Race · Round 9 of 16 · 29 June 2003

2003 European Grand Prix

Ralf Schumacher won for Williams from 3rd on the grid at Nurburgring (GP-Strecke). 5 of the starters were not classified.

Dry, with cloud · High of 23 °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: Nurburgring (GP-Strecke)Nurburg, Germany
Winner: Ralf SchumacherWilliams
Pole: Kimi Raikkonen
Fastest lap: Kimi Raikkonen
Entries: 2015 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	FW25	3	60	Finished	10
2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	FW25	4	60	Finished	8
3	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	—	5	60	Finished	6
4	Fernando Alonso	Renault	—	8	60	Finished	5
5	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	—	2	60	Finished	4
6	Mark Webber	Jaguar Racing	R4	11	59	Finished	3
7	Jenson Button	British American Racing	5	12	59	Finished	2
8	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	C22	PL	59	Finished	1
9	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	C22	15	59	Finished	0
10	Antônio Pizzonia	Jaguar Racing	R4	16	59	Finished	0
11	Ralph Firman	Jordan	EJ13	14	58	Finished	0
12	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	EJ13	13	58	Finished	0
13	Justin Wilson	Minardi	PS03	19	58	Finished	0
14	Jos Verstappen	Minardi	PS03	18	57	Finished	0
15	David Coulthard	McLaren	MP4-17D	9	56	Spun off	0
DNF	Cristiano da Matta	Toyota	TF103	10	53	Engine	0
DNF	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	5	17	51	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jarno Trulli	Renault	—	6	37	Fuel pressure	0
DNF	Olivier Panis	Toyota	TF103	7	37	Brakes	0
DNF	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	MP4-17D	1	25	Engine	0	fastest lap

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

F1DB layout nurburgring-4 · 5.148 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
Ralf Schumacher	3	1	60
Juan Pablo Montoya	4	2	60
Rubens Barrichello	5	3	60
Fernando Alonso	8	4	60
Michael Schumacher	2	5	60
Mark Webber	11	6	59
Jenson Button	12	7	59
Nick Heidfeld	PL	8	59
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	15	9	59
Antônio Pizzonia	16	10	59
Ralph Firman	14	11	58
Giancarlo Fisichella	13	12	58
Justin Wilson	19	13	58
Jos Verstappen	18	14	57
David Coulthard	9	15	56
Cristiano da Matta	10	DNF	53
Jacques Villeneuve	17	DNF	51
Jarno Trulli	6	DNF	37
Olivier Panis	7	DNF	37
Kimi Raikkonen	1	DNF	25

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	6	1:31.523	—	0 m	—
2	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:31.555	+0.032	2 m	+0.032
3	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	4	1:31.619	+0.096	5 m	+0.064
4	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	3	1:31.765	+0.242	14 m	+0.146
5	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:31.780	+0.257	14 m	+0.015
6	Jarno Trulli	Renault	7	1:31.976	+0.453	25 m	+0.196
7	Olivier Panis	Toyota	20	1:32.350	+0.827	47 m	+0.374
8	Fernando Alonso	Renault	8	1:32.424	+0.901	51 m	+0.074
9	David Coulthard	McLaren	5	1:32.742	+1.219	69 m	+0.318
10	Cristiano da Matta	Toyota	21	1:32.949	+1.426	80 m	+0.207
11	Mark Webber	Jaguar Racing	14	1:33.066	+1.543	87 m	+0.117
12	Jenson Button	British American Racing	17	1:33.395	+1.872	105 m	+0.329
13	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	11	1:33.553	+2.030	114 m	+0.158
14	Ralph Firman	Jordan	12	1:33.827	+2.304	130 m	+0.274
15	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	10	1:34.000	+2.477	139 m	+0.173
16	Antônio Pizzonia	Jaguar Racing	15	1:34.159	+2.636	148 m	+0.159
17	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	16	1:34.596	+3.073	173 m	+0.437
18	Jos Verstappen	Minardi	19	1:36.318	+4.795	270 m	+1.722
19	Justin Wilson	Minardi	18	1:36.485	+4.962	279 m	+0.167
20	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	9	—	—	—	—

