2005 British Formula 3 International Series Explained

The 2005 British Formula 3 International Series was the 55th British Formula 3 International Series season. It commenced on 2 April 2005 and ended on 9 October after twenty two races.

Drivers and teams

The following teams and drivers were competitors in the 2005 British Formula 3 International Series. The National class is for year-old Formula Three cars. Teams in the Invitation class are not series regulars, and do not compete for championship points.

Team	Chassis	Engine	No	Driver	Rounds
Championship Class
P1 Motorsport	Lola B05/30	Mugen-Honda	1	Danilo Dirani	All
Fortec Motorsport	Dallara F305	Opel	2	James Walker	All
			3	Ronayne O'Mahony	1-10
				Yelmer Buurman	11
			26	Mike Conway	All
Carlin Motorsport	Dallara F305	Mugen-Honda	4	Christian Bakkerud	All
			5	Keiko Ihara	All
			6	Charlie Kimball	All
			14	Álvaro Parente	2-10
Alan Docking Racing	Dallara F305	Mugen-Honda	7	Susie Stoddart	1
				Danny Watts	6
				Karl Reindler	7-11
Promatecme	Lola B05/30	Mugen-Honda	8	Steven Kane	All
Menu F3 Motorsport	Dallara F305	Opel	9	Stephen Jelley	All
Hitech Racing	Dallara F305	Mugen-Honda	11	Tim Bridgman	1-9, 11
			12	Marko Asmer	All
Räikkönen Robertson Racing	Dallara F305	Mugen-Honda	27	Dan Clarke	All
28			Bruno Senna	All
T-Sport	Dallara F305	Mugen-Honda	69	Ryan Lewis	All
National Class
T-Sport	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	31	Barton Mawer	All
Performance Racing Europe	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	32	Suk Sandher	1-2
				Adam Khan	6-7
				James Jakes	11
Promatecme	Lola-Dome F106/4	Mugen-Honda	33	Charlie Hollings	All
Carlin Motorsport	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	34	Ricardo Teixeira	1-8
Alan Docking Racing	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	35	Juho Annala	All
			36	Jonathan Kennard	All
Edenbridge Racing	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	38	Cheong Lou Meng	All
Team SWR Crypton	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	40	Josh Fisher	All
			41	Nick Jones	All
P1 Motorsport	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	42	Salvador Durán	All
Fluid Motorsport	nowrap	Lola-Dome F106/4	Mugen-Honda	84	Ben Clucas	6-8, 11
Invitation Entries
Junior Racing	Dallara F305	Opel	71	Michael Herck	2, 8-9
HBR Motorsport	Dallara F305	Opel	74	Alejandro Núñez	7-8
			75	nowrap	Christopher Wassermann	7

Calendar and results

The Spa, Monza, Silverstone and Nürburgring races were held supporting the Le Mans Series. The remaining rounds supported the British GT Championship.

nowrap	Round	nowrap	Circuit	nowrap	Date	nowrap	Pole Position	nowrap	Fastest Lap	nowrap	Winning driver	nowrap	Winning team	nowrap	National Class Winner
1	Donington Park	2 April	Danilo Dirani	Ryan Lewis	Danilo Dirani	P1 Motorsport	Josh Fisher
2		3 April	Marko Asmer	Marko Asmer	Danilo Dirani	P1 Motorsport	Barton Mawer
3	Spa-Francorchamps	16 April	Meeting cancelled
4		17 April
5	Croft	8 May	Álvaro Parente	Mike Conway	Mike Conway	Fortec Motorsport	Salvador Durán
6			nowrap	Álvaro Parente	Dan Clarke	nowrap	Álvaro Parente	Carlin Motorsport	Salvador Durán
7	Knockhill	21 May	Álvaro Parente	Steven Kane	Álvaro Parente	Carlin Motorsport	Charlie Hollings
8		22 May	Álvaro Parente	Ryan Lewis	Álvaro Parente	Carlin Motorsport	Charlie Hollings
9	Thruxton	28 May	Charlie Kimball	nowrap	Christian Bakkerud	Charlie Kimball	Carlin Motorsport	Barton Mawer
10		29 May	Charlie Kimball	Charlie Kimball	Charlie Kimball	Carlin Motorsport	Barton Mawer
11	Castle Combe	25 June	Charlie Kimball	Dan Clarke	Dan Clarke	nowrap	Räikkönen Robertson Racing	Salvador Durán
12		26 June	Álvaro Parente	Charlie Kimball	Álvaro Parente	Carlin Motorsport	Barton Mawer
13	Monza	9 July	Charlie Kimball	Charlie Kimball	Álvaro Parente	Carlin Motorsport	Barton Mawer
14			Álvaro Parente	Álvaro Parente	Álvaro Parente	Carlin Motorsport	Ben Clucas
3		10 July	Álvaro Parente	Álvaro Parente	Álvaro Parente	Carlin Motorsport	Salvador Durán
4	Silverstone (Grand Prix)	13 August	Steven Kane	Charlie Kimball	Charlie Kimball	Carlin Motorsport	Charlie Hollings
15		14 August	Álvaro Parente	Álvaro Parente	Álvaro Parente	Carlin Motorsport	Salvador Durán
16			Marko Asmer	Álvaro Parente	Álvaro Parente	Carlin Motorsport	Salvador Durán
17	Nürburgring	3 September	Álvaro Parente	James Walker	James Walker	Fortec Motorsport	Salvador Durán
18			Bruno Senna	Álvaro Parente	Álvaro Parente	Carlin Motorsport	Salvador Durán
19	Mondello Park	nowrap	17 September	Steven Kane	Álvaro Parente	Álvaro Parente	Carlin Motorsport	Barton Mawer
20		nowrap	18 September	Steven Kane	Álvaro Parente	Steven Kane	Promatecme	nowrap	Jonathan Kennard
21	Silverstone (International)	8 October	Charlie Kimball	Charlie Kimball	Charlie Kimball	Carlin Motorsport	Charlie Hollings
22	9 October	nowrap	Charlie Kimball	nowrap	Charlie Kimball	nowrap	Charlie Kimball	Carlin Motorsport	Salvador Durán

Notes:

1. – The Spa meeting was cancelled due to poor weather conditions.^[1] The meeting's races were run at Monza and the first Silverstone meeting.

