2005 Monaco Grand Prix
From WOI Encyclopedia Italia
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| LXIII Grand Prix de Monaco | |
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| Country |  Monoco
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| Grand Prix | Monaco |
| Date | May 22 |
| Year | 2005 |
| Race No | 6 |
| Official name | |
| Season No | 19 |
| Location | Circuit de Monaco, Monaco |
| Course | Street circuit |
| Course mi | 2.075 |
| Course km | 3.34 |
| Distance laps | 78 |
| Distance mi | 161.85 |
| Distance km | 260.52 |
| Weather | Fine |
| Pole Driver | Kimi Räikkönen |
| Pole Team | McLaren-Mercedes |
| Pole Time | 2:30.323 (aggregate) |
| Pole Country |  Finland
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| Fast Driver | Michael Schumacher |
| Fast Team | Ferrari |
| Fast Time | 1:15.842 |
| Fast Lap | 40 |
| Fast Country |  Germany
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| First Driver | Kimi Räikkönen |
| First Team | McLaren-Mercedes |
| First Country | Template:FalgiconFinland Finland |
| Second Driver | Nick Heidfeld |
| Second Team | Williams-BMW |
| Second Country | Germany
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| Third Driver | Mark Webber |
| Third Team | Williams-BMW |
| Third Country |  Australia
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The 2005 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on May 20Template:Ndash May 22, 2005 at the Circuit de Monaco.
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Summary
Polesitter Kimi Räikkönen led the field from the start of the race, and though he was at first closely followed by Fernando Alonso, he was more than five seconds ahead by the twentieth lap. The race progressed otherwise uneventfully, with Alonso followed by Giancarlo Fisichella, Jarno Trulli, and Mark Webber, until the twenty-third lap, when Christijan Albers spun his Minardi into a wall at Mirabeau, blocking about two-thirds of the width of the track. David Coulthard, arriving behind him, swerved and successfully stopped his Red Bull without damage; however, Michael Schumacher plowed into Coulthard, breaking off his own nosecone and damaging the Red Bull's suspension beyond repair. As more drivers reached the blocked turn, stewards removed Albers's car and deployed the safety car.
Both Renault drivers pitted immediately, but Räikkönen - acting on instructions from McLaren chief strategist Neil Martin - continued on in what was to prove a winning move [1]. Though this seemingly put Räikkönen in a bad spot, as all of his close competitors had pitted, he fought back with a series of brilliant laps that would give him a 34.7-second lead by the time he pitted on lap 42. Alonso, whose car was substantially slower as it was full of fuel, and whose rear tyres were wearing rapidly, was unable to catch up, and Räikkönen, after pitting, returned to the track still 13 seconds ahead. He would go on to win the race having led every lap of it.
Nick Heidfeld worked his way up from sixth grid position, passing his own teammate in the pits after Williams called him in a lap earlier whilst Alonso was badly holding the two Williams drivers up. After Heidfeld's stop, a superb overtaking manoeuvre into the Nouvelle chicane put him ahead of Alonso. Webber tried to follow suit a lap later, but on the first attempt Alonso missed the corner yet stayed in front, and on the second attempt succeeded for good. Alonso straggled into fourth, his rear tyres almost entirely bald. Montoya advanced from sixteenth on the grid to an eventual fifth, finishing on Alonso's tail, followed by Michael and Ralf Schumacher, who crossed the line almost side-by-side.
