Race · Round 2 of 17 · 18 March 2001

2001 Malaysian Grand Prix

Michael Schumacher won for Ferrari from pole at Sepang International Circuit. 8 of the starters were not classified.

Wet · High of 29 °C, 1.6 mm of 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: Sepang International CircuitSepang, Malaysia
Winner: Michael SchumacherFerrari
Pole: Michael Schumacher
Fastest lap: Mika Hakkinen
Entries: 2214 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	F2001	1	55	Finished	10
2	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	F2001	2	55	Finished	6
3	David Coulthard	McLaren	MP4-16	8	55	Finished	4
4	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	EJ11	9	55	Finished	3
5	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	FW23	3	55	Finished	2
6	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	MP4-16	4	55	Finished	1	fastest lap
7	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	A22	18	55	Finished	0
8	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	EJ11	5	54	Finished	0
9	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	AP04	13	54	Finished	0
10	Luciano Burti	Jaguar Racing	R2	15	54	Finished	0
11	Jenson Button	Benetton	B201	17	53	Finished	0
12	Gastón Mazzacane	Prost Grand Prix	AP04	19	53	Finished	0
13	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	—	21	52	Finished	0
14	Tarso Marques	Minardi	—	20	51	Finished	0
DNF	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	B201	16	31	Fuel pressure	0
DNF	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	3	7	3	Spun off	0
DNF	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	C20	11	3	Spun off	0
DNF	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	A22	22	3	Spun off	0
DNF	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	FW23	PL	3	Spun off	0
DNF	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	R2	12	3	Water leak	0
DNF	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	3	10	1	Engine	0
DNF	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	C20	14	0	Driveshaft	0

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

F1DB layout sepang-1 · 5.543 km · 15 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	55
Rubens Barrichello	2	2	55
David Coulthard	8	3	55
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	9	4	55
Ralf Schumacher	3	5	55
Mika Hakkinen	4	6	55
Jos Verstappen	18	7	55
Jarno Trulli	5	8	54
Jean Alesi	13	9	54
Luciano Burti	15	10	54
Jenson Button	17	11	53
Gastón Mazzacane	19	12	53
Fernando Alonso	21	13	52
Tarso Marques	20	14	51
Giancarlo Fisichella	16	DNF	31
Jacques Villeneuve	7	DNF	3
Nick Heidfeld	11	DNF	3
Enrique Bernoldi	22	DNF	3
Juan Pablo Montoya	PL	DNF	3
Eddie Irvine	12	DNF	3
Olivier Panis	10	DNF	1
Kimi Raikkonen	14	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:35.220	—	0 m	—
2	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:35.319	+0.099	6 m	+0.099
3	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:35.511	+0.291	17 m	+0.192
4	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:36.040	+0.820	48 m	+0.529
5	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	12	1:36.180	+0.960	56 m	+0.140
6	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:36.218	+0.998	58 m	+0.038
7	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:36.397	+1.177	69 m	+0.179
8	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:36.417	+1.197	70 m	+0.020
9	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	11	1:36.578	+1.358	79 m	+0.161
10	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:36.681	+1.461	85 m	+0.103
11	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:36.913	+1.693	99 m	+0.232
12	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:37.140	+1.920	112 m	+0.227
13	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:37.406	+2.186	127 m	+0.266
14	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:37.728	+2.508	146 m	+0.322
15	Luciano Burti	Jaguar Racing	19	1:38.035	+2.815	164 m	+0.307
16	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:38.086	+2.866	167 m	+0.051
17	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:38.258	+3.038	177 m	+0.172
18	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:38.509	+3.289	191 m	+0.251
19	Gastón Mazzacane	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:39.006	+3.786	220 m	+0.497
20	Tarso Marques	Minardi	20	1:39.714	+4.494	262 m	+0.708
21	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:40.249	+5.029	293 m	+0.535
22	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	—	—	—	—

