2005 Champ Car season explained

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
		Oriol Servià	3-13
Forsythe Championship Racing	3	Paul Tracy	All	Indeck Mountain Grand Lodge
7	Mario Domínguez	All	Indeck Roshfrans
CTE Racing-HVM	4	Björn Wirdheim	1-11	Eurosport Liqui Moly
		Fabrizio del Monte	12	CTE Racing
	50	Homero Richards	13	Nextel
	55	Ronnie Bremer	1-5	Ansan, Korea
		Alex Sperafico	6-7
		Rodolfo Lavín	8-13	Corona
Team Australia	5	Marcus Marshall	1-12	Aussie Vineyards
		Will Power	13
	25		12
		nowrap	Charles Zwolsman Jr.		13
	15	Alex Tagliani	All
Rocketsports Racing	8	Timo Glock	All	Deutsche Post
	31	Ryan Hunter-Reay	1-11	Autobytel.com Briggs & Stratton Cytomax Rocketsports Racing Red Paw Systems Commercial Defeasance The Westin
		Michael McDowell	12-13
RuSPORT	9	Justin Wilson	All	SanDisk Champ Car Intel RuSPORT CDW
	10	A. J. Allmendinger	All	Beijing '06 Western Union CDW Intel
Dale Coyne Racing	11	Ricardo Sperafico	All	Dale Coyne Racing American Medical Response Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q
	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 Tide
	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 Jr.^[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	Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach, California
2	May 22	Tecate/Telmex Grand Prix of Monterrey	Fundidora Park	Monterrey, Mexico
3	June 4	Time Warner Cable Road Runner 225 Presented by US Bank	Milwaukee Mile	West Allis, Wisconsin
4	June 19	G.I. Joe's Presents the Champ Car Grand Prix of Portland	Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
5	June 26	Champ Car Grand Prix of Cleveland Presented by U.S. Bank	Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport	Cleveland, Ohio
6	July 10	Molson Indy Toronto	Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario
7	July 17	West Edmonton Mall Grand Prix of Edmonton	Edmonton City Centre Airport	Edmonton, Alberta
8	July 31	Taylor Woodrow Grand Prix of San Jose	Streets of San Jose	San Jose, California
9	August 14	Centrix Financial Grand Prix of Denver Presented by PacifiCare	Denver Civic Center	Denver, Colorado
10	August 28	Molson Indy Montreal	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	Montreal, Quebec
11	September 24	Champ Car Hurricane Relief 400	Las Vegas Motor Speedway	Las Vegas, Nevada
12	October 23	Lexmark Indy 300	Surfers Paradise Street Circuit	Surfers Paradise, Australia
13	November 6	Gran Premio Telmex-Tecate Presented by Banamex	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	Mexico City, Mexico

Oval/Speedway
Road/Street course

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	Led most laps	Winning driver	Winning team	Report
1	Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach	Paul Tracy				Newman/Haas Racing	Report
2	Tecate/Telmex Grand Prix of Monterrey		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		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		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

See also: List of American Championship car racing point scoring systems.

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 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 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 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 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 14 16 13 14 12 14 8 12 12 16 9 11 104 17 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 12 11 19 22 15 10 17 23 9 13 24 Tarso Marques 11 10 25 11 10 26 16 16 10 27 nowrap 13 8 28 16 5 29 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) Not competing In-line notation Bold Pole position Italics Ran fastest race lap *|style="background:#F2F2F2;" align=center|Led most race laps|-|style="text-align:center" colspan=2| Rookie of the Year|-|style="text-align:center" colspan=2| Rookie|}|}|} Nations' Cup Top result per race counts towards the Nations' 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 6 7 5 348 2 Servià Dale Coyne Racing Newman-Haas Racing 1 7 1 288 3 Wilson RuSPORT 2 3 2 265 4 Tracy Forsythe Championship Racing 2 7 3 246 5 Allmendinger RuSPORT -- 5 1 227 6 Vasser PKV Racing -- 2 1 217 7 Tagliani Team Australia -- 2 -- 207 8 Glock Rocketsports Racing -- 1 -- 202 9 Domínguez Forsythe Championship Racing -- 1 -- 198 10 Ranger Mi-Jack Conquest Racing -- 1 -- -- 140 11 da Matta PKV Racing 1 1 -- 139 12 CTE Racing - HVM Dale Coyne Racing -- -- -- -- 139 13 Philippe Mi-Jack Conquest Racing -- -- -- -- 117 14 CTE Racing - HVM -- -- -- -- 115 15 Hunter-Reay Rocketsports Racing -- -- -- -- -- 110 16 Team Australia -- -- -- -- -- 104 17 Dale Coyne Racing -- -- -- -- -- 92 18 Lavín CTE Racing - HVM -- -- -- 72 19 Junqueira Newman-Haas Racing 1 2 -- 59 20 A. Sperafico CTE Racing - HVM -- -- -- -- -- 24 21 Rocketsports Racing -- -- -- -- -- -- 19 22 Team Australia -- -- -- -- -- 17 23 Dale Coyne Racing -- -- -- -- -- 13 24 Marques Dale Coyne Racing -- -- -- -- -- -- 10 25 Dale Coyne Racing -- -- -- -- -- -- 10 26 Jensen Motorsport CTE Racing - HVM -- -- -- -- -- -- 10 27 Team Australia -- -- -- -- -- -- 8 28 CTE Racing - HVM -- -- -- -- -- -- 5 29 PKV Racing -- -- -- -- -- -- 3 References Web site: Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford 2005 . Åberg, Andreas . Driver Database . 2009-05-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081003101721/http://www.driverdb.com/standings/5-2005/ . 2008-10-03 . live . Web site: 2005 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford . Champ Car Stats . 2009-05-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090502162024/http://www.champcarstats.com/year/2005.htm . 2009-05-02 . live . Web site: Standings after Mexico City . Champ Car World Series . 2009-05-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081022080425/http://www.champcar.ws/Results/Standings.asp?Year=2005 . 2008-10-22 . dead . See also 2005 Toyota Atlantic Championship season 2005 Indianapolis 500 2005 IndyCar Series 2005 Infiniti Pro Series season ]

