Race · Round 12 of 17 · 29 July 2001

2001 German Grand Prix

Ralf Schumacher won for Williams from 2nd on the grid at Hockenheimring. 12 of the starters were not classified.

Dry, with cloud · High of 28 °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: HockenheimringHockenheim, Germany
Winner: Ralf SchumacherWilliams
Pole: Juan Pablo Montoya
Fastest lap: Juan Pablo Montoya
Entries: 2210 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	FW23	2	45	Finished	10
2	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	F2001	6	45	Finished	6
3	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	3	12	45	Finished	4
4	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	B201	17	45	Finished	3
5	Jenson Button	Benetton	B201	18	45	Finished	2
6	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	AP04	14	45	Finished	1
7	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	3	13	45	Finished	0
8	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	A22	19	44	Finished	0
9	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	A22	20	44	Finished	0
10	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	—	PL	44	Finished	0
DNF	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	EJ11	10	34	Hydraulics	0
DNF	David Coulthard	McLaren	MP4-16	5	27	Engine	0
DNF	Tarso Marques	Minardi	—	PL	26	Gearbox	0
DNF	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	FW23	1	24	Engine	0	fastest lap
DNF	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	F2001	4	23	Fuel pressure	0
DNF	Luciano Burti	Prost Grand Prix	AP04	16	23	Spun off	0
DNF	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	C20	8	16	Halfshaft	0
DNF	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	R2	11	16	Fuel pressure	0
DNF	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	MP4-16	3	13	Engine	0
DNF	Ricardo Zonta	Jordan	EJ11	15	7	Collision	0
DNF	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	C20	7	0	Collision damage	0
DNF	Pedro de la Rosa	Jaguar Racing	R2	9	0	Collision	0

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

F1DB layout hockenheimring-3 · 6.815 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
Ralf Schumacher	2	1	45
Rubens Barrichello	6	2	45
Jacques Villeneuve	12	3	45
Giancarlo Fisichella	17	4	45
Jenson Button	18	5	45
Jean Alesi	14	6	45
Olivier Panis	13	7	45
Enrique Bernoldi	19	8	44
Jos Verstappen	20	9	44
Fernando Alonso	PL	10	44
Jarno Trulli	10	DNF	34
David Coulthard	5	DNF	27
Tarso Marques	PL	DNF	26
Juan Pablo Montoya	1	DNF	24
Michael Schumacher	4	DNF	23
Luciano Burti	16	DNF	23
Kimi Raikkonen	8	DNF	16
Eddie Irvine	11	DNF	16
Mika Hakkinen	3	DNF	13
Ricardo Zonta	15	DNF	7
Nick Heidfeld	7	DNF	0
Pedro de la Rosa	9	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:38.117	—	0 m	—
2	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:38.136	+0.019	1 m	+0.019
3	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:38.811	+0.694	48 m	+0.675
4	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:38.941	+0.824	57 m	+0.130
5	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:39.574	+1.457	101 m	+0.633
6	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:39.682	+1.565	109 m	+0.108
7	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:39.921	+1.804	125 m	+0.239
8	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:40.072	+1.955	136 m	+0.151
9	Pedro de la Rosa	Jaguar Racing	19	1:40.265	+2.148	149 m	+0.193
10	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	12	1:40.322	+2.205	153 m	+0.057
11	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:40.371	+2.254	157 m	+0.049
12	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:40.437	+2.320	161 m	+0.066
13	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:40.610	+2.493	173 m	+0.173
14	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:40.724	+2.607	181 m	+0.114
15	Ricardo Zonta	Jordan	11	1:41.174	+3.057	213 m	+0.450
16	Luciano Burti	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:41.213	+3.096	215 m	+0.039
17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:41.299	+3.182	221 m	+0.086
18	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:41.438	+3.321	231 m	+0.139
19	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:41.668	+3.551	247 m	+0.230
20	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:41.870	+3.753	261 m	+0.202
21	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:41.913	+3.796	264 m	+0.043
22	Tarso Marques	Minardi	20	1:42.716	+4.599	320 m	+0.803

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)
Ralf Schumacher	1	45	1	24	31.6
Rubens Barrichello	2	45	2	16, 32	28.9, 39.8
Jacques Villeneuve	3	45	1	24	36.1
Giancarlo Fisichella	4	45	1	26	29.5
Jenson Button	5	45	1	24	32.0
Jean Alesi	6	45	1	25	31.2
Olivier Panis	7	45	2	16, 31	31.2, 31.0
Enrique Bernoldi	8	44	2	12, 28	33.4, 30.1
Jos Verstappen	9	44	2	7, 27	31.2, 29.4
Fernando Alonso	10	44	2	13, 25	31.1, 31.2
Jarno Trulli	DNF	34	1	27	37.9
David Coulthard	DNF	27	1	27	29.1
Tarso Marques	DNF	26	1	20	34.7
Juan Pablo Montoya	DNF	24	1	22	50.8
Michael Schumacher	DNF	23	1	23	31.4
Luciano Burti	DNF	23	0	None recorded	—
Kimi Raikkonen	DNF	16	0	None recorded	—
Eddie Irvine	DNF	16	1	12	29.7
Mika Hakkinen	DNF	13	0	None recorded	—
Ricardo Zonta	DNF	7	1	6	49.0
Nick Heidfeld	DNF	0	0	None recorded	—
Pedro de la Rosa	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
Ralf Schumacher · Rubens Barrichello	2 · 6	1 · 2	24 · 16	Rubens Barrichello	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · Jacques Villeneuve	6 · 12	2 · 3	16 · 24	Rubens Barrichello	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Giancarlo Fisichella	12 · 17	3 · 4	24 · 26	Jacques Villeneuve	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Olivier Panis	12 · 13	3 · 7	24 · 16	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Giancarlo Fisichella · Jenson Button	17 · 18	4 · 5	26 · 24	Jenson Button	Kept their order
Jean Alesi · Jenson Button	14 · 18	6 · 5	25 · 24	Jenson Button	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Enrique Bernoldi	18 · 19	5 · 8	24 · 12	Enrique Bernoldi	Kept their order
Olivier Panis · Jean Alesi	13 · 14	7 · 6	16 · 25	Olivier Panis	Swapped places
Olivier Panis · Enrique Bernoldi	13 · 19	7 · 8	16 · 12	Enrique Bernoldi	Kept their order
Enrique Bernoldi · Jos Verstappen	19 · 20	8 · 9	12 · 7	Jos Verstappen	Kept their order

