Race · Round 2 of 19 · 20 March 2005

2005 Malaysian Grand Prix

Fernando Alonso won for Renault from pole at Sepang International Circuit. 7 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 32 °C, 0.1 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: Sepang International CircuitSepang, Malaysia
Winner: Fernando AlonsoRenault
Pole: Fernando Alonso
Fastest lap: Kimi Raikkonen
Entries: 2013 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Fernando Alonso	Renault	R25	1	56	Finished	10
2	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	—	2	56	Finished	8
3	Nick Heidfeld	Williams	FW27	10	56	Finished	6
4	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren	MP4-20	11	56	Finished	5
5	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	—	5	56	Finished	4
6	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	RB1	8	56	Finished	3
7	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	—	13	56	Finished	2
8	Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	RB1	7	56	Finished	1
9	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	MP4-20	6	56	Finished	0	fastest lap
10	Felipe Massa	Sauber	C24	14	55	Finished	0
11	Narain Karthikeyan	Jordan	—	17	54	Finished	0
12	Tiago Monteiro	Jordan	—	18	53	Finished	0
13	Christijan Albers	Minardi	—	19	52	Finished	0
DNF	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	—	12	49	Handling	0
DNF	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	R25	3	36	Collision	0
DNF	Mark Webber	Williams	FW27	4	36	Collision	0
DNF	Jacques Villeneuve	Sauber	C24	16	26	Spun off	0
DNF	Jenson Button	British American Racing	6	9	2	Engine	0
DNF	Anthony Davidson	British American Racing	6	15	2	Engine	0
DNF	Patrick Friesacher	Minardi	—	20	2	Spun off	0

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

F1DB layout sepang-1 · 5.543 km · 15 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
Fernando Alonso	1	1	56
Jarno Trulli	2	2	56
Nick Heidfeld	10	3	56
Juan Pablo Montoya	11	4	56
Ralf Schumacher	5	5	56
David Coulthard	8	6	56
Michael Schumacher	13	7	56
Christian Klien	7	8	56
Kimi Raikkonen	6	9	56
Felipe Massa	14	10	55
Narain Karthikeyan	17	11	54
Tiago Monteiro	18	12	53
Christijan Albers	19	13	52
Rubens Barrichello	12	DNF	49
Giancarlo Fisichella	3	DNF	36
Mark Webber	4	DNF	36
Jacques Villeneuve	16	DNF	26
Jenson Button	9	DNF	2
Anthony Davidson	15	DNF	2
Patrick Friesacher	20	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	3:07.672	—	0 m	—
2	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	16	3:07.925	+0.253	15 m	+0.253
3	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	6	3:08.448	+0.776	46 m	+0.523
4	Mark Webber	Williams	7	3:08.904	+1.232	73 m	+0.456
5	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	17	3:09.007	+1.335	79 m	+0.103
6	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	9	3:09.483	+1.811	107 m	+0.476
7	Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	15	3:09.589	+1.917	113 m	+0.106
8	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	14	3:09.700	+2.028	120 m	+0.111
9	Jenson Button	British American Racing	3	3:09.832	+2.160	128 m	+0.132
10	Nick Heidfeld	Williams	8	3:09.917	+2.245	133 m	+0.085
11	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren	10	3:10.090	+2.418	143 m	+0.173
12	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	3:11.502	+3.830	226 m	+1.412
13	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	3:11.633	+3.961	234 m	+0.131
14	Felipe Massa	Sauber	12	3:11.884	+4.212	249 m	+0.251
15	Anthony Davidson	British American Racing	4	3:11.890	+4.218	249 m	+0.006
16	Jacques Villeneuve	Sauber	11	3:12.995	+5.323	314 m	+1.105
17	Narain Karthikeyan	Jordan	19	3:17.656	+9.984	590 m	+4.661
18	Tiago Monteiro	Jordan	18	3:17.962	+10.290	608 m	+0.306
19	Patrick Friesacher	Minardi	20	3:21.186	+13.514	798 m	+3.224
20	Christijan Albers	Minardi	21	3:23.001	+15.329	906 m	+1.815

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. Here the grid time is the sum of two laps, so the distance is over both, at their average speed.

