Below is a rather extensive list of racing champions from this past season.  While it may not include every racing series in the world,  it does represent the most important ones.

Our congratulations to each and every champion.  It's never easy to win a championship of any sort, but these men and their teams were the best of 2005.

 

Series	Champion	Team	Car	Age	Starts	Wins	Poles
F1 World Championship	Fernando Alonso	Renault	Renault R25	24	19	7	6
GP2 Series	Nico Rosberg	ART Grand Prix	Dallara-Renault GP2	20	23	5	4
Champ Car World Series	Sébastien Bourdais	Newman/Haas	Lola B2/00 Ford	26	13	6	5
Toyota Atlantic Championship	Charles Zwolsman	Condor Motorsports	Swift 014 Toyota	26	12	3	5
IndyCar Series	Dan Wheldon	Andretti Green	Dallara-Honda IR2	27	17	6	0
Infiniti Pro Series	Wade Cunningham	Brian Stewart	Dallara-Infiniti	21	12	1	1
World Series by Renault	Robert Kubica	Epsilon Euskadi	Dallara-Renault	20	17	4	3
World Rally Championship	Sebastien Loeb	Citroen	XSARA	31	16	10	-
NASCAR Nextel Cup	Tony Stewart	Joe Gibbs Racing	Chevy Monte Carlo	34	36	5	3
NASCAR Busch Series	Martin Truex	Dale Earnhardt Inc	Chevy Monte Carlo	-	-	6	-
ALMS	Pirro & Biela	Champion	Audi R8	43/41	10	4	0
LMES	Collard & Boullion	Pescarolo Sport	Pescarolo-Judd	34/34	5	2	2
Grand-Am	Taylor/Angelelli	Sun Trust	Pontiac-Riley	49/38	14	5	-
FIA-GT	Gabriele Gardel	Labre Competition	Ferrari Maranello	28	10	3	0
Formula 3000 Italia	Luca Filippi	Fisichella Motorspt	Lola-Zytek B2/50	20	8	4	4
F3000 Pro Series	Max Busnelli	Pro Motorsports	-	-	8	2	2
Formula Nippon Championship	Satoshi Motoyama	Impul	Lola B3/50	34	9	3	2
F4000 powered by Holden	Peter Hackett	Ralt Australia	Ralt Holden	28	12	9	3
Formula 3 Euro Series	Lewis Hamilton	ASM F3	Dallara-Mercedes	20	20	15	13
British Formula 3	Álvaro Parente	Carlin Motorsports	Dallara-Mugan F305	21	18	11	9
Formula 3 Germany	Peter Elkmann	Jo Zeller Racing	Dallara-Opel Spiess	24	18	5	8
Formula 3 Italy	Luigi Ferrara	Angelo Corbetta	-	23	12	3	4
Formula 3 Spain	Andy Soucek	R. Llusia Racing	-	20	14	3	2
Formula 3 Japan	João Paulo de Oliveira	TOM's	Dallara-Toyota F305	24	20	7	8
Formula 3 Australia	Aaron Caratti	Astuti Motorsport	-	25	16	8	8
Formula Renault 2000 Euro	Kamui Kobayashi	Prema Powerteam	Renault FR2000	19	16	6	4
Formula Renault 2000 France	Romain Grosjean	SG Formula	-	19	16	10	10
Formula Renault 2000 UK	Oliver Jarvis	Manor Motorsports	-	21	20	5	3
Formula Renault 2000 Germany	Pekka Saarinen	SL Formula Racing	-	22	16	2	1
Formula Renault 2000 Italy	Kamui Kobayashi	Prema Powerteam	Renault FR2000	19	17	6	4
Formula BMW ADAC	Nicolas Hülkenberg	Josef Kaufmann	BMW FB02	18	20	8	9
Formula BMW UK	Dean Smith	Nexa Racing	BMW FB02	17	20	3	-
Formula BMW USA	Richard Philippe	Autotecnica	BMW FB02	15	20	5	-
Formula Azzurra	Davide Rigon	Europa Corse	-	19	12	5	7
British Touring Car Championship	Matt Neal	Dynamics Car	Honda Integra-R	39	30	6	1
World Touring Car Championship	Andy Priaulx	BMW Team UK	BMW 320i	31	20	1	1
Deutschen Tourenwagen Masters	Gary Paffett	AMG Mercedes	-	25	10	5	4
Eurocup Mégane Trophy	Jan Heylen	Racing for Belgium	Megane Trophy	25	15	6	3
Moto GP	Valentino Rossi	Gauloises Yamaha	Yamaha YZR-M1	26	-	11	5
Australian V8 Supercars	Russell Ingall	Stone Brothers	Ford Falcon	41	35	2	-
Swedish Touring Cars	Richard Goransson	West Coast Racing	BMW 320i	27	15	2	-
Japanese Super GT	Takagi/Tachikawa	Cerumo	Toyota Supra	31/30	8	3	-
Porsche Supercup	Alessandro Zampedri	Lechner Racing	Porsche 911 GT3	36	12	1	-
SPEED World Challenge	Andy Pilgrim	LAD	Cadillac CTS-V	49	-	0	0
Formula Palmer Audi	Joe Tandy	-	FPA	22	12	6	-

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