Race · Round 18 of 19 · 9 October 2005

2005 Japanese Grand Prix

Kimi Raikkonen won for McLaren from 17th on the grid at Suzuka Circuit. 4 of the starters were not classified.

Dry, with cloud · High of 25 °C, 0.7 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Suzuka CircuitSuzuka, Japan
Winner: Kimi RaikkonenMcLaren
Pole: Ralf Schumacher
Fastest lap: Kimi Raikkonen
Entries: 2016 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	MP4-20	17	53	Finished	10	fastest lap
2	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	R25	3	53	Finished	8
3	Fernando Alonso	Renault	R25	16	53	Finished	6
4	Mark Webber	Williams	FW27	7	53	Finished	5
5	Jenson Button	British American Racing	6	2	53	Finished	4
6	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	RB1	6	53	Finished	3
7	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	—	14	53	Finished	2
8	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	—	1	53	Finished	1
9	Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	RB1	4	53	Finished	0
10	Felipe Massa	Sauber	C24	10	53	Finished	0
11	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	—	9	53	Finished	0
12	Jacques Villeneuve	Sauber	C24	8	53	Finished	0
13	Tiago Monteiro	Jordan	—	20	52	Finished	0
14	Robert Doornbos	Minardi	—	15	51	Finished	0
15	Narain Karthikeyan	Jordan	—	11	51	Finished	0
16	Christijan Albers	Minardi	—	13	49	Finished	0
DSQ	Takuma Sato	British American Racing	6	5	52	Caused collision with Trulli	0
NC	Antônio Pizzonia	Williams	FW27	12	9	NC	0
DNF	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	—	PL	9	Collision damage	0
DNF	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren	MP4-20	18	0	Accident	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout suzuka-2 · 5.807 km · 18 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Kimi Raikkonen	17	1	53
Giancarlo Fisichella	3	2	53
Fernando Alonso	16	3	53
Mark Webber	7	4	53
Jenson Button	2	5	53
David Coulthard	6	6	53
Michael Schumacher	14	7	53
Ralf Schumacher	1	8	53
Christian Klien	4	9	53
Felipe Massa	10	10	53
Rubens Barrichello	9	11	53
Jacques Villeneuve	8	12	53
Tiago Monteiro	20	13	52
Robert Doornbos	15	14	51
Narain Karthikeyan	11	15	51
Christijan Albers	13	16	49
Takuma Sato	5	DSQ	52
Antônio Pizzonia	12	NC	9
Jarno Trulli	PL	DNF	9
Juan Pablo Montoya	18	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	17	1:46.106	—	0 m	—
2	Jenson Button	British American Racing	3	1:46.141	+0.035	2 m	+0.035
3	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	6	1:46.276	+0.170	9 m	+0.135
4	Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	15	1:46.464	+0.358	20 m	+0.188
5	Takuma Sato	British American Racing	4	1:46.841	+0.735	40 m	+0.377
6	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	14	1:46.892	+0.786	43 m	+0.051
7	Mark Webber	Williams	7	1:47.233	+1.127	62 m	+0.341
8	Jacques Villeneuve	Sauber	11	1:47.440	+1.334	73 m	+0.207
9	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:48.248	+2.142	117 m	+0.808
10	Felipe Massa	Sauber	12	1:48.278	+2.172	119 m	+0.030
11	Narain Karthikeyan	Jordan	19	1:48.718	+2.612	143 m	+0.440
12	Antônio Pizzonia	Williams	8	1:48.898	+2.792	153 m	+0.180
13	Christijan Albers	Minardi	21	1:50.843	+4.737	259 m	+1.945
14	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:52.676	+6.570	360 m	+1.833
15	Robert Doornbos	Minardi	20	1:52.894	+6.788	371 m	+0.218
16	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:54.667	+8.561	469 m	+1.773
17	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	9	2:02.309	+16.203	887 m	+7.642
18	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren	10	—	—	—	—
19	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	16	—	—	—	—
20	Tiago Monteiro	Jordan	18	—	—	—	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Kimi Raikkonen	1	53	2	26, 45	23.0, 18.9
Giancarlo Fisichella	2	53	2	20, 38	22.7, 22.6
Fernando Alonso	3	53	2	22, 36	22.0, 22.4
Mark Webber	4	53	2	23, 41	22.4, 20.5
Jenson Button	5	53	2	22, 41	26.1, 21.1
David Coulthard	6	53	2	23, 44	24.1, 20.3
Michael Schumacher	7	53	2	26, 42	21.8, 24.9
Ralf Schumacher	8	53	3	13, 28, 44	21.8, 22.0, 19.6
Christian Klien	9	53	2	22, 41	23.8, 21.1
Felipe Massa	10	53	2	25, 44	23.2, 19.9
Rubens Barrichello	11	53	3	1, 6, 33	27.0, 21.2, 23.9
Jacques Villeneuve	12	53	1	27	26.3
Tiago Monteiro	13	52	2	18, 34	22.2, 23.4
Robert Doornbos	14	51	2	15, 32	23.9, 24.7
Narain Karthikeyan	15	51	3	13, 31, 44	23.5, 23.9, 20.0
Christijan Albers	16	49	2	16, 34	23.7, 234.2
Takuma Sato	DSQ	52	2	2, 29	24.1, 24.9
Antônio Pizzonia	NC	9	0	None recorded	—
Jarno Trulli	DNF	9	0	None recorded	—
Juan Pablo Montoya	DNF	0	0	None recorded	—

