2005 European Touring Car Cup Explained

The 2005 FIA European Touring Car Cup was the first running of the FIA European Touring Car Cup. It was held on 16 October 2005 at the ACI Vallelunga Circuit near Rome in Italy.

Teams and drivers

Super 2000 class^[1]
Team	Car	No	Drivers
Honda Dealer Team Sweden	Honda Accord Euro R	1	Tomas Engström
BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320i	2	Alessandro Zanardi
BMW Team Engstler	BMW 320i	3	Franz Engstler
SEAT Racing Team	SEAT Toledo Cupra	4	Michel Nykjær
DB Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	5	Salvatore Tavano
		6	Andrea Larini
Avtodom Racing - BMW Russia	BMW 320i	7	Mikhail Ukhov
Zerocinque Motorsport	BMW 320i	8	Stefano Valli
Peugeot Sport Denmark	Peugeot 407	9	Jens Edman
IPS Motorsport	Peugeot 407	10	Johan Stureson
Maarakennus M. Laivola Oy	SEAT Toledo Cupra	11	Ari Laivola
Schubert Motors	BMW 320i	12	Rustem Teregulov
		13	Claudia Hürtgen
SEAT Sport Italia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	14	Alessandro Balzan
WestCoast Racing	BMW 320i	15	Richard Göransson
		16	Thed Björk
TW Racing	Ford Focus ST170	19	Wolfgang Treml
SEAT Sport UK		20	Jason Plato
GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	21	Tom Coronel
		22	Rob Collard
Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320i	23	Davide Roda
		24	Luca Rangoni
Super Production class^[2]
ZeroCinque Motorsport	BMW 320i	51	Lorenzo Pasquinelli
Sport-Garage	Volkswagen Golf IV GTi	52	Sergey Krylov
	Volkswagen Golf III GTi	53	Andrey Nikolaev
Errepi Racing	Alfa Romeo 147 SP	54	Lorenzo Falessi

Final standings

valign=middle Pos valign=middle Driver Race 1 Race 2 valign=middle Pts Super 2000 1 Richard Göransson 2 2 16 2 Jason Plato 5 1 14 3 Alessandro Zanardi 1 7 12 4 Salvatore Tavano 3 4 11 5 Tom Coronel 4 5 9 6 Thed Björk 7 3 8 7 Franz Engstler 6 6 6 8 Jens Edman 8 16 1 9 Alessandro Balzan 9 8 1 10 Claudia Hürtgen Ret 9 0 11 Rob Collard 10 15 0 12 Luca Rangoni Ret 10 0 13 Andrea Larini 11 11 0 14 Stefano Valli 12 12 0 15 Rustem Teregulov 13 13 0 16 Ari Laivola 14 14 0 17 Michel Nykjær 19 Ret 0 18 Mikhail Ukhov Ret Ret 0 19 Davide Roda Ret Ret 0 20 Tomas Engström Ret DNS 0 21 Johan Stureson Ret DNS 0 22 Wolfgang Treml Ret DNS 0 Super Production 1 Lorenzo Falessi 15 17 20 2 Sergey Krylov 17 18 14 3 Andrey Nikolaev 18 19 11 4 Lorenzo Pasquinelli 16 Ret 8 valign=middle Pos valign=middle Driver Race 1 Race 2 valign=middle Pts

Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

External links

• Official website of the FIA European Touring Car Cup

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2005 Entry List. fiaetcc.com. 2013-08-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20140513064323/http://www.fiaetcc.com/2k9/2005_EntryList.asp. 2014-05-13. dead.
2. Web site: 2005 Entry List. fiaetcc.com. 2013-08-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20140513064323/http://www.fiaetcc.com/2k9/2005_EntryList.asp. 2014-05-13. dead.