Standings

Championship Class

Pos Driver DON SPA CRO KNO THR CAS MZA SIL NÜR MON SIL Pts 1 Álvaro Parente C C 3 1 1 1 5 13 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 1 Ret 289 2 Charlie Kimball 16 10 C C 9 Ret Ret 3 1 1 3 Ret 2 2 2 1 2 2 7 5 4 3 1 1 246 3 Mike Conway 2 3 C C 1 14 3 Ret 4 5 6 7 4 4 21 6 3 Ret 2 4 2 5 5 4 192 4 Marko Asmer 8 2 C C 2 7 Ret 2 2 2 9 4 Ret DNS 6 5 4 5 6 6 11 18 4 3 163 5 Dan Clarke 3 4 C C Ret 3 Ret 5 9 6 1 3 Ret DNS 14 3 5 6 9 3 6 6 3 5 160 6 Danilo Dirani 1 1 C C Ret NC 5 9 7 Ret 7 5 3 3 20 4 6 7 4 7 5 Ret 2 8 150 7 Christian Bakkerud 5 6 C C 4 2 6 7 3 3 8 6 5 12 3 16 7 9 8 13 7 Ret 6 Ret 124 8 Ryan Lewis 4 7 C C 7 4 2 8 6 4 4 Ret Ret 5 4 Ret 10 14 14 8 15 2 Ret 6 121 9 Steven Kane 7 5 C C Ret 9 4 4 8 7 10 17 22 8 7 18 Ret 4 10 10 3 1 19 9 97 10 Bruno Senna 6 Ret C C Ret 5 14 DNS 11 Ret 12 10 Ret 6 5 Ret Ret 3 Ret 2 12 14 Ret 2 75 11 James Walker 11 8 C C 14 8 Ret 6 10 8 19 8 Ret 23 Ret 17 9 8 1 25 8 4 9 7 69 12 Stephen Jelley Ret 14 C C Ret 16 11 Ret 13 10 14 9 16 7 8 8 11 10 11 19 9 13 8 11 30 13 Danny Watts 5 2 23 14 Ronayne O'Mahony 15 19 C C 12 15 15 Ret 12 11 13 14 6 10 Ret Ret 16 13 20 16 10 11 21 15 Tim Bridgman Ret 9 C C Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 15 11 Ret Ret DSQ DSQ Ret 8 DNS 5 9 Ret 10 16 16 Karl Reindler 10 11 Ret Ret 15 11 Ret 12 7 15 12 17 Keiko Ihara 18 16 C C 13 Ret 16 15 20 18 22 20 19 21 15 9 19 20 Ret 21 Ret Ret 17 17 12 18 Susie Stoddart 9 11 2 19 Yelmer Buurman Ret 13 0 Guest drivers ineligible for points Michael Herck C C 10 14 16 13 12 0 Alejandro Núñez 14 13 18 Ret 0 18 18 0 National Class 1 Salvador Durán Ret 13 C C 5 6 8 14 Ret 16 15 15 8 14 9 Ret 12 11 12 14 NC 9 13 12 300 2 Barton Mawer 12 12 C C 6 10 10 11 14 9 20 11 7 22 12 Ret 25 17 19 17 13 Ret 12 Ret 256 3 Jonathan Kennard 14 Ret C C 10 12 13 12 15 17 17 13 15 17 13 11 15 18 16 22 14 7 11 18 233 4 Josh Fisher 10 15 C C 8 13 9 Ret 17 21 16 19 12 16 10 12 20 15 21 15 17 10 15 16 221 5 Charlie Hollings 13 Ret C C Ret 17 7 10 16 12 24 12 11 Ret 11 7 17 Ret 17 18 Ret 8 10 Ret 216 6 Juho Annala 17 18 C C 11 11 12 13 18 14 21 18 17 19 16 Ret 21 19 18 20 16 15 Ret 21 155 7 Ben Clucas 18 16 9 9 13 12 14 14 103 8 Nick Jones 19 20 C C 15 18 Ret 16 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 20 19 15 24 22 23 23 Ret 16 18 19 69 9 Ricardo Teixeira 21 21 C C 16 Ret 17 17 19 19 23 21 21 24 17 13 22 21 61 10 Cheong Lou Meng 20 Ret C C 17 Ret Ret 18 21 20 Ret DNS 20 Ret 18 14 23 Ret 22 24 18 17 Ret 20 59 11 Adam Khan Ret Ret 13 15 18 12 Suk Sandher Ret 17 C C 10 13 James Jakes 16 Ret 4 Pos Driver DON SPA CRO KNO THR CAS MZA SIL NÜR MON SIL Pts

External links

• The official website of the British Formula 3 Championship

Notes and References

1. News: Foggy, wet and poor visibility cancels both races. 2005-04-17. 2010-09-18. motorsport.com. GMM. Thomas. Stella-Maria. Lynne. Waite. 2005-08-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20050818171232/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=182244&FS=BF3. dead.