During the recognition laps before the cars lined up on the pre-grid, Michael Schumacher runs wide across a gravel trap but the Ferrari mechanics are able to get most of the stones out of the car and change the barge boards to make sure that nothing is loose. The rest of the stones come out when Michael brakes during the final parade lap.

* Lap 1: At the start of the race Barrichello gets away faster than Coulthard and moves into second place behind Michael Schumacher. Ralf Schumacher retains his fourth place with holding on to fifth after a bump with Nick Heidfeld's Sauber. Mika Hakkinen is sixth with Heidfeld seventh, Montoya eighth, Kimi Raikkonen ninth and Olivier Panis 10th. In the midfield Eddie Irvine and Giancarlo Fisichella clash and the Jaguar spins into retirement at the first corner. Also going off in the course of the first lap was Tarso Marques in his Minardi. There is an investigation into a jumped start by Jenson Button and the Benetton driver is later given a 10-second stop-go penalty.

* Lap 2: Michael Schumacher's lead over Barrichello is 1.3 seconds while Coulthard is just a few tenths behind the Brazilian. A gap quickly grows between these three and Ralf Schumacher.

* Lap 6: Michael's lead is still only 1.4 seconds with Barrichello and Coulthard duelling behind him. Button stops for his stop-go penalty and drops to the tail of the field.

* Lap 9: The order is unchanged. There is a big queue of cars behind fifth placed Trulli with Hakkinen, Heidfeld, Montoya and Raikkonen all being held up. Luciano Burti goes off at the final corner and retires his Prost.

* Lap 10: Montoya has an off onto the grass but manages to rejoin still ahead of Raikkonen. Further back Jean Alesi overtakes Pedro de la Rosa to grab 12th place.

* Lap 12: The gap between Schumacher and Barrichello begins to grow dramatically with Coulthaard blocked behind the second Ferrari. Seventeenth-placed Enrique Bernoldi spins off in his Arrows.

* Lap 13: Button catches and passes Marques at the tail of the field.

* Lap 18: The gap between Schumacher and his pursuers has grown to six seconds. Seventeenth-placed Heinz-Harald Frentzen becomes the first runner to stop. He retains his place.

* Lap 19: Barrichello and Coulthard begin to close the gap on Schumacher.

* Lap 20: Sixteenth placed Fernando Alonso pits and drops two places.

* Lap 21: Schumacher wins back time in traffic so his gap goes back to nearly seven seconds. Further back Fisichella stops and drops from 14th to 15th.

* Lap 24: Barrichello slows again and Michael Schumacher pulls away and his lead goes to nearly 10 seconds. Jos Verstappen drops from 14th to 16th during his first pit stop.

* Lap 26: Raikkonen is the first of the top 10 to stop for tyres and fuel. He drops from ninth to 10th.

* Lap 27: Heidfeld, Panis and Button all pit. This allows Villeneuve to move up to eighth place.

* Lap 28: Michael Schumacher pits, handing the lead to Barrichello. Michael rejoins in third place.

* Lap 29: Fifth-placed Trulli stops and falls back to 10th.

* Lap 30: The pit stops continue with fourth-placed Ralf Schumacher stopping but holding on to his position. Villeneuve, Alesi and de la Rosa also stop.

* Lap 31: Barrichello stops and Coulthard goes into the lead. In the midfield Raikkonen has an off but rejoins without losing a place.

* Lap 32: Coulthard pits and falls to second behind Michael Schumacher but ahead of Barrichello. Also stopping is sixth-placed Montoya. Down at the back of the field Button passes Alonso to take 17th place.

* Lap 33: The order is set with Michael 14 seconds ahead of Coulthard and Barrichello third. There was then a big gap back to Ralf Schumacher with Mika Hakkinen, who had not pitted, was fifth. Raikkonen was sixth having got ahead of Montoya and Heidfeld during the pit stop sequence.

* Lap 35: Button spins out.

* Lap 38: Coulthard has brought the gap down to 11 seconds but is then not able to close further. Hakkinen pits but holds on to his fifth place. At the back of the field Alonso spins into retirement.

* Lap 45: Thirteenth-placed Fisichella stops for the second time and falls behind de la Rosa.

* Lap 46: Raikkonen is the first of the frontrunners to stop for a second time and drops behind Heidfeld and Montoya.

* Lap 52: Schumacher stops and falls behind Coulthard and Barrichello. Ralf Schumacher also stops and falls behind Hakkinen.

* Lap 53: Barrichello pits and rejoins behind Michael Schumacher.

* Lap 54: Coulthard stops and Barrichello is able to get back into second place. Further back Trulli retires with a mechanical problem.

* Lap 56: Hakkinen stops for a second time and drops from fourth to fifth, just behind Ralf Schumacher.

* Lap 57: Tenth-placed Olivier Panis gos into the pits to retire. He re-emerges 10 laps later and does one exploratory lap before parking the car again.

* Lap 64: Thirteenth placed Frentzen spins into retirement.

* Lap 67: Marques retires with a mechanical problem.

* Lap 68: Fisichella retires with an engine failure.

* Lap 71: Hakkinen stops for a surprising third stop for a dash of fuel. He drops away from Ralf Schumacher but retains fifth place.

* Lap 77: Schumacher wins and in doing so wins his 51st World Championship victory and a fourth World title. Rubens Barrichello's second place gives Ferrari the Constructors' title.