2005 GP2 Series season

The 2005 GP2 Series season started in Imola, San Marino on April 23, 2005 and ended in Manama, Bahrain on September 30, 2005. The season was won by the German Nico Rosberg, with the Finn Heikki Kovalainen finishing second.

2005 was the first season of the newly-renamed Formula One feeder series, from Formula 3000 to GP2. The inaugural season didn't feature reigning F3000 champion Vitantonio Liuzzi, due to the fact that the Italian was driving for Red Bull Racing in Formula One. The series did feature two former F1 drivers, Italians Gianmaria Bruni and Giorgio Pantano, driving for Coloni and SuperNova respectively.

[edit] Drivers and constructors

All of the teams used the Dallara chassis with Renault-badged Mecachrome engines in 2005 in order to keep the field fair.

As this was inaugular season in the series, car numbers were distributed by a pre-season session held at Circuit Paul Ricard on April 6. The fastest driver got number 1, his team-mate number 2, next best driver number 3 etc.

Team	#	Driver	Rounds
iSport International	1	Scott Speed	All
	2	Can Artam	All
HiTech/Piquet Racing	3	Nelson Angelo Piquet	All
	4	Alexandre Sarnes Negrão	All
BCN Competicion	5	Ernesto José Viso Lossada	All
	6	Hiroki Yoshimoto	All
Super Nova Racing	7	Giorgio Pantano	All
	8	Adam Carroll	All
ART Grand Prix	9	Nico Rosberg	All
	10	Alexandre Prémat	All
David Price Racing	11	Olivier Pla	All
	12	Ryan Sharp	1-13
		Giorgio Mondini	14-23
DAMS	14	José María López	All
	15	Fairuz Fauzy	All
Coloni Motorsport	16	Mathias Lauda	All
	17	Gianmaria Bruni	1-17
		Toni Vilander	18-21
		Ferdinando Monfardini	22-23
Racing Engineering	18	Neel Jani	All
	19	Borja García	All
Campos Racing	20	Juan Cruz Álvarez	All
	21	Sergio Hernandez	All
Arden International	22	Heikki Kovalainen	All
	23	Nicolas Lapierre	All
Durango	24	Clivio Piccione	All
	25	Ferdinando Monfardini	1-19
		Gianmaria Bruni	20-23

Notes:

• Giorgio Mondini replaced Ryan Sharp for Hungarian races
• Toni Vilander replaced Gianmaria Bruni for Italian races.
• Gianmaria Bruni replaced Ferdinando Monfardini for Belgian races.
• Ferdinando Monfardini replaced Toni Vilander for Bahrain races.

[edit] Race calendar

There were 23 races in the 2005 GP2 Series championship at 12 different circuits. Eleven race weekends had one race on Saturday and another on Sunday, the exception being the race at Circuit de Monaco where there was only one race on the weekend. The season began on April 23, 2005 and concluded on September 25, 2005.

The calendar was as follows.

Round	Location	Circuit	Date	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	Imola, Italy	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	April 23	Heikki Kovalainen	Arden International
2			April 24	Adam Carroll	Super Nova Racing
3	Barcelona, Spain	Circuit de Catalunya	May 7	Gianmaria Bruni	Coloni Motorsport
4			May 8	José María López	DAMS
5	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Circuit de Monaco	May 21	Adam Carroll	Super Nova Racing
6	Nürburg, Germany	Nürburgring	May 28	Clivio Piccione	Durango
7			May 29	Heikki Kovalainen	Arden International
8	Magny-Cours, France	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	July 2	Heikki Kovalainen	Arden International
9			July 3	Nico Rosberg	ART Grand Prix
10	Silverstone, Great Britain	Silverstone Circuit	July 9	Nico Rosberg	ART Grand Prix
11			July 10	Olivier Pla	David Price Racing
12	Hockenheim, Germany	Hockenheimring	July 23	Nico Rosberg	ART Grand Prix
13			July 24	Olivier Pla	David Price Racing
14	Budapest, Hungary	Hungaroring	July 30	Neel Jani	Racing Engineering
15			July 31	Alexandre Prémat	ART Grand Prix
16	Istanbul, Turkey	Istanbul Racing Circuit	August 20	Alexandre Prémat	ART Grand Prix
17			August 21	Heikki Kovalainen	Arden International
18	Monza, Italy	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	September 3	Heikki Kovalainen	Arden International
19			September 4	Neel Jani	Racing Engineering
20	Spa, Belgium	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	September 10	Nelson Angelo Piquet	HiTech/Piquet Racing
21			September 11	Adam Carroll	Super Nova Racing
22	Manama, Bahrain	Bahrain International Circuit	September 29	Nico Rosberg	ART Grand Prix
23			September 30	Nico Rosberg	ART Grand Prix