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	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:41.424	—	0 m	—	32
2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:41.487	+0.063	4 m	+0.063	43
3	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:41.949	+0.525	35 m	+0.462	29
4	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:41.953	+0.529	36 m	+0.004	22
5	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:42.255	+0.831	56 m	+0.302	35
6	Pedro de la Rosa	Jaguar Racing	19	1:42.302	+0.878	59 m	+0.047	39
7	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:42.304	+0.880	59 m	+0.002	31
8	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:42.828	+1.404	94 m	+0.524	35
9	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	12	1:42.941	+1.517	102 m	+0.113	34
10	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:42.987	+1.563	105 m	+0.046	18
11	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:43.014	+1.590	107 m	+0.027	33
12	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:43.211	+1.787	120 m	+0.197	37
13	Ricardo Zonta	Jordan	11	1:43.461	+2.037	137 m	+0.250	36
14	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:43.487	+2.063	139 m	+0.026	33
15	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:43.496	+2.072	139 m	+0.009	30
16	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:43.528	+2.104	142 m	+0.032	26
17	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:43.815	+2.391	161 m	+0.287	36
18	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:44.143	+2.719	183 m	+0.328	22
19	Luciano Burti	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:44.162	+2.738	184 m	+0.019	39
20	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:44.549	+3.125	210 m	+0.387	24
21	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:44.730	+3.306	222 m	+0.181	27
22	Tarso Marques	Minardi	20	1:45.005	+3.581	241 m	+0.275	33

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	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:39.188	—	0 m	—	25
2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:39.469	+0.281	19 m	+0.281	23
3	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:39.937	+0.749	52 m	+0.468	22
4	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:40.069	+0.881	61 m	+0.132	18
5	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:40.263	+1.075	74 m	+0.194	24
6	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:40.436	+1.248	86 m	+0.173	20
7	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:40.443	+1.255	86 m	+0.007	14
8	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:40.575	+1.387	95 m	+0.132	29
9	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:40.697	+1.509	104 m	+0.122	14
10	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	12	1:40.894	+1.706	117 m	+0.197	25
11	Pedro de la Rosa	Jaguar Racing	19	1:40.905	+1.717	118 m	+0.011	27
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:41.153	+1.965	135 m	+0.248	21
13	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:41.428	+2.240	154 m	+0.275	27
14	Ricardo Zonta	Jordan	11	1:41.534	+2.346	161 m	+0.106	12
15	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:41.683	+2.495	172 m	+0.149	24
16	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:41.771	+2.583	178 m	+0.088	10
17	Luciano Burti	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:42.136	+2.948	203 m	+0.365	28
18	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:42.223	+3.035	209 m	+0.087	24
19	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:42.580	+3.392	233 m	+0.357	14
20	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:43.256	+4.068	280 m	+0.676	5
21	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:43.512	+4.324	297 m	+0.256	21
22	Tarso Marques	Minardi	20	1:43.909	+4.721	325 m	+0.397	28

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	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:42.621	—	0 m	—	13
2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:42.651	+0.030	2 m	+0.030	7
3	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:42.743	+0.122	8 m	+0.092	15
4	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:42.747	+0.126	8 m	+0.004	13
5	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:42.989	+0.368	24 m	+0.242	10
6	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:43.129	+0.508	34 m	+0.140	13
7	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:43.479	+0.858	57 m	+0.350	13
8	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:43.512	+0.891	59 m	+0.033	10
9	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:43.570	+0.949	63 m	+0.058	15
10	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:43.615	+0.994	66 m	+0.045	11
11	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:43.704	+1.083	72 m	+0.089	14
12	Pedro de la Rosa	Jaguar Racing	19	1:43.706	+1.085	72 m	+0.002	8
13	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:43.851	+1.230	82 m	+0.145	15
14	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	12	1:43.856	+1.235	82 m	+0.005	12
15	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:43.986	+1.365	91 m	+0.130	12
16	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:44.300	+1.679	112 m	+0.314	15
17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:44.601	+1.980	132 m	+0.301	15
18	Luciano Burti	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:45.004	+2.383	158 m	+0.403	15
19	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:45.263	+2.642	176 m	+0.259	12
20	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:45.653	+3.032	202 m	+0.390	5
21	Tarso Marques	Minardi	20	1:45.981	+3.360	223 m	+0.328	10
22	Ricardo Zonta	Jordan	11	6:35.247	+4:52.626	19,456 m	+4:49.266	3

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where this comes from

Round: 12 of 2001
Grand Prix: German Grand Prix
Dates: 29 Jul 2001
Layout raced: Forest circuit, third chicane · 6.823 km · 16 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Williams
Entrant: Williams-BMW
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.