2005 BRITISH TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON

The '2005 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season' was the 48th British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season. As in 2004, there were ten racing weekends at nine different circuits; each round comprising three races, making a thirty round competition in total.

Contents

Changes for 2005

Teams and drivers

Race calendar and winners

Championship results

Changes for 2005

★ Dunlop were announced as the new title sponsor of the series

★ The grid for race three was determined by race two's finishing order but with the top ten positions reversed. In 2004 this rule had applied to race two based on the finishing order of race one.

★ The cars of the championship's top five drivers carried "Championship Ballast" for each race meeting's practice, qualifying and first race. Success Ballast was then carried in race two by the top five finishers from race one and in race three by the top five finishers from race two respectively.

★ 'Negative' ballast for finishing outside the top five in races was abolished

★ Tyres were limited to 16 new slicks per race weekend, but with no limit on wet-weather tyres

★ All teams were permitted only up to four days' testing during the season

★ Teams were permitted to build their own Super 2000 specification cars and enter them for the championship even if they did not have proper FIA homologation. Provided they met all current S2000 requirements the BTCC was able to grant the cars 'local homologation'.

★ The Independents' Team Trophy was introduced

Teams and drivers

M = Manufacturer team

I = Independent team

E = Car built to Super 2000 regulations

No.	Driver	Cl.	Team	Car	Spec	Notes
2	Yvan Muller	M	VX Racing	Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch
5	Matt Neal	I	Team Halfords	Honda Integra
6	Colin Turkington	M	VX Racing	Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch
8	Dan Eaves	I	Team Halfords	Honda Integra
9	Tom Chilton	I	Arena Motorsport	Honda Civic Type-R		Rounds 4-27
10	James Kaye	I	Synchro Motorsport	Honda Civic Type-R		Rounds 1-27
31						Rounds 28-30
11	Jason Plato	M	Seat Sport UK	SEAT Toledo Cupra	E
12	James Pickford	M	Seat Sport UK	Seat Toledo Cupra	E
21	Rob Collard	I	WSR	MG ZS
23	Mark Proctor	I	Fast-Tec Motorsport	Vauxhall Astra Coupé
25	Gareth Howell	I	Team Halfords	Honda Integra		Rounds 22-30
36	Jason Hughes	I	Kartworld Racing	MG ZS		Rounds 16-18, 22-24, 28-30
44	Andy Neate	I	Team Nuts with Daniels Motorsport	Vauxhall Astra Coupé		Rounds 28-30
57	Luke Hines	M	Seat Sport UK	Seat Toledo Cupra	E
77	Richard Williams	I	HPI Racing with Friends Reunited	Lexus IS200	E
78	Ian Curley	I	HPI Racing with Friends Reunited	Lexus IS200	E	Rounds 7-30
82	Fiona Leggate	I	Tech-Speed Motorsport	Vauxhall Astra Coupé	E	Rounds 13-30.
88	Gavin Smith	M	VX Racing	Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch

Race calendar and winners

Round	Circuit	Date	Winning driver	Winning team
1 2 3	Donington Park	10 April	Matt Neal Yvan Muller Matt Neal	Team Halfords VX Racing Team Halfords
4 5 6	Thruxton	1 May	Dan Eaves Dan Eaves Dan Eaves	Team Halfords Team Halfords Team Halfords
7 8 9	Brands Hatch (Indy)	5 June	Matt Neal Matt Neal Yvan Muller	Team Halfords Team Halfords VX Racing
10 11 12	Oulton Park (Island)	19 June	Jason Plato Matt Neal Tom Chilton	SEAT Sport UK Team Halfords Arena Motorsports
13 14 15	Croft	17 July	Colin Turkington Yvan Muller Dan Eaves	VX Racing VX Racing Team Halfords
16 17 18	Mondello Park	24 July	Yvan Muller Colin Turkington Yvan Muller	VX Racing VX Racing VX Racing
19 20 21	Snetterton	7 August	Tom Chilton Tom Chilton Jason Plato	Arena Motorsports Arena Motorsports SEAT Sport UK
22 23 24	Knockhill	28 August	Yvan Muller Matt Neal Rob Collard	VX Racing Team Halfords WSR
25 26 27	Silverstone (National)	18 September	Tom Chilton Luke Hines Gareth Howell	Arena Motorsports SEAT Sport UK Team Halfords
28 29 30	Brands Hatch (Grand Prix)	2 October	Dan Eaves Jason Plato Rob Collard	Team Halfords SEAT Sport UK WSR

Championship results

Driver's Championship # Driver Points 1 Matt Neal 316 2 Yvan Muller 273 3 Dan Eaves 269 4 Jason Plato 208 5 Tom Chilton 175 6 Colin Turkington 174 7 Rob Collard 173 8 James Pickford 116 9 Luke Hines 87 10 Gavin Smith 86 11 James Kaye 58 12 Gareth Howell 54 13 Jason Hughes 22 14 Richard Williams 14 15 Mark Proctor 13 16 Fiona Leggate 12 17 Ian Curley 3 18 Andy Neate 1	Independent's Championship # Driver Points 1 Matt Neal 367 2 Dan Eaves 313 3 Rob Collard 256 4 Tom Chilton 230 5 James Kaye 140 6 Richard Williams 79 7 Mark Proctor 70 8 Fiona Leggate 69 9 Gareth Howell 67 10 Jason Hughes 57 11 Ian Curley 52 12 Andy Neate 12
Team's Championship # Team Points 1 Team Halfords 573 2 VX Racing 470 3 SEAT Sport UK 306 4 WSR 172 5 Arena Motorsports 157 6 Synchro Motorsport 49 7 Kartworld Racing 29 8 HPI Racing with Friends Reunited 27 9 Fast-Tec Motorsport Ltd 21 10 Tech-Speed Motorsport 17 11 Team Nuts with Daniels Motorsport 3	Independent Teams Championship # Team Points 1 Team Halfords 725 2 WSR 256 3 Arena Motorsports 230 4 Synchro Motorsport 143 5 HPI Racing with Friends Reunited 134 6 Fast-Tec Motorsport Ltd 73 7 Tech-Speed Motorsport 72 8 Kartworld Racing 60 9 Team Nuts with Daniels Motorsport 13	Manufacturer's Championship # Manufacturer Points 1 Vauxhall 781 2 SEAT 629