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Giancarlo Fisichella · Kimi Raikkonen	3 · 17	2 · 1	20 · 26	Giancarlo Fisichella	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Kimi Raikkonen	16 · 17	3 · 1	22 · 26	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Giancarlo Fisichella	2 · 3	5 · 2	22 · 20	Giancarlo Fisichella	Swapped places
Giancarlo Fisichella · Fernando Alonso	3 · 16	2 · 3	20 · 22	Giancarlo Fisichella	Kept their order
Giancarlo Fisichella · Christian Klien	3 · 4	2 · 9	20 · 22	Giancarlo Fisichella	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Fernando Alonso	7 · 16	4 · 3	23 · 22	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Robert Doornbos · Fernando Alonso	15 · 16	14 · 3	15 · 22	Robert Doornbos	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Mark Webber	2 · 7	5 · 4	22 · 23	Jenson Button	Swapped places
David Coulthard · Mark Webber	6 · 7	6 · 4	23 · 23	Same lap	Swapped places
Mark Webber · Jacques Villeneuve	7 · 8	4 · 12	23 · 27	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Ralf Schumacher · Jenson Button	1 · 2	8 · 5	13 · 22	Ralf Schumacher	Swapped places
Jenson Button · David Coulthard	2 · 6	5 · 6	22 · 23	Jenson Button	Kept their order
David Coulthard · Michael Schumacher	6 · 14	6 · 7	23 · 26	David Coulthard	Kept their order
Ralf Schumacher · Michael Schumacher	1 · 14	8 · 7	13 · 26	Ralf Schumacher	Swapped places
Christijan Albers · Michael Schumacher	13 · 14	16 · 7	16 · 26	Christijan Albers	Swapped places
Michael Schumacher · Robert Doornbos	14 · 15	7 · 14	26 · 15	Robert Doornbos	Kept their order
Ralf Schumacher · Christian Klien	1 · 4	8 · 9	13 · 22	Ralf Schumacher	Kept their order
Christian Klien · Felipe Massa	4 · 10	9 · 10	22 · 25	Christian Klien	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · Felipe Massa	9 · 10	11 · 10	1 · 25	Rubens Barrichello	Swapped places
Felipe Massa · Narain Karthikeyan	10 · 11	10 · 15	25 · 13	Narain Karthikeyan	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Rubens Barrichello	8 · 9	12 · 11	27 · 1	Rubens Barrichello	Swapped places
Jacques Villeneuve · Tiago Monteiro	8 · 20	12 · 13	27 · 18	Tiago Monteiro	Kept their order
Robert Doornbos · Tiago Monteiro	15 · 20	14 · 13	15 · 18	Robert Doornbos	Swapped places
Narain Karthikeyan · Robert Doornbos	11 · 15	15 · 14	13 · 15	Narain Karthikeyan	Swapped places
Narain Karthikeyan · Christijan Albers	11 · 13	15 · 16	13 · 16	Narain Karthikeyan	Kept their order

