By Karl King
October 8 2005
Ralf Schumacher headed Toyota's fight for home victory at Suzuka, winning the qualifying lottery to claim pole. The German's time was enough to edge out Jenson Button who was leading Honda's pride-fight this weekend, by a small margin ~ 0.035s
| Pos. | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
Kph |
| 1 | R. Schumacher | Panasonic Toyota Racing |
1:46.106 |
3 |
197.021 | |
| 2 | J. Button | Lucky Strike BAR Honda |
1:46.141 |
0.035 |
3 |
196.956 |
| 3 | G. Fisichella | Mild Seven Renault F1 Team |
1:46.276 |
0.170 |
3 |
196.706 |
| 4 | C. Klien | Red Bull Racing |
1:46.464 |
0.358 |
3 |
196.359 |
| 5 | T. Sato | Lucky Strike BAR Honda |
1:46.841 |
0.735 |
3 |
195.666 |
| 6 | D. Coulthard | Red Bull Racing |
1:46.892 |
0.786 |
3 |
195.573 |
| 7 | M. Webber | BMW WilliamsF1 Team |
1:47.233 |
1.128 |
3 |
194.951 |
| 8 | J. Villeneuve | Sauber Petronas |
1:47.440 |
1.334 |
3 |
194.575 |
| 9 | R. Barrichello |
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro |
1:48.248 |
2.142 |
3 |
193.123 |
| 10 | F. Massa | Sauber Petronas |
1:48.278 |
2.172 |
3 |
193.069 |
| 11 | N. Karthikeyan |
Jordan Grand Prix |
1:48.718 |
2.612 |
3 |
192.288 |
| 12 | A. Pizzonia | BMW WilliamsF1 Team |
1:48.898 |
2.792 |
3 |
191.970 |
| 13 | C. Albers | Minardi F1 Team |
1:50.843 |
4.737 |
3 |
188.601 |
| 14 | M. Schumacher |
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro |
1:52.676 |
6.570 |
3 |
185.533 |
| 15 | R. Doornbos | Minardi F1 Team |
1:52.894 |
6.788 |
3 |
185.175 |
| 16 | F. Alonso |
Mild Seven Renault F1 Team |
1:54.667 |
8.561 |
3 |
182.312 |
| 17 | K. Raikkonen |
Team McLaren Mercedes |
2:02.309*
+Penalty |
16.203 |
3 |
170.921 |
| 18 | J. Montoya |
Team McLaren Mercedes |
no time |
- |
2 |
- |
| 19 | J. Trulli | Panasonic Toyota Racing |
no time |
- |
2 |
- |
| 20 | T. Monteiro |
Jordan Grand Prix |
no time |
- |
1 |
- |
