2000 Canadian Formula One Grand Prix Race Report

1/ Michael Schumacher (Ferrari);
2/ Rubens Barrichello (Ferrari); 3/ Giancarlo Fisichella (Benetton);
4/ Hakkinen (McLaren); 5/ Vertsappen (Arrows); 6/ Trulli (Jordan).

2000 Montreal Canada Formula One Grand Prix
69 laps; 305.049 kms distance; June 18, 2000. Round 8.
Weather - clear to start with steadily increasing rain.

Another formation finish for Ferrari, with Michael Schumacher streaking away to lead the race all the way to his 40th career win. His lead was dominating, only David Coulthard was able to keep up with the German during the early stages of the race.
BAR's Jacques Villeneuve had a blindingly fast start in front of his home crowd, jumping two places from his grid position into third spot. His BAR held up Barrichello's Ferrari and Hakkinen's McLaren who watched the leading two cars slip away. Villeneuve was too eager by far to score points in this race and ended up crashing out (taking Ralf Schumacher with him) with some incredibly late braking into a corner on lap 65.
Coulthard's race was penalised severely with a ten second stop/go for having mechanics on the track right up to the start of the warm up lap. This left Michael Schumacher peerless on the track, with a twenty six and a half second lead over second placed Barrichello by lap 26.
Rain started falling just after the leading drivers had made their scheduled pitstop, meaning that they had to come in a second time for wet tyres. Hakkinen was particularly affected by this, making two stops in two laps!
Giancarlo Fisichella's Benetton has his pit stop timed perfectly, only needing one stop for both fuel and wet tyres, which leap frogged him into third place behind the two Ferrari.
And of course, rain only benefitted the Rain Master, Michael Schumacher, who had the luxury of easing back from his 30 second lead by lap 49 to make it another pictureque Ferrari 1-2, with Barrichello just a half car distance behind over the finish line.
On a circuit notorious on brakes, the rain benefited some, with 16 finishers.
This was McLaren's 500th F1 Grand Prix, one that was not memorable for them.
Schumacher extends his Driver's Championship lead to 56 points, with nearest rival Coulthard on 34 points. Ferrari leads the Constructor's table with 84 points over McLaren's 66 points.

