Race · Round 17 of 17 · 14 October 2001

2001 Japanese Grand Prix

Michael Schumacher won for Ferrari from pole at Suzuka Circuit. 5 of the starters were not classified. With this win, Michael Schumacher set a new record of 53 championship Grand Prix wins.

Dry, with cloud · High of 23 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

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Circuit: Suzuka CircuitSuzuka, Japan
Winner: Michael SchumacherFerrari
Pole: Michael Schumacher
Fastest lap: Ralf Schumacher
Entries: 2217 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	F2001	1	53	Finished	10
2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	FW23	2	53	Finished	6
3	David Coulthard	McLaren	MP4-16	7	53	Finished	4
4	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	MP4-16	5	53	Finished	3
5	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	F2001	4	53	Finished	2
6	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	FW23	3	53	Finished	1	fastest lap
7	Jenson Button	Benetton	B201	9	53	Finished	0
8	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	EJ11	8	52	Finished	0
9	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	C20	10	52	Finished	0
10	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	3	14	52	Finished	0
11	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	—	18	52	Finished	0
12	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Prost Grand Prix	AP04	15	52	Finished	0
13	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	3	17	51	Finished	0
14	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	A22	PL	51	Finished	0
15	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	A22	21	51	Finished	0
16	Alex Yoong	Minardi	—	PL	50	Finished	0
17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	B201	6	47	Gearbox	0
DNF	Pedro de la Rosa	Jaguar Racing	R2	16	45	Oil leak	0
DNF	Tomáš Enge	Prost Grand Prix	AP04	19	42	Brakes	0
DNF	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	R2	13	24	Fuel rig	0
DNF	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	C20	12	5	Collision	0
DNF	Jean Alesi	Jordan	EJ11	11	5	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 suzuka-1 · 5.86 km · 18 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	53
Juan Pablo Montoya	2	2	53
David Coulthard	7	3	53
Mika Hakkinen	5	4	53
Rubens Barrichello	4	5	53
Ralf Schumacher	3	6	53
Jenson Button	9	7	53
Jarno Trulli	8	8	52
Nick Heidfeld	10	9	52
Jacques Villeneuve	14	10	52
Fernando Alonso	18	11	52
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	15	12	52
Olivier Panis	17	13	51
Enrique Bernoldi	PL	14	51
Jos Verstappen	21	15	51
Alex Yoong	PL	16	50
Giancarlo Fisichella	6	17	47
Pedro de la Rosa	16	DNF	45
Tomáš Enge	19	DNF	42
Eddie Irvine	13	DNF	24
Kimi Raikkonen	12	DNF	5
Jean Alesi	11	DNF	5

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:32.484	—	0 m	—
2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:33.184	+0.700	44 m	+0.700
3	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:33.297	+0.813	52 m	+0.113
4	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:33.323	+0.839	53 m	+0.026
5	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:33.662	+1.178	75 m	+0.339
6	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:33.830	+1.346	85 m	+0.168
7	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:33.916	+1.432	91 m	+0.086
8	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	11	1:34.002	+1.518	96 m	+0.086
9	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:34.375	+1.891	120 m	+0.373
10	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:34.386	+1.902	121 m	+0.011
11	Jean Alesi	Jordan	12	1:34.420	+1.936	123 m	+0.034
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:34.581	+2.097	133 m	+0.161
13	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:34.851	+2.367	150 m	+0.270
14	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:35.109	+2.625	166 m	+0.258
15	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:35.132	+2.648	168 m	+0.023
16	Pedro de la Rosa	Jaguar Racing	19	1:35.639	+3.155	200 m	+0.507
17	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:35.766	+3.282	208 m	+0.127
18	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:36.410	+3.926	249 m	+0.644
19	Tomáš Enge	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:36.446	+3.962	251 m	+0.036
20	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:36.885	+4.401	279 m	+0.439
21	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:36.973	+4.489	284 m	+0.088
22	Alex Yoong	Minardi	20	1:38.246	+5.762	365 m	+1.273

