United States Grand Prix

Date
Sun 29th September 2002 (UTC)
Sun 29th September 2002 (Local)

Timestamp
2002-09-29T00