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| 2005 Monaco Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 6 of 19 in the2005 Formula One World Championship
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| Race details | |||||
| Date | 22 May 2005 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2005 | ||||
| Location | Circuit de Monaco,Monaco | ||||
| Course | Street circuit | ||||
| Course length | 3.34 km (2.075 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 78 laps, 260.52 km (161.85 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Fine | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | McLaren-Mercedes | ||||
| Time | 2:30.323 (aggregate) | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |  Michael Schumacher | Ferrari | |||
| Time | 1:15.842 on lap 40 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | McLaren-Mercedes | ||||
| Second | Williams-BMW | ||||
| Third | Williams-BMW | ||||
Lap leaders | |||||
The2005 Monaco Grand Prix (formally theFormula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2005) was aFormula One motor race held on 22 May 2005 at theCircuit de Monaco inMonte Carlo,Monaco. It was the sixth race of the2005 Formula One World Championship, and the 63rd running of the Monaco Grand Prix.
The 78-lap race was won frompole position by Finnish driverKimi Räikkönen, driving aMcLaren-Mercedes. GermanNick Heidfeld finished second in aWilliams-BMW with his teammate, AustralianMark Webber, achieving his first F1 podium finish in third. Drivers' Championship leader, SpaniardFernando Alonso, finished fourth in hisRenault.
The Grand Prix was held one month after the death ofPrince Rainier III, for this reason, theMonegasque princely family did not attend the race for the first time in theMonaco Grand Prix's history.[1] TheBAR-Honda did not take part in this race, serving the last of a two race ban following irregularities at theSan Marino Grand Prix.Jenson Button subsequently served as a guest co-commentator for British broadcasterITV for this race.
The bottom six teams in the2004 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 |
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| McLaren-Mercedes | 35 |  Alexander Wurz |
| Sauber-Petronas | – | |
| Red Bull-Cosworth | 37 | Christian Klien |
| Toyota | 38 |  Ricardo Zonta |
| Jordan-Toyota | 39 |  Robert Doornbos |
| Minardi-Cosworth | – |
In practice,Christijan Albers lost his car out coming from turn 4 and crashed.Juan Pablo Montoya,Jacques Villeneuve,David Coulthard andRalf Schumacher crashed as they were coming up high from Beau Rivage. Montoya was judged to be the cause of this incident and thus was forced to start the race from the back of the grid.[2]
Polesitter Kimi Räikkönen led the field from the start of the race, and though he was at first closely followed byFernando Alonso, he was more than five seconds ahead by the twentieth lap. Meanwhile,Narain Karthikeyan retired with a hydraulic failure. The race progressed otherwise uneventfully, withFernando Alonso followed byGiancarlo Fisichella,Jarno Trulli, and Mark Webber, until the twenty-third lap, when Christijan Albers spun hisMinardi into a wall at Mirabeau, blocking about two-thirds of the width of the track. David Coulthard, arriving behind him, swerved and successfully stopped hisRed 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, the Safety Car was deployed so that marshals could remove Albers' car.
BothRenault drivers pitted immediately, but Räikkönen—acting on instructions from McLaren chief strategistNeil Martin—continued on in what was to prove a winning move.[3] 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 afterWilliams 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 cut the corner and stayed in front. On the second attempt Alonso cut the corner again, this time clearly intentionally, but Webber eventually succeeded in overtaking him and claiming his first career podium in Formula One and scoring Williams' last double podium finish until the2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix over nine years later. 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.
BothRed Bull Racing cars ran with theStar Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith livery and, for this race, the Red Bull Racing pit crew dressed up asImperial Stormtroopers. It didn't help the team's fortunes, as this was the first race where they failed to score points.
