2001 Canadian Grand Prix

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2001 Canadian Grand Prix
Race 7 of 18 in the 2001 Formula One World Championship
 
Race details
Date May 27, 2001
Official name XLIV Grand Prix du Canada
Location Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal, Canada
Course Street circuit
Course length 4.361 km (2.71 miles)
Distance 70 laps, 305.27 km (189.7 miles)
Pole position
Driver Ferrari
Time 1:16.243
Fastest lap
Driver   Rubens Barrichello Ferrari
Time 1:17.119 on lap 49
Podium
First Ferrari
Second Williams-BMW
Third McLaren-Mercedes

Qualifying

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Practice suggested that qualifying would be a battle between the two Ferraris of Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello and McLaren's Mika Häkkinen. It was and the Ferraris locked out the front row, with Schumacher on pole ahead of Barrichello and Häkkinen. Championship leader Ralf Schumacher had to be satisfied with fourth ahead of Williams teammate Juan Pablo Montoya and David Coulthard. Ricardo Zonta did a wonderful job to qualify in seventh after replacing Heinz-Harald Frentzen who was ill. Jarno Trulli, who was assured the No. 1 spot at Jordan due to Frentzen's illness was an unhappy eighth.

Race

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Michael Schumacher got off all right from pole position but Rubens Barrichello was swamped by Ralf Schumacher and Mika Häkkinen in the race to the first corner. However, Ralf and Hakkinen touched, and Häkkinen was pushed to the gravel and dropped down to 12th while behind, Jarno Trulli got by Ricardo Zonta. Schumacher led Ralf, Barrichello, Montoya, Coulthard, Trulli, Zonta and Jenson Button. Schumacher pulled away from Ralf at the rate of half a second a lap. However, once Barrichello got past Ralf at the first chicane on lap 6, the gap stabilized at 2.5 seconds. It did not change during the first round of stops either but there was action behind, Coulthard getting by Montoya and Zonta retiring when his suspension failed.

After the stops, Schumacher and Barrichello continued to exchange fastest laps, with the gap never below 2.4s nor above 2.6s. This was by now a boring race with no action behind, until at the end of lap 49, with the gap at 2.529 seconds, the left rear wheel fell off Schumacher's car. It bounced off a wall and nearly hit Barrichello. Schumacher went round to the pits and parked his car into the garage. The final bit of action was when Häkkinen, back up to seventh challenged Olivier Panis for sixth at the hairpin. There was contact and Panis spun off. Häkkinen took sixth but by the time Panis rejoined, a superb Jos Verstappen was seventh. Barrichello took an important victory ahead of Ralf, Coulthard, Montoya, Trulli, Häkkinen, Verstappen and Panis.

Classification

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Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 2   Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 70 1:34:31.522 2 10
2 5   Ralf Schumacher Williams-BMW 70 +32.618 4 8
3 4   David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 70 +44.373 6 6
4 6   Juan Pablo Montoya Williams-BMW 70 +53.592 5 5
5 12   Jarno Trulli Jordan-Honda 70 +1:07.329 8 4
6 3   Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 69 +1 Lap 3 3
7 14   Jos Verstappen Arrows-Asiatech 69 +1 Lap 12 2
8 9   Olivier Panis BAR-Honda 69 +1 Lap 10 1
9 8   Jenson Button Benetton-Renault 69 +1 Lap 9  
10 19   Pedro de la Rosa Jaguar-Cosworth 68 +2 Laps 16  
11 17   Kimi Räikkönen Sauber-Petronas 68 +2 Laps 13  
12 18   Eddie Irvine Jaguar-Cosworth 68 +2 Laps 20  
13 21   Fernando Alonso Minardi-European 68 +2 Laps 22  
14 22   Jean Alesi Prost-Acer 67 Engine 17  
Ret 20   Tarso Marques Minardi-European 60 Spun off 21  
Ret 10   Jacques Villeneuve BAR-Honda 55 Halfshaft 11  
Ret 1   Michael Schumacher Ferrari 49 Wheel 1  
Ret 16   Nick Heidfeld Sauber-Petronas 44 Accident 14  
Ret 23   Luciano Burti Prost-Acer 36 Transmission 19  
Ret 11   Ricardo Zonta Jordan-Honda 23 Suspension 7  
Ret 7   Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton-Renault 14 Engine 15  
Ret 15   Enrique Bernoldi Arrows-Asiatech 4 Collision 16  

Notes

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Standings after Grand Prix

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