2005 Rolex Sports Car Series

The 2005 Rolex Sports Car Series season was the sixth season of the Rolex Sports Car Series run by the Grand American Road Racing Association. The format was reduced to two classes, Daytona Prototypes (DP) and Grand Touring (GT). 14 races were run from February 5, 2005 to November 5, 2005. Laguna-Seca and Hermanos Rodríguez were added. It set the record for the longest Rolex season.

Schedule

Rnd	Race	Length/Duration	Circuit	Date
1	Rolex 24 at Daytona	24 Hours	Daytona International Speedway	February 5 February 6
2	Grand Prix of Miami	250 Miles	Homestead-Miami Speedway	March 5
3	Ferrari Maserati 400	400 km	California Speedway	April 3
4	Road & Track 250	250 Miles	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca	May 1
5	6 Hours of Mont-Tremblant	6 Hours	Circuit Mont-Tremblant	May 21
6	Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen	6 Hours	Watkins Glen International	June 12
7	Brumos Porsche 250	250 Miles	Daytona International Speedway	June 30
8	Porsche 250	400 km	Barber Motorsports Park	July 31
9	CompUSA 200 at the Glen	200 Miles	Watkins Glen International	August 12
10	EMCO Gears Classic	400 km	Mid-Ohio	August 27
11	Phoenix 250^†	250 Miles	Phoenix International Raceway	September 9 (GT) September 10 (DP)
12	Crown Royal 250 at the Glen	250 Miles	Watkins Glen International	September 24
13	VIR 400	400 km	Virginia International Raceway	October 9
14	Mexico City 250	250 Miles	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	November 5

† - The DP and GT classes ran separate, individual races at Phoenix.

Results

Overall winners in bold.

Rnd	Circuit	DP Winning Teams	GT Winning Teams
Rnd	Circuit	DP Winning Drivers	GT Winning Drivers
1	Daytona	#10 SunTrust Racing	#71 Farnbacher Racing USA
1	Daytona	Max Angelelli Wayne Taylor Emmanuel Collard	Wolf Henzler Dominik Farnbacher Pierre Ehret Shawn Price
2	Homestead	#10 SunTrust Racing	#65 Auto Gallery/TRG
2	Homestead	Max Angelelli Wayne Taylor	Marc Bunting Andy Lally
3	California	#01 CompUSA Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	#21 Prototype Technology Group
3	California	Luis Díaz Scott Pruett	Bill Auberlen Joey Hand
4	Laguna Seca	#01 CompUSA Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	#16 Prototype Technology Group
4	Laguna Seca	Luis Díaz Scott Pruett	Bill Auberlen Tom Milner Justin Marks
5	Mont-Tremblant	#2 CITGO Howard-Boss Motorsports	#22 Prototype Technology Group
5	Mont-Tremblant	Milka Duno Andy Wallace Jan Lammers	Ian James Joey Hand
6	Watkins Glen	#67 Krohn Racing/TRG	#14 Autometrics Motorsports
6	Watkins Glen	Tracy Krohn Niclas Jönsson	Wolf Henzler Leh Keen Cory Friedman
7	Daytona	#4 Howard-Boss Motorsports	#16 Prototype Technology Group
7	Daytona	Elliot Forbes-Robinson Butch Leitzinger	Bill Auberlen Justin Marks
8	Barber	#10 SunTrust Racing	#16 Prototype Technology Group
8	Barber	Max Angelelli Wayne Taylor	Bill Auberlen Justin Marks
9	Watkins Glen	#10 SunTrust Racing	#64 TRG
9	Watkins Glen	Max Angelelli Wayne Taylor	Paul Edwards Jan Magnussen
10	Mid-Ohio	#4 Howard-Boss Motorsports	#21 Prototype Technology Group
10	Mid-Ohio	Elliot Forbes-Robinson Butch Leitzinger	Kelly Collins Tom Milner
11^†	Phoenix	#66 Krohn Racing/TRG	#64 TRG
11^†	Phoenix	Jörg Bergmeister Christian Fittipaldi	Paul Edwards Jan Magnussen
12	Watkins Glen	#10 SunTrust Racing	#65 TRG
12	Watkins Glen	Max Angelelli Wayne Taylor	Marc Bunting Andy Lally
13	Virginia	#01 CompUSA Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates	#21 Prototype Technology Group
13	Virginia	Luis Díaz Scott Pruett	Bill Auberlen Tom Milner
14	Mexico City	#19 Finlay Motorsports	#64 TRG
14	Mexico City	Michael McDowell Memo Gidley	Paul Edwards Jan Magnussen

† - The DP and GT classes ran separate, individual races for DP and GT.

Championship standings

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Daytona Prototypes

Drivers (Top 20)

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Max Angelelli	439
1	Wayne Taylor	439
2	Scott Pruett	405
2	Luis Díaz	405
3	Butch Leitzinger	360
3	Elliott Forbes-Robinson	360
4	Jorg Bergmeister	350
5	Stefan Johansson	340
5	Cort Wagner	340
6	Memo Gidley	309
7	Michael McDowell	307
8	Milka Duno	285
9	Niclas Jönsson	272
10	Mike Borkowski	268
11	Matteo Bobbi	268
11	Fabrizio Gollin	268
12	David Donohue	267
12	Darren Law	267
13	Andy Wallace	261
14	Darius Grala	256
14	Shane Lewis	256
15	Tracy Krohn	247
16	Terry Borcheller	243
17	Brian Frisselle	227
17	Burt Frisselle	227
18	Hurley Haywood	223
18	J.C. France	223
19	Doug Goad	207
20	Christian Fittipaldi	199

Grand Touring

Drivers (Top 10)

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Craig Stanton	377
2	Marc Bunting	376
2	Andy Lally	376
3	David Murry	359
4	Joey Hand	337
8	Leh Keen	333
8	Cory Friedman	333
6	Tommy Milner	323
7	Justin Marks	323
8	Bill Auberlen	321
9	Jim Tafel Jr.	307
9	Andrew Davis	307
10	Ian James	282

References

^ 2005 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series - Driver Point Standings Archived 2012-06-17 at the Wayback Machine

External links

The official website of Grand-Am
Grand American Road Racing Association - 2005 season archive
World Sports Racing Prototypes - Rolex Sports Car Series 2005

[1] 2005 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series - Driver Point Standings Archived 2012-06-17 at the Wayback Machine

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