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
Ralf Schumacher
Toyota
Time
1:46.106
Fastest lap
Driver
Kimi Räikkönen
McLaren-Mercedes
Time
1:31.540 on lap 44
Podium
First
Kimi Räikkönen
McLaren-Mercedes
Second
Giancarlo Fisichella
Renault
Third
Fernando Alonso
Renault
Lap leaders
Motor car race
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.
^Weather info for the 2005 Japanese Grand Prix at Weather Underground
^"Formula 1 Honda Japanese Grand Prix 2022 – Media Kit" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
^Raikkonen steals Japanese GP win retrieved from BBC Sport, 9 October 2005
^Ralf charges to Japanese GP pole retrieved from BBC Sport, 8 October 2005
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