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)
Fernando Alonso	1	56	2	21, 40	26.9, 25.7
Jarno Trulli	2	56	2	21, 42	27.2, 25.4
Nick Heidfeld	3	56	2	20, 42	29.2, 27.6
Juan Pablo Montoya	4	56	2	23, 43	27.1, 25.0
Ralf Schumacher	5	56	2	20, 41	27.9, 28.6
David Coulthard	6	56	2	20, 41	28.0, 25.9
Michael Schumacher	7	56	2	24, 44	26.5, 24.6
Christian Klien	8	56	2	18, 40	28.3, 26.4
Kimi Raikkonen	9	56	3	24, 25, 41	26.0, 30.9, 25.8
Felipe Massa	10	55	2	21, 40	28.0, 26.8
Narain Karthikeyan	11	54	2	20, 40	28.3, 28.1
Tiago Monteiro	12	53	2	19, 37	27.4, 30.7
Christijan Albers	13	52	2	15, 34	29.4, 29.3
Rubens Barrichello	DNF	49	2	25, 35	26.2, 27.5
Giancarlo Fisichella	DNF	36	1	22	26.3
Mark Webber	DNF	36	1	22	28.3
Jacques Villeneuve	DNF	26	1	23	27.6
Jenson Button	DNF	2	0	None recorded	—
Anthony Davidson	DNF	2	0	None recorded	—
Patrick Friesacher	DNF	2	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
Fernando Alonso · Jarno Trulli	1 · 2	1 · 2	21 · 21	Same lap	Kept their order
Jarno Trulli · Nick Heidfeld	2 · 10	2 · 3	21 · 20	Nick Heidfeld	Kept their order
Nick Heidfeld · Juan Pablo Montoya	10 · 11	3 · 4	20 · 23	Nick Heidfeld	Kept their order
Ralf Schumacher · Juan Pablo Montoya	5 · 11	5 · 4	20 · 23	Ralf Schumacher	Swapped places
Ralf Schumacher · Kimi Raikkonen	5 · 6	5 · 9	20 · 24	Ralf Schumacher	Kept their order
Ralf Schumacher · David Coulthard	5 · 8	5 · 6	20 · 20	Same lap	Kept their order
Christian Klien · David Coulthard	7 · 8	8 · 6	18 · 20	Christian Klien	Swapped places
David Coulthard · Michael Schumacher	8 · 13	6 · 7	20 · 24	David Coulthard	Kept their order
Christian Klien · Michael Schumacher	7 · 13	8 · 7	18 · 24	Christian Klien	Swapped places
Michael Schumacher · Felipe Massa	13 · 14	7 · 10	24 · 21	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Christian Klien	6 · 7	9 · 8	24 · 18	Christian Klien	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Felipe Massa	6 · 14	9 · 10	24 · 21	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Felipe Massa · Narain Karthikeyan	14 · 17	10 · 11	21 · 20	Narain Karthikeyan	Kept their order
Narain Karthikeyan · Tiago Monteiro	17 · 18	11 · 12	20 · 19	Tiago Monteiro	Kept their order
Tiago Monteiro · Christijan Albers	18 · 19	12 · 13	19 · 15	Christijan Albers	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	Ricardo Zonta	Toyota	38	1:34.092	—	0 m	—	17
2	Pedro de la Rosa	McLaren	35	1:35.144	+1.052	62 m	+1.052	15
3	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Red Bull Racing	37	1:35.691	+1.599	94 m	+0.547	18
4	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:36.011	+1.919	113 m	+0.320	13
5	Jenson Button	British American Racing	3	1:36.513	+2.421	143 m	+0.502	9
6	Nick Heidfeld	Williams	8	1:36.551	+2.459	145 m	+0.038	7
7	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	9	1:36.563	+2.471	146 m	+0.012	6
8	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren	10	1:36.610	+2.518	148 m	+0.047	5
9	Felipe Massa	Sauber	12	1:36.963	+2.871	169 m	+0.353	4
10	Mark Webber	Williams	7	1:36.989	+2.897	171 m	+0.026	8
11	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	17	1:37.168	+3.076	181 m	+0.179	5
12	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	14	1:37.338	+3.246	191 m	+0.170	8
13	Takuma Sato	British American Racing	4	1:37.366	+3.274	193 m	+0.028	9
14	Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	15	1:37.642	+3.550	209 m	+0.276	9
15	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:37.843	+3.751	221 m	+0.201	4
16	Jacques Villeneuve	Sauber	11	1:38.416	+4.324	255 m	+0.573	8
17	Tiago Monteiro	Jordan	18	1:39.571	+5.479	323 m	+1.155	18
18	Robert Doornbos	Jordan	39	1:40.289	+6.197	365 m	+0.718	20
19	Narain Karthikeyan	Jordan	19	1:40.375	+6.283	370 m	+0.086	14
20	Patrick Friesacher	Minardi	20	1:43.574	+9.482	559 m	+3.199	18
21	Christijan Albers	Minardi	21	1:43.691	+9.599	565 m	+0.117	12
22	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	6	—	—	—	—	2
23	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	—	—	—	—	2
24	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	16	—	—	—	—	2

