The 2005 French GP2 round was a GP2 Series motor race held on 2 and 3 July 2005 at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours in Magny-Cours, France. It was the fifth race of the

2005 GP2 Series season The 2005 GP2 Series season was the thirty-ninth season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also first season under the GP2 Series moniker. The season started in Imola, Italy on 23 April, and ended in Manama, Bahrain on 30 Sep ...

. The race was used to support the

2005 French Grand Prix The 2005 French Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Grand Prix de France 2005) was a Formula One motor race held on 3 July 2005 at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours near Magny-Cours in France. It was the tenth race of the 2005 FIA Formula One Wor ...

. The first race was won by

Heikki Kovalainen Heikki Johannes Kovalainen (; born 19 October 1981) is a Finnish racing driver competing in the Japan Rally Championship for Rally Team AICELLO. He raced in Formula One between 2007 and 2013 for the Renault, McLaren, Team Lotus, Caterham and ...

for Arden International, with José María López second for DAMS and

Nicolas Lapierre Nicolas Lapierre (born 2 April 1984) is a French professional racing driver. He raced with Toyota and with Alpine Racing in the past seasons of the FIA World Endurance Championship. He is a two-time winner of the 12 Hours of Sebring, with overa ...

finishing third for Arden. The second race was won by Nico Rosberg for ART Grand Prix, with Hiroki Yoshimoto for

BCN Competición BCN may refer to: Places * Barcelona El Prat Airport, IATA code * an abbreviation for the city of Barcelona * Port of Barcelona, by shortened form of the UN/LOCODE ESBCN without the country prefix * Baja California, geographical ISO 3166 code MX- ...

and Heikki Kovalainen for Arden also on the podium.

Classification

Qualifying

;Notes * –

Ernesto Viso Ernesto José "E. J." Viso Lossada (born March 19, 1985) is a Venezuelan professional racing driver. He has raced in the 2005 and 2006 GP2 Series seasons, and has also driven the third car for Spyker MF1 Racing. In 2007 he competed in the GP2 Ser ...

was given a ten-place grid penalty for causing collision with Mathias Lauda in the sprint race in

Nürburgring The is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Formula One, Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long "North loop" track, built in the 1920s, around t ...

Feature race

Sprint race

;Notes * – Nelson Piquet Jr., Clivio Piccione and Juan Cruz Álvarez was disqualified from the race because their team broke the rules and changed all four tires during the race.

Standings after the round

;Drivers' Championship standings ;Teams' Championship standings * Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Notes

References

External links

gp2.gpupdate.net
{{GP2Round Magny-Cours GP2 round, 2005 Magny-Cours Magny-Cours GP2 Series round