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	55	2	4, 30	116.5, 39.2
Rubens Barrichello	2	55	3	4, 21, 41	105.8, 40.3, 34.5
David Coulthard	3	55	2	4, 25	41.1, 35.1
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	4	55	2	4, 21	42.7, 35.4
Ralf Schumacher	5	55	3	4, 18, 38	66.2, 36.8, 34.9
Mika Hakkinen	6	55	3	4, 18, 40	44.0, 33.5, 34.4
Jos Verstappen	7	55	3	4, 22, 43	47.2, 34.3, 33.3
Jarno Trulli	8	54	3	4, 23, 39	50.0, 33.5, 35.1
Jean Alesi	9	54	2	4, 23	45.5, 35.3
Luciano Burti	10	54	2	3, 23	66.4, 45.1
Jenson Button	11	53	2	3, 23	59.3, 38.8
Gastón Mazzacane	12	53	3	4, 24, 34	50.0, 46.7, 38.8
Fernando Alonso	13	52	5	2, 3, 18, 31, 40	39.0, 60.2, 36.7, 36.4, 36.6
Tarso Marques	14	51	2	3, 28	63.8, 58.9
Giancarlo Fisichella	DNF	31	2	3, 20	43.6, 41.1
Jacques Villeneuve	DNF	3	0	None recorded	—
Nick Heidfeld	DNF	3	0	None recorded	—
Enrique Bernoldi	DNF	3	0	None recorded	—
Juan Pablo Montoya	DNF	3	0	None recorded	—
Eddie Irvine	DNF	3	0	None recorded	—
Olivier Panis	DNF	1	0	None recorded	—
Kimi Raikkonen	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 · Rubens Barrichello	1 · 2	1 · 2	4 · 4	Same lap	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · David Coulthard	2 · 8	2 · 3	4 · 4	Same lap	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · Ralf Schumacher	2 · 3	2 · 5	4 · 4	Same lap	Kept their order
David Coulthard · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	8 · 9	3 · 4	4 · 4	Same lap	Kept their order
Ralf Schumacher · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	3 · 9	5 · 4	4 · 4	Same lap	Swapped places
Ralf Schumacher · Mika Hakkinen	3 · 4	5 · 6	4 · 4	Same lap	Kept their order
Mika Hakkinen · Jos Verstappen	4 · 18	6 · 7	4 · 4	Same lap	Kept their order
Mika Hakkinen · Jarno Trulli	4 · 5	6 · 8	4 · 4	Same lap	Kept their order
Jarno Trulli · Jos Verstappen	5 · 18	8 · 7	4 · 4	Same lap	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Jos Verstappen	17 · 18	11 · 7	3 · 4	Jenson Button	Swapped places
Jos Verstappen · Gastón Mazzacane	18 · 19	7 · 12	4 · 4	Same lap	Kept their order
Jarno Trulli · Jean Alesi	5 · 13	8 · 9	4 · 4	Same lap	Kept their order
Jean Alesi · Luciano Burti	13 · 15	9 · 10	4 · 3	Luciano Burti	Kept their order
Luciano Burti · Jenson Button	15 · 17	10 · 11	3 · 3	Same lap	Kept their order
Jenson Button · Gastón Mazzacane	17 · 19	11 · 12	3 · 4	Jenson Button	Kept their order
Gastón Mazzacane · Fernando Alonso	19 · 21	12 · 13	4 · 2	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Gastón Mazzacane · Tarso Marques	19 · 20	12 · 14	4 · 3	Tarso Marques	Kept their order
Tarso Marques · Fernando Alonso	20 · 21	14 · 13	3 · 2	Fernando Alonso	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	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	12	1:38.846	—	0 m	—	39
2	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:38.929	+0.083	5 m	+0.083	34
3	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:38.931	+0.085	5 m	+0.002	32
4	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:39.300	+0.454	25 m	+0.369	31
5	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:39.520	+0.674	38 m	+0.220	29
6	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:39.861	+1.015	57 m	+0.341	26
7	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	11	1:40.197	+1.351	76 m	+0.336	29
8	Luciano Burti	Jaguar Racing	19	1:40.211	+1.365	77 m	+0.014	37
9	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:40.229	+1.383	78 m	+0.018	36
10	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:40.617	+1.771	99 m	+0.388	33
11	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:41.003	+2.157	121 m	+0.386	35
12	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:41.027	+2.181	122 m	+0.024	36
13	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:41.375	+2.529	142 m	+0.348	21
14	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:41.592	+2.746	154 m	+0.217	37
15	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:41.794	+2.948	165 m	+0.202	19
16	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:41.834	+2.988	168 m	+0.040	40
17	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:42.214	+3.368	189 m	+0.380	23
18	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:42.541	+3.695	207 m	+0.327	22
19	Gastón Mazzacane	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:42.563	+3.717	208 m	+0.022	33
20	Tarso Marques	Minardi	20	1:42.872	+4.026	226 m	+0.309	27
21	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:43.107	+4.261	239 m	+0.235	18
22	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	2:13.188	+34.342	1,926 m	+30.081	5

