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2001 Japanese Grand Prix
Race 17 of 17 in the 2001 Formula One World Championship
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Race details[1][2]
Date October 14, 2001
Official name 2001 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix
Location Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka, Mie, Japan
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.859[3] km (3.641[4] miles)
Distance 53 laps, 310.331[3][5] km (192.831 miles)
Weather Cloudy, mild, dry, air temp: 24°C
Attendance 310,000[6]
Pole position
Driver
Ferrari
Time 1:32.484
Fastest lap
Driver Germany Ralf Schumacher Williams-BMW
Time 1:36.944 on lap 46
Podium
First
Ferrari
Second
Williams-BMW
Third
McLaren-Mercedes
Lap leaders

The 2001 Japanese Grand Prix (formally the 2001 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix)[7] was a Formula One motor race held at the Suzuka Circuit on 14 October 2001 at 14:30 JST (UTC+9). It was the seventeenth and final race of the 2001 Formula One season. It was the 27th running of the Japanese Grand Prix and the 17th held at Suzuka.

The race was won by the World Champion, German driver Michael Schumacher driving after starting from pole position. It was Schumacher's fourth victory in the Japanese Grand Prix (expanding his own record), his third for Ferrari and his ninth for the 2001 season. Schumacher won by three seconds over Colombian driver Juan Pablo Montoya. Third was taken by British driver David Coulthard, having overtaken his teammate Mika Häkkinen late in the race. Rubens Barrichello and Ralf Schumacher completed the points finishers.

Schumacher set a new record for points in a season with 123 and biggest point margin to second-placed Coulthard with 58.

Background

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The 2001 Japanese Grand Prix was the 17th and final Formula One race of the 2001 Formula One World Championship, held on 14 October 2001, at the 5.859 km (3.641 mi) Suzuka International Racing Course in Suzuka, Mie, Japan.[2] Some news websites inaccurately reported that the event would be postponed because of the United States invasion of Afghanistan caused by the previous month's September 11 attacks in the United States but the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA; Formula One's governing body) issued a statement refuting the reports.[8][9]

Before the race, both the World Drivers' Championship and World Constructors' Championship were already won, with Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher having secured the World Drivers' Championship four races earlier in the Hungarian Grand Prix and Ferrari took the World Constructors' Championship at the same event, with McLaren too many points behind to be able to catch them.[10] Seven points separated McLaren's David Coulthard and Ferrari's Rubens Barrichello in the battle to finish runner-up in the standings. Barrichello had to win the Grand Prix and for Coulthard to finish fifth or lower in order to claim second in the championship.[11][12] Sauber were battling Jordan for fourth position in the World Constructors' Championship and were five points ahead although there was an appeal against Jarno Trulli's disqualification from the preceding United States Grand Prix that would have decreased their margin by two points if the appeal with successful.[13]

Following the United States Grand Prix on 30 September,[14] most teams tested car components, aerodynamic packages, racing setups and tyres at various European racing circuits between 2 and 6 October in preparation for the Japanese Grand Prix.[15][16] British American Racing (BAR), Sauber and Jordan each tested for three days at Italy's Mugello Circuit,[15][16] while Benetton, Jaguar, McLaren and Williams were at Spain's Circuit de Catalunya for three days.[15] Ferrari spent six days at their test track, the Italian Fiorano Circuit, with Luca Badoer, their test driver, and Michael Schumacher.[17][18][19] The Arrows, Minardi and Prost teams did not conduct any testing in that time, focusing on the development of their 2002 cars.[15]

The press speculated whether Michael Schumacher would help his teammate Barrichello become the championship runner-up in Japan.[20] Michael Schumacher commented he was "only interested in winning" but added that there was a small possibility Ferrari could help Barrichello secure the runners-up spot.[20] Barrichello had been twice asked to help Michael Schumacher in the season and wanted to secure second in the standings without his teammate's assistance, saying, "After the team won the championship with Michael it has been proved that with a little bit of help and a little bit more attention I can do the job. But at the end of the day I have to win the race and David has to finish fifth or lower, so it's a hard task."[12] Coulthard said that he was arriving in Japan to win the Grand Prix and become the championship runner-up.[21]

