2005 Bahrain Grand Prix





































2005 Bahrain Grand Prix

Race 3 of 19 in the 2005 Formula One World Championship

Bahrain International Circuit--Grand Prix Layout.svg
Race details
Date
April 3, 2005
Official name
Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix
Location
Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain
Course
Permanent racing facility
Course length
5.412 km (3.363 mi)
Distance
57 laps, 308.238 km (191.530 mi)
Weather
Sunny, hot
Attendance
75,000 (weekend)[1]
Pole position
Driver

  • Spain Fernando Alonso


Renault
Time
3:01.902 (aggregate)
Fastest lap
Driver
Spain Pedro de la Rosa

McLaren-Mercedes
Time
1:31.447 on lap 43 (lap record)
Podium
First

  • Spain Fernando Alonso


Renault
Second

  • Italy Jarno Trulli


Toyota
Third

  • Finland Kimi Räikkönen


McLaren-Mercedes


The 2005 Bahrain Grand Prix 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.




Contents





  • 1 Report

    • 1.1 Background


    • 1.2 Qualifying


    • 1.3 Race



  • 2 Classification

    • 2.1 Qualifying


    • 2.2 Race



  • 3 Championship standings after the race


  • 4 References




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. 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 Spanish Grand Prix.



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 42.5°C and track temperatures of 56 °C (about 132 °F). This surpasses 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 mechanically induced 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. 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 order
Q1 time
Q1 pos
Q1+Q2 time
1
5

Spain Fernando Alonso

Renault
20
1:29.848
1
3:01.902
2
1

Germany Michael Schumacher

Ferrari
14
1:30.237
3
3:02.357
3
16

Italy Jarno Trulli

Toyota
19
1:29.993
2
3:02.660
4
8

Germany Nick Heidfeld

Williams-BMW
18
1:30.390
4
3:03.217
5
7

Australia Mark Webber

Williams-BMW
5
1:30.592
6
3:03.262
6
17

Germany Ralf Schumacher

Toyota
16
1:30.952
11
3:03.271
7
15

Austria Christian Klien

Red Bull-Cosworth
13
1:30.646
8
3:03.369
8
10

Spain Pedro de la Rosa

McLaren-Mercedes
17
1:30.725
9
3:03.373
9
9

Finland Kimi Räikkönen

McLaren-Mercedes
12
1:30.594
7
3:03.524
10
6

Italy Giancarlo Fisichella

Renault
6
1:30.445
5
3:03.765
11
3

United Kingdom Jenson Button

BAR-Honda
3
1:30.957
12
3:04.348
12
12

Brazil Felipe Massa

Sauber-Petronas
11
1:30.933
10
3:05.202
13
4

Japan Takuma Sato

BAR-Honda
2
1:31.113
13
3:05.563
14
14

United Kingdom David Coulthard

Red Bull-Cosworth
15
1:31.211
14
3:05.844
15
2

Brazil Rubens Barrichello

Ferrari
7
1:31.826
15
3:07.983
16
11

Canada Jacques Villeneuve

Sauber-Petronas
4
1:32.318
16
3:07.983
17
18

Portugal Tiago Monteiro

Jordan-Toyota
9
1:33.424
18
3:09.428
18
19

India Narain Karthikeyan

Jordan-Toyota
10
1:33.190
17
3:10.143
19
21

Netherlands Christijan Albers

Minardi-Cosworth
8
1:34.005
19
3:10.422
20
20

Austria Patrick Friesacher

Minardi-Cosworth
1
1:34.848
20
3:11.261

Sources:[2][3]


Race










































































































































































Pos
No
Driver
Constructor
Laps
Time/Retired
Grid
Points
1
5

Spain Fernando Alonso

Renault
57
1:29:18.531
1

10
2
16

Italy Jarno Trulli

Toyota
57
+13.409
3

8
3
9

Finland Kimi Räikkönen

McLaren-Mercedes
57
+32.063
9

6
4
17

Germany Ralf Schumacher

Toyota
57
+53.272
6

5
5
10

Spain Pedro de la Rosa

McLaren-Mercedes
57
+1:04.988
8

4
6
7

Australia Mark Webber

Williams-BMW
57
+1:14.701
5

3
7
12

Brazil Felipe Massa

Sauber-Petronas
56
+1 Lap
12

2
8
14

United Kingdom David Coulthard

Red Bull-Cosworth
56
+1 Lap
14

1
9
2

Brazil Rubens Barrichello

Ferrari
56
+1 Lap
20
 
10
18

Portugal Tiago Monteiro

Jordan-Toyota
55
+2 Laps
16
 
11
11

Canada Jacques Villeneuve

Sauber-Petronas
54
Suspension
15
 
12
20

Austria Patrick Friesacher

Minardi-Cosworth
54
+3 Laps
19
 
13
21

Netherlands Christijan Albers

Minardi-Cosworth
53
+4 Laps
18
 
Ret
3

United Kingdom Jenson Button

BAR-Honda
46
Clutch
11
 
Ret
4

Japan Takuma Sato

BAR-Honda
27
Brakes
13
 
Ret
8

Germany Nick Heidfeld

Williams-BMW
25
Engine
4
 
Ret
1

Germany Michael Schumacher

Ferrari
12
Hydraulics
2
 
Ret
6

Italy Giancarlo Fisichella

Renault
4
Engine
10
 
Ret
19

India Narain Karthikeyan

Jordan-Toyota
2
Electrical
17
 
DNS
15

Austria Christian Klien

Red Bull-Cosworth
0
Electrical
7
 

Source:[4]


Championship standings after the race








  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.


References




  1. ^ https://joesaward.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/trends-in-bahrain/


  2. ^ "2005 FORMULA 1™ Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix - Saturday Qualifying". Formula1.com. Formula1.com Limited. Archived from the original on 24 August 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2015..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  3. ^ "2005 FORMULA 1™ Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix - Sunday Qualifying". Formula1.com. Formula1.com Limited. Archived from the original on 24 August 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2015.


  4. ^ "2005 FORMULA 1™ Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix - Race". Formula1.com. Formula1.com Limited. Archived from the original on 17 January 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2015.


  5. ^ ab "Bahrain 2005 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 8 March 2019.










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