Race · Round 1 of 17 · 4 March 2001

2001 Australian Grand Prix

Michael Schumacher won for Ferrari from pole at Albert Park. 8 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 25 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Albert ParkMelbourne, Australia
Winner: Michael SchumacherFerrari
Pole: Michael Schumacher
Fastest lap: Michael Schumacher
Entries: 2214 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	F2001	1	58	Finished	10	fastest lap
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	MP4-16	6	58	Finished	6
3	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	F2001	2	58	Finished	4
4	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	C20	10	58	Finished	3
5	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	EJ11	4	58	Finished	2
6	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	C20	13	58	Finished	1
7	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	3	9	58	Finished	0
8	Luciano Burti	Jaguar Racing	R2	21	57	Finished	0
9	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	AP04	14	57	Finished	0
10	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	A22	15	57	Finished	0
11	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	R2	12	57	Finished	0
12	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	—	19	56	Finished	0
13	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	B201	17	55	Finished	0
14	Jenson Button	Benetton	B201	16	52	Electrical	0
DNF	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	FW23	11	40	Engine	0
DNF	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	EJ11	7	38	Clutch	0
DNF	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	MP4-16	3	25	Suspension	0
DNF	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	FW23	5	4	Collision	0
DNF	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	3	8	4	Collision	0
DNF	Tarso Marques	Minardi	—	22	3	Battery	0
DNF	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	A22	18	2	Accident	0
DNF	Gastón Mazzacane	Prost Grand Prix	AP04	20	0	Brakes	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout melbourne-1 · 5.303 km · 16 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Michael Schumacher	1	1	58
David Coulthard	6	2	58
Rubens Barrichello	2	3	58
Nick Heidfeld	10	4	58
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	4	5	58
Kimi Raikkonen	13	6	58
Olivier Panis	9	7	58
Luciano Burti	21	8	57
Jean Alesi	14	9	57
Jos Verstappen	15	10	57
Eddie Irvine	12	11	57
Fernando Alonso	19	12	56
Giancarlo Fisichella	17	13	55
Jenson Button	16	14	52
Juan Pablo Montoya	11	DNF	40
Jarno Trulli	7	DNF	38
Mika Hakkinen	3	DNF	25
Ralf Schumacher	5	DNF	4
Jacques Villeneuve	8	DNF	4
Tarso Marques	22	DNF	3
Enrique Bernoldi	18	DNF	2
Gastón Mazzacane	20	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:26.892	—	0 m	—
2	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:27.263	+0.371	23 m	+0.371
3	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:27.461	+0.569	35 m	+0.198
4	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	11	1:27.658	+0.766	47 m	+0.197
5	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:27.719	+0.827	50 m	+0.061
6	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:28.010	+1.118	68 m	+0.291
7	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	12	1:28.377	+1.485	91 m	+0.367
8	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:28.435	+1.543	94 m	+0.058
9	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:28.518	+1.626	99 m	+0.083
10	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:28.615	+1.723	105 m	+0.097
11	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:28.738	+1.846	113 m	+0.123
12	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:28.965	+2.073	127 m	+0.227
13	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:28.993	+2.101	128 m	+0.028
14	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:29.893	+3.001	183 m	+0.900
15	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:29.934	+3.042	186 m	+0.041
16	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:30.035	+3.143	192 m	+0.101
17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:30.209	+3.317	202 m	+0.174
18	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:30.520	+3.628	221 m	+0.311
19	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:30.657	+3.765	230 m	+0.137
20	Gastón Mazzacane	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:30.798	+3.906	238 m	+0.141
21	Luciano Burti	Jaguar Racing	19	1:30.978	+4.086	249 m	+0.180
NC	Tarso Marques	Minardi	20	1:33.228	+6.336	387 m	+2.250