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3 · Practice 4

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Pedro de la Rosa	McLaren	35	1:30.532	—	0 m	—	23
2	Ricardo Zonta	Toyota	38	1:31.075	+0.543	35 m	+0.543	16
3	Jenson Button	British American Racing	3	1:32.043	+1.511	97 m	+0.968	18
4	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	14	1:32.229	+1.697	109 m	+0.186	23
5	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren	10	1:32.321	+1.789	115 m	+0.092	9
6	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:32.370	+1.838	118 m	+0.049	22
7	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	6	1:32.470	+1.938	124 m	+0.100	19
8	Takuma Sato	British American Racing	4	1:32.791	+2.259	145 m	+0.321	20
9	Mark Webber	Williams	7	1:33.098	+2.566	165 m	+0.307	13
10	Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	15	1:33.139	+2.607	167 m	+0.041	19
11	Felipe Massa	Sauber	12	1:33.257	+2.725	175 m	+0.118	16
12	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Red Bull Racing	37	1:33.441	+2.909	187 m	+0.184	22
13	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	9	1:33.486	+2.954	189 m	+0.045	8
14	Antônio Pizzonia	Williams	8	1:33.528	+2.996	192 m	+0.042	22
15	Jacques Villeneuve	Sauber	11	1:33.645	+3.113	200 m	+0.117	15
16	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:33.700	+3.168	203 m	+0.055	9
17	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	17	1:33.735	+3.203	205 m	+0.035	10
18	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:33.886	+3.354	215 m	+0.151	9
19	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	16	1:34.535	+4.003	257 m	+0.649	11
20	Sakon Yamamoto	Jordan	39	1:36.295	+5.763	370 m	+1.760	23
21	Christijan Albers	Minardi	21	1:37.153	+6.621	425 m	+0.858	16
22	Narain Karthikeyan	Jordan	19	1:37.154	+6.622	425 m	+0.001	13
23	Robert Doornbos	Minardi	20	1:37.816	+7.284	467 m	+0.662	17
24	Tiago Monteiro	Jordan	18	1:38.250	+7.718	495 m	+0.434	17

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Ricardo Zonta	Toyota	38	1:30.682	—	0 m	—	21
2	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:31.716	+1.034	66 m	+1.034	16
3	Pedro de la Rosa	McLaren	35	1:31.821	+1.139	73 m	+0.105	28
4	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:32.267	+1.585	101 m	+0.446	15
5	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	9	1:32.849	+2.167	139 m	+0.582	13
6	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	17	1:32.917	+2.235	143 m	+0.068	13
7	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	16	1:33.122	+2.440	156 m	+0.205	13
8	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:33.259	+2.577	165 m	+0.137	7
9	Jenson Button	British American Racing	3	1:33.453	+2.771	177 m	+0.194	20
10	Mark Webber	Williams	7	1:33.520	+2.838	182 m	+0.067	14
11	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	14	1:33.563	+2.881	184 m	+0.043	11
12	Antônio Pizzonia	Williams	8	1:33.679	+2.997	192 m	+0.116	14
13	Takuma Sato	British American Racing	4	1:34.330	+3.648	234 m	+0.651	16
14	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	6	1:34.400	+3.718	238 m	+0.070	7
15	Felipe Massa	Sauber	12	1:34.421	+3.739	239 m	+0.021	17
16	Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	15	1:34.707	+4.025	258 m	+0.286	12
17	Sakon Yamamoto	Jordan	39	1:34.829	+4.147	266 m	+0.122	19
18	Jacques Villeneuve	Sauber	11	1:34.874	+4.192	268 m	+0.045	18
19	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Red Bull Racing	37	1:34.977	+4.295	275 m	+0.103	7
20	Robert Doornbos	Minardi	20	1:35.150	+4.468	286 m	+0.173	8
21	Tiago Monteiro	Jordan	18	1:35.388	+4.706	301 m	+0.238	12
22	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren	10	1:37.371	+6.689	428 m	+1.983	5
23	Christijan Albers	Minardi	21	1:37.626	+6.944	445 m	+0.255	7
24	Narain Karthikeyan	Jordan	19	1:38.034	+7.352	471 m	+0.408	7

