The 2005 Hockenheimring GP2 Series round was a GP2 Series motor race held on 23 and 24 July 2005 at the Hockenheimring in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was the seventh round of the 2005 GP2 Series season. The race weekend supported the 2005 German Grand Prix.
Nico Rosberg, who was the polesitter for the second consecutive feature race, won in the first race, his third victory in four races. The feature race podium was completed by Rosberg's fellow ART Grand Prix driver Alexandre Prémat, and Nelson Piquet Jr., of Hitech Piquet Sports.
Frenchman Olivier Pla, who was on reverse grid pole for the second consecutive round after again finishing eighth in the feature race, took the win in the sprint race, ahead of Super Nova's Giorgio Pantano and iSport's Scott Speed.
Rosberg scored nineteen points at Hockenheim, while Heikki Kovalainen could only manage five, allowing the German to reduce Kovalainen's Drivers' Championship lead to just six points, with five rounds remaining. Rosberg's ART team moved into the lead of the Teams' Championship standings, in the process overtaking Kovalainen's Arden team.
Classification Qualifying Driver Team Time Gap 1 9 Nico Rosberg ART Grand Prix 1:24.691 1 2 1 Scott Speed iSport International 1:25.195 +0.504 2 3 10 Alexandre Prémat ART Grand Prix 1:25.623 +0.932 3 4 11 Olivier Pla DPR 1:25.832 +1.141 4 5 19 Borja García Racing Engineering 1:25.845 +1.154 5 6 5 Ernesto Viso BCN Competición 1:25.861 +1.170 6 7 8 Adam Carroll Super Nova International 1:25.955 +1.264 7 8 3 Nelson Piquet Jr. Hitech Piquet Sports 1:26.006 +1.315 8 9 22 Heikki Kovalainen Arden International 1:26.041 +1.350 9 10 24 Clivio Piccione Durango 1:26.126 +1.435 10 11 7 Giorgio Pantano Super Nova International 1:26.249 +1.558 11 12 6 Hiroki Yoshimoto BCN Competición 1:26.279 +1.588 12 13 17 Gianmaria Bruni Coloni Motorsport 1:26.325 +1.634 13 14 18 Neel Jani Racing Engineering 1:26.368 +1.677 14 15 23 Nicolas Lapierre Arden International 1:26.403 +1.712 15 16 12 Ryan Sharp DPR 1:26.561 +1.870 16 17 25 Ferdinando Monfardini Durango 1:26.610 +1.919 17 18 4 Alexandre Negrão Hitech Piquet Sports 1:26.627 +1.936 18 19 20 Juan Cruz Álvarez Campos Racing 1:26.680 +1.989 19 20 14 José María López DAMS 1:26.693 +2.002 20 21 15 Fairuz Fauzy DAMS 1:26.982 +2.291 21 22 16 Mathias Lauda Coloni Motorsport 1:27.157 +2.466 22 23 21 Sergio Hernández Campos Racing 1:27.245 +2.554 23 24 2 Can Artam iSport International 1:27.319 +2.628 24107% time: 1:30.619Source:
Feature race Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 9 Nico Rosberg ART Grand Prix 40 59:30.442 1 2 10 Alexandre Prémat ART Grand Prix 40 +14.600 38 3 3 Nelson Piquet Jr. Hitech Piquet Sports 40 +15.300 86 4 1 Scott Speed iSport International 40 +15.800 25 5 22 Heikki Kovalainen Arden International 40 +24.600 94 6 7 Giorgio Pantano Super Nova International 40 +34.500 113 7 19 Borja García Racing Engineering 40 +41.300 52 8 11 Olivier Pla DPR 40 +41.700 41 9 23 Nicolas Lapierre Arden International 40 +48.000 15 10 20 Juan Cruz Álvarez Campos Racing 40 +48.300 19 11 12 Ryan Sharp DPR 40 +53.000 16 12 6 Hiroki Yoshimoto BCN Competición 40 +1:09.000 12 13 14 José María López DAMS 39 +1 lap 20 14 16 Mathias Lauda Coloni Motorsport 39 +1 lap 22 Ret 17 Gianmaria Bruni Coloni Motorsport 20 Did not finish 13 Ret 2 Can Artam iSport International 17 Did not finish 24 Ret 24 Clivio Piccione Durango 15 Did not finish 10 Ret 18 Neel Jani Racing Engineering 10 Did not finish 14 Ret 8 Adam Carroll Super Nova International 7 Did not finish 7 Ret 15 Fairuz Fauzy DAMS 6 Did not finish 21 Ret 21 Sergio Hernández Campos Racing 4 Spun off 23 Ret 25 Ferdinando Monfardini Durango 1 Did not finish 17 Ret 4 Alexandre Negrão Hitech Piquet Sports 0 Did not finish 18 DSQ 5 Ernesto Viso BCN Competición 40 Disqualified 6 Source: Notes – Ernesto Viso finished seventh but was disqualified after the race when his car was found to be underweight in the post-race inspection.
Sprint race Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 11 Olivier Pla DPR 27 39:54.758 16 2 7 Giorgio Pantano Super Nova International 27 +6.900 35 3 1 Scott Speed iSport International 27 +7.400 54 4 9 Nico Rosberg ART Grand Prix 27 +7.600 8 5 19 Borja García Racing Engineering 27 +16.600 22 6 22 Heikki Kovalainen Arden International 27 +17.700 41 7 23 Nicolas Lapierre Arden International 27 +18.400 9 8 3 Nelson Piquet Jr. Hitech Piquet Sports 27 +20.000 6 9 10 Alexandre Prémat ART Grand Prix 27 +20.800 7 10 14 José María López DAMS 27 +21.700 13 11 8 Adam Carroll Super Nova International 27 +23.700 19 12 5 Ernesto Viso BCN Competición 27 +27.900 24 13 12 Ryan Sharp DPR 27 +34.000 11 14 17 Gianmaria Bruni Coloni Motorsport 27 +37.000 15 15 25 Ferdinando Monfardini Durango 27 +37.500 22 16 15 Fairuz Fauzy DAMS 27 +47.000 20 17 24 Clivio Piccione Durango 27 +48.000 17 18 4 Alexandre Negrão Hitech Piquet Sports 27 +51.400 23 19 21 Sergio Hernández Campos Racing 27 +1:05.500 21 20 2 Can Artam iSport International 27 +1:05.800 16 21 16 Mathias Lauda Coloni Motorsport 27 +1:08.500 14 Ret 18 Neel Jani Racing Engineering 24 Did not finish 18 Ret 6 Hiroki Yoshimoto BCN Competición 21 Did not finish 12 Ret 20 Juan Cruz Álvarez Campos Racing 17 Did not finish 10 Source:
Standings after the round
Drivers' Championship standings Driver Points 1 Heikki Kovalainen 69 2 Nico Rosberg 63 3 Scott Speed 50 4 Adam Carroll 34 5 Gianmaria Bruni 33
Teams' Championship standings Team Points 1 1 ART Grand Prix 95 1 2 Arden International 81 3 Super Nova International 52 4 iSport International 52 5 Coloni Motorsport 36
Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
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