2005 FIA WTCC Race of San Marino

  2005 Race of San Marino

Round details
Round 4 of 10 in the 2005 World Touring Car Championship season at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy.
Date	May 29, 2005
Location	Imola, Italy
Course	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari 4.909 km
Race One
Laps	11
Pole position
Driver	Fabrizio Giovanardi		Alfa Romeo Racing Team
Time	1:58.573
Podium
First	Fabrizio Giovanardi		Alfa Romeo Racing Team
Second	Antonio García		BMW Team Italy-Spain
Third	Andy Priaulx		BMW Team UK
Fastest Lap
Driver	Fabrizio Giovanardi		Alfa Romeo Racing Team
Time	2:00.208
Race Two
Laps	11
Podium
First	Dirk Müller		BMW Team Deutschland
Second	Andy Priaulx		BMW Team UK
Third	Fabrizio Giovanardi		Alfa Romeo Racing Team
Fastest Lap
Driver	Fabrizio Giovanardi		Alfa Romeo Racing Team
Time	2:00.625

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

Report

Qualifying

After a disappointing start to the season with only 13 points from the first three weekends, Fabrizio Giovanardi bounched 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]

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, wsith 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 Spainard 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]

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 Spainard 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]

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

References

External links

• Results booklet from fiawtcc.com archives