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Q1 | Q2 | Total | Gap | Grid |
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| 1 | 9 |  Kimi Räikkönen | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:13.644 | 1:16.679 | 2:30.325 | 1 | |
| 2 | 5 |  Fernando Alonso | Renault | 1:14.125 | 1:16.281 | 2:30.406 | +0.083 | 2 |
| 3 | 7 |  Mark Webber | Williams-BMW | 1:14.584 | 1:17.072 | 2:31.656 | +1.333 | 3 |
| 4 | 6 |  Giancarlo Fisichella | Renault | 1:14.783 | 1:17.317 | 2:32.100 | +1.777 | 4 |
| 5 | 16 | Jarno Trulli | Toyota | 1:15.189 | 1:17.401 | 2:32.590 | +2.267 | 5 |
| 6 | 8 | Nick Heidfeld | Williams-BMW | 1:15.128 | 1:17.755 | 2:32.883 | +2.560 | 6 |
| 7 | 14 |  David Coulthard | Red Bull-Cosworth | 1:15.329 | 1:18.538 | 2:33.867 | +3.544 | 7 |
| 8 | 1 | Michael Schumacher | Ferrari | 1:16.186 | 1:18.550 | 2:34.736 | +4.413 | 8 |
| 9 | 11 |  Jacques Villeneuve | Sauber-Petronas | 1:15.921 | 1:19.015 | 2:34.936 | +4.613 | 9 |
| 10 | 2 | Rubens Barrichello | Ferrari | 1:16.142 | 1:18.841 | 2:34.983 | +4.660 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | Felipe Massa | Sauber-Petronas | 1:16.218 | 1:18.902 | 2:35.120 | +4.797 | 11 |
| 12 | 15 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | Red Bull-Cosworth | 1:16.817 | 1:20.335 | 2:37.152 | +6.829 | 12 |
| 13 | 20 | Patrick Friesacher | Minardi-Cosworth | 1:18.574 | 1:22.236 | 2:40.810 | +10.487 | 13 |
| 14 | 21 |  Christijan Albers | Minardi-Cosworth | 1:19.229 | 1:22.977 | 2:42.206 | +11.883 | 14 |
| 15 | 18 |  Tiago Monteiro | Jordan-Toyota | 1:19.408 | 1:23.670 | 2:43.078 | +12.755 | 15 |
| 16 | 19 |  Narain Karthikeyan | Jordan-Toyota | 1:19.474 | 1:23.968 | 2:43.422 | +13.119 | 171 |
| 17 | 17 | Ralf Schumacher | Toyota | No time | No time | No time | — | 182 |
| 18 | 10 |  Juan Pablo Montoya | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:14.858 | No time | No time | — | 163 |
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Tyre | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 9 | Kimi Räikkönen | McLaren-Mercedes | M | 78 | 1:45:15.556 | 1 | 10 |
| 2 | 8 | Nick Heidfeld | Williams-BMW | M | 78 | + 13.877 | 6 | 8 |
| 3 | 7 | Mark Webber | Williams-BMW | M | 78 | + 18.484 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 5 | Fernando Alonso | Renault | M | 78 | + 36.487 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | 10 | Juan Pablo Montoya | McLaren-Mercedes | M | 78 | + 36.647 | 16 | 4 |
| 6 | 17 | Ralf Schumacher | Toyota | M | 78 | + 37.117 | 18 | 3 |
| 7 | 1 | Michael Schumacher | Ferrari | B | 78 | + 37.223 | 8 | 2 |
| 8 | 2 | Rubens Barrichello | Ferrari | B | 78 | + 37.570 | 10 | 1 |
| 9 | 12 | Felipe Massa | Sauber-Petronas | M | 77 | + 1 Lap | 11 | |
| 10 | 16 | Jarno Trulli | Toyota | M | 77 | + 1 Lap | 5 | |
| 11 | 11 | Jacques Villeneuve | Sauber-Petronas | M | 77 | + 1 Lap | 9 | |
| 12 | 6 | Giancarlo Fisichella | Renault | M | 77 | + 1 Lap | 4 | |
| 13 | 18 | Tiago Monteiro | Jordan-Toyota | B | 75 | + 3 Laps | 15 | |
| 14 | 21 | Christijan Albers | Minardi-Cosworth | B | 73 | + 5 Laps | 14 | |
| Ret | 15 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | Red Bull-Cosworth | M | 59 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 20 | Patrick Friesacher | Minardi-Cosworth | B | 29 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 14 | David Coulthard | Red Bull-Cosworth | M | 23 | Collision damage | 7 | |
| Ret | 19 | Narain Karthikeyan | Jordan-Toyota | B | 18 | Hydraulics | 17 | |
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| Preceded by 2004 Bahrain Grand Prix | Formula One Promotional Trophy for Race Promoter 2005 | Succeeded by 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix |
