2001 Turkish Grand Prix

2001 Turkish Grand Prix
2001 Turkish Grand Prix
Race 13 of 18 in the 2001 Formula One World Championship
	The Istanbul Park Circuit
Race details
Date	19 August 2001
Official name	III Petrol Ofisi Turkish Grand Prix
Location	Istanbul Racing Circuit, Istanbul, Turkey
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	5.34 km (3.32 miles)
Distance	58 laps, 309.72 km (192.56 miles)
Weather	Dry
Pole position
Driver	Rubens Barrichello;
Time	1:28.157
Fastest lap
Driver	Michael Schumacher
Time	1:28.222 on lap 35
Podium
First	Rubens Barrichello;
Second	David Coulthard;
Third	Michael Schumacher;

Qualifying

The two Ferrari cars were back to their usual domination, locking out the front row with Rubens Barrichello taking pole position ahead of Michael Schumacher. However, this time, the Noah's Ark formation continued behind them with the two McLarens of David Coulthard and Mika Häkkinen third and fourth, ahead of the two Williams cars of Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya. Ricardo Zonta, racing for the Jordan team while the team were looking for a permanent replacement for Heinz-Harald Frentzen was nothing short of amazing in his performance to be seventh, beating teammate Jarno Trulli down to eighth.

Race

Polesitter Rubens Barrichello defended his lead from teammate Michael Schumacher and behind, Juan Pablo Montoya went in between David Coulthard and Mika Häkkinen. Coulthard took the inside line and defended his place but Häkkinen was jumped by Montoya. Then mayhem started when Ralf Schumacher spun off and was hit head on by Jarno Trulli. Both lost their front wings, and while Trulli went on to retire, Ralf went to the pits, had a new front wing, and rejoined in 21st and last place. At the front, the order was Barrichello leading Schumacher, Coulthard, Montoya, Häkkinen, Ricardo Zonta, Giancarlo Fisichella and Jacques Villeneuve. The top three pulled away from Montoya who was visibly holding up Häkkinen. Zonta and the others quickly dropped away from this battle. There were no changes until the first round of stops when Schumacher had a problem with his fuel rig, and lost 25 seconds. He was down in sixth. Häkkinen had jumped Montoya during the stops and began to lap as quick as Barrichelo and Coulthard.

Schumacher was also driving as quick, and this allowed him to blast past Zonta on lap 27. On the next lap, there was a major change as Coulthard passed Barrichello on the outside of Turn 1. He took off, increasing his lead to 2.2 seconds in the next 5 laps but then the Ferrari began to reel him back in. Before the second round of stops, Barrichello was right back with Coulthard, but there was major action behind when Häkkinen's right rear tyre blew as he approached Turn 1, and he had to do a whole lap on the wrecked tyre. He dropped back to sixth after the round of stops but the main action was when Barrichello jumped Coulthard by staying out for an extra lap only for Coulthard to pass him on lap 42. Coulthard could not build a lead and four laps later Barrichello took the lead back and pulled away, increasing his lead to a full second on lap 48. Behind, Montoya retired when his gearbox failed. Coulthard kept the gap to Barrichello to 1.5 seconds until a mistake on lap 55, allowing it to increase to 6 seconds. Thus, Barrichello won from Coulthard, Schumacher, Zonta, Fisichella, Häkkinen, Jean Alesi and Kimi Räikkönen.

Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	2	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	58	1:27:46.395	1	10
2	4	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	58	+6.044	3	8
3	1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	58	+27.256	2	6
4	11	Ricardo Zonta	Jordan-Honda	58	+56.741	7	5
5	7	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton-Renault	58	+1:08.281	9	4
6	3	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	58	+1:08.894	4	3
7	22	Jean Alesi	Prost-Acer	57	+1 Lap	12	2
8	17	Kimi Räikkönen	Sauber-Petronas	57	+1 Lap	10	1
9	8	Jenson Button	Benetton-Renault	57	+1 Lap	14
10	5	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-BMW	57	+1 Lap	6
11	19	Pedro de la Rosa	Jaguar-Cosworth	56	Spun off	17
12	21	Fernando Alonso	Minardi-European	56	+2 Laps	21
13	15	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows-Asiatech	56	+2 Laps	19
14	20	Tarso Marques	Minardi-European	55	+3 Laps	22
15	23	Luciano Burti	Prost-Acer	54	+4 Laps	15
Ret	10	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR-Honda	45	Gearbox	13
Ret	6	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams-BMW	44	Gearbox	5
Rer	16	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber-Petronas	32	Hydraulics	18
Ret	9	Olivier Panis	BAR-Honda	25	Suspension	11
Ret	14	Jos Verstappen	Arrows-Asiatech	20	Accident	16
Ret	18	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar-Cosworth	17	Radiator	20
Ret	12	Jarno Trulli	Jordan-Honda	0	Collision	8

Notes

Ricardo Zonta raced temporarily for the Jordan team while they were looking for a driver to replace Heinz-Harald Frentzen.
More starting woes for Jarno Trulli, as he collided with the spinning Ralf Schumacher and retired.
Michael Schumacher stalled in the pitlane during the first round of stops when he tried to get off in a hurry while battling with Rubens Barrichello and David Coulthard. He rejoined in sixth, 25 seconds behind the leaders.
Pedro de la Rosa spun off on the last lap but did not lose any place he was the last driver who was one lap down on the leader at that time.

Standings after Grand Prix

Drivers

Constructors

1. Ferrari - 142
2. Williams-BMW - 107
3. McLaren-Mercedes - 99
4. Jordan-Honda - 61