2005 Race of Champions

The 2005 Race of Champions took place on December 3 again at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis.

The individual event was won by Sébastien Loeb after Tom Kristensen crashed out of the final, and the Nations Cup event by Tom Kristensen and Mattias Ekström representing Scandinavia.

Changes from the past included a number of wild card drivers, the use of the Porsche 911 GT3 instead of the Ferrari 360 and the introduction of the Renault Mégane alongside the Citroën Xsara World Rally Car and now traditional "ROC Buggy" as competition cars.

The drivers that took part were:

Participants

Country	Racing Driver	Rally Driver
France	Jean Alesi	Sébastien Loeb
USA	Jeff Gordon	Travis Pastrana
Great Britain	David Coulthard	Colin McRae
Finland	Heikki Kovalainen	Marcus Grönholm
Brazil	Felipe Massa	Nelson Piquet Jr.
Scandinavia	Tom Kristensen	Mattias Ekström
Benelux	Christijan Albers	Francois Duval
Team Playstation France	Sébastien Bourdais	Stéphane Peterhansel
Germany	Bernd Schneider	Armin Schwarz
Wildcard - ROC	Dan Wheldon	Daniel Sordo

Race of Champions

Racing

First Round (Car ROC)

Winner	Time	Loser	Time
Gordon	2:05.0100	Albers	+5
Bourdais	1:54.8757	Wheldon	1:58.6148
Piquet Jr.	1:52.9866	Ekstrom	1:54.2395
Kristensen	1:52.7306	Coulthard	1:53.1299

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	ROC
	Kovalainen	1:54.0386
					Megané
	Schneider	1:57.8859
					Kovalainen	1:47.9089
	ROC
					Massa	1:48.7390
	Massa	1:53.8102
									Megané
	Alesi	1:54.8608
									Kovalainen	1:46.2349
	ROC
									Kristensen	1:46.2282
	Gordon	1:56.6810
					Megané
	Bourdais	1:56.9084
					Gordon	2:19.9630
	ROC
					Kristensen	1:53.6579
	Kristensen	1:54.7267
	Piquet Jr.	1:55.2597

Rally

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Porsche 911
	Gronholm	1:56.9406
					Xsara
	Peterhansel	1:57.9043
					Gronholm	1:54.0491
	Xsara
					Sordo	1:56.0218
	Duval	DNF
									Xsara
	Sordo	1:56.2400
									Gronholm	1:54.1724
	Porsche 911
									Loeb	1:51.7369
	McRae	1:52.8600
					Xsara
	Schwarz	1:53.2096
					McRae	1:54.6190
	Xsara
					Loeb	1:52.8756
	Loeb	1:53.9708
	Pastrana	2:15.5375

Final

Driver	Races	First Race (Megané)	Second Race (Xsara)
Kristensen	0	1:45.7349	DNF
Loeb	2	1:45.6482	2:36.9539

The Nations Cup

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	France	1
	Team Playstation France	2
					Team Playstation France	2
					Autosport Team GB	1
	Autosport Team GB	2
	Germany	0
									Team Playstation France	0
									Scandinavia	2
	Brazil	1
	USA	2
					USA	0
					Scandinavia	2
	Finland	0
		2

See also

• Race of Champions