2005 BTCC season
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The 2005 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season was the 48th British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season. As in 2004, there were ten racing weekends at nine different circuits; each round comprising three races, making a thirty round competition in total. Image File history File links Btcc_logo. ... The British Touring Car Championship is a series of races for saloon cars which is held each year in the United Kingdom. ... The 2004 Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship season was the 47th British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season. ... The 2006 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season will be the 49th British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season. ... People whose family name is or was Dunlop include James Dunlop (1793-1848), Scottish-Australian astronomer John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor and founder of the Dunlop rubber company John Thomas Dunlop, United States administrator Sir Edward Weary Dunlop, Australian war hero Douglas Morton Dunlop, Scottish-American professor of history and... MSA can mean Medical savings account is the former name for what is now called the Health savings account (HSA) in the United States. ... The current BTCC logo The British Touring Car Championship is a series of races for saloon cars which is held each year in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ...

Changes for 2005

• Dunlop were announced as the new title sponsor of the series
• The grid for race three was determined by race two's finishing order but with the top ten positions reversed. In 2004 this rule had applied to race two based on the finishing order of race one.
• The cars of the championship's top five drivers carried "Championship Ballast" for each race meeting's practice, qualifying and first race. Success Ballast was then carried in race two by the top five finishers from race one and in race three by the top five finishers from race two respectively.
• 'Negative' ballast for finishing outside the top five in races was abolished
• Tyres were limited to 16 new slicks per race weekend, but with no limit on wet-weather tyres
• All teams were permitted only up to four days' testing during the season
• Teams were permitted to build their own Super 2000 specification cars and enter them for the championship even if they did not have proper FIA homologation. Provided they met all current S2000 requirements the BTCC was able to grant the cars 'local homologation'.
• The Independents' Team Trophy was introduced

Teams and drivers

M = Manufacturer team
I = Independent team
E = Car built to Super 2000 regulations

No.	Driver	Nat.	Cl.	Team	Car	Spec	Notes
2	Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller is a French auto racing driver, born on 16 August 1969. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ...	M	VX Racing Vauxhall Motors is a UK car company. ...	Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch The Astra is a General Motors (GM) small family car, badged as an Opel in continental Europe, a Vauxhall in the United Kingdom, a Holden in Australasia, and a Chevrolet in Latin America. ...
5	Matt Neal		I	Team Halfords	Honda Integra
6	Colin Turkington	Matt Neal is a British motor racing driver, best known for his success in the British Touring Car Championship, although he has also won an ETCC race. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Team Dynamics is a UK-based motor-racing team, best known for their successes as an independent squad in the British Touring Car Championship. ... The Honda Integra (sold in the USA as the Acura Integra) is an automobile manufactured by Honda. ... Colin Turkington is an auto racing driver from Newry in Northern Ireland, born on 21st March 1982. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Northern_Ireland. ...	M	VX Racing	Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch
8	Dan Eaves		I	Team Halfords	Honda Integra
9	Tom Chilton		I	Arena Motorsport	Honda Civic Type-R		Rounds 4-27
10	James Kaye		I	Synchro Motorsport	Honda Civic Type-R
11	Jason Plato		M	Seat Sport UK	Seat Toledo Cupra	E
12	James Pickford		M	Seat Sport UK	Seat Toledo Cupra	E
21	Rob Collard		I	West Surrey Racing	MG ZS
23	Mark Proctor		I	Fast-Tec Motorsport	Vauxhall Astra Coupé
25	Gareth Howell		I	Team Halfords	Honda Integra		Rounds 22-30
36	Jason Hughes		I	Kartworld Racing	MG ZS		Rounds 16-18, 22-24 and 28-30
44	Andy Neate		I	Team Nuts with Daniels Motorsport	Vauxhall Astra Coupe		Rounds 28-30
57	Luke Hines		M	Seat Sport UK	Seat Toledo Cupra	E
77	Richard Williams		I	HPI Racing with Friends Reunited	Lexus IS200	E
78	Ian Curley		I	HPI Racing with Friends Reunited	Lexus IS200	E	Rounds 7-30
82	Fiona Leggate		I	Tech-Speed Motorsport	Vauxhall Astra Coupe	E	Rounds 13-30. Powered by bio-ethanol fuel.
88	Gavin Smith	Dan Eaves is a British auto racing driver, born on 3 June 1975. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Tom Chilton is a British auto racing driver, born on March 15 1985 in Surrey. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Arena Motorsport is a UK-based motor racing team founded by Mike Earle best known for racing in the BTCC. Their first season was in 1999, running a year-old Renault Laguna for Russell Spence and later for 1991 champion Will Hoy. ... The Honda Civic is an automobile manufactured by Honda. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Jason Plato is a British auto racing driver, born in 1968 in Oxford. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... An old SEAT 600 The 3-door Hatchback SEAT Ibiza. SEAT is a Volkswagen subsidiary and one of the leading car makers in Spain. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... History WSR Headquarters in Sunbury-on-Thames, England Founded in 1981, West Surrey Racing is run by New Zealander Dick Bennetts. ... 2002 MG ZS The MG ZS (2001-present) is a sporting family car derived from the Rover 45 (launched in 1999). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... The Astra is a General Motors (GM) small family car, badged as an Opel in continental Europe, a Vauxhall in the United Kingdom, a Holden in Australasia, and a Chevrolet in Latin America. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Nuts is a mens magazine published in the UK. The magazine claims to include Everything for men; Every week. It is the first weekly mens magazine to be published in the UK, and is sold every Wednesday for £1. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... The Lexus IS is a rear-wheel drive, compact luxury sports sedan manufactured by the Toyota Motor Corp. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Fiona Leggate is a British auto racing driver, born on May 28, 1980 in Lincolnshire. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... The use of ethanol as a fuel for internal combustion engines, either alone or in combination with other fuels, has been given much attention mostly because of its possible environmental and long-term economical advantages over fossil fuel. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Ireland. ...	M	VX Racing	Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch

Race calendar and winners

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Championship results

Driver's championship

Team's championship

Manufacturer's championship