2000 Italian Grand Prix

 2000 Italian Grand Prix

Racing data
14th of 17 races of the Formula 1 World Championship 2000
Surname:	LXXI Gran Premio Vodafone d'Italia
Date:	September 10, 2000 2000
Place:	Monza
Course:	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Length:	307.029 km in 53 laps of 5.793 km
Weather:	nice and warm
Spectator:	~ 135,864
Pole position
Driver:	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari
Time:	1: 23.770 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
Time:	1: 25.595 min (lap 50)
Podium
First:	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari
Second:	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
Third:	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-BMW

The Italian Grand Prix 2000 took place on September 10th at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Monza and was the 14th race of the Formula 1 World Championship 2000 .

Reports

background

After the Belgian Grand Prix , Mika Häkkinen led the drivers' standings with six points ahead of Michael Schumacher and with 13 points ahead of David Coulthard . McLaren-Mercedes led the constructors' championship with eight points ahead of Ferrari and with 95 points ahead of Williams-BMW .

With Michael Schumacher (twice), Johnny Herbert , Heinz-Harald Frentzen and David Coulthard (once each), four former winners competed for this Grand Prix.

training

In Friday's free practice, Barrichello set the fastest lap time ahead of Schumacher and Jarno Trulli . In Saturday training his team mate Michael Schumacher took over the leadership position from Häkkinen, Barrichello himself set the third fastest time.

Qualifying

In qualifying, the order was exactly the same as in free practice before: Michael Schumacher again turned the fastest lap and thus occupied pole position in front of Mika Häkkinen and team-mate Barrichello.

Warm up

In the warm-up on Sunday, Ricardo Zonta surprisingly achieved the fastest lap, Mika Häkkinen was second ahead of Michael Schumacher.

run

Immediately after the start, as the cars approached the recently redesigned first chicane , Eddie Irvine's Jaguar collided with both Sauber drivers , causing his engine to stall and forcing him to give up early in the race. A much more serious accident was triggered a short time later in the second chicane when the Jordans of Jarno Trulli and Heinz-Harald Frentzen touched each other, Trulli spun and the two tore the cars of Rubens Barrichello and David Coulthard off the track. All four ended up in the gravel bed. Shortly thereafter followed Arrows of Pedro de la Rosa , who had crashed into the back of Johnny Herbert's Jaguar; with such force that it had torn off his left rear wheel, the Arrows rose into the air and rolled over several times. When he reached the run-out area, de la Rosa's car touched Coulthard's and landed on the side, next to Barrichello's Ferrari.

The five failed drivers were able to climb out of their cars without physical injuries. Herbert's car came around the run-off zone and he drove back to the pits on three remaining wheels. However, during take-off, Heinz-Harald Frentzens Jordan's right front wheel came loose and flew towards the boundary, where it hit the 33-year-old firefighter Paolo Ghislimberti in the chest and head area. Ghislimberti was resuscitated on site, but later succumbed to his injuries and was the first death in Formula 1 since Ayrton Senna in 1994 (see: Grand Prix of San Marino 1994 ). He left a pregnant woman who received financial support from an auction to sell the racing driver's overalls.

The race stewards decided not to abandon the race, but to lead the remaining cars behind the safety car. This angered many drivers, including Coulthard, who said the race should have been stopped because of the seriousness of the firefighter's condition. The safety car phase lasted eleven laps with Michael Schumacher in the lead and Mika Häkkinen in second position. Both were on the verge of the accident when it happened.

Schumacher and Häkkinen both used a one-stop strategy that allowed Schumacher to stay ahead of the Finn at the end of the race, winning the Italian Grand Prix for the third time in five years. This was the 41st victory of his career, so he now had the second highest number of overall wins and exactly as many as Ayrton Senna. Häkkinen secured second place, Ralf Schumacher came third. In the other points positions went Verstappen (the best result of the season with a fourth place) 7,5 seconds behind Ralf Schumacher, Alexander Wurz scored his only two championship points of the year with fifth place and Ricardo Zonta was sixth for British American Racing .