Classification
Qualifying
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Q1 order | Q1 time | Q1 pos | Q1+Q2 time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | Kimi Räikkönen
| McLaren-Mercedes | 18 | 1:13.644 | 1 | 2.30.325 |
| 2 | 5 |  Fernando Alonso
| Renault | 17 | 1:14.125 | 2 | 2.30.406 |
| 3 | 7 | Mark Webber
| Williams-BMW | 13 | 1:14.584 | 3 | 2.31.656 |
| 4 | 6 |  Giancarlo Fisichella
| Renault | 14 | 1:14.783 | 4 | 2.32.100 |
| 5 | 16 | Jarno Trulli
| Toyota | 16 | 1:15.189 | 7 | 2.32.590 |
| 6 | 8 | Nick Heidfeld
| Williams-BMW | 9 | 1:15.128 | 6 | 2.32.883 |
| 7 | 14 |  David Coulthard
| Red Bull-Cosworth | 11 | 1:15.329 | 8 | 2.33.867 |
| 8 | 1 | Michael Schumacher
| Ferrari | 4 | 1:16.186 | 11 | 2.34.736 |
| 9 | 11 |  Jacques Villeneuve
| Sauber-Petronas | 5 | 1:15.921 | 9 | 2.34.936 |
| 10 | 2 |  Rubens Barrichello
| Ferrari | 10 | 1:16.142 | 10 | 2.34.983 |
| 11 | 12 | Felipe Massa
| Sauber-Petronas | 8 | 1:16.218 | 12 | 2.35.120 |
| 12 | 15 | Vitantonio Liuzzi
| Red Bull-Cosworth | 1 | 1:16.817 | 13 | 2.37.152 |
| 13 | 20 |  Patrick Friesacher
| Minardi-Cosworth | 2 | 1:18.574 | 14 | 2.40.810 |
| 14 | 21 |  Christijan Albers
| Minardi-Cosworth | 3 | 1:19.229 | 15 | 2.42.206 |
| 15 | 18 |  Tiago Monteiro
| Jordan-Toyota | 7 | 1:19.408 | 16 | 2.43.078 |
| 16 | 10 |  Juan Pablo Montoya#
| McLaren-Mercedes | 12 | 1:14.858 | 5 | NO TIME |
| 17 | 19 |  Narain Karthikeyan*
| Jordan-Toyota | 6 | 1:19.474 | 17 | 2.43.422 |
| 18 | 17 | Ralf Schumacher
| Toyota | 15 | - | 18 | NO TIME |
- * = Narain Karthikeyan had an engine change
- # = Montoya's Saturday time of 1:14.858 deleted as punishment for role in earlier practice accident
Race
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | Kimi Räikkönen
| McLaren-Mercedes | 78 | 1:45:15.556 | 1 | 10 |
| 2 | 8 | Nick Heidfeld
| Williams-BMW | 78 | +13.877 | 6 | 8 |
| 3 | 7 | Mark Webber
| Williams-BMW | 78 | +18.484 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 5 | Fernando Alonso
| Renault | 78 | +36.487 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | 10 | Juan Pablo Montoya
| McLaren-Mercedes | 78 | +36.647 | 16 | 4 |
| 6 | 17 | Ralf Schumacher
| Toyota | 78 | +37.117 | 18 | 3 |
| 7 | 1 | Michael Schumacher
| Ferrari | 78 | +37.223 | 8 | 2 |
| 8 | 2 | Rubens Barrichello
| Ferrari | 78 | +37.570 | 10 | 1 |
| 9 | 12 | Felipe Massa
| Sauber-Petronas | 77 | +1 Lap | 11 | |
| 10 | 16 | Jarno Trulli
| Toyota | 77 | +1 Lap | 5 | |
| 11 | 11 | Jacques Villeneuve
| Sauber-Petronas | 77 | +1 Lap | 9 | |
| 12 | 6 | Giancarlo Fisichella
| Renault | 77 | +1 Lap | 4 | |
| 13 | 18 | Tiago Monteiro
| Jordan-Toyota | 75 | +3 Laps | 15 | |
| 14 | 21 | Christijan Albers
| Minardi-Cosworth | 73 | +5 Laps | 14 | |
| Ret | 15 | Vitantonio Liuzzi
| Red Bull-Cosworth | 59 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 20 | Patrick Friesacher
| Minardi-Cosworth | 29 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 14 | David Coulthard
| Red Bull-Cosworth | 23 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 19 | Narain Karthikeyan
| Jordan-Toyota | 18 | Hydraulics | 17 |
Notes
- Pole position: Kimi Räikkönen
- Fastest lap: Michael Schumacher 1:15.842
- First Podium: Mark Webber
- This was the first Monaco Grand Prix held after the death of Prince Rainier III
- Banned BAR-Honda driver Jenson Button joined James Allen and Martin Brundle in the ITV-F1 commentary box to overlook the weekend's race.
- Both Red Bull Racing cars ran with the Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Livery and, for part of the race, the Red Bull Racing pit crew dressed up as Imperial Stormtroopers
| Name of race | Monaco Grand Prix |
| Year of race | 2005 |
| Previous race in season | 2005 Spanish Grand Prix |
| Next race in season | 2005 European Grand Prix |
| Previous year's race | 2004 Monaco Grand Prix |
| Next year's race | 2006 Monaco Grand Prix |
| Previous promotional trophy winner | 2004 Bahrain Grand Prix |
| Next promotional trophy winner | 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix |
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