Irvine Wins! He is just 2 points behind Hakkinen
in the championship.Ferrari keep their lead in the Constructors Championship |
70th lap Fisichella's engine blows Yellow flag
for Fisichella |
Coulthard is right behind Irvine It's is
so tense at the front. Coulthard can't get close enough to pass |
67th lap With threeth lap left, Coulthard is
right behind Irvine |
64th lap Coulthard is getting closer |
63th lap Hakkinen looks as though he will have
to settle for third, while Diniz is 6th |
61th lap Soon Coulthard will be up with Irvine
which will provide a brilliant battle for the last fewth lap |
60th lap Irvine has traffic - it's Trulli |
Coulthard has the gap down to 1.5 seconds,Irvine
has worn his brakes down. |
58th lap Hill is about to be lap ped |
58th lap Irvine is in traffic and now Coulthard
is closing |
57th lap The gap between Coulthard and Irvine
is now down to 2 seconds |
56th lap Fisichella goes offtrack enters again
but loses a place |
56th lap Barrichello is out his engine has blown.
Both Benettons are now in the points |
55th lap Wurz has profitted from the crash of
pitstops to move up to 6th place... |
51th lap Irvine is holding his lead of
3.5 secs |
50th lap Coulthard is now past the backmarker
Salo |
50th lap Hakkinen is now 3rd, 16.3 seconds behind
team mate Coulthard |
49th lap Hakkinen takes Barrichello with ease,
although the Stewart has held him back |
48th lap Coulthard must get past Salo who
is slowing him down. |
47th lap Hakkinen is right behind Barrichello |
Hakkinen is now gunning for Barrichello in 3rd
place. After that he will chase down Coulthard, who is responsible for
him being down the field... |
An amazing strategy by Ferrari - Irvine is now
leading Coulthard by 1.9 seconds on fresh tyres with a low fuel load |
Irvine has lasted until 44th lap with a lot of
fuel on board and then nicked into the lead |
Irvine gets out in front of Coulthard |
Irvine pits, so too does Fisichella |
Hakkinen is only 19 seconds behind Coulthard
now |
Hakkinen is now 5th, behind Barrichello |
Hakkinen's stop is good in 9.7 secs |
39th lap Hakkinen is in the pits |
Hakkinen is now ahead of Coulthard, although
he will stop this lap |
39th lap Coulthard pits in 10.8 secs |
38th lap Barrichello has a poor pit stop which
puts him down to 5th, while Hakkinen logs another faster lap |
37th lap Zanardi's race is over he runs out of
fuel |
36th lap Hakkinen is also eating into Coulthard's
lead - he has improved his deficit to Coulthard by 10 seconds in about
5th lap |
35th lap Barrichello is eating into Coulthard's
lead |
34th lap Hakkinen quickest again |
33th lap Hakkinen gets Frentzen at Castrol Kurve |
Fisichella, Wurz, Trulli and Hill are separated
only by about 4 seconds in 7th-10th places...therefore a good pitstop by
Hill could move him up to 7th |
30th lap Barrichello is catching Coulthard and
holding off Irvine - meanwhile Hakkinen has to get past Frentzen in order
to earn a shot at Irvine |
Hakkinen has caught Frentzen |
29th lap Coulthard is going to lap Salo's
Ferrari |
27th lap Barrichello is chiselling away at Coulthard's
lead, although it still stands at 12.2 secs |
Alesi pits now, and Hakkinen goes up to 5th place
Frentzen in 4th |
Coulthard is losing time.Diniz Pits |
22th lap Barrichello looks to be closing the
gap to Coulthard. |
21th lap Hill has passed Zonta to go into 12th |
20th lap Hakkinen sets the fastest lap |
Alesi passes Villeneueve, so does Hakkinen |
18th lap Hakkinen passes Fisichella without much
trouble |
17th lap Jean Alesi has passed Fisichella to
delay the attentions of Hakkinen. |
16th lap Barrichello is consolidating the 2nd
place, now leading Irvine by almost 4 seconds |
16th lap Mika Salo is down in 19th place after
having to pit. He hit Johnny Herbert on lap 1 at turn 1, and needed a nose
replacement. Herbert was out for 3th lap ! |
Hakkinen is now behind Alesi and Fisichella |
15th lap Hakkinen is losing time to Coulthard
in this traffic |
14th lap Hakkinen is now trying to get past Zonta |
Diniz has taken Villeneuve for 5th place,Hakkinen
is now past Wurz |
11th lap Mika Hakkinen is now 30 seconds down
on Coulthard. |
10th lap Hakkinen is up to 11th climbing slowly! |
Diniz has made it up to 6th from 16th on the
grid |
8th lap Ralf Schumacher is out of the race,trying
to outbreak and almost crashes into villeneuve Yellow flags are waving
for Ralf Schumacher's car |
6th lap Hakkinen is now up to 12th |
Irvine cannot get in front of Barrichello |
Great race for the benettons,Fisichella has got
up to 8th from 12th, whilst Wurz is still in 10th |
5th lap Badoer is already lap ped! |
4th lap Coulthard's lead is 6.4 seconds already
in 4th lap |
3rd lap Salo has pitted Hakkinen is past Gene
and Panis |
2nd lap Salo's front wing is hanging off |
Coulthard is now building a lead |
1st lap alo appears to have hit Herbert, who
has now pitted |
Coulthard is leading Barrichello, who ducked
in front of Irvine |
Coulthard nudges Hakkinen and the Finn is at
the back of the field |
Hakkinen is away, Coulthard too. Irvine still
3rd |
Alex Zanardi is the only driver who has elected
to run hard compound tyres |
The Benetton pit crew are wearing comedy Tyrolean
hats to chear Wurz. |