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2005 Season Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

Opel Vectra Heinz-Harald Franzen

New Season Changes

In the 2005 DTM season, Mika Hakkinen , two-time world champion in the F1 class, made his debut as a member of the factory team, Christian Albers, made his debut as part of the HWA (Mercedes). Also in the factory team Mercedes made his debut Formula 3 Euroseries champion Jamie Green . Machines of the previous specifications - 2000-2003. - were banned, and at the start there were only cars of the last 2 years - 2004 and 2005. Opel reduced its presence from 6 to 4 cars, and Audi - increased to 8, like Mercedes, while Joest Racing received 4 old Abt cars, along with Christian Abt, who was replaced in the main team by Alan McNish , a former Toyota pilot in F1 and current Audi driver in long races. In addition, Joest Racing crossed Frank Stippler and Pierre Kaffer, Dindo Capello retained his place, and Emanuele Pirro again went to ALMS . At the end of the previous season, Opel announced his departure, and therefore the new cars were only a modification of the old ones. They expected the debut of MG Rover, for which Zytek even built a car, but Rover's bankruptcy left no chance. In order to increase the competitiveness of old cars, a system of weighted handicaps was introduced, as in the old DTM - all the cars of the brand that took the highest position received additional ballast.

It was supposed that the 11-stage calendar would also include city races in Moscow and Avignon, but they were replaced by races in Brno and Lauzitsring, after it became clear that the organizers could not prepare the route.

The season itself was saturated with a tense struggle between two brands and their representatives - Gary Puffett , who played for Mercedes, and the current champion Matthias Extrem , who played for Audi. They walked up to the penultimate stage in Istanbul, where Audi experienced serious technical problems in the rain and Puffet broke away from his pursuer by 9 points. At the last stage in Hockenheim, Extrem could not do anything, and did not even make the last mandatory pit stop, for which he was disqualified by the results of the race.

In 2005, for the first time, destructive tendencies appeared that developed in the next two years and caused serious damage to the prestige of the series. Seeking to become the champion by all means, the racer in their car brand, Norbert Haug and Wolfgang Ulrich did not disdain team tactics, ordering pilots in old cars to restrain the contender of the rivals and skipping his own.

Calendar and Winners

StageTrackdatePole positionCarWinnerCar
one  HockenheimringApril 17th  Matthias ExtremAudi  Jean AlesiMercedes
2  Lausitzring5 May  Gary PuffettMercedes  Gary PuffettMercedes
3  Spa FrancorshamMay 15  Mika HakkinenMercedes  Mika HakkinenMercedes
four  BrnoJune 6th  Gary PuffettMercedes  Matthias ExtremAudi
five  OscherslebenJune 26th  Tom ChristensenAudi  Gary PuffettMercedes
6  NorisringJuly 17th  Tom ChristensenAudi  Gary PuffettMercedes
7  Nurburgring8 August  Gary PuffettMercedes  Matthias ExtremAudi
eight  ZandvoortAugust 28  Bernd SchneiderMercedes  Gary PuffettMercedes
9  LausitzringSeptember 18th  Jamie GreenMercedes  Matthias ExtremAudi
ten  Istanbul ParkOctober 10th  Gary PuffettMercedes  Gary PuffettMercedes
eleven  HockenheimringOctober 23  Jamie GreenMercedes  Bernd SchneiderMercedes

Championship Position

Pos.RacerA machineHock1
 
Lausitz
 
Spa
 
Brno
 
Osher
 
Noris
 
Nyurb
 
Sand
 
Lausitz
 
Istanbul
 
Hock2
 
Glasses
one  Gary PuffettMercedes2oneeightfouroneone3one2one384
2  Matthias ExtremAudifivefour2one23one2one12Disc71
3  Tom ChristensenAudigathering232five72four3fivefour56
four  Bernd SchneiderMercedes31717gatheringfourtenfiveeightgathering3one32
five  Mika HakkinenMercedeseight3one13gatheringgatheringfour1212215thirty
6  Jamie GreenMercedes6gatheringnineteenfive3gatheringeight7Gatheringfour229th
7  Jean AlesiMercedesone7four913gathering7gatheringeight71322
eight  Heinz-Harald FranzenOpelgathering141531461237gathering1817
9  Christian AbtAudifour9ten6122tentengatheringgathering14sixteen
ten  Alan McNishAudielevengathering1876four6159151713
eleven  Marcel FasslerOpel913five15eightGathering13fiveGatheringten612
12  Laurent AyelloOpelGatheringten7sixteen712914four6912
13  Martin TomczykAudiGathering12614Gatheringfiveeleven6tensixteenGatheringten
14  Frank StipplerAuditen6eleveneight9Gathering14Gathering1313fiveeight
15  Pierre KafferAudi13five141217eight18elevenGatheringGatheringtenfive
sixteen  Bruno SpenglerMercedes1215Gatheringelevensixteen131596eighteightfive
17  Manuel ReutersOpelGatheringsixteensixteenGathering15920Gatheringfive1412four
18  Stefan MukkeMercedes7eight12GatheringelevenGathering17GatheringGathering9eleven3
nineteen  Rinaldo CapelloAudiGatheringeleven13tentenGatheringnineteenGatheringelevenGatheringsixteen0
20  Alex MargaritisMercedesGatheringGathering91718elevensixteen1314elevenGathering0
Pos.RacerA machineHock1
 
Lausitz
 
Spa
 
Brno
 
Osher
 
Noris
 
Nyurb
 
Sand
 
Lausitz
 
Istanbul
 
Hock2
 
Glasses
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenFinished (with points)
BlueFinished (No points)
VioletDid not finish (Descent)
RedDid not qualify (NKV)
The blackDisqualified (DSC)
WhiteNot Started (NS)
Did not participate
Race Canceled (O)
Injured (T)
Excluded (Excl.)
Team Standings
A placeTeamGlasses
oneDaimlerChrysler Bank AMG-Mercedes106
2Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline81
3Audi Sport Team Abt69
fourVodafone-Sport Edition AMG-Mercedes62
fiveSalzgitter-Junge Gebrauchte von Mercedes34
6GMAC Stern Team OPC29th
7Audi Sport Team Joest Racing29th
eightTeam OPCsixteen
9Audi Sport Team Joesteight
tenMΓΌcke motorsport3
Brand Offset
A placeMarkGlasses
oneMercedes205
2Audi179
3Opel45

Links

  • DTM official page (inaccessible link)
  • Statistics of the new DTM from speedsport-magazine.com
Source - https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title= Season_2005_Deutsche_Tourenwagen_Masters&oldid = 97704507


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