jenson Button crossed the line in third place, but his team were subsequently disqualified for underweight cars; third place was then awarded to McLaren driver Alexander Wurz.

Pole position was taken by McLaren driver Kimi Räikkönen, using the aggregate system which was in the rules at the start of the 2005 season. He led the race from the start until his retirement on lap 9 due to a driveshaft failure. Alonso took the lead and kept it except during the pit stop phases when it was held by Button, and later Schumacher when he overtook Button.

Report

Background

Vitantonio Liuzzi replaced Christian Klien in the second Red Bull car, for this and the next two races; after unanimous agreement between the teams, Klien was allowed to race car #37 for Red Bull in the Friday practice sessions. Alexander Wurz drove the second McLaren-Mercedes car, in place of the injured Juan Pablo Montoya. During the first qualifying session on Saturday, Red Bull announced that they would use Ferrari engines for two years, beginning from the 2006 season.

Race

Räikkönen led from pole, pulling out a gap of several seconds, before his McLaren retired on lap nine with driveshaft problems. Alonso took over the lead, and was unchallenged until lap 50, when Michael Schumacher emerged from the pits just behind him. Schumacher had started 13th, and had been unable to pass Jarno Trulli for 20 laps, until the Italian pitted allowing Schumacher to increase his pace. After pitting himself, he emerged in third place ahead of Trulli and started to catch race leader Alonso. He caught up with second place driver Jenson Button and overtook him, overturning a 20-second gap in 13 laps. After the second round of pit-stops he emerged from the pits seconds behind Alonso. The next 12 laps saw the two battle for the lead but Schumacher was unable to overtake Alonso who took the race victory. Third was Button, followed by Wurz's McLaren, Takuma Sato, Jacques Villeneuve, Trulli and Ralf Schumacher. Ralf was later given a 25-second penalty as he was released into the path of Nick Heidfeld; this temporarily dropped him to 11th place.[1]

During checks after the race it was found that Button's car had been under the 600 kg minimum weight requirement when drained of fuel. The race stewards cleared Button, as they believed data provided by BAR-Honda was sufficient to prove that they had been operating inside the rules, but the FIA appealed sending them to court.[2] They were found guilty, but the FIA's preferred penalty of having the team disqualified from the championship for the year was not carried through, and they were given a two-race ban, starting from the next round in Spain. In addition, Button's teammate Sato, who had finished 5th on the track, was disqualified from the race despite his car not being found to be underweight.[3] Wurz was thus promoted to third, followed by Villeneuve, Trulli, Heidfeld, Mark Webber and Liuzzi.

British broadcaster ITV attracted controversy when it cut to a commercial break during the closing moments of the race which garnered 126 complaints from viewers. Media regulator Ofcom ruled that ITV breached section 6.7 of the Rules on the Amount and Scheduling of Advertising.[4] The broadcasters also had not shown the post-race press conference segment featuring Jenson Button's comments about the race.[5] ITV repeated the last three laps after the race and as a result of these complaints, the server on their website crashed. An on-air apology was made by presenter Jim Rosenthal before the start of the next race in Spain two weeks later.[6]

Classification

Qualifying
Alonso and Schumacher battle for the lead in the closing stages of the race.

Qualifying times from both Saturday and Sunday morning.

Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 order Q1 time Q1 pos Q1+Q2 time
1 9 Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 18 1:19.886 1 2:42.880
2 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 20 1:19.889 2 2:43.441
3 3 Jenson Button BAR-Honda 8 1:20.464 5 2:44.105
4 7 Mark Webber Williams-BMW 16 1:20.442 4 2:44.511
5 16 Jarno Trulli Toyota 19 1:20.492 6 2:44.518
6 4 Takuma Sato BAR-Honda 7 1:20.851 10 2:44.658
7 10 Alexander Wurz McLaren-Mercedes 2 1:20.632 8 2:44.689
† 8 12 Felipe Massa Sauber-Petronas 15 1:20.593 7 2:44.930
9 8 Nick Heidfeld Williams-BMW 6 1:20.807 9 2:45.196
10 2 Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 13 1:20.892 11 2:45.240
11 17 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 17 1:20.994 12 2:45.416
12 11 Jacques Villeneuve Sauber-Petronas 11 1:20.999 13 2:46.259
13 6 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 4 1:21.708 15 2:46.710
14 1 Michael Schumacher Ferrari 5 1:20.260 3 2:47.244
15 14 David Coulthard Red Bull-Cosworth 14 1:21.632 14 2:48.070
16 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Red Bull-Cosworth 1 1:21.804 16 2:48.155
17 19 Narain Karthikeyan Jordan-Toyota 3 1:23.123 17 2:52.099
18 18 Tiago Monteiro Jordan-Toyota 12 1:25.100 18 2:54.252
19 20 Patrick Friesacher Minardi-Cosworth 10 1:26.484 20 2:57.048
20 21 Christijan Albers Minardi-Cosworth 9 1:25.921 19 Accident in Q2
Sources:[7][8]
  • † Note: Felipe Massa had an engine change, meaning he started from 18th on the grid.