There were eleven two-driver teams, each representing a different constructor, with no changes to the entry list from the previous race.[22][23] This was the final Grand Prix for Jordan's Jean Alesi and McLaren's two-time World Champion Mika Häkkinen.[24] It was also the last Grand Prix for the Prost squad because they went bankrupt and closed down during the following off-season,[25] and for the Benetton team as it was renamed as Renault in deference to the team's French owners for 2002.[26] Multiple teams brought experimental solutions to the track to direct the development of their 2002 vehicles.[23][27] Ferrari brought a lighter, more rigid F2001 chassis while McLaren did introduced any particular innovations and Williams used a top-exit exhaust featured at the United States Grand Prix on both their racing cars.[23][2] Honda supplied BAR and Jordan with a new V10 engine specification while Cosworth provided Jaguar with a new engine specification.[23][28] Renault provided Benetton with a new qualifying engine for the team's final race. Arrows installed the aerodynamic package used at the Hungarian Grand Prix on their A22 cars and Minardi installed new titanium gearboxes in both of their cars.[23]

Practice

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A total of four practice sessions preceded Sunday's race, two one-hour sessions on Friday and two 45-minute sessions on Saturday.[29] The first practice session was on Friday morning and was held in sunny weather.[30] Michael Schumacher lapped fastest with a time of 1:37.443 set 44 minutes in, 0.355 seconds faster than Häkkinen in second.[31] They were ahead of Williams's Juan Pablo Montoya, Barrichello, Alesi, Coulthard, Montoya's teammate Ralf Schumacher, Prost's Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Jaguar's Pedro de la Rosa and Sauber's Nick Heidfeld.[32] Some drivers went off the track during the session.[33] With one minute remaining,[31] Tomáš Enge lost control of the rear of his Prost car at an apex when he went off the racing line and oversteered off the circuit across the gravel trap at 130R corner.[23][32] He struck the tyre barrier at high speed, removing his two right-hand side wheels.[33] Enge complained his neck was sore,[34] but exited the car unaided as practice was red-flagged.[30] He did not participate in the second practice session.[35]

It continued to be sunny for the second session that afternoon.[36] On a light fuel load,[28] Alesi set the day's fastest lap time of 1:35.454 and was 0.523 seconds faster than the second-placed Montoya. De La Rosa, Häkkinen, Frentzen, Jaguar's Eddie Irvine, Coulthard, Michael Schumacher, Ralf Schumacher and Barrichello followed in the top ten.[37] Halfway through the session,[35][36] Heidfeld was on his first quick lap on a new set of soft Bridgestone tyres when lost control of the front of his vehicle going into the final right-hand corner in the S-Curve section and spun backwards into the inside tyre barrier at 150 mph (240 km/h).[23][37][38] His car stopped in the centre of the circuit,[39] and he suffered a minor headache and debris was littered across the track.[23][28][34] Heidfeld was transported to the medical centre,[40] and practice was stopped for ten minutes.[34] Late in the session, Coulthard spun into the turn two gravel trap;[39] his right-front brake assembly had caught fire in the pit lane after a strap of trap tape that was not completely torn from a duct had got caught in the brake cooling duct and the heat generated by the brake ignited it.[23][35][41]

The third practice session was held on Saturday morning in sunny conditions.[42][43] Michael Schumacher was the first driver to lap below the 1:35 mark all weekend and was fastest with a time of 1:34.711 he recorded with eight minutes remaining.[42] He was 0.332 seconds faster than Häkkinen, who in turn, was ahead of Barrichello, Coulthard, the Williams duo of Ralf Schumacher and Montoya, Sauber's Kimi Räikkönen, Trulli, Benetton's Jenson Button and Frentzen in positions three to ten.[44] The final session saw Ralf Schumacher recorded the first sub-1:34 lap in Suzuka's history with a time of 1:33.969 set with three minutes remaining. He was quicker than teammate Montoya, Coulthard, Michael Schumacher, Button, Trulli, Heidfeld, Häkkinen, Barrichello and BAR's Jacques Villeneuve in the next nine places.[44][45]