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	Felipe Massa	Sauber	12	1:35.608	—	0 m	—	19
2	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren	10	1:35.620	+0.012	1 m	+0.012	13
3	Ricardo Zonta	Toyota	38	1:35.677	+0.069	4 m	+0.057	30
4	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	9	1:35.719	+0.111	6 m	+0.042	6
5	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	17	1:35.838	+0.230	13 m	+0.119	16
6	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	6	1:35.841	+0.233	14 m	+0.003	16
7	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:35.949	+0.341	20 m	+0.108	7
8	Jenson Button	British American Racing	3	1:35.992	+0.384	22 m	+0.043	19
9	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:36.103	+0.495	29 m	+0.111	15
10	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	14	1:36.575	+0.967	56 m	+0.472	20
11	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	16	1:36.841	+1.233	71 m	+0.266	18
12	Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	15	1:36.968	+1.360	79 m	+0.127	19
13	Pedro de la Rosa	McLaren	35	1:37.033	+1.425	83 m	+0.065	31
14	Takuma Sato	British American Racing	4	1:37.044	+1.436	83 m	+0.011	18
15	Nick Heidfeld	Williams	8	1:37.067	+1.459	85 m	+0.023	17
16	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:37.270	+1.662	96 m	+0.203	22
17	Robert Doornbos	Jordan	39	1:37.878	+2.270	132 m	+0.608	23
18	Jacques Villeneuve	Sauber	11	1:38.121	+2.513	146 m	+0.243	19
19	Narain Karthikeyan	Jordan	19	1:38.855	+3.247	188 m	+0.734	21
20	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Red Bull Racing	37	1:39.349	+3.741	217 m	+0.494	11
21	Tiago Monteiro	Jordan	18	1:39.755	+4.147	240 m	+0.406	21
22	Patrick Friesacher	Minardi	20	1:40.940	+5.332	309 m	+1.185	19
23	Christijan Albers	Minardi	21	1:41.156	+5.548	322 m	+0.216	16
24	Mark Webber	Williams	7	—	—	—	—	2

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	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:34.715	—	0 m	—	5
2	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:34.883	+0.168	10 m	+0.168	10
3	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	6	1:34.930	+0.215	13 m	+0.047	6
4	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	9	1:35.054	+0.339	20 m	+0.124	9
5	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	16	1:35.573	+0.858	50 m	+0.519	6
6	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	17	1:35.645	+0.930	54 m	+0.072	10
7	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren	10	1:35.850	+1.135	66 m	+0.205	8
8	Jenson Button	British American Racing	3	1:36.162	+1.447	85 m	+0.312	7
9	Nick Heidfeld	Williams	8	1:36.434	+1.719	101 m	+0.272	3
10	Mark Webber	Williams	7	1:36.465	+1.750	102 m	+0.031	5
11	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	14	1:36.888	+2.173	127 m	+0.423	11
12	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:36.903	+2.188	128 m	+0.015	7
13	Felipe Massa	Sauber	12	1:36.987	+2.272	133 m	+0.084	6
14	Anthony Davidson	British American Racing	4	1:37.049	+2.334	137 m	+0.062	12
15	Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	15	1:37.204	+2.489	146 m	+0.155	10
16	Jacques Villeneuve	Sauber	11	1:37.850	+3.135	183 m	+0.646	6
17	Narain Karthikeyan	Jordan	19	1:38.444	+3.729	218 m	+0.594	11
18	Tiago Monteiro	Jordan	18	1:39.349	+4.634	271 m	+0.905	12
19	Patrick Friesacher	Minardi	20	1:41.398	+6.683	391 m	+2.049	15
20	Christijan Albers	Minardi	21	1:42.023	+7.308	428 m	+0.625	16

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	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	16	1:32.832	—	0 m	—	12
2	Christian Klien	Red Bull Racing	15	1:32.870	+0.038	2 m	+0.038	9
3	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:32.880	+0.048	3 m	+0.010	11
4	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	17	1:32.951	+0.119	7 m	+0.071	11
5	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	14	1:33.092	+0.260	16 m	+0.141	10
6	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	6	1:33.194	+0.362	22 m	+0.102	8
7	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	9	1:33.349	+0.517	31 m	+0.155	12
8	Nick Heidfeld	Williams	8	1:33.468	+0.636	38 m	+0.119	5
9	Mark Webber	Williams	7	1:33.517	+0.685	41 m	+0.049	10
10	Anthony Davidson	British American Racing	4	1:33.580	+0.748	45 m	+0.063	15
11	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren	10	1:33.689	+0.857	51 m	+0.109	10
12	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:33.943	+1.111	66 m	+0.254	11
13	Felipe Massa	Sauber	12	1:34.002	+1.170	70 m	+0.059	10
14	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:34.102	+1.270	76 m	+0.100	10
15	Jacques Villeneuve	Sauber	11	1:35.532	+2.700	161 m	+1.430	9
16	Tiago Monteiro	Jordan	18	1:37.824	+4.992	298 m	+2.292	10
17	Narain Karthikeyan	Jordan	19	1:38.126	+5.294	316 m	+0.302	8
18	Christijan Albers	Minardi	21	1:38.673	+5.841	349 m	+0.547	12
19	Patrick Friesacher	Minardi	20	1:38.974	+6.142	367 m	+0.301	12

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

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Round: 2 of 2005
Grand Prix: Malaysian Grand Prix
Dates: 20 Mar 2005
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Renault
Entrant: Renault
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.