2005 FIA WTCC Race of France

Jörg Müller took his first pole position of the season by topping the timesheets in the qualifying session with a time of 1:49.846 in his BMW. Rickard Rydell's SEAT qualified second with a time 0.3 seconds slower than Jörg. Young Brazilian Augusto Farfus was third on the grid in the first Alfa Romeo ahead of reigning world champion Andy Priaulx in his BMW and Gabriele Tarquini in another Alfa Romeo.[1]

Jörg Müller raced into the lead from pole, and Andy Priaulx was able to jump into second demoting front-row starter Rickard Rydell down to third. Augusto Farfus, who started third had a poor start and dropped down to sixth. Jörg Müller took a god lead from Priaulx, who also had a good gap to third-placed Rydell, who had to worry about Gabriele Tarquini who was only a second behind. Antonio García battled for fifth with Augusto Farfus until Jordi Gené's SEAT overtook the Brazilian. Farfus lost momentum, allowing Dirk Müller also through, and the latter also proceeded to pass Gené, and this battle allowed García to get a comfortable gap. Jörg Müller won very comfortably, nearly three seconds ahead of Priaulx. Rydell completed the podium ahead of Tarquini, who despite staying close was unable to attack the SEAT car. García, Dirk Müller, Gené and Farfus completed the points, with the Brazilian starting on pole in the next race. Marc Hennerici won the Independent's Trophy with a 13th-place finish.[2]

The reverse grid saw Farfus on pole, and he converted it into an early race lead, but however Gené who had started second was swamped by the BMW's and Tarquini's Alfa. At the end on lap 1, Farfus led from Dirk Müller, García, Tarquini, Jörg Müller, Gené, Priaulx who had not gained any spots from 7th, and James Thompson in another factory Alfa. Farfus continued to lead but Jörg Müller was starting to fight his way up, passing Tarquini on lap 2 and García a lap later. The pressure from Dirk Müller to Farfus increased lap after lap, and Farfus made a mistake dropping him from the lead to fifth. Jörg Müller then passed teammate Dirk to take the lead and then pulled away at a rate of knots. Dirk ran second, with García close behind, but Tarquini dropped away. Soon Farfus and Priaulx were past, and the reigning champion then passed Farfus as well to make it a BMW 1-2-3-4. He was not finished yet, and after closing up on Dirk Müller and García, took third from the Spaniard and then attacked Dirk. Well ahead of them now, Jörg Müller won again to make it a double with Dirk holding off Priaulx and García to finish second, as BMW finished 1-2-3-4. Farfus had to settle to fifth, and Gené took sixth from a fading Tarquini, who was also passed by countryman and Alfa teammate Fabrizio Giovanardi near the end. Tom Coronel won the Independent's Trophy after finishing 14th, but he was disqualified for his car not complying with ride height regulations, and the Independent's Trophy went to Carl Rosenblad.[2]

Pos	No		Driver	Team	Car	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	42		Jörg Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	BMW 320i	12	22:23.707	8	10
2	43		Dirk Müller	BMW Team Deutschland	BMW 320i	12	+5.003	3	8
3	1		Andy Priaulx	BMW Team UK	BMW 320i	12	+5.171	7	6
4	5		Antonio García	BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320i	12	+5.480	4	5
5	7		Augusto Farfus	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	12	+6.034	1	4
6	9		Jordi Gené	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	12	+8.879	2	3
7	6		Fabrizio Giovanardi	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	12	+10.538	10	2
8	2		Gabriele Tarquini	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	12	+10.828	5	1
9	3		James Thompson	Alfa Romeo Racing Team	Alfa Romeo 156	12	+17.135	11
10	10		Peter Terting	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	12	+19.057	9
11	8		Rickard Rydell	SEAT Sport	SEAT Toledo Cupra	12	+21.256	6
12	26		Roberto Colciago	JAS Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R	12	+22.527	12
13	22		Nicola Larini	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	12	+23.794	17
15	28	IT	Carl Rosenblad	Crawford Racing	BMW 320i	12	+26.152	14
16	21		Robert Huff	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	12	+27.392	19
17	32	IT	Marc Hennerici	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320i	12	+28.849	13
18	31	IT	Giuseppe Cirò	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320i	12	+29.162	21
19	51	IT	Salvatore Tavano	DB Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	12	+31.718	18
20	53	IT	Gianluca de Lorenzi	GDL Racing	BMW 320i	12	+32.314	20
21	27	IT	Adriano de Micheli	JAS Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R	12	+32.902	22
22	15		Thomas Jäger	Ford Hotfiel Sport	Ford Focus	12	+38.381	24
23	14		Thomas Klenke	Ford Hotfiel Sport	Ford Focus	12	+39.227	30
24	54	IT	Stefano Valli	Zerocinque Motorsport	BMW 320i	12	+52.259	25
25	4		Alessandro Zanardi	BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320i	12	+53.862	15
26	36	IT	Sascha Plöderl	RS-Line IPZ Racing	Ford Focus ST170	10	Retired	27
Ret	19	IT	Valle Mäkelä	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	4	Collision	16
DNS	55	IT	Alessandro Balzan	Scuderia del Girasole	SEAT Toledo Cupra			26
DNS	23		Alain Menu	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti			28
DNS	30	IT	Stefano D'Aste	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320i			29
DNS	33	IT	Adam Lacko	IEP Team	BMW 320i			32
DNS	37	IT	Frank Diefenbacher	RS-Line IPZ Racing	Ford Focus ST170			33
DSQ	20	IT	Tom Coronel	GR Asia	SEAT Toledo Cupra	12	Disqualified	23

• Note: Tom Coronel was disqualified from 14th as his car failed to comply with the ride height. No driver was given 14th.