18/11/2005
NEWS STORY
| Pos | Country | Driver | Laps | Time | Gap |
| 1 | Ireland | Firman | 20 | 1:56.663 | 0.000 |
| 2 | Canada | Macintosh | 18 | 1:56.952 | 0.289 |
| 3 | USA | Herta | 19 | 1:57.188 | 0.525 |
| 4 | Czech Rep | Enge | 23 | 1:57.273 | 0.610 |
| 5 | France | Premat | 19 | 1:57.316 | 0.653 |
| 6 | Brazil | Piquet | 15 | 1:57.344 | 0.681 |
| 7 | Great Britain | Kerr | 18 | 1:57.347 | 0.684 |
| 8 | Switzerland | Jani | 17 | 1:57.374 | 0.711 |
| 9 | Malaysia | Fauzy | 18 | 1:57.506 | 0.843 |
| 10 | Netherlands | Verstappen | 16 | 1:57.525 | 0.862 |
| 11 | Indonesia | Mikola | 13 | 1:57.605 | 0.942 |
| 12 | South Africa | Simpson | 20 | 1:57.871 | 1.208 |
| 13 | Italy | Toccacelo | 13 | 1:57.918 | 1.255 |
| 14 | Japan | Shimoda | 17 | 1:57.929 | 1.266 |
| 15 | China | Jiang | 19 | 1:57.959 | 1.296 |
| 16 | New Zealand | Halliday | 21 | 1:57.994 | 1.331 |
| 17 | Australia | Davison | 19 | 1:58.040 | 1.377 |
| 18 | Pakistan | Khan | 12 | 1:58.066 | 1.403 |
| 19 | Portugal | Parente | 15 | 1:58.488 | 1.825 |
| 20 | Mexico | Diaz | 20 | 1:58.796 | 2.133 |
| 21 | India | Ebrahim | 22 | 1:59.043 | 2.380 |
| 22 | Lebanon | Beschir | 5 | 2:00.146 | 3.483 |
| 23 | Austria | Lauda | 0 | No Time | - |
When A1 Team Austria started their car to enter the second official practice session, the 3.4 litre V8 was only running on seven cylinders. Despite A1 engineers spending the entire session in the team's garage, they were not able to rectify the problem in time for Mathias Lauda to take part in the session.