The 2005 Formula One season ended with the crowning of a new champion driver and constructor. Good news for Alonso, good news for Renault and good news for the fans.
There were some really good races this year, but a lot of really boring ones too. The new rules coming in next year should liven things up a bit.
Back at the beginning of the season I made some predictions. Let’s see how well I did:
Ferrari will struggle to remain dominant and Michael will get desperate, either making mistakes or cheating.
They sure did struggle, and there were signs of desperation from Michael at times. What happened at Indianapolis wasn’t exactly cheating but it was farcical.
Jenson Button will win the British Grand Prix.
Well maybe he would’ve done better without the bans and other distractions.
Juan and Kimi will be at each other’s throats by the third race.
Surprisingly they seem to be getting on ok. Juan’s mistakes haven’t impacted Kimi too much, and when they affected the result Kimi was very gracious about it.
Williams will blame Nick Heidfeld for everything that goes wrong.
It turned out to be Webber who got most of the blame and the bad press. Nick was a surprise star.
Fisichella will out-perform Alonso.
At the start of the season it looked like he was going to. Lots of bad luck and unreliability put a stop to that though.
Jacques won’t get near the podium.
Yeah well I had to get an easy prediction in there.
David Coulthard will go into rehab for Red Bull addiction.
He looked jittery to me a few times.
Ralf Schumacher won’t shut up about how crap Williams were and how great Toyota are.
Maybe he signed a gag clause with Williams. He was still annoying though.
Narain Karthikeyan will crash. A lot.
Yep. He did.
Juan and Michael will take each other out at least once.
It will happen next year.
Michael Schumacher will come second in the Driver’s Championship.
I was close! Considering how much Ferrari sucked this year, third was a good result for him. Of course, Indianapolis helped…
Ferrari will win the Constructor’s Championship purely on reliability.
They were mostly reliable, they were just really really slow and the Renaults had equally good reliability.