Fernando Alonso, Michael Schumacher and Jenson Button celebrate on the podium. Button was later disqualified from the race along with BAR team-mate Takuma Sato.

Race
Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 62 1:27:41.921 2 10
2 1 Michael Schumacher Ferrari 62 +0.215 13 8
3 10 Alexander Wurz McLaren-Mercedes 62 +27.554 7 6
4 11 Jacques Villeneuve Sauber-Petronas 62 +1:04.442 11 5
5 16 Jarno Trulli Toyota 62 +1:10.258 5 4
6 8 Nick Heidfeld Williams-BMW 62 +1:11.282 8 3
7 7 Mark Webber Williams-BMW 62 +1:23.297 4 2
8 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Red Bull-Cosworth 62 +1:23.764 15 1
† 9 17 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 62 +1:35.841 10  
10 12 Felipe Massa Sauber-Petronas 61 +1 Lap 18
11 14 David Coulthard Red Bull-Cosworth 61 +1 Lap 14
12 19 Narain Karthikeyan Jordan-Toyota 61 +1 Lap 16
13 18 Tiago Monteiro Jordan-Toyota 60 +2 Laps 17
Ret 21 Christijan Albers Minardi-Cosworth 20 Hydraulics 20
Ret 2 Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 18 Electrical 9
Ret 9 Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 9 Driveshaft 1
Ret 20 Patrick Friesacher Minardi-Cosworth 8 Clutch 19
Ret 6 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 5 Accident 12
‡ DSQ 3 Jenson Button BAR-Honda 62 Fuel (+10.481) 3
‡ DSQ 4 Takuma Sato BAR-Honda 62 Fuel (+34.783) 6
Source:[9]
  • † Note: Post-race, Ralf Schumacher was penalised 25 seconds for being released unsafely into the path of Nick Heidfeld from his second pitstop; Toyota withdrew their initial appeal before the hearing.
  • ‡ Note: Also post-race, Jenson Button's car was found to be 4.99 kg (11 lb) underweight; stewards initially accepted BAR's explanation as a fuel system anomaly on April 25. However, on May 5, an FIA court of appeal disqualified both BAR cars and banned them from the next two races for "highly regrettable negligence and lack of transparency",[10] noting that BAR's fuel system effectively "used fuel as ballast",[11] illegal under current Formula One regulations.

Championship standings after the race
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Notes
  1. The podium ceremony was conducted with Jenson Button in 3rd place, prior to his disqualification.
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gollark: No, it's because I'm everyone's alt and I have an IQ of 205 octillion.
gollark: None are safe, broadly speaking.
gollark: Compute the main and variance then multiply and add until you get back to the definition of IQ.
gollark: You'd just rerun the statistics™.

References
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  2. "The FIA versus the FIA". GrandPrix.com. 25 April 2005. Retrieved 13 November 2006.
  3. "Button's BAR banned for two races". Guardian News and Media Limited. 5 May 2005. Retrieved 14 November 2006.
  4. Welsh, James (18 July 2005). "126 viewers complain over ITV F1 ad break". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 29 November 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  5. "F1 broadcaster guilty". updatef1.com. 18 July 2005. Archived from the original on 5 February 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  6. Hancock, Matthew (25 April 2005). "Rosenthal sorry for race break". London: The Guardian. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2008.
  7. "FORMULA 1™ Gran Premio Foster's di San Marino 2005 - Saturday Qualifying". Formula1.com. Formula1.com Limited. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  8. "FORMULA 1™ Gran Premio Foster's di San Marino 2005 - Sunday Qualifying". Formula1.com. Formula1.com Limited. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  9. "FORMULA 1™ Gran Premio Foster's di San Marino 2005 - Race". Formula1.com. Formula1.com Limited. Archived from the original on 17 January 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  10. "Tribunal bans Button for two races, takes away points". Sportsline.com. 5 May 2005. Archived from the original on 10 May 2006. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  11. "BAR team handed two-race ban". Formula1.com. Formula1.com Limited. 5 May 2005. Archived from the original on 7 February 2007. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  12. "San Marino 2005 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
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