Notes and References

1. News: Wilson signs for RuSPORT. motorsport.com. 2004-11-25. 2010-11-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20041204091519/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=174054. 2004-12-04. dead.
2. News: PKV Racing gets Shorty. motorsport.com. 2005-02-01. 2010-11-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20050207025854/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=176526. 2005-02-07. dead.
3. News: Hunter-Reay signs with Rocketsports Racing. https://archive.today/20130129052119/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=178818&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-03-08. 2010-11-06.
4. News: Conquest Racing driver announcement. https://archive.today/20130129122750/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=179966&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-03-21. 2010-11-06.
5. News: Dominguez signs with Forsythe Racing. https://archive.today/20130129054810/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=180457&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-03-30. 2010-11-06.
6. News: Walker Racing signs sponsor partners. https://archive.today/20130129043509/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=180413&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-03-30. 2010-11-06.
7. News: HVM goes Scandinavian. motorsport.com. 2005-04-04. 2010-11-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20050826090019/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=180931. 2005-08-26. dead.
8. News: PKV Racing taps Goeters for Monterrey race. https://archive.today/20130129020224/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=185278&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-05-16. 2010-11-14.
9. News: Servia to fill in for Junqueira in Milwaukee. https://archive.today/20130129010027/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=187089&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-06-01. 2010-11-14.
10. News: Valiante with Dale Coyne at Portland. https://archive.today/20130129014241/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=188842&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-06-17. 2010-11-14.
11. News: Ryan Dalziel to debut in Toronto. https://archive.today/20130129123709/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=192985&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-07-06. 2010-11-14.
12. News: HVM signs Alex Sperafico. https://archive.today/20130129035041/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=193065&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-07-08. 2010-11-14.
13. News: Rodolfo Lavin joins HVM Racing. https://archive.today/20130129044411/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=195364&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-07-29. 2010-11-14.
14. News: Fabrizio Del Monte joins HVM Racing. https://archive.today/20130129030101/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=202056&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-09-27. 2010-11-14.
15. News: Del Monte will not be able to race. https://archive.today/20130129045641/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=205284&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-11-04. 2010-11-14.
16. News: Team Australia signs third driver. https://archive.today/20130129004605/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=203624&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-10-13. 2010-11-14.
17. News: Team Australia statement on Marshall's departure. https://archive.today/20130129064630/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=204800&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-10-27. 2010-11-14.
18. News: Zwolsman lands Mexico Champ Car ride. motorsport.com. 2005-10-29. 2010-11-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20060112093056/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=204933. 2006-01-12. dead.
19. News: McDowell lands RSR seat for final two races. motorsport.com. 2005-10-14. 2010-11-14.
20. News: HVM Racing announces new partner. motorsport.com. 2005-10-06. 2007-11-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20090517005007/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=202904&FS=CHAMPCAR. 2009-05-17. dead.
21. News: 2005 ready to go before 2004 closes out. motorsport.com. 2004-10-28. 2010-11-28.
22. News: Korea inaugural race deferred to 2006. https://archive.today/20130129034632/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=202087&FS=INDYCAR. dead. 2013-01-29. motorsport.com. 2005-09-28. 2010-11-28.