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	53	2	18, 36	30.5, 30.0
Juan Pablo Montoya	2	53	2	21, 38	30.0, 29.2
David Coulthard	3	53	2	23, 39	28.2, 27.9
Mika Hakkinen	4	53	2	24, 38	28.9, 28.8
Rubens Barrichello	5	53	3	15, 29, 41	28.9, 34.6, 28.5
Ralf Schumacher	6	53	3	23, 29, 39	30.5, 32.0, 30.7
Jenson Button	7	53	2	20, 38	32.6, 29.4
Jarno Trulli	8	52	2	16, 33	29.9, 32.1
Nick Heidfeld	9	52	2	19, 33	29.3, 30.1
Jacques Villeneuve	10	52	2	19, 34	29.4, 30.6
Fernando Alonso	11	52	2	21, 37	31.2, 30.7
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	12	52	3	3, 22, 38	35.3, 30.1, 28.7
Olivier Panis	13	51	2	16, 32	41.7, 31.3
Enrique Bernoldi	14	51	3	19, 21, 37	31.6, 33.5, 30.6
Jos Verstappen	15	51	3	17, 33, 35	30.1, 31.1, 31.7
Alex Yoong	16	50	2	18, 34	32.2, 31.8
Giancarlo Fisichella	17	47	2	16, 35	29.8, 30.0
Pedro de la Rosa	DNF	45	2	26, 41	33.5, 29.6
Tomáš Enge	DNF	42	4	21, 35, 36, 41	31.7, 25.3, 39.2, 69.4
Eddie Irvine	DNF	24	1	23	28.3
Kimi Raikkonen	DNF	5	0	None recorded	—
Jean Alesi	DNF	5	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 · Juan Pablo Montoya	1 · 2	1 · 2	18 · 21	Michael Schumacher	Kept their order
Juan Pablo Montoya · Ralf Schumacher	2 · 3	2 · 6	21 · 23	Juan Pablo Montoya	Kept their order
Juan Pablo Montoya · David Coulthard	2 · 7	2 · 3	21 · 23	Juan Pablo Montoya	Kept their order
Mika Hakkinen · David Coulthard	5 · 7	4 · 3	24 · 23	David Coulthard	Swapped places
Giancarlo Fisichella · David Coulthard	6 · 7	17 · 3	16 · 23	Giancarlo Fisichella	Swapped places
David Coulthard · Jarno Trulli	7 · 8	3 · 8	23 · 16	Jarno Trulli	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · Mika Hakkinen	4 · 5	5 · 4	15 · 24	Rubens Barrichello	Swapped places
Mika Hakkinen · Giancarlo Fisichella	5 · 6	4 · 17	24 · 16	Giancarlo Fisichella	Kept their order
Ralf Schumacher · Rubens Barrichello	3 · 4	6 · 5	23 · 15	Rubens Barrichello	Swapped places
Ralf Schumacher · Jenson Button	3 · 9	6 · 7	23 · 20	Jenson Button	Kept their order
Jarno Trulli · Jenson Button	8 · 9	8 · 7	16 · 20	Jarno Trulli	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Nick Heidfeld	9 · 10	7 · 9	20 · 19	Nick Heidfeld	Kept their order
Jarno Trulli · Nick Heidfeld	8 · 10	8 · 9	16 · 19	Jarno Trulli	Kept their order
Nick Heidfeld · Jacques Villeneuve	10 · 14	9 · 10	19 · 19	Same lap	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Fernando Alonso	14 · 18	10 · 11	19 · 21	Jacques Villeneuve	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	14 · 15	10 · 12	19 · 3	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Fernando Alonso	15 · 18	12 · 11	3 · 21	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Swapped places
Olivier Panis · Fernando Alonso	17 · 18	13 · 11	16 · 21	Olivier Panis	Swapped places
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Olivier Panis	15 · 17	12 · 13	3 · 16	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	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	Jean Alesi	Jordan	12	1:35.454	—	0 m	—	32
2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:35.977	+0.523	32 m	+0.523	44
3	Pedro de la Rosa	Jaguar Racing	19	1:36.225	+0.771	47 m	+0.248	38
4	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:36.430	+0.976	60 m	+0.205	34
5	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:36.439	+0.985	60 m	+0.009	41
6	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:36.589	+1.135	70 m	+0.150	42
7	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:36.638	+1.184	73 m	+0.049	33
8	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:36.727	+1.273	78 m	+0.089	34
9	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:36.874	+1.420	87 m	+0.147	32
10	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:36.994	+1.540	95 m	+0.120	33
11	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	11	1:37.564	+2.110	130 m	+0.570	34
12	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:37.645	+2.191	135 m	+0.081	34
13	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:37.665	+2.211	136 m	+0.020	20
14	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:38.312	+2.858	175 m	+0.647	30
15	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:38.315	+2.861	176 m	+0.003	31
16	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:38.398	+2.944	181 m	+0.083	24
17	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:38.961	+3.507	215 m	+0.563	30
18	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:39.108	+3.654	224 m	+0.147	33
19	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:39.511	+4.057	249 m	+0.403	34
20	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:39.744	+4.290	263 m	+0.233	33
21	Alex Yoong	Minardi	20	1:39.952	+4.498	276 m	+0.208	32
22	Tomáš Enge	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:41.216	+5.762	354 m	+1.264	18