At the press conference after the race, Michael Schumacher burst into tears when asked if today's win meant a lot to him, as it was his 41st and he was now tied with Ayrton Senna . After Häkkinen, who had been Senna's team-mate for a year, visibly struggled for his composure and asked for an interruption, the press conference with Ralf Schumacher continued until the other two could calm down. Schumacher was asked twice more about his emotional outburst, but refused to answer these questions. Schumacher was later surprised by the general reaction to his emotional outburst (since his public appearance had otherwise been rather emotionless, his tears were bigger headlines than his victory, especially in Italy) and explained that he had found out shortly before the race that his old friend Willi Bergmeister had suffered a heart attack (which he would, however, survive). Then there was Ghislimberti's serious accident (the drivers didn't know about Ghislimberti's death at the time), the pressure to win and finally the memory of Senna, which broke the barrel.

As a consequence of Ghislimberti's death, the suspension of the racing cars was improved to keep the wheels from flying around and putting drivers, security guards and fans in danger. In 2004 a security fence in the variant Della Roggia was installed at the accident site.

In the world championship, Michael Schumacher shortened the gap to Häkkinen to just two points. In the constructors' championship, Ferrari caught up to four points behind McLaren.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
West McLaren Mercedes	1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren MP4 / 15	Mercedes-Benz 3.0 V10	B.
	2	David Coulthard
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro	3	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari F1-2000	Ferrari 3.0 V10	B.
	4th	Rubens Barrichello
Benson and Hedges Jordan	5	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan EJ10B	Mugen-Honda 3.0 V10	B.
	6th	Jarno Trulli
Jaguar Racing	7th	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar R1	Cosworth 3.0 V10	B.
	8th	Johnny Herbert
BMW Williams F1 Team	9	Ralf Schumacher	Williams FW22	BMW 3.0 V10	B.
	10	Jenson Button
Mild Seven Benetton Playlife	11	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton B200	Supertec 3.0 V10	B.
	12	Alexander Wurz
Gauloises cheers Peugeot	14th	Jean Alesi	Cheers AP03	Peugeot 3.0 V10	B.
	15th	Nick Heidfeld
Red Bull Sauber Petronas	16	Pedro Diniz	Clean C19	Petronas 3.0 V10	B.
	17th	Mika Salo
Arrows F1 team	18th	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows A21	Supertec 3.0 V10	B.
	19th	Jos Verstappen
Telefonica Minardi Fondmetal	20th	Marc Gené	Minardi M02	Fondmetal 3.0 V10	B.
	21st	Gastón Mazzacane
Lucky Strike Reynard BAR Honda	22nd	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR 002	Honda 3.0 V10	B.
	23	Ricardo Zonta

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	time	begin
01	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	1: 23.770	01
02	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	1: 23.797	02
03	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 23.967	03
04th	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR Honda	1: 24.238	04th
05	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 24.290	05
06th	Jarno Trulli	Jordan-Mugen	1: 24.477	06th
07th	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-BMW	1: 24.516	07th
08th	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Mugen	1: 24.786	08th
09	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Supertec	1: 24.789	09
10	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows-Supertec	1: 24.814	10
11	Jos Verstappen	Arrows-Supertec	1: 24.820	11
12	Jenson Button	Williams-BMW	1: 24.907	12
13	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Supertec	1: 25.150	13
14th	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Cosworth	1: 25.251	14th
15th	Mika Salo	Clean Petronas	1: 25.322	15th
16	Pedro Diniz	Clean Petronas	1: 25.324	16
17th	Ricardo Zonta	BAR Honda	1: 25.337	17th
18th	Johnny Herbert	Jaguar Cosworth	1: 25.388	18th
19th	Jean Alesi	Cheers Peugeot	1: 25.558	19th
20th	Nick Heidfeld	Cheers Peugeot	1: 25.625	20th
21st	Marc Gené	Minardi fund metal	1: 26.336	21st
22nd	Gastón Mazzacane	Minardi fund metal	1: 27.360	22nd