Qualifying

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During Saturday's one-hour qualifying session, each driver was limited to twelve laps, with the starting positions determined by the drivers' fastest laps. The 107% rule was in force during this session, forcing each driver to stay within 107% of the quickest lap time in order to qualify for the race.[29] Michael Schumacher improved on his lap time in each of the three out of the four runs allocated to him,[46] and clinched his 11th pole position of the season and the 43rd of his career with a time of 1:32.484 on a new set of tyres.[23][47] He broke the all-time lap record of the circuit set by Gerhard Berger in 1991.[48] Montoya had a slight car balance issue on a low fuel load compared to Michael Schumacher but was faster in the track's faster sections.[23][49] He was seven-tenths of a second behind in second,[47] having been unable to improve on his final run.[46] Ralf Schumacher was 0.111 seconds slower than his teammate in third,[48] and was pleased to run with no one impeding him towards the conclusion of qualifying.[50] Barrichello was unable to eliminate the understeer affecting his Ferrari, preventing him from lapping faster and he qualified fourth.[49][50] Häkkinen, fifth, had his car's ride height lowered and the tyre pressures modified but it did not eliminate an understeer he had.[23][50] Giancarlo Fisichella had Renault's new engine fitted in his Benetton car and took sixth.[49][50] Coulthard qualified in seventh.[47] Trulli, eighth, was slowed slightly by slower cars in the second sector during his fastest lap.[23][50] Button secured his best qualifying result of the season in ninth,[46][47] reporting excess oversteer on the setup his team used.[49][50] Heidfeld took 10th, having encountered slower cars on his final run and lost downforce.[23]

In his final Formula One qualifying session, Alesi took 11th although work with his race engineer David Brown was not enough for him to close up to teammate Trulli.[23][49] Räikkönen learnt that his car was 12 kg (26 lb) overweight and had understeer on his last run that slowed him through the Esses, leaving him in 12th.[23][50] Irvine was losing half a second to his teammate De La Rosa on the engine power but qualified ahead of him in 13th.[47][49] Villenueve, 14th, was happy with his car's balance and made setup changes to it that did not have the anticipated effect.[50] Frentzen's first run was enough to put him 15th and was unable to lap faster because of understeer on the soft Michelin tyres. De La Rosa took 16th with his best lap recorded on his third run, having been unable to find a suitable balance on his car's tyres.[23][49] BAR's Olivier Panis reported that his car felt slightly better en route to 17th.[50] Fernando Alonso extracted additional performance from his Minardi car and improved on each lap to qualify 18th.[23][48] Following his accident the day before,[50] Enge drove the spare Prost AP04 car set his fastest lap on his first run after which modifications prevented him from lapping faster and was 19th.[23] The Arrows duo of Enrique Bernoldi and Jos Verstappen qualified 20th and 21st, respectively.[48] Bernoldi encountered slower cars on his quickest lap while Verstappen drove a car that lacked pace but had decent handling.[23] Alex Yoong completed the starting order for Minardi in 22nd,[48] expressing disappointment over not improving greatly on each of his runs and traffic possibly stopping him from lapping faster during his third run.[23]

