Japanese Grand Prix

Date & Time
Sun 14th October 2001 12:00am UTC

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League
Formula 1

Season
2001

Round
17

Status

Location
Suzuka Circuit

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The 2001 Japanese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 14 October 2001 at the Suzuka Circuit. It was the seventeenth and final race of the 2001 Formula One season. It was the 28th Japanese Grand Prix and the 17th to be held at Suzuka. It was held over 53 laps of the six kilometre circuit for a race distance of 311 kilometres.

The race was won by the world champion, German driver Michael Schumacher driving a Ferrari F2001 after starting from pole position. It was Schumacher's fourth victory in the Japanese Grand Prix (expanding his own record), his third for Ferrari and his ninth for the 2001 season. Schumacher won by three seconds over Colombian driver Juan Pablo Montoya in a Williams FW23. Third was taken by British driver David Coulthard in a McLaren MP4-16, having overtaken his teammate Mika Häkkinen late in the race. Rubens Barrichello (Ferrari F2001) and Ralf Schumacher (Williams FW23) completed the points finishers.

Enrique Bernoldi (Arrows A22) and Alex Yoong (Minardi PS01B) started the race from the pit lane. The race marked Jean Alesi's 201st and last Formula One race after a fourteen-year career. Kimi Räikkönen (Sauber C20) spun off on lap five, forcing Alesi (Jordan EJ11) off in avoidance at the Dunlop Curve (Turn 7). It was Alesi's only retirement of the season. It was, additionally, the last race for the French Prost Grand Prix team as they went bankrupt and closed down during the following off-season. It brought an end to the team which began as Equipe Ligier 32 years earlier and 26 years of Formula One racing.

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Result List

01	Michael Schumacher	Scuderia Ferrari HP	1:27:33.298
02	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams Racing	+0:03.154
03	David Coulthard	McLaren Formula 1 Team	+0:23.262
04	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren Formula 1 Team	+0:35.539
05	Rubens Barrichello	Scuderia Ferrari HP	+0:36.544
06	Ralf Schumacher	Williams Racing	+0:37.122
07	Jenson Button	Benetton Formula	+1:37.102
08	Jarno Trulli	Jordan	+1 Lap
09	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber	+1 Lap
10	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR	+1 Lap
11	Fernando Alonso	Minardi	+1 Lap
12	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Prost Grand Prix	+1 Lap
13	Olivier Panis	BAR	+2 Laps
14	Enrique Bernoldi	Arrows Grand Prix International	+2 Laps
15	Jos Verstappen	Arrows Grand Prix International	+2 Laps
16	Alex Yoong	Minardi	+3 Laps
17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Formula	DNF
18	Pedro de la Rosa	Jaguar Cosworth	DNF
19	Tomáš Enge	Prost Grand Prix	DNF
20	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar Cosworth	DNF
21	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	DNF
22	Jean Alesi	Jordan	DNF