2005 Season

## Qatar Race Report

   The first-ever Qatar Grand Prix within' Formula One was a chaos-filled one, as we witnessed pure carnage and car-parts flying everywhere! - we also witnessed a horror crash with Ralf Schumacher sommer-saulting into the aramco barrier losing his rear wing and front wing while impacting into the wall.

   But there were awesome highlights as well, for example the war of the ferrari's within the race.

Pole-setter Rubens Barrichello was able to defend his lead over 20 laps within the heats of Qatar around the Losail circuit, but there was one man stopping him in his tracks, and that man's name was Michael Schumacher his own team-mate.

Michael started chasing down the brazilian lap for lap until he caught up to him, while people were expecting a easy driven home Ferrari 1-2, it was a pure battle not for the faint of heart! - Barrichello closed down the door right onto Schumacher who crashed into his side-pod slightly cause of it.

Michael recovered tho and didn't let him go, as he chased up the once again new gained two second lead from Rubens, and finally overtook him in a third attempt after all.

But that wasn't all, Rubens tried getting revenge on Michael which he did, causing Fernando Alonso to caught up to both of them and overtake both!

Ferrari team principal wasn't happy at all with this situation, so he told his team simply to stop fighting like it's the final race of the season & to avoid crashing, which they finally did. Michael & Rubens started to work together slightly to take back Alonso which they did with time.

Unluckiest was Marvo König who leading up to his crash-out later on, did a very good race racing around the Top 8. He had raced & battled along with BMW-Williams driver Henk Schaaphok alot also gaining a healthy gap towards him later on.

In the end it's Michael Schumacher taking the maiden-win of this fantasy series & of the 2005 season, you can argue if it was deserved or not but in the end it's still a Ferrari 1-2 infront of Fernando Alonso & Kimi Raikkonen.

## USA Race Report

The second race of the 2005 season was ready to host, the sunny Miami gave us all a interesting race.

With Rubens Barrichello taking pole-position once again infront of Michael Schumacher & Kimi Raikkonen. The brazilian had a lightning start, racing away his competiton like it was nothing to him, while McLaren & Michael Schumacher tried to catch up to the brazilian & giving him a fight.

With Rubens taking away, the excitement in the front fell away quickly, but the midfield battle took off crazily with Sauber fighting against Toyota & Williams.

Minardi & Jordan started fighting for positions for the first-time in this very season, it looks like Minardi started catching up in terms of performance. Belal delivered a hard fight for Mehrabi & Monteiro but in the end Jordan came out victorious once more.

Renault showed pure potential as well, with Toyota showing good strength along the american circuit, as they ended up finishing in 5th & 6th place.

Even Henk Schaaphok managed to fly his BMW-Williams into fourth position after a strong battle with his rival Marvo König through the streets of Miami.

Juan Pablo Montoya had early problems, as he was involved in a early-crash, losing his rear-wing in the process, but he was able to carry on with his race shortly after.

Another crazy incident we had to witness through-out this season was the one between David Coulthard and Felipe Massa who left eachother no space at all, crashing together in the process, leaving Massa with a very disappointing 20th place in the end, as he was not able to recover back to the rest of the grid.

Coulthard tho managed to still pull a strong 11th place recovery finish! - a strong result in total for Red Bull as both finished high-up in 10th & 11th in this race.

In the end Rubens Barrichello gets his early-redemption from the Qatar Grand Prix, and takes home his very own victory after a great pole-position lap the same weekend. Barrichello was praised high through-out this race weekend & rightfully so, catching up fully to Michael Schumacher in the driver's championship standings.