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	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:36.188	—	0 m	—	25
2	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:36.475	+0.287	17 m	+0.287	23
3	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:36.519	+0.331	19 m	+0.044	21
4	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:36.548	+0.360	21 m	+0.029	19
5	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:36.814	+0.626	36 m	+0.266	25
6	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	11	1:37.030	+0.842	49 m	+0.216	25
7	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	12	1:37.231	+1.043	60 m	+0.201	19
8	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:37.360	+1.172	68 m	+0.129	26
9	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:37.391	+1.203	69 m	+0.031	25
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:37.428	+1.240	71 m	+0.037	17
11	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:37.459	+1.271	73 m	+0.031	31
12	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:37.463	+1.275	73 m	+0.004	25
13	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:37.502	+1.314	76 m	+0.039	25
14	Luciano Burti	Jaguar Racing	19	1:37.636	+1.448	83 m	+0.134	25
15	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:38.130	+1.942	112 m	+0.494	20
16	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:38.548	+2.360	136 m	+0.418	30
17	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	1:38.712	+2.524	145 m	+0.164	23
18	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	1:38.958	+2.770	160 m	+0.246	28
19	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:39.401	+3.213	185 m	+0.443	26
20	Gastón Mazzacane	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:39.651	+3.463	200 m	+0.250	26
21	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	1:39.956	+3.768	217 m	+0.305	23
22	Tarso Marques	Minardi	20	1:40.171	+3.983	230 m	+0.215	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	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:49.763	—	0 m	—	10
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	4	1:50.846	+1.083	55 m	+1.083	10
3	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	12	1:51.046	+1.283	65 m	+0.200	13
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	17	1:51.265	+1.502	76 m	+0.219	11
5	Jos Verstappen	Arrows	14	1:51.508	+1.745	88 m	+0.243	13
6	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	11	1:52.061	+2.298	116 m	+0.553	10
7	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:52.316	+2.553	129 m	+0.255	11
8	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	16	1:53.352	+3.589	181 m	+1.036	12
9	Olivier Panis	British American Racing	9	1:53.470	+3.707	187 m	+0.118	11
10	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	10	1:53.482	+3.719	188 m	+0.012	12
11	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	5	1:55.109	+5.346	270 m	+1.627	7
12	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	6	1:55.278	+5.515	279 m	+0.169	12
13	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	3	1:57.064	+7.301	369 m	+1.786	9
14	Jean Alesi	Prost Grand Prix	22	1:57.832	+8.069	407 m	+0.768	12
15	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Racing	18	1:58.322	+8.559	432 m	+0.490	9
16	Gastón Mazzacane	Prost Grand Prix	23	1:58.416	+8.653	437 m	+0.094	9
17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	7	1:58.656	+8.893	449 m	+0.240	10
18	Luciano Burti	Jaguar Racing	19	2:01.120	+11.357	574 m	+2.464	10
19	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows	15	2:01.630	+11.867	599 m	+0.510	10
20	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	21	2:01.771	+12.008	606 m	+0.141	10
21	Tarso Marques	Minardi	20	2:04.349	+14.586	737 m	+2.578	8
22	Jenson Button	Benetton	8	2:07.047	+17.284	873 m	+2.698	4

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

Williams FW23
Ralf Schumacher 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

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

Where this comes from

Round: 2 of 2001
Grand Prix: Malaysian Grand Prix
Dates: 18 Mar 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.