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. 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	60	2	21, 41	32.1, 33.0
Juan Pablo Montoya	2	60	2	18, 40	32.9, 32.5
Rubens Barrichello	3	60	2	17, 37	33.0, 33.3
Fernando Alonso	4	60	2	18, 38	32.4, 32.5
Michael Schumacher	5	60	2	16, 36	32.6, 34.1
Mark Webber	6	59	2	14, 38	34.8, 33.4
Jenson Button	7	59	2	15, 37	34.0, 36.0
Nick Heidfeld	8	59	2	20, 37	32.5, 32.9
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	9	59	3	14, 31, 44	32.6, 30.9, 30.8
Antônio Pizzonia	10	59	3	16, 40, 43	35.5, 34.0, 22.0
Ralph Firman	11	58	2	26, 41	32.9, 33.2
Giancarlo Fisichella	12	58	3	27, 43, 53	31.6, 33.6, 40.9
Justin Wilson	13	58	2	16, 36	35.4, 34.6
Jos Verstappen	14	57	2	15, 37	36.8, 34.6
David Coulthard	15	56	2	18, 42	33.3, 33.8
Cristiano da Matta	DNF	53	3	16, 24, 43	33.2, 39.2, 32.1
Jacques Villeneuve	DNF	51	2	14, 41	38.2, 33.4
Jarno Trulli	DNF	37	1	15	32.7
Olivier Panis	DNF	37	2	15, 36	34.2, 33.8
Kimi Raikkonen	DNF	25	1	16	33.9

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 · Ralf Schumacher	2 · 3	5 · 1	16 · 21	Michael Schumacher	Swapped places
Ralf Schumacher · Juan Pablo Montoya	3 · 4	1 · 2	21 · 18	Juan Pablo Montoya	Kept their order
Juan Pablo Montoya · Rubens Barrichello	4 · 5	2 · 3	18 · 17	Rubens Barrichello	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · Fernando Alonso	5 · 8	3 · 4	17 · 18	Rubens Barrichello	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Fernando Alonso	2 · 8	5 · 4	16 · 18	Michael Schumacher	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · David Coulthard	8 · 9	4 · 15	18 · 18	Same lap	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Mark Webber	2 · 11	5 · 6	16 · 14	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Jenson Button	11 · 12	6 · 7	14 · 15	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Jenson Button · Giancarlo Fisichella	12 · 13	7 · 12	15 · 27	Jenson Button	Kept their order
Ralph Firman · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	14 · 15	11 · 9	26 · 14	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Swapped places
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Antônio Pizzonia	15 · 16	9 · 10	14 · 16	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Kept their order
Ralph Firman · Antônio Pizzonia	14 · 16	11 · 10	26 · 16	Antônio Pizzonia	Swapped places
Giancarlo Fisichella · Ralph Firman	13 · 14	12 · 11	27 · 26	Ralph Firman	Swapped places
Giancarlo Fisichella · Justin Wilson	13 · 19	12 · 13	27 · 16	Justin Wilson	Kept their order
Jos Verstappen · Justin Wilson	18 · 19	14 · 13	15 · 16	Jos Verstappen	Swapped places
David Coulthard · Jos Verstappen	9 · 18	15 · 14	18 · 15	Jos Verstappen	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 · Practice 3 · Warm-up

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Olivier Panis	Toyota	20	1:31.197	—	0 m	—	22
2	Mark Webber	Jaguar Racing	14	1:31.224	+0.027	2 m	+0.027	19
3	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	6	1:31.260	+0.063	4 m	+0.036	19
4	Jarno Trulli	Renault	7	1:31.513	+0.316	18 m	+0.253	22
5	Fernando Alonso	Renault	8	1:31.750	+0.553	31 m	+0.237	18
6	Antônio Pizzonia	Jaguar Racing	15	1:31.794	+0.597	34 m	+0.044	18
7	David Coulthard	McLaren	5	1:31.918	+0.721	41 m	+0.124	22
8	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	4	1:32.170	+0.973	55 m	+0.252	22
9	Cristiano da Matta	Toyota	21	1:32.492	+1.295	73 m	+0.322	26
10	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:32.560	+1.363	77 m	+0.068	24
11	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	3	1:32.590	+1.393	79 m	+0.030	22
12	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:32.607	+1.410	80 m	+0.017	17
13	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	11	1:32.692	+1.495	84 m	+0.085	16
14	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	10	1:32.792	+1.595	90 m	+0.100	20
15	Jenson Button	British American Racing	17	1:32.841	+1.644	93 m	+0.049	23
16	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	9	1:32.901	+1.704	96 m	+0.060	18
17	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	16	1:33.602	+2.405	136 m	+0.701	21
18	Ralph Firman	Jordan	12	1:33.643	+2.446	138 m	+0.041	17
19	Jos Verstappen	Minardi	19	1:34.947	+3.750	212 m	+1.304	9
20	Justin Wilson	Minardi	18	1:35.525	+4.328	244 m	+0.578	14