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Michael Schumacher	1	58	1	37	28.7
David Coulthard	2	58	1	41	28.5
Rubens Barrichello	3	58	1	39	28.7
Nick Heidfeld	4	58	1	37	28.2
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	5	58	1	37	28.1
Kimi Raikkonen	6	58	1	36	29.2
Olivier Panis	7	58	1	40	28.8
Luciano Burti	8	57	1	36	30.2
Jean Alesi	9	57	1	35	29.0
Jos Verstappen	10	57	2	14, 38	28.5, 29.1
Eddie Irvine	11	57	2	39, 50	28.9, 32.6
Fernando Alonso	12	56	2	32, 41	28.6, 29.2
Giancarlo Fisichella	13	55	2	26, 50	30.4, 26.0
Jenson Button	14	52	2	18, 32	30.1, 30.9
Juan Pablo Montoya	DNF	40	0	None recorded	—
Jarno Trulli	DNF	38	1	33	32.3
Mika Hakkinen	DNF	25	0	None recorded	—
Ralf Schumacher	DNF	4	0	None recorded	—
Jacques Villeneuve	DNF	4	0	None recorded	—
Tarso Marques	DNF	3	0	None recorded	—
Enrique Bernoldi	DNF	2	0	None recorded	—
Gastón Mazzacane	DNF	0	0	None recorded	—

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Michael Schumacher · David Coulthard	1 · 6	1 · 2	37 · 41	Michael Schumacher	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Rubens Barrichello	1 · 2	1 · 3	37 · 39	Michael Schumacher	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · David Coulthard	2 · 6	3 · 2	39 · 41	Rubens Barrichello	Swapped places
Rubens Barrichello · Nick Heidfeld	2 · 10	3 · 4	39 · 37	Nick Heidfeld	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Nick Heidfeld	4 · 10	5 · 4	37 · 37	Same lap	Swapped places
Olivier Panis · Nick Heidfeld	9 · 10	7 · 4	40 · 37	Nick Heidfeld	Swapped places
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Kimi Raikkonen	4 · 13	5 · 6	37 · 36	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Olivier Panis · Kimi Raikkonen	9 · 13	7 · 6	40 · 36	Kimi Raikkonen	Swapped places
Eddie Irvine · Kimi Raikkonen	12 · 13	11 · 6	39 · 36	Kimi Raikkonen	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Jean Alesi	13 · 14	6 · 9	36 · 35	Jean Alesi	Kept their order
Olivier Panis · Luciano Burti	9 · 21	7 · 8	40 · 36	Luciano Burti	Kept their order
Jean Alesi · Luciano Burti	14 · 21	9 · 8	35 · 36	Jean Alesi	Swapped places
Jean Alesi · Jos Verstappen	14 · 15	9 · 10	35 · 14	Jos Verstappen	Kept their order
Eddie Irvine · Jos Verstappen	12 · 15	11 · 10	39 · 14	Jos Verstappen	Swapped places
Jos Verstappen · Jenson Button	15 · 16	10 · 14	14 · 18	Jos Verstappen	Kept their order
Eddie Irvine · Fernando Alonso	12 · 19	11 · 12	39 · 32	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Giancarlo Fisichella · Fernando Alonso	17 · 19	13 · 12	26 · 32	Giancarlo Fisichella	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Giancarlo Fisichella	16 · 17	14 · 13	18 · 26	Jenson Button	Swapped places

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Warm-up

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:28.965	—	0 m	—	40
2	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	12	1:29.267	+0.302	18 m	+0.302	35
3	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:29.284	+0.319	19 m	+0.017	27
4	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:29.324	+0.359	21 m	+0.040	37
5	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:29.799	+0.834	50 m	+0.475	31
6	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:30.277	+1.312	78 m	+0.478	41
7	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:30.345	+1.380	82 m	+0.068	34
8	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	11	1:30.802	+1.837	109 m	+0.457	31
9	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:31.089	+2.124	127 m	+0.287	23
10	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:31.166	+2.201	131 m	+0.077	42
11	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:31.453	+2.488	148 m	+0.287	31
12	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:31.559	+2.594	155 m	+0.106	30
13	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:31.573	+2.608	155 m	+0.014	35
14	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:31.669	+2.704	161 m	+0.096	39
15	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:31.721	+2.756	164 m	+0.052	37
16	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:32.475	+3.510	209 m	+0.754	32
17	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:32.587	+3.622	216 m	+0.112	38
18	Luciano Burti	Jaguar Racing	19	1:33.011	+4.046	241 m	+0.424	27
19	Gastón Mazzacane	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:33.153	+4.188	250 m	+0.142	31
20	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:33.203	+4.238	253 m	+0.050	27
21	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:33.403	+4.438	265 m	+0.200	26
22	Tarso Marques	Minardi	20	1:36.463	+7.498	447 m	+3.060	19