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:46.543	—	0 m	—	3
2	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	9	1:48.729	+2.186	119 m	+2.186	5
3	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren	10	1:49.097	+2.554	139 m	+0.368	4
4	Mark Webber	Williams	7	1:49.484	+2.941	160 m	+0.387	3
5	Antônio Pizzonia	Williams	8	1:50.537	+3.994	218 m	+1.053	5
6	Narain Karthikeyan	Jordan	19	1:50.811	+4.268	233 m	+0.274	8
7	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:50.846	+4.303	235 m	+0.035	4
8	Jenson Button	British American Racing	3	1:51.884	+5.341	291 m	+1.038	4
9	Tiago Monteiro	Jordan	18	1:52.023	+5.480	299 m	+0.139	7
10	Christijan Albers	Minardi	21	1:52.700	+6.157	336 m	+0.677	6
11	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	14	1:53.346	+6.803	371 m	+0.646	10
12	Takuma Sato	British American Racing	4	1:53.454	+6.911	377 m	+0.108	5
13	Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	15	1:54.348	+7.805	425 m	+0.894	4
14	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	16	—	—	—	—	3
15	Robert Doornbos	Minardi	20	—	—	—	—	5
16	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	17	—	—	—	—	1
17	Felipe Massa	Sauber	12	—	—	—	—	1
18	Jacques Villeneuve	Sauber	11	—	—	—	—	1

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 4

Practice 4
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	6	1:50.136	—	0 m	—	9
2	Narain Karthikeyan	Jordan	19	1:50.150	+0.014	1 m	+0.014	6
3	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	17	1:50.369	+0.233	12 m	+0.219	8
4	Jenson Button	British American Racing	3	1:50.920	+0.784	41 m	+0.551	7
5	Christijan Albers	Minardi	21	1:50.994	+0.858	45 m	+0.074	8
6	Tiago Monteiro	Jordan	18	1:51.223	+1.087	57 m	+0.229	6
7	Mark Webber	Williams	7	1:51.274	+1.138	60 m	+0.051	5
8	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	16	1:51.503	+1.367	72 m	+0.229	8
9	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	14	1:51.710	+1.574	83 m	+0.207	9
10	Robert Doornbos	Minardi	20	1:51.971	+1.835	97 m	+0.261	10
11	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:52.667	+2.531	133 m	+0.696	9
12	Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	15	1:52.897	+2.761	146 m	+0.230	4
13	Jacques Villeneuve	Sauber	11	1:53.460	+3.324	175 m	+0.563	8
14	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:53.739	+3.603	190 m	+0.279	5
15	Felipe Massa	Sauber	12	1:53.842	+3.706	195 m	+0.103	8
16	Takuma Sato	British American Racing	4	1:54.307	+4.171	220 m	+0.465	8
17	Antônio Pizzonia	Williams	8	2:01.075	+10.939	577 m	+6.768	4

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

BAR 006
BAR006HCH · Mclarensenna · Public domain

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Where this comes from

Round: 18 of 2005
Grand Prix: Japanese Grand Prix
Dates: 9 Oct 2005
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-Mercedes
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.