Qualifying classification

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Pos No Driver Constructor Lap Gap
1 1 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:32.484 –
2 6 Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya Williams-BMW 1:33.184 +0.700
3 5 Germany Ralf Schumacher Williams-BMW 1:33.297 +0.813
4 2 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 1:33.323 +0.839
5 3 Finland Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 1:33.662 +1.178
6 7 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton-Renault 1:33.830 +1.346
7 4 United Kingdom David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 1:33.916 +1.432
8 11 Italy Jarno Trulli Jordan-Honda 1:34.002 +1.518
9 8 United Kingdom Jenson Button Benetton-Renault 1:34.375 +1.891
10 16 Germany Nick Heidfeld Sauber-Petronas 1:34.386 +1.902
11 12 France Jean Alesi Jordan-Honda 1:34.420 +1.936
12 17 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Sauber-Petronas 1:34.581 +2.097
13 18 United Kingdom Eddie Irvine Jaguar-Cosworth 1:34.851 +2.367
14 10 Canada Jacques Villeneuve BAR-Honda 1:35.109 +2.625
15 22 Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen Prost-Acer 1:35.132 +2.648
16 19 Spain Pedro de la Rosa Jaguar-Cosworth 1:35.639 +3.155
17 9 France Olivier Panis BAR-Honda 1:35.766 +3.282
18 21 Spain Fernando Alonso Minardi-European 1:36.410 +3.926
19 23 Czech Republic Tomáš Enge Prost-Acer 1:36.446 +3.962
20 15 Brazil Enrique Bernoldi Arrows-Asiatech 1:36.885 +4.401
21 14 Netherlands Jos Verstappen Arrows-Asiatech 1:36.973 +4.489
22 20 Malaysia Alex Yoong Minardi-European 1:38.246 +5.762
107% time: 1:38.958
Source:[51]

Warm-up

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A half-hour warm-up session for teams to fine-tune their cars for the event was held in sunny weather conditions on the morning of the race.[52][53] Michael Schumacher was the fastest driver during the session with a lap time of 1:36.231. Coulthard was 0.454 seconds slower in second position.[54] Heidfeld set a lap late in warm-up to go third-fastest.[55] Trulli, Alesi, Häkkinen, Barrichello, Frentzen, Räikkönen and De La Rosa in the highest-placed Michelin-shod car occupied positions four to ten.[54][55] There were no incidents during the session,[53] in which some drivers drove their team's spare cars and most Michelin-shod cars had their tyres scrubbed.[56]

Race

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The race was held in the afternoon from 14:30 local time.[23] The weather conditions were fine and dry before the race,[57] with the air temperature 24 °C (75 °F) and the track temperature was between 26 and 27 °C (79 and 81 °F).[23][58] Yoong started from the pit lane in the spare Minardi car setup for Alonso because his team discovered an electrical fault with the gearbox in his race car.[23][59] Bernoldi stalled on the dummy grid and his car was pushed into a gap into the pit lane, where he started.[57][58] When the red lights went out to signal the start of the race,[60] Michael Schumacher veered to the right to the inside line and blocked the fast-starting Montoya to maintain the race lead on the drive into the first corner.[61] Ralf Schumacher briefly challenged his teammate but remained in third position.[61][62] Fisichella made a fast start with the aid of his car's powerful launch control system and moved past Häkkinen for fifth.[23][58] Barrichello was on a light fuel load because Ferrari had put him on a three-stop strategy to try and get him to the front of the pack.[57][63] He overtook Ralf Schumacher on the inside for third on the run into the 130R turn.[57][64]

At the conclusion of the first lap, Michael Schumacher led Montoya by 3.6 seconds.[63] The two drivers were in turn followed by Barrichello, Ralf Schumacher, Fisichella and Häkkinen.[57] Michael Schumacher began to pull away from the rest of the field,[65] since he was on a new set of tyres and running without aerodynamic turbulence affecting his car and Montoya starting the race on a set of scrubbed tyres that took time to get up to performance.[63] On lap two, Barrichello overtook Montoya on the inside on the approach to the chicane for second and avoided contact with the Williams driver by putting two wheels off the circuit.[57][61] However, at the beginning of the following lap, Montoya had more speed coming out of the chicane and this allowed him to slipstream past Barrichello to reclaim second at the end of the start-finish straight into the first corner.[61][64] During the same lap, Fisichella lost control of his car exiting the Denger Curve turn and spun 180 degrees.[23][57][58] He was able to continue driving,[59] but dropped from fifth to 12th.[61] Frentzen made an unscheduled pit stop to replace a dislodged nose cone on lap four after he had to swerve to avoid a collision with De La Rosa at the chicane to complete lap two.[23][59] Panis overtook Alonso for 17th on the same lap.[61]