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:27.540	—	0 m	—	30
2	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:27.561	+0.021	1 m	+0.021	16
3	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:27.775	+0.235	14 m	+0.214	25
4	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	11	1:27.940	+0.400	24 m	+0.165	20
5	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	12	1:28.193	+0.653	40 m	+0.253	25
6	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:28.666	+1.126	68 m	+0.473	21
7	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:28.677	+1.137	69 m	+0.011	30
8	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:28.851	+1.311	79 m	+0.174	17
9	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:28.861	+1.321	80 m	+0.010	27
10	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:28.895	+1.355	82 m	+0.034	25
11	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:28.962	+1.422	86 m	+0.067	27
12	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:29.184	+1.644	100 m	+0.222	23
13	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:29.945	+2.405	146 m	+0.761	6
14	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:29.981	+2.441	148 m	+0.036	24
15	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:30.360	+2.820	171 m	+0.379	28
16	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:30.549	+3.009	182 m	+0.189	27
17	Luciano Burti	Jaguar Racing	19	1:30.578	+3.038	184 m	+0.029	17
18	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:30.782	+3.242	196 m	+0.204	34
19	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:30.893	+3.353	203 m	+0.111	12
20	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:31.590	+4.050	245 m	+0.697	10
21	Gastón Mazzacane	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:34.431	+6.891	417 m	+2.841	9
22	Tarso Marques	Minardi	20	1:34.491	+6.951	421 m	+0.060	17

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Warm-up

Warm-up
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:30.099	—	0 m	—	11
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:30.152	+0.053	3 m	+0.053	12
3	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:30.396	+0.297	17 m	+0.244	14
4	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:30.559	+0.460	27 m	+0.163	11
5	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:30.584	+0.485	29 m	+0.025	13
6	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:30.839	+0.740	44 m	+0.255	7
7	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:30.966	+0.867	51 m	+0.127	16
8	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:31.061	+0.962	57 m	+0.095	13
9	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:31.450	+1.351	80 m	+0.389	6
10	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	11	1:31.566	+1.467	86 m	+0.116	13
11	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:31.665	+1.566	92 m	+0.099	11
12	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	12	1:31.811	+1.712	101 m	+0.146	13
13	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:32.106	+2.007	118 m	+0.295	12
14	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:32.108	+2.009	118 m	+0.002	14
15	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:32.687	+2.588	152 m	+0.579	13
16	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:33.717	+3.618	213 m	+1.030	9
17	Gastón Mazzacane	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:33.747	+3.648	215 m	+0.030	11
18	Luciano Burti	Jaguar Racing	19	1:33.772	+3.673	216 m	+0.025	14
19	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:34.421	+4.322	254 m	+0.649	9
20	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:34.554	+4.455	262 m	+0.133	12
21	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:34.572	+4.473	263 m	+0.018	10
22	Tarso Marques	Minardi	20	1:35.514	+5.415	319 m	+0.942	9

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Ferrari F2001
Schumacher Ferrari F2001 at Laguna Seca · DonFrance-photos · CC BY 2.0

Jordan EJ11
Heinz-Harald Frentzen 2001 Canada · Paul Lannuier from Sussex, NJ, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

BAR 003
Jacques Villeneuve 2001 Canada · Paul Lannuier from Sussex, NJ, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Jaguar R2
Pedro de la Rosa 2001 Canada · Paul Lannuier from Sussex, NJ, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

4 more photographs

Prost AP04
Enge indianapolis 2001 · agentura HOCH2 · CC BY 3.0 · unchecked

Williams FW23
Ralf Schumacher 2001 Canada · Paul Lannuier from Sussex, NJ, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Where this comes from

Round: 1 of 2001
Grand Prix: Australian Grand Prix
Dates: 4 Mar 2001
Layout raced: Original layout · 5.303 km · 16 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.