	Montreal Canada Formula 1 Grand Prix
Lap	Race Report
Warm Up	Coulthard's mechanics are working on his car right up to the green lights.
Start	Villeneuve had the best of the start, jumping two places from his 6th grid position into third place. Irvine left standing on the grid and his pushed from the track, retiring. An investigation is announced looking at Coulthard's mechanics.
Lap 1	De La Rosa passes Frentzen. 1/ M.Schumacher; 2/ Coulthard; 3/ Villeneuve; 4/ Barrichello; 5/ Hakkinen; 6/ De La Rosa; 7/ Frentzen; 8/ Zonta; 9/ Trulli; 10/ Fisichella; 11/ Verstappen; 12/ Herbert; 13/ R.Schumacher; 14/ Wurz; 15/ Alesi; 16/ Salo; 17/ Diniz; 18/ Heidfeld; 19/ Button; 20/ Gene; 21/ Mazzacane.
Lap 3	Coulthard Fastest Lap 1:21.162 With Villeneuve's 3rd placed BAR ahead of Barrichello and Hakkinen, the two leaders, Schumacher & Coulthard pull away by 1.3 seconds a lap.
Lap 5	Schumacher Fastest Lap 1:20.882
Lap 6	1/ M.Schumacher; 0.5 second 2/ Coulthard; 9.5 seconds 3/ Villeneuve ...
Lap 10	Leader M.Schumacher is 14.135 seconds ahead of 3rd placed Villeneuve
Lap 14	M.Schumacher Fastest Lap. Herbert retires, stuck in 3rd gear.
Lap 14	2nd placed David Coulthard given a 10 second stop/go penalty for the infringement on the Warm Up by his mechanics - he rejoins in 10th position behind Verstappen.
Lap 15	1/ M.Schumacher 17.940 seconds 2/ Villenueve; 3/ Barrichello; 4/ Hakkinen; 5/ De La Rosa; 6/ Frentzen; 7/ Zonta; 8/ Trulli; 9/ Verstappen; 10/ Coulthard; 11/ Fisichella; 12/ R.Schumacher; 13/ Alesi; 14/ Wurz; 15/ Salo; 16/ Diniz; 17/ Heldfeld; 18/ Button; 19/ Gene; 20/ Mazzacane.
Lap 17	1/ M.Schumacher 18.666 seconds 2/ Villeneuve, only 3 seconds seperate 2nd position up to 6th position.
Lap 20	De La Rosa pit stop 7.6 seconds - his Arrows has a smaller fuel tank and therefore has to make this a two stop strategy. M.Schumacher Fastest Lap 1:20.442
Lap 22	Coulthard goes off with oil on the track left by Verstappen. Verstappen pit stop. 1/ M.Schumacher 22 seconds ahead of 2/ Villeneuve
Lap 24	Barrichello overtakes 2nd placed Villeneuve.
Lap 27	1/ M.Schumacher; 2/ Barrichello; 3/ Villeneuve; 4/ Hakkinen; 5/ Trulli; 6/ Frentzen; 7/ Zonta; 8/ Fisichella; 9/ R.Schumacher; 10/ Alesi; 11/ Coulthard; 12/ Wurz; 13/ De la Rosa; 14/ Salo; 15/ Diniz; 16/ Heidfeld; 17/ Button; 18/ Gene; 19/ Mazzacane.
Lap 28	1/ M.Schumacher 26.455 seconds 2/ Barrichello M.Schumacher Fastest Lap 1:20.226 Barrichello Fastest lap 1:20.184
Lap 29	M.Schumacher Fastest Lap 1:20.069 Barrichello Fastest lap 1:20.024
Lap 32	Frentzen pits and retires with brake problem.
Lap 34	M.Schumacher laps Mazzacane Heidfeld retires.
Lap 34	Race leader M.Schumacher scheduled pits stop 9.5 seconds, rejoins in second place behind team mate Barrichello.
Lap 35	Hakkinen overtakes Villeneuve into 3rd place. 1/ Barrichello; 2/ Schumacher; 3/ Hakkinen; 4/ Villeneuve; 5/ Trulli; 6/ Zonta.
Lap 36	Alesi scheduled pit stop and stalls his Benetton. Hakkinen Fastest Lap 1:19.371 Hakkinen is 4 seconds behind M.Schumacher
Lap 38	Hakkinen closes the gap to 2.5 seconds behind M.Schumacher
Lap 38	Trulli pits 10.3 seconds.
Lap 39	Barrichello pits stop 8.8 seconds. Alesi retires on the track.
Lap 40	Scheduled pit stops for De La Rosa; Gene and Salo
Lap 41	Pit stops for Villeneuve and Button (10.6 seconds) Rain begins to fall.
Lap 42	Hakkinen pit stop 9.4 seconds, rejoins behind Zonta. Barrichello pit stop 8.7 seconds. Salo retires. 1/ Barrichello; 2/ M.Schumacher; 3/ Villeneuve; 4/ Zonta; 5/ Hakkinen; 6/ Fisichella
Lap 43	Coulthard pit stop 8.6 seconds for fuel and slick tyres. Zonta pits. M.Schumacher pit stop for wet tyres as rain begins to fall heavily. Barrichello pits for wet tyres - a slow stop as the crew wasn't ready. Hakkinen pits again for wet tyres. Fisichella makes his scheduled stop perfectly - 1 stop for fuel and changes directly onto wet tyres.
Lap 48	De La Rosa retires. The track is very slippery with the rain - even M.Schumacher leaves the track!
Lap 48	1/ M.Schumacher; 2/ Barrichello; 3/ Fisichella; 4/ Hakkinen; 5/ Trulli; 6/ Wurz; 7/ Verstappen; 8/ Villeneuve; 9/ R.Schumacher; 10/ Coulthard; 11/ Zonta; 12/ Diniz; 13/ De La Rosa; 14/ Gene; 15/ Button; 16/ Mazzacane; 17/ Irvine. This is complete field.
Lap 50	Villeneuve comes off and loses two places down to 10th. Verstappen overtakes Trulli and the rain comes down hard. The two Ferrari are two seconds per lap faster than everyone else on the track.
Lap 59	1/ M.Schumacher; 2/ Barrichello; 3/ Fisichella; 4/ Hakkinen; 5/ Verstappen; 6/ Trulli; 7/ Wurz; 8/ R.Schumacher; 9/ Coulthard; 10/ Villeneuve; 11/ Zonta; 12/ Diniz... Note that positions 5/ Verstappen through to 10/ Villeneuve are very close on the track in the rain.
Lap 60	Verstappen overtakes Trulli. Michael Schumacher takes advantage of his devastating lead to ease back and allow his team mate in second place to catch him.
Lap 65	Villeneuve tries a kamikaze maneourve braking very late into a tight corner.
Lap 66	Villeneuve tries his kamikaze maneourve again, braking so late into a tight corner that he crashes into R.Schumacher who is two places ahead of him. Villeneuve and R.Schumacher both retire.
Lap 68	Coulthard and Wurz contact and both go off the track, with Coulthard rejoining the track ahead of Wurz's Benetton.
Lap 69 End	1/ M.Schumacher (Ferrari) half a car length; 2/ Barrichello (Ferrari) one car length ahead of; 3/ Fisichella (Bennetton); 4/ Hakkinen (McLaren); 5/ Verstappen (Arrows); 6/ Trulli (Jordan); 7/ Coulthard; 8/ Wurz; 9/ Zonta; 10/ Diniz; 11/ Button; 12/ Mazzacane... Time 1:14:12.313 Av. Speed 180.849 Km/H

Position	Driver	Team	Time
1/ - POLE 1st row	M. Schumacher	Ferrari	1:18.439
2/ 1st row	D. Coulthard	McLaren	1:18.537
3/ 2nd row	R. Barrichello	Ferrari	1:18.801
4/ 2nd row	M. Hakkinen	McLaren	1:18.985
5/ 3rd row	H. Frentzen	Jordan	1:19.483
6/ 3rd row	J. Villeneuve	BAR	1:19.544
7/ 4th row	J. Trulli	Jordan	1:19.581
8/ 4th row	R. Zonta	BAR	1:19.742
9/ 5th row	P. De La Rosa	Arrows	1:19.912
10/ 5th row	G. Fisichella	Benetton	1:19.932
11/ 6th row	J. Herbert	Jaguar	1:19.954
12/ 6th row	R. Schmacher	Williams	1:20.073
13/ 7th row	J. Verstappen	Arrows	1:20.107
14/ 7th row	A. Wurz	Benetton	1:20.113
15/ 8th row	M. Salo	Sauber	1:20.445
16/ 8th row	E. Irvine	Jaguar	1:20.500
17/ 9th row	J. Alesi	Prost	1:20.512
18/ 9th row	J. Button	Williams	1:20.534
19/ 10th row	P.Diniz	Sauber	1:20.692
20/ 10th row	M. Gene	Minardi	1:21.680
21/ 11th row	N. Heidfeld	Prost	1:21.680
21/ 11th row	G. Mazzacane	Minardi	1:22.091