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2005 GP2 Series

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This article is about the 2005 GP2 Series season, which will commence in Imola, San Marino on April 23, 2005.

The first season since the demise of Formula 3000 and return of GP2, the new season sees reigning F3000 drivers champion Vitantonio Liuzzi leaving the series in order to become rotating second driver for the Formula One team Red Bull Racing. His former team, the reigning constructors champions Arden Motorsport, remain but with two new drivers. Following his season in Formula One Gianmaria Bruni joins the series with the Coloni outfit.

Drivers and constructors

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A GP2 Series car in pre-season tests at the Paul Ricard race circuit

As it is still some time until the inaugurual season of GP2 begins, the driver line-up is not yet fully confirmed, although currently only the number one seat at the SuperNova team is unknown. The current driver line-up is as follows.

Note: As all of the teams will use the Dallara chassis with Renault engines in 2005, in order to keep the field fair, no information on the car specifications is given.

Team Car # Driver Nationality
Arden Motorsport 1 Heikki Kovalainen Finnish
2 Nicolas Lapierre French
BCN Competicion 3 Hiroki Yoshimoto Japanese
4 Ernesto Jose Viso Venezuelan
Coloni Motorsport 5 Gianmaria Bruni Italian
6 Matthias Lauda Austrian
Durango 7 Clivio Piccione Monegasque
8 Ferdinando Monfardini Italy
SuperNova 9 To be confirmed
10 Hayanari Shimoda Japanese
DAMS 11 Jose Maria Lopez Argentinian
12 Mohamed Fairuz Fauzy Malaysian
Racing Engineering 14 Borja Garcia Spanish
15 Neel Jani Swiss
ART Grand Prix 16 Nico Rosberg Finnish
17 Alexandre Premat French
Campos Racing 18 Sergio Hernandez Spanish
19 Juan Cruz Alvares Argentinian
HiTech/Piquet Racing 20 Alexandre Sarnes Negrao Brazilian
21 Nelson Angelo Piquet Brazilian
David Price Racing 22 Ryan Sharp British
23 Oliver Pla French
iSport International 24 Can Artam Turkish
25 Scott Speed American

Race Calendar

There are 23 races in the 2005 GP2 Series championship at 12 different circuits. Eleven race weekends have one race on the Saturday and one on the Sunday, the exception being the race at Circuit de Monaco, where there is only one race on the weekend. The season begins on April 23 2005 and concludes on September 25 2005.

The calendar is as follows, although is subject to change up until the start of the season.

Round Location Circuit Date Winning Driver Winning Team
1 Imola, Italy Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari April 23
2 Imola, Italy Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari April 24
3 Barcelona, Spain Circuit de Catalunya May 7
4 Barcelona, Spain Circuit de Catalunya May 8
5 Monte Carlo, Monaco Circuit de Monaco May 21
6 Nürburg, Germany Nürburgring May 28
7 Nürburg, Germany Nürburgring May 29
8 Magny-Cours, France Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours July 2
8 Magny-Cours, France Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours July 3
9 Silverstone, Great Britain Silverstone Circuit July 9
10 Silverstone, Great Britain Silverstone Circuit July 10
11 Hockenheim, Germany Hockenheimring July 23
12 Hockenheim, Germany Hockenheimring July 24
14 Budapest, Hungary Hungaroring July 30
15 Budapest, Hungary Hungaroring July 31
16 Istanbul, Turkey Istanbul Racing Circuit August 20
17 Istanbul, Turkey Istanbul Racing Circuit August 21
18 Monza, Italy Autodromo Nazionale Monza September 3
19 Monza, Italy Autodromo Nazionale Monza September 4
20 Spa, Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps September 10
22 Manama, Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit September 24
23 Manama, Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit September 25