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
1	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	53	1	1: 27: 31.638	01	1: 25.663 (36th)
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	53	1	+ 3.810	03	1: 25.595 (50th)
3	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-BMW	53	1	+ 52.432	07th	1: 26.636 (49.)
4th	Jos Verstappen	Arrows-Supertec	53	1	+ 59.938	011	1: 27.033 (31st)
5	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Supertec	53	1	+1: 07.426	013	1: 26.869 (44th)
6th	Ricardo Zonta	BAR Honda	53	3	+1: 09.293	017th	1: 26.433 (22.)
7th	Mika Salo	Clean Petronas	52	3	+ 1 lap	015th	1: 27.297 (26.)
8th	Pedro Diniz	Clean Petronas	52	2	+ 1 lap	016	1: 27.215 (44.)
9	Marc Gené	Minardi fund metal	52	1	+ 1 lap	021st	1: 28.131 (31st)
10	Gastón Mazzacane	Minardi fund metal	52	1	+ 1 lap	022nd	1: 28.299 (49.)
11	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Supertec	52	1	+ 1 lap	09	1: 26.731 (46.)
12	Jean Alesi	Cheers Peugeot	51	1	+ 2 rounds	019th	1: 27.978 (47th)
-	Nick Heidfeld	Cheers Peugeot	15th	-	DNF	020th	1: 29.580 (14.)
-	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR Honda	14th	-	DNF	04th	1: 28.038 (14th)
-	Jenson Button	Williams-BMW	10	-	DNF	012	1: 43.666 (1.)
-	Johnny Herbert	Jaguar Cosworth	1	-	DNF	018th	4: 18.026 (1st)
-	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	0	-	DNF	02	-
-	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	0	-	DNF	05	-
-	Jarno Trulli	Jordan-Mugen	0	-	DNF	06th	-
-	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Mugen	0	-	DNF	08th	-
-	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows-Supertec	0	-	DNF	010	-
-	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Cosworth	0	-	DNF	014th	-

World Cup stands after the race

The first six of the race got 10, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Mika Hakkinen McLaren-Mercedes 80 02  Michael sSchumacher Ferrari 78 03  David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 61 04th  Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 49 05  Ralf Schumacher Williams-BMW 24 06th  Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton Supertec 18th 07th  Jacques Villeneuve BAR Honda 11 08th  Jenson Button Williams-BMW 10 09  Heinz-Harald Frentzen Jordan-Mugen 7th 10  Jarno Trulli Jordan-Mugen 6th 11  Mika Salo Clean Petronas 6th 12  Jos Verstappen Arrows-Supertec 5

Item driver constructor Points 13  Eddie Irvine Jaguar Cosworth 3 14th  Pedro de la Rosa Arrows-Supertec 2 15th  Ricardo Zonta BAR Honda 2 16  Alexander Wurz Benetton Supertec 2 17th  Pedro Diniz Clean Petronas 0 18th  Johnny Herbert Jaguar Cosworth 0 19th  Marc Gené Minardi fund metal 0 20th  Nick Heidfeld Cheers Peugeot 0 21st  Gastón Mazzacane Minardi fund metal 0 22nd  Jean Alesi Cheers Peugeot 0 23  Luciano Burti Jaguar Cosworth 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  McLaren-Mercedes 131 02  Ferrari 127 03  Williams-BMW 34 04th  Benetton Supertec 20th 05  Jordan-Mugen 13 06th  BAR Honda 13

Item constructor Points 07th  Arrows-Supertec 7th 08th  Clean Petronas 6th 09  Jaguar Cosworth 3 10  Minardi fund metal 0 11  Cheers Peugeot 0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} "WM-Stand" ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on December 28, 2013)  
2. ↑ "1. Free training " ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on December 28, 2013)  
3. ↑ "2. Free training " ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on December 28, 2013)  
4. ↑ "3. Qualification training " ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on December 28, 2013)  
5. ↑ "4. Warm up “ ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Motorsportarchiv.de; accessed on December 28, 2013)  
6. ↑ Recording of the press conference. Retrieved June 18, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Minutes of the press conference (English). Retrieved June 18, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Article on grandprix.com (English). Retrieved June 18, 2018 . 
9. ↑ "Schumi is crying on television", article in La Reppublica. September 11, 2000, accessed June 18, 2018 . 
10. ^ "F1, GP Italy: when Schumacher drew level with Senna" (Italian). Retrieved June 18, 2018 . 
11. ^ "Formula 1 history: the day Michael Schumacher broke into tears", article on t-online.de. Retrieved June 18, 2018 . 

Web links

• Weekend statistics at Motorsport-Total.com