On lap six, Räikkönen in ninth had his left-rear suspension failure on a bump at the exit of the Dunlop Curve corner and his car suddenly snapped into a spin at high speed. Alesi was battling Räikkönen for position and steered to the outside but was unable to avoid colliding with the right-rear of the Sauber car as they slid off to the outside of the track.[23][60][61] Both drivers struck the tyre barrier,[61] causing debris and wheels to litter the track and one avoided hitting another driver.[58][65] Approaching drivers were required to take avoiding action to stay away from the detached wheels.[65] Räikkönen complained of head and neck pains and was transported to the medical centre.[59][60] In the meantime, Fisichella overtook Irvine for ninth as they were passing through the accident scene.[58][61] Michael Schumacher missed his braking point for the last chicane and went across the grass on lap nine.[57][58] He was able to remain the race lead.[59]

About six laps later, Barrichello made the first pit stop of the race, followed by his teammate on lap 18. Montoya and Ralf Schumacher pitted on laps 21 and 23, respectively. After Häkkinen's pit stop on lap 24, Schumacher took the lead again. On lap 29, Ralf Schumacher returned to the pits to serve a stop-and-go penalty imposed on him for driving through the chicane. At the same time, Barrichello made his second stop. When starting again, the Brazilian had problems with the speed limiter, which blocked: Ralf Schumacher then managed to overtake him, albeit with a borderline maneuver. Four laps later, however, the Brazilian regained fifth place with a nice overtaking maneuver. From this point on, almost nothing happened and the second series of pit stops did not lead to a change in position. In the final laps, Häkkinen, who had moved up to third place, slowed down, letting Coulthard pass and giving him the podium. Michael Schumacher won the race ahead of Montoya, Coulthard, Häkkinen, Barrichello and Ralf Schumacher.

Race classification

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Pos No Driver Constructor Tyre Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 1 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari B 53 1:27:33.298 1 10
2 6 Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya Williams-BMW M 53 +3.154 2 6
3 4 United Kingdom David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes B 53 +23.262 7 4
4 3 Finland Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes B 53 +35.539 5 3
5 2 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Ferrari B 53 +36.544 4 2
6 5 Germany Ralf Schumacher Williams-BMW M 53 +37.122 3 1
7 8 United Kingdom Jenson Button Benetton-Renault M 53 +1:37.102 9  
8 11 Italy Jarno Trulli Jordan-Honda B 52 +1 lap 8  
9 16 Germany Nick Heidfeld Sauber-Petronas B 52 +1 lap 10  
10 10 Canada Jacques Villeneuve BAR-Honda B 52 +1 lap 14  
11 21 Spain Fernando Alonso Minardi-European M 52 +1 lap 18  
12 22 Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen Prost-Acer M 52 +1 lap 15  
13 9 France Olivier Panis BAR-Honda B 51 +2 laps 17  
14 15 Brazil Enrique Bernoldi Arrows-Asiatech B 51 +2 laps PL1  
15 14 Netherlands Jos Verstappen Arrows-Asiatech B 51 +2 laps 21  
16 20 Malaysia Alex Yoong Minardi-European M 50 +3 laps PL1  
17 7 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton-Renault M 47 Gearbox 6  
Ret 19 Spain Pedro de la Rosa Jaguar-Cosworth M 45 Oil leak 16  
Ret 23 Czech Republic Tomáš Enge Prost-Acer M 42 Brakes 19  
Ret 18 United Kingdom Eddie Irvine Jaguar-Cosworth M 24 Fuel rig 13  
Ret 17 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Sauber-Petronas B 5 Collision/suspension 12  
Ret 12 France Jean Alesi Jordan-Honda B 5 Collision 11  
Source:[66][67]
Notes
  • ^1 – Enrique Bernoldi and Alex Yoong started the race from the pit lane.[57]

Championship standings after the race

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  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
  • Bold text and an asterisk indicates the 2001 World Champions.

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