2005 Bahrain Grand Prix

October 2020 F1 Bahrain Bahrain April 3 2005 2005 Malaysian Grand Prix 2005 San Marino Grand Prix Bahrain International Circuit--Grand Prix Layout.svg 2005 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix 3 19 Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain Permanent racing facility 3.363 5.412 57 191.530 308.238 Sunny, 42 CTop 5 - hottest races on record https://www.formula1.com/en/video/2017/8/Top_5_-_hottest_races_on_record.html 19 October 2020 Formula1.com 8 August 2017 21 October 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201021070642/https://www.formula1.com/en/video/2017/8/Top_5_-_hottest_races_on_record.html dead 77,257 (weekend)https://f1destinations.com/record-attendance-2023-bahrain-grand-prix/ Record Attendance at Sold Out 2023 Bahrain Grand Prix f1destinations.com 6 March 2023 11 October 2023 Fernando Alonso Renault 3:01.902 (aggregate) Spain Pedro de la Rosa McLaren-Mercedes 1:31.447 43 (lap record) Spain Fernando Alonso Renault Spain Jarno Trulli Toyota Italy Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes Finland BHR The 2005 Bahrain Grand Prix (officially the 2005 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix)Bahrain http://formula1.com/race/circuitdetail/734.html https://web.archive.org/web/20051126235909/http://formula1.com/race/circuitdetail/734.html 29 December 2020 26 November 2005 was a Formula One motor race held on 3 April 2005 at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain. The 57-lap race was the third round of the 2005 Formula One season and the second running of the Bahrain Grand Prix, since its inception the year before. The race was won by polesitter and championship leader Fernando Alonso for the Renault team. Jarno Trulli finished in second place in a Toyota car and Kimi Räikkönen completed the podium in third position for McLaren. Defending World Champion Michael Schumacher having qualified in second place retired from the race early on driving Ferrari's new F2005 car which made its debut at this race. As a result the F2005 became the first new Ferrari Formula One chassis not to win on its debut since the F300 used in the 1998 season. Friday drivers The bottom 6 teams in the 2004 Constructors' Championship were entitled to run a third car in free practice on Friday. These drivers drove on Friday but did not compete in qualifying or the race. Constructor No Driver McLaren-Mercedes 35 AUT Alexander Wurz Sauber-Petronas - Red Bull-Cosworth 37 ITA Vitantonio Liuzzi Toyota 38 BRA Ricardo Zonta Jordan-Toyota 39 MON Robert Doornbos Minardi-Cosworth - Report Background The race was only the second Formula One Grand Prix held in the Middle East, bringing the challenges of high temperatures and dusty conditions. This race also saw the Grand Prix debut of Scuderia Ferrari's new for 2005 car - the F2005. The race debut of the F2005 had originally not been expected to take place until the Spanish Grand Prix in May but following a team test at the Mugello Circuit the previous week the F2005's race debut was brought forward to the Bahrain event after what the team deemed an unsatisfactory performance at the first two races of the year in Australia and Malaysia with the F2004M, despite the fact Barrichello had scored a podium with second place in Melbourne.https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/ferrari-fear-shows-as-new-car-is-fasttracked-for-bahrain-7833.html Ferrari fear shows as new car is fast-tracked for Bahrain Independent.co.uk 25 March 2005 The race was held the day after Pope John Paul II died, with several teams and drivers offering their respects, most notably Ferrari, who raced with blackened nose cones as a mark of respect. The celebrations on the podium were also muted. The circuit had been modified slightly from 2004, with turn 4 in particular being widened on the exit. Before the race, McLaren driver Juan Pablo Montoya injured his shoulder. This led to him being replaced by Pedro de la Rosa at this race, and Alexander Wurz at the next one in San Marino, before his return at the 2005 Spanish. Qualifying First qualifying on Saturday resulted in few surprises– for the first few drivers, the circuit was still somewhat sandy, providing poor grip, while the later runners performed well, with Fernando Alonso taking provisional pole with a lap time of 1:29.848. Final qualifying on Sunday morning again passed without major incident, with Alonso taking pole position, and Michael Schumacher taking second, driving the brand-new F2005 car. Rubens Barrichello, having had gearbox problems on Friday and Saturday, qualified 15th, and elected to change his engine, resulting in him starting from the back of the grid. Race Race afternoon brought the highest ever recorded temperatures experienced at a Grand Prix, with air temperature of 42.6 Chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HK7BknccFQ at 1:20 and track temperatures of 56 C. This surpassed the record temperatures of the 1955 Argentine Grand Prix and the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix. Christian Klien failed to get away from his seventh position