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October 16, 2005: Fernando Alonso rounded off his championship year by taking victory in China. He did so from pole position and fended off title rival Kimi Raikkonen in a year in which the Michael Schumacher monopoly on the sport had been destroyed.

October 9, 2005: Most sentences involving the phrase engine change in 2005 tended to include the name Kimi Raikkonen as well. True to form, the Finn needed another new engine in Japan and started 17th. He won the race with a superb move around the outside of Giancarlo Fisichella on the last lap.

September 25, 2005: Third place in Brazil was enough to give Fernando Alonso the title to become the sport's youngest World Champion

September 11, 2005: A win in Belgium for Kimi Raikkonen kept his slim championship hopes alive while Fernando Alonso continued to make heavy weather of winning the crown by finishing second. He retained his championship lead but the margin over Raikkonen was reduced.

September 4, 2005: After a recent run of success, speed and reliability, Kimi Raikkonen went to Monza with high hopes. Instead it was Juan Pablo Montoya who won for the second time in 2005, with Raikkonen again suffering an engine change and a grid drop to 11th

August 21, 2005: Kimi Raikkonen won the inaugural Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul, but his victory was tarnished by McLaren team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya's surrendering second place to championship leader Fernando Alonso on the penultimate lap

July 24, 2005

July 10, 2005: Juan Pablo Montoya took a first win of the season in the British Grand Prix to slow Fernando Alonso's advance towards the title on a weekend when Kimi Raikkonen's McLaren needed another engine change and started form 12th on the grid

July 3, 2005: After the shameful United States Grand Prix, it was good to see a full grid roar past at the end of lap one. It was headed by Fernando Alonso and his Renault would be ahead when the flag fell on lap 70

May 29, 2005: Had the European Grand Prix been 58 laps of the Nurburgring, Kimi Raikkonen would have been a winner for McLaren. Instead, starting the 59th and last lap, the front suspension failed and Raikkonen was pitched off the road at over 170 mph - handing victory to Fernando Alonso

May 8, 2005: Fernando Alonso's dominant season shuddered to a halt at his home Spanish Grand Prix as Kimi Raikkonen blitzed the field in his McLaren-Mercedes.

April 24, 2005: How better to tweak the nose of Ferrari than to beat the Italian team on home soil? That was what Renault and Fernando Alonso managed to achieve by winning the San Marino Grand Prix.

April 3, 2005

March 20, 2005: Renault's second win of 2005 came thanks to a crushing display by Fernando Alonso in Malaysia in a race run in sweltering humidity.

March 6, 2005: Giancarlo Fisichella's first race for Renault provided the dream start as the Italian claimed his second Grand Prix victory in the opening race of the season in Australia.