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2001 British Grand Prix

2001 British Grand Prix
Race 10 of 18 in the 2001 Formula One World Championship
The Silverstone Circuit modified in 2000
Race details
Date	July 1, 2001
Official name	LX Santander British Grand Prix
Location	Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone
Course	Permanent Road Facility
Course length	5.141 km (3.194 miles)
Distance	60 laps, 308.355 km (191.600 miles)
Scheduled distance	60 laps, 308.355 km (191.600 miles)
Weather	Dry/Wet
Pole position
Driver	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams-BMW
Time	1.21.036
Fastest lap
Driver	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
Time	1.24.591 on lap 21
Podium
First	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
Second	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari
Third	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Honda

Qualifying

Juan Pablo Montoya created a major surprise in qualifying by taking taking his second career pole as well as ending the pole streak of the two Ferraris. The first of them was Michael Schumacher in second, but Ralf Schumacher in the second Williams seperated him from Rubens Barrichello. David Coulthard was fifth in the first of the McLarens and was not too happy, but atleast he was better then Mika Häkkinen who crashed on his first run and would start 22nd and last. This left the door open for Jarno Trulli to take sixth after doing a good job to beat Heinz-Harald Frentzen with Jacques Villeneuve in eighth.

Race

At the start, polesitter Juan Pablo Montoya was swamped by Michael Schumacher before the run to Copse, and then passed by Rubens Barrichello (who had already got ahead of Ralf Schumacher) on the Hangar straight. Behind, Jarno Trulli touched title contender David Coulthard and went wide and was forced to drop a place to Heinz-Harald Frentzen. Schumacher was leading Barrichello, Montoya, Ralf, Coulthard, Frentzen, Trulli and Jacques Villeneuve. And then, on the third lap, Coulthard's suspension failed as a result of his earlier contact with Trulli, putting him out. The top 4 stayed together. On lap 16, it began to rain and Ralf went in for refuelling and also changed to wet tyres. However, the rain stopped, and he had o pit for dries two laps later, and rejoined well down the order. The conditions changed again with Montoya changing to wets during his refuelling stop on lap 20. This was too early and the two Ferraris stopped at the right time, and rejoined 6 seconds ahead of Montoya.

Barrichello made a mistake on lap 25 and lost 2.8 seconds and after that, the conditions began worse, but still the top three battled it out at a stabilized pace, Schumacher 2.8 seconds ahead of Barrichello and 6.2 seconds ahead of Montoya. On lap 40, Schumacher and Montoya went in for their second refeulling stop. Schumacher went out as usual but something was wrong with Montoya's car and Montoya stalled. This causes a chain of events and as the team tried to repair, a major flash fire broke out. It was extinguished, but Montoya had dropped to the back. After more repairs, he rejoined 10 laps down. Meanwhile, at the front, there was no change in gap between Schumacher and Barrichello, still remaining at 2.8 seconds but the action was provided by the recovering Ralf, as he passed Giancarlo Fisichella for seventh. Schumacher won with Barrichello making it a Ferrari 1-2 ahead of Frentzen, Kimi Räikkönen, Villeneuve, Pedro de la Rosa, Ralf and Fisichella.

Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	60	1:45:33.770	2	10
2	2	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	60	+2.849	4	8
3	11	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Honda	60	+43.582	7	6
4	17	Kimi Räikkönen	Sauber-Petronas	59	+1 Lap	11	5
5	10	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR-Honda	59	+1 Lap	8	4
6	19	Pedro de la Rosa	Jaguar-Cosworth	59	+1 Lap	12	3
7	5	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-BMW	59	+1 Lap	3	2
8	7	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton-Renault	58	+2 Laps	10	1
9	22	Jean Alesi	Prost-Acer	58	+2 Laps	14
10	8	Jenson Button	Benetton-Renault	58	+2 Laps	16
11	14	Jos Verstappen	Arrows-Asiatech	57	+3 Laps	19
12	3	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	57	+3 Laps	22
13	21	Fernando Alonso	Minardi-European	56	+4 Laps	17
14	15	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows-Asiatech	56	+4 Laps	21
NC	6	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams-BMW	50	Not Classified	1
Ret	23	Luciano Burti	Prost-Acer	42	Engine	18
Ret	9	Olivier Panis	BAR-Honda	36	Spun off	9
Ret	16	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber-Petronas	29	Spun off	15
Ret	12	Jarno Trulli	Jordan-Honda	18	Accident	6
Ret	20	Tarso Marques	Minardi-European	10	Hydraulics	20
Ret	4	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	2	Suspension	5
Ret	18	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar-Cosworth	0	Collision	13

Notes

• Lap Leaders: Michael Schumacher 58 (1-40, 43-60), Rubens Barrichello 2 (41-42)
• As usual, this race and the preceding French Grand Prix were run without any tobacco sponsorship except for the Ferrari team which ran its usual sponsorship.
• The McLaren team put their drivers names, "Mika" and "David" on their cars.
• The Benetton team did the same thing, with "Fisico" and "Jenson".
• The Jordan team put "Bitten Heroes" on their race cars
• Juan Pablo Montoya was third and running at the pace of the leaders but something ignited on his car in the second round of stops. After lengthy repairs, he rejoined the race, 10 laps down.
• At the start, Jarno Trulli's Jordan collided with David Coulthard's McLaren in the first corner. This led to Coulthard's suspension faling on the third lap, putting him out.
• Pedro de la Rosa's Jaguar-Cosworth pushed his teammate Eddie Irvine off the track at the start. Irvine retired from the race immediately.

Standings after Grand Prix

Drivers

• 1. Ralf Schumacher - 63
• 2. Rubens Barrichello - 53
• 3. David Coulthard - 51
• 4. Michael Schumacher - 49
• 5. Juan Pablo Montoya - 33
• 6. Mika Häkkinen - 27
• 7. Heinz-Harald Frentzen - 22
• 8. Jarno Trulli - 18

Constructors

• 1. Ferrari - 102
• 2. Williams-BMW - 96
• 3. McLaren-Mercedes - 78
• 4. Jordan-Honda - 40