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	1:33.969	—	0 m	—	31
2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:34.301	+0.332	21 m	+0.332	25
3	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:34.562	+0.593	37 m	+0.261	19
4	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:34.711	+0.742	46 m	+0.149	17
5	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:34.735	+0.766	48 m	+0.024	21
6	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	11	1:34.909	+0.940	59 m	+0.174	11
7	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:35.037	+1.068	67 m	+0.128	18
8	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:35.043	+1.074	67 m	+0.006	15
9	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:35.222	+1.253	78 m	+0.179	16
10	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:35.457	+1.488	93 m	+0.235	26
11	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:35.483	+1.514	94 m	+0.026	26
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:35.672	+1.703	106 m	+0.189	15
13	Jean Alesi	Jordan	12	1:35.719	+1.750	109 m	+0.047	13
14	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:36.051	+2.082	130 m	+0.332	26
15	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:36.060	+2.091	130 m	+0.009	27
16	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:36.114	+2.145	134 m	+0.054	32
17	Pedro de la Rosa	Jaguar Racing	19	1:36.144	+2.175	136 m	+0.030	25
18	Tomáš Enge	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:37.246	+3.277	204 m	+1.102	28
19	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:37.429	+3.460	216 m	+0.183	27
20	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:37.514	+3.545	221 m	+0.085	23
21	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:37.805	+3.836	239 m	+0.291	22
22	Alex Yoong	Minardi	20	1:38.839	+4.870	304 m	+1.034	24

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	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:36.231	—	0 m	—	10
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:36.685	+0.454	28 m	+0.454	12
3	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:36.966	+0.735	45 m	+0.281	12
4	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	11	1:37.140	+0.909	55 m	+0.174	14
5	Jean Alesi	Jordan	12	1:37.361	+1.130	69 m	+0.221	12
6	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:37.584	+1.353	82 m	+0.223	13
7	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:37.813	+1.582	96 m	+0.229	13
8	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:37.891	+1.660	101 m	+0.078	14
9	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:37.942	+1.711	104 m	+0.051	12
10	Pedro de la Rosa	Jaguar Racing	19	1:37.970	+1.739	106 m	+0.028	13
11	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:38.183	+1.952	119 m	+0.213	13
12	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:38.263	+2.032	124 m	+0.080	9
13	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:38.604	+2.373	145 m	+0.341	13
14	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:38.641	+2.410	147 m	+0.037	15
15	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:38.740	+2.509	153 m	+0.099	16
16	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:39.091	+2.860	174 m	+0.351	11
17	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:39.182	+2.951	180 m	+0.091	9
18	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:39.295	+3.064	187 m	+0.113	12
19	Tomáš Enge	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:40.324	+4.093	249 m	+1.029	13
20	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:40.482	+4.251	259 m	+0.158	14
21	Alex Yoong	Minardi	20	1:41.104	+4.873	297 m	+0.622	11
22	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:42.142	+5.911	360 m	+1.038	12

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

Williams FW23
Ralf Schumacher 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

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

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

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

Where this comes from

Round: 17 of 2001
Grand Prix: Japanese Grand Prix
Dates: 14 Oct 2001
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.