on the grid for the formation lap. His car was pushed into the pits but could not be restarted, and he became the first of eight retirements. The leaders made a clean start, with Alonso first to turn one. Schumacher moved from his second grid slot across to the clean side of the track, ahead of Jarno Trulli, who made a strong challenge to pass Schumacher in the first two corners, without success. Barrichello made an aggressive start, moving up to tenth by the end of lap one. Giancarlo Fisichella's engine began to smoke during lap two, and he pulled into the pits to retire. However, as he applied the pit lane speed limiter, he felt power return, and was waved through by his team. But the resurgence was short-lived, and he was back in the pits on lap four to retire. On lap three, Narain Karthikeyan's car suffered an electrical failure that looked similar to Christian Klien's. Schumacher continued to closely pursue Alonso until lap 12, when the world champion overshot turn nine, and performed a 270° turn in the run-off area. At the end of the lap, Schumacher coasted back to the pits, making this his first mechanical retirement since the 2001 German Grand Prix – a remarkable run of 58 consecutive Grands Prix. It later emerged that the car's hydraulics had failed, meaning he could not downshift to use engine braking for corners. Therefore, Trulli now took second place, 2.7 seconds behind Alonso, with Mark Webber in third. On lap 18, Ralf Schumacher in fourth place made the first scheduled pit stop of the front-runners, and rejoined in 12th place. Alonso, Trulli and then Webber all pitted over the next few laps, in what appeared to be the now fairly standard three-stop pattern. After the pit stops, Alonso retained the lead, followed by Trulli, Webber, Kimi Räikkönen, Ralf, and Barrichello. Nick Heidfeld was the next retirement, with a blown engine on lap 25, although it took him around half a lap to pull off the track to stop. He was shortly followed by Takuma Sato, whose front brakes had been smoking for a while, and who spun and then retired in the pits on lap 27. His teammate Jenson Button's brakes also appeared to be giving off more dust than usual, as Button fought to keep Pedro de la Rosa from taking his seventh place. De la Rosa was making his first start for McLaren, replacing the sidelined Juan Pablo Montoya. De la Rosa finally managed to pass Button on lap 33, outbraking him at turn one. The following lap, Webber lost control out of turn eight, spun on the entrance to turn nine, and allowed Räikkönen and Ralf Schumacher to pass– on a circuit with very forgiving run-off areas, the spin upset the balance of Webber's car and flat-spotted his tyres. In the next few laps, before the second pit stops, the closest fight was between Barrichello in sixth, and de la Rosa in seventh. De la Rosa continually pressured the remaining Ferrari, but initially he only succeeded in pushing himself too far, running wide at turn one, and allowing Button to close up behind him. Eventually, though, he was able to take sixth place in the final corner. Alonso put in several fast laps to extend his lead, and pitted on lap 41. The other drivers also pitted without incident, except Button, who stalled his BAR-Honda. After several attempts at restarting the engine, he almost took his rear jack with him back into the race– only to retire at the end of the pit-lane due to a clutch failure, making this the second race in a row where both BAR drivers had retired. After the second round of pit stops, Alonso still led the race, followed by Trulli, Räikkönen, Ralf Schumacher, Webber, de la Rosa, Barrichello, and Felipe Massa. In the closing stages, the main fight was between Webber and de la Rosa for fifth place. Webber defended strongly, but de la Rosa eventually overcame him two laps from the end of the race. Jacques Villeneuve retired from ninth place into the pits on the penultimate lap, while Barrichello slipped further and further back, allowing Massa to take seventh place and score points in his Sauber team's 200th Grand Prix, and David Coulthard took eighth place on the last lap, making Ferrari scoreless for the first time since the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix. Alonso won the race by a comfortable 13.4 seconds from Trulli, bringing Renault engines their 100th World Championship Grand Prix win. Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Total Gap Grid 1 5 ESP Fernando Alonso Renault 1:29.848 1:32.054 3:01.902 1 2 1 GER Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:30.237 1:32.120 3:02.357 + 0.455 2 3 16 ITA Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:29.993 1:32.667 3:02.660 + 0.758 3 4 8 GER Nick Heidfeld Williams-BMW 1:30.390 1:32.827 3:03.217 + 1.315 4 5 7 AUS Mark Webber Williams-BMW 1:30.592 1:32.670 3:03.262 + 1.360 5 6 17 GER Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:30.952 1:32.319 3:03.271 + 1.369 6 7 15 AUT Christian Klien Red Bull-Cosworth 1:30.646 1:32.723 3:03.369 + 1.467 7 8 10 ESP Pedro de la Rosa McLaren-Mercedes 1:30.725 1:32.648 3:03.373 + 1.471 8 9 9 FIN Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 1:30.594 1:32.930 3:03.524 + 1.622 9 10 6 ITA Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:30.445 1:33.320 3:03.765 + 1.863 10 11 3 UK Jenson Button BAR-Honda 1:30.957 1:33.319 3:04.348 + 2.446 11 12 12 BRA Felipe Massa Sauber-Petronas 1:30.933 1:34.269 3:05.202 + 3.300 12 13 4 JPN Takuma Sato BAR-Honda 1:31.113 1:34.450 3:05.563 + 3.661 13 14 14 UK David Coulthard Red Bull-Cosworth 1:31.211 1:34.633 3:05.844 + 3.942 14 15 2 BRA Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 1:31.826 1:35.867 3:07.693 + 5.791 201 1 16 11 CAN Jacques Villeneuve Sauber-Petronas 1:32.318 1:35.665 3:07.983 + 6.081 15 17 18 Portugal Tiago Monteiro Jordan-Toyota 1:33.424 1:36.004 3:09.428 + 7.526 16 18 19 IND Narain Karthikeyan Jordan-Toyota 1:33.190 1:36.953 3:10.143 + 8.241 17 19 21 NED Christijan Albers Minardi-Cosworth 1:34.005 1:36.417 3:10.422 + 8.520 182 2 20 20 AUT Patrick Friesacher Minardi-Cosworth 1:34.848 1:36.413 3:11.261 + 9.359 192 2Sources:2005 FORMULA 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix - Saturday Qualifying http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2005/734/6128/ Formula1.com Formula1.com Limited 27 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20130824052511/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2005/734/6128/ 24 August 20132005 FORMULA 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix - Sunday Qualifying http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2005/734/6127/ Formula1.com Formula1.com Limited 27 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20130824055555/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2005/734/6127/ 24 August 2013https://www.statsf1.com/fr/2005/bahrein/grille.aspx Starting grid StatsF1.com 26 February 2023 Notes 1 1 – Rubens Barrichello started from the back of the grid due to an engine change in parc fermé. 2 2 – Christijan Albers and Patrick Friesacher received a 10-place grid penalty for engine changes. Race Pos No Driver Constructor Tyre Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 5 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault Michelin 57 1:29:18.531 1 10 2 16 Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota Michelin 57 +13.409 3 8 3 9 Finland Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes Michelin 57 +32.063 9 6 4 17 Germany Ralf Schumacher Toyota Michelin 57 +53.272 6 5 5 10 Spain Pedro de la Rosa McLaren-Mercedes Michelin 57 +1:04.988 8 4 6 7 Australia Mark Webber Williams-BMW Michelin 57 +1:14.701 5 3 7 12 Brazil Felipe Massa Sauber-Petronas Michelin 56 +1 lap 12 2 8 14 United Kingdom David Coulthard Red Bull-Cosworth Michelin 56 +1 lap 14 1 9 2 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Ferrari Bridgestone 56 +1 lap 20   10 18 Portugal Tiago Monteiro Jordan-Toyota Bridgestone 55 +2 laps 16   11 11 Canada Jacques Villeneuve Sauber-Petronas Michelin 54 Suspension 15   12 20 Austria Patrick Friesacher Minardi-Cosworth Bridgestone 54 +3 laps 19   13 21 Netherlands Christijan Albers Minardi-Cosworth Bridgestone 53 +4 laps 18   Ret Retired 3 United Kingdom Jenson Button BAR-Honda Michelin 46 Clutch 11   Ret Retired 4 Japan Takuma Sato BAR-Honda Michelin 27 Brakes 13   Ret Retired 8 Germany Nick Heidfeld Williams-BMW Michelin 25 Engine 4   Ret Retired 1 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari Bridgestone 12 Hydraulics 2   Ret Retired 6 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Renault Michelin 4 Engine 10   Ret Retired 19 India Narain Karthikeyan Jordan-Toyota Bridgestone 2 Electrical 17   DNS Did not start 15 Austria Christian Klien Red Bull-Cosworth Michelin 0 Electrical 7  Sources:2005 FORMULA 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix - Race http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2005/734/ Formula1.com Formula1.com Limited 27 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150117125554/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2005/734/ 17 January 2015https://gparchive.com/formula-1/2005-bahrain-grand-prix/ 2005 Bahrain Grand Prix - Race Results & History - GP Archive GPArchive.com 3 April 2005 10 January 2023 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Position Driver Points 10px 1 Spain Fernando Alonso 26 10px 1 2 Italy Jarno Trulli 16 10px 1 3 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella 10 10px 4 4 Germany Ralf Schumacher 9 10px 5 UK David Coulthard 9Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/2005/bahrein/championnat.aspx Bahrain 2005 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 8 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Position Constructor Points 10px 1 France Renault 36 10px 2 Japan Toyota 25 10px 3 3 UK McLaren-Mercedes 19 10px 1 4 UK Williams-BMW 13 10px 2 5 UK Red Bull-Cosworth 12Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. References 2 Bahrain Grand Prix 2005 2005 Malaysian Grand Prix 2005 San Marino Grand Prix 2004 Bahrain Grand Prix 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix 26 01 57 N 50 30 38 E source:kolossus-nowiki title Bahrain Grand Prix Category:Bahrain Grand Prix Grand Prix Bahrain Grand Prix