Circuit/Date Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari/24th April 2005
Start time (local/GMT) 14:00 hrs/12:00 hrs
Lap/Race distance 4.933 km/305.609 km (62 laps)
Winner 2004 Michael Schumacher (Scuderia Ferrari)
Pole 2004 Jenson Button (Lucky Strike BAR Honda), 1:19.753 min
Lap record Michael Schumacher (Scuderia Ferrari), 1:20.411 min (2004)
F1 statistics:
BMW WilliamsF1 Team 88 starts, 10 wins, 16 poles
WilliamsF1 before 2000 356 starts, 103 wins, 108 poles
BMW before 2000 97 starts, 9 wins, 15 poles
History and background:
On the 15th of April in 2001, the BMW WilliamsF1 Team celebrated the debut
win of the partnership at Imola. It was also Ralf Schumacher's first Formula
One victory. Since 1987, WilliamsF1 has claimed eight wins at Imola.
Races at Imola are run in an anti-clockwise direction. Anti-clockwise races
are
slowly gaining in popularity, with Istanbul joining Interlagos.
Imola's motor sport history dates back to the 1940s when the town's races
were
held on public roads. It wasn't until 1950 that work began to construct a
permanent race track. Work was finally completed in 1952.
Formula One made its debut in Imola on 21st April 1963. Jim Clark, in a
Lotus,
claimed the first win, although the race was not an official round of the
Formula One World Championship. Formula One did not return to Imola for a
further fifteen years after the inaugural race but, on 19th September 1979,
the sound of Formula One returned for the Dino Ferrari Grand Prix.
Imola has hosted a round of the FIA Formula One World Championship every
year since the Italian Grand Prix was staged there on 14th September 1980.
With two races held in Italy from 1981 onwards, Imola's race became known as
the 'San Marino' Grand Prix. In total, Imola has hosted 24 Formula One World
Championship races.
After the tragic accidents in 1994, when Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton
Senna
died on April 30th and 1st of May respectively, the circuit's lay-out has
been
significantly changed in the interests of safety.
In 1988, the circuit was officially named "Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari
Imola." In 1970, the circuit was first dedicated to Dino Ferrari. His
father's name was added after his death.
Imola has a population of approximately 65,000, is situated in the Emilia
Romagna region and located in the province of Bologna. The Republic of San
Marino, after which the Grand Prix is named, covers an area of just 60
square kilometres and lies to the southeast of Imola. |