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	Olivier Panis	Toyota	20	1:31.181	—	0 m	—	19
2	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:32.039	+0.858	48 m	+0.858	15
3	David Coulthard	McLaren	5	1:32.471	+1.290	73 m	+0.432	14
4	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	3	1:32.477	+1.296	73 m	+0.006	17
5	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	6	1:32.803	+1.622	92 m	+0.326	17
6	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:32.852	+1.671	94 m	+0.049	17
7	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	4	1:32.891	+1.710	97 m	+0.039	18
8	Antônio Pizzonia	Jaguar Racing	15	1:33.127	+1.946	110 m	+0.236	15
9	Cristiano da Matta	Toyota	21	1:33.140	+1.959	111 m	+0.013	19
10	Jarno Trulli	Renault	7	1:33.707	+2.526	143 m	+0.567	15
11	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	16	1:34.127	+2.946	166 m	+0.420	18
12	Fernando Alonso	Renault	8	1:34.179	+2.998	169 m	+0.052	17
13	Mark Webber	Jaguar Racing	14	1:34.564	+3.383	191 m	+0.385	15
14	Jenson Button	British American Racing	17	1:34.582	+3.401	192 m	+0.018	13
15	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	10	1:34.775	+3.594	203 m	+0.193	13
16	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	9	1:34.784	+3.603	203 m	+0.009	14
17	Ralph Firman	Jordan	12	1:34.967	+3.786	214 m	+0.183	14
18	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	11	1:35.332	+4.151	234 m	+0.365	13
19	Jos Verstappen	Minardi	19	1:36.845	+5.664	320 m	+1.513	9
20	Justin Wilson	Minardi	18	1:37.001	+5.820	329 m	+0.156	13

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 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	4	1:31.305	—	0 m	—	11
2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	3	1:31.366	+0.061	3 m	+0.061	15
3	Olivier Panis	Toyota	20	1:31.490	+0.185	10 m	+0.124	18
4	David Coulthard	McLaren	5	1:31.608	+0.303	17 m	+0.118	16
5	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	6	1:32.021	+0.716	40 m	+0.413	13
6	Cristiano da Matta	Toyota	21	1:32.057	+0.752	42 m	+0.036	22
7	Jarno Trulli	Renault	7	1:32.356	+1.051	59 m	+0.299	20
8	Fernando Alonso	Renault	8	1:32.391	+1.086	61 m	+0.035	18
9	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:32.652	+1.347	76 m	+0.261	21
10	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:33.010	+1.705	96 m	+0.358	16
11	Antônio Pizzonia	Jaguar Racing	15	1:33.076	+1.771	100 m	+0.066	18
12	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	11	1:33.214	+1.909	108 m	+0.138	20
13	Jenson Button	British American Racing	17	1:33.474	+2.169	122 m	+0.260	12
14	Mark Webber	Jaguar Racing	14	1:33.635	+2.330	131 m	+0.161	18
15	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	9	1:33.698	+2.393	135 m	+0.063	22
16	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	16	1:34.085	+2.780	157 m	+0.387	13
17	Ralph Firman	Jordan	12	1:34.827	+3.522	199 m	+0.742	4
18	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	10	1:34.940	+3.635	205 m	+0.113	20
19	Justin Wilson	Minardi	18	1:36.026	+4.721	266 m	+1.086	10
20	Jos Verstappen	Minardi	19	1:36.381	+5.076	286 m	+0.355	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.

Warm-up

Warm-up
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:31.981	—	0 m	—	6
2	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	2	1:32.097	+0.116	6 m	+0.116	6
3	David Coulthard	McLaren	5	1:32.114	+0.133	7 m	+0.017	4
4	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams	3	1:32.252	+0.271	15 m	+0.138	6
5	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren	6	1:32.385	+0.404	23 m	+0.133	5
6	Olivier Panis	Toyota	20	1:32.545	+0.564	32 m	+0.160	6
7	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	4	1:32.547	+0.566	32 m	+0.002	6
8	Jarno Trulli	Renault	7	1:33.029	+1.048	59 m	+0.482	4
9	Fernando Alonso	Renault	8	1:33.068	+1.087	61 m	+0.039	6
10	Cristiano da Matta	Toyota	21	1:33.306	+1.325	74 m	+0.238	6
11	Jenson Button	British American Racing	17	1:33.780	+1.799	101 m	+0.474	7
12	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	16	1:34.114	+2.133	119 m	+0.334	6
13	Mark Webber	Jaguar Racing	14	1:34.164	+2.183	122 m	+0.050	4
14	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	11	1:34.229	+2.248	126 m	+0.065	4
15	Ralph Firman	Jordan	12	1:34.373	+2.392	134 m	+0.144	7
16	Antônio Pizzonia	Jaguar Racing	15	1:34.746	+2.765	155 m	+0.373	5
17	Justin Wilson	Minardi	18	1:36.559	+4.578	256 m	+1.813	6
18	Jos Verstappen	Minardi	19	1:37.181	+5.200	291 m	+0.622	5
19	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	10	—	—	—	—	5
20	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	9	—	—	—	—	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.

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.

2 more photographs

Where this comes from

Round: 9 of 2003
Grand Prix: European Grand Prix
Dates: 29 Jun 2003
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Williams
Entrant: Williams-BMW
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.