The 2005 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on June 19, 2005, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Out of the 20 cars that entered the race, only the six cars from the teams using Bridgestone tyres competed. The remaining 14 entrants, all using Michelin tyres, completed the parade lap, but retired to the pits before the race started. Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher was the eventual winner, with his teammate Rubens Barrichello finishing second. It is the only Formula One race in which a driver has won the title more than once.
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The 2005 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on June 19, 2005, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It was the ninth race of the 2005 FIA Formula One World Championship. Out of the 20 cars that entered the race, only the six cars from the teams using Bridgestone tyres competed. The remaining 14 entrants, all using Michelin tyres, completed the parade lap, but retired to the pits before the race started. Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher was the eventual winner, with his teammate Rubens Barrichello finishing second. The final race result was the lowest number of finishing entries ever seen in a major open-wheel motorsports event at the Indy Motor Speedway since the institution of the 500-Mile Race. The situation created enormous negative publicity for the sport of Formula One, especially in the United States, a market in which Formula One had struggled to establish itself over the preceding twenty years. Some even called the race ‘Indygate’, after the track’s notorious Turn 13, where a tyre failure had caused the previous year’s crash of Ralf Schumachers’ Toyota team. The race was won by Jarno Trulli, driving for Toyota, who was the team’s first driver to win the pole position for a Formula 1 race. The result significantly boosted Schumaker’s championship standing, placing him third overall—no driver above him in driver championship points took part in the race. It is the only Formula One race in which a driver has won the title more than once.
The event is considered one of the most controversial Formula One races in modern history, with many commentators calling it ‘the most controversial race in Formula One history’ and ‘the greatest race in F1 history’ The race is also known as the ‘Indianapolis 500’ because of the high-speed bank at Turn 13 on the road course, which causes a greater than usual tyre loading. The track had been repaved since the previous Grand Prix with a more abrasive surface, which may have placed the tyres under even greater load than even before the Grand Prix. The Michelin-shod teams could have potentially exposed themselves to criminal liability under Indiana state law had they competed. Michelin reported that it did not understand why the tyres it had provided for its seven customer teams for the race had failed in this turn, and announced its intention to fly in different specification from its Clermont-Ferrari headquarters in Spain. The tyres were used in the Spanish Grand Prix earlier that year, which was held in a different type of abrasive type of surface than that used in this year’s Grand Prix – the type of tyre used in earlier races. The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile refused a compromise proposal from Michelin to allow a chicane to be installed, maintaining that such rule changes would be grossly unfair to the Bridgestones. The FIA later stated that the Michelin teams, unable to come to a compromise with the FIA, decided not to participate.
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