BULLETIN No 4
RACE FACTS AND INCIDENTS
* Lap 1: At the start of the race
Michael Schumacher gets away well but Rubens Barrichello is slower off the line and so
Ralf Schumacher is able to go ahead on the inside as they head down towards Tamburello.
Juan Pablo Montoya follows ahead of Kimi Raikkonen who is ahead of McLaren team mate David
Coulthard. Then come the two Renaults, the two Saubers and the two BARs. Allan McNish is
the only casualty on the first lap, his
* Lap 2: As Michael Schumacher pulls
away from his brother the order at the front is already stable although further back there
are two overtaking manoeuvres as Heinz-Harald Frentzen passes Takuma Sato for 13th place.
There is a second overtaking manoeuvre with Giancarlo Fisichella passing Eddie Irvine to
take 17th.
* Lap 5: Sato slows and pits with a
gearbox problem. After two minutes he rejoins but stops on the run down to Tamburello.
* Lap 6: After five consecutive
fastest laps Michael Schumacher is five seconds clear of the field with the order behind
him unchanged. Enrique Bernoldi overtakes Mika Salo for 14th place.
* Lap 16: Michael Schumacher's lead is
up to 11 seconds with the order unchanged. In the midfield Nick Heidfeld pits to try to
break the deadlock with the Renaults. The Sauber strategy goes wrong when the refuelling
machines fails to deliver and Heidfeld is sent on his way with a near-empty tank.
* Lap 17:
* Lap 19: Heidfeld pits again. He
accelerates out of the pits too quickly and so is given a drive-through penalty from the
FIA stewards.
* Lap 20: Fisichella retires with a
mechanical problem.
* Lap 22: The Renault team brings in
Jarno Trulli and he drops from seventh to 11th. A lap later Jenson Button follows him in
but is quicker and so gets head of his team mate. At the back of the field Bernoldi stops
for his first scheduled pit stop.
* Lap 23: Mika Salo comes in for his
first pit stop.
* Lap 24: Heidfeld comes into the pits
for his drive-through penalty.
* Lap 25: Mark Webber pits in 15th
place.
* Lap 26: Panis, running in eighth
place stops. He rejoins 11th. Salo retires with a technical problem. Frentzen also
disappears with a technical problem.
* Lap 27: Villeneuve follows Panis in
and drops from seventh to 10th.
* Lap 29: Eddie Irvine, running 13th
in his Jaguar, pits and drops to 15th.
* Lap 30: The first of the
frontrunners - fifth-placed Raikkonen - comes into the pits. He falls behind David
Coulthard. At the back of he field Pedro de la Rosa pits, rejoins and immediately stops at
the pit exit with a technical problem.
* Lap 31: The two Schumacher Brothers
(who are 17 seconds apart) both pit. Barrichello takes the lead.
* Lap 32: Barrichello pits but is able
to rejoin ahead of Ralf Schumacher. The grandstands erupt as the tifosi enjoys a Ferrari
1-2. Montoya also pits but stays fourth.
* Lap 34: Coulthard has a later pit
stops that the other frontrunners and he drops from fifth to seventh.
* Lap 37:
* Lap 39: Heidfeld has his fourth pits
stop but is still running in 13th.
* Lap 40: Trulli stops for the second
time and drops from eighth to 10th.
* Lap 41: Button stops and falls from
sixth to seventh.
* Lap 42: Webber has his second stop.
* Lap 43: Bernoldi has his second stop
and falls from 12th to 13th.
* Lap 44: Raikkonen comes into the
pits and retires from fifth place. Also out is Panis who pulls off with a technical
problem.
* Lap 45:
* Lap 46: The two Schumacher Brothers
stop and Barrichello is in the led again.
* Lap 47: Barrichello stops and
rejoins second behind Michael Schumacher.
* Lap 48: Montoya stops for a second
time. He rejoins fourth. Seventh-placed Villeneuve also stops but holds on to his
position.
* Lap 49: Fifth-placed Coulthard pits
again and falls behind Button.
* Lap 53: Bernoldi pulls off and
retires with a technical problem.
* Lap 54: Underlining Ferrari's
domination, Michael Schumacher laps Coulthard's McLaren.
* Lap 58:
* Lap 62: Ferrari comes home 1-2 to
the delight of the partisan crowd.