[edit] Final driver standings

Pos Driver SMR FEA SMR SPR ESP FEA ESP SPR MON FEA EUR FEA EUR SPR FRA FEA FRA SPR GBR FEA GBR SPR GER FEA GER SPR HUN FEA HUN SPR TUR FEA TUR SPR ITA FEA ITA SPR BEL FEA BEL SPR BRN FEA BRN SPR Points 1 Rosberg 8 Ret 9* 4 3 3 4 7 1 1 4 1* 4 5 2 17 3 2* 2* 3 5 1 1 120 2 Kovalainen 1 3 3 Ret 5* 1 Ret 1 3 2 3 5 6 2 5 10 1 1 5 15 9 3 Ret 105 3 Speed 3 Ret 2 3 4 16* 12* 15 18 4 2* 4 3 Ret 19 5* 4 Ret 15 4 4 Ret 19* 67.5 4 Prémat 7 2 10 Ret Ret 4 Ret 9 Ret 3* 5 2 9 4 1 1 14 Ret 18 Ret 12 2* 3 67 5 Carroll 5 1 7 6 1 Ret 2 4 6 21 8 Ret 11 9 9 7 2 5 6 8* 1* 9 8 53 6 Pantano 13 Ret 13 14 Ret 2 7 10 7 12 7 6 2 3 3 2 8 6 3 NC 11 5 5 49 7 Jani 6 15 4 5 Ret 6 13 5 4 5 6 Ret 22 1 4 Ret Ret 7 1 16 18 16 13 48 8 Piquet 14 6 5 2 11 5 3 Ret DSQ Ret Ret 3 8 Ret 10 4 6 3 Ret 1 14 Ret 15 46 9 López 2 11 6 1 Ret 13 14 2 Ret 9 Ret 13 10 Ret Ret 6 7 Ret Ret 10 8 4 4 36 10 Bruni 4 4 1 Ret 2 8 Ret 18* 11 7 11 NC 14 10 8 Ret 9 Ret 16 Ret 14 35 11 Lapierre DNS Ret* 11 9 Ret 12 Ret 3 5 10 Ret 9 7 12 6 Ret 13 4 Ret Ret 23 6 20 21 12 Viso 10* DNS Ret Ret DSQ Ret 11 11 8 15 13 DSQ 12 6 Ret 14 12 Ret Ret 2 3 8 2 21 13 Pla 9 5 Ret Ret 9 Ret 8 Ret 9 8 1 8 1 7 Ret 9 17* Ret Ret 11 10 Ret DNS 20 14 García Ret 10 Ret 10 10 Ret EX Ret 12 17 9 7 5 11 Ret 3 5 Ret 10 6 2 19 17 17.5 15 Piccione 15 Ret Ret 8 Ret 7 1 8 DSQ 6 Ret Ret 17 Ret 16* Ret 11 11 14 12 19 13 7 14 16 Yoshimoto Ret 9 Ret 17 DNS 11 Ret 6 2 13 Ret 12 Ret 13* 17 8 10 10 16 Ret 17 7 6 14 17 Monfardini Ret DNS Ret 11 DNS Ret 6 12 17 14 10 Ret 15 Ret 11 Ret Ret 8 4 Ret 11 5 18 Álvarez Ret 7 Ret 12 Ret 18 15 Ret DSQ 11 Ret 10 Ret Ret 7 15 Ret 12 17 5 6 10 12 4.5 19 Negrão Ret 13 8 15 12 Ret Ret Ret 13 19 16 Ret 18 8 15 12 19 Ret 13 7 7 12 9 4 20 Hernández 11 8 Ret 18 8 15 5 13 14 16 12 Ret 19 Ret 18 Ret NC Ret 7 Ret 20 15 18 3 21 Lauda 12 Ret Ret 13 6 10 Ret 16 15 20 15 14 21 Ret 14 16 18 13 12 9 24 14 21 3 22 Artam 16 Ret Ret Ret 7 17 Ret 17 16 18 14 Ret 20 14 12 11 16 9 9 Ret 22 17 16 2 23 Sharp Ret 14 Ret 16* Ret 9 9 19 Ret Ret NC 11 13 2 24 Fauzy 17 12 12 7 Ret 14 10 14 10 Ret Ret Ret 16 Ret 13 Ret 15 14 11 13 15 11 10 0 25 Vilander 15 8 14 13 0 26 Mondini Ret Ret 13 Ret Ret Ret Ret 21 18 22 0 Pos Driver SMR FEA SMR SPR ESP FEA ESP SPR MON FEA EUR FEA EUR SPR FRA FEA FRA SPR GBR FEA GBR SPR GER FEA GER SPR HUN FEA HUN SPR TUR FEA TUR SPR ITA FEA ITA SPR BEL FEA BEL SPR BRN FEA BRN SPR Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Finished, in points Blue Finished, no points Purple Did not finish (Ret) Not classified (NC) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate Injured (INJ) Excluded (EX)

• Polesitter for feature race in bold.
• Driver with asterisk has been awarded two points for fastest lap.
• Driver who retired but was classified in italics.

Note: Sprint race at Spa was stopped early and half points were awarded.

[edit] Final teams' standings

Pos.	Team	Drivers	Points	Wins	Poles
01	ART Grand Prix	Nico Rosberg, Alexandre Prémat	187	7	6*
02	Arden International	Heikki Kovalainen, Nicolas Lapierre	126	5	3
03	Super Nova Racing	Giorgio Pantano, Adam Carroll	102	3	2*
04	iSport International	Scott Speed, Can Artam	69.5	0	1
05	Racing Engineering	Borja García, Neel Jani	65.5	2	1
06	HiTech/Piquet Racing	Nelson Angelo Piquet, Alexandre Negrão	50	1	2**
07	DAMS	José María López, Fairuz Fauzy	36	1	0
08	Coloni Motorsport	Gianmaria Bruni, Mathias Lauda, Toni Vilander, Ferdinando Monfardini	36	1	1*
09	BCN Competicion	Ernesto Viso, Hiroki Yoshimoto	35	0	2**
10	David Price Racing	Olivier Pla, Ryan Sharp, Giorgio Mondini	22	2	2**
11	Durango	Clivio Piccione, Ferdinando Monfardini, Gianmaria Bruni	19	1	3**
12	Campos Racing	Sergio Hernández, Juan Cruz Álvarez	7.5	0	0