2005 Japanese Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 18 of 19 in the 2005 Formula One World Championship
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Race details | |||||
Date | 9 October 2005 | ||||
Official name | 2005 Formula 1 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix | ||||
Location | Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka, Mie, Japan | ||||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
Course length | 5.807 km (3.608 miles) | ||||
Distance | 53 laps, 307.573 km (191.117 miles) | ||||
Weather | Partially cloudy and dry with temperatures reaching up to 25 °C (77 °F)[1] | ||||
Attendance | 320,000[2] | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver | Toyota | ||||
Time | 1:46.106 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver |
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Time | 1:31.540 on lap 44 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First | McLaren-Mercedes | ||||
Second | Renault | ||||
Third | Renault | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 2005 Japanese Grand Prix (officially known as the 2005 Formula One Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix) was a Formula One race which was held at Suzuka International Racing Course on 9 October 2005. It was the eighteenth and penultimate round of the 2005 Formula One World Championship, the thirty-first running of the Japanese Grand Prix and nineteenth to be held at Suzuka.
Kimi Räikkönen won the race after starting from seventeenth, overtaking long-time race leader Giancarlo Fisichella on the final lap to win a race that saw many overtaking manoeuvres. Fisichella’s teammate Fernando Alonso completed the podium, having come through from sixteenth, including an overtake on Michael Schumacher around the outside of 130R corner.[3]
The race marked Ralf Schumacher’s sixth and final pole position in Formula One.[4]
This was also Räikkönen's last win until the 2007 Australian Grand Prix, his last win for McLaren and McLaren's last win until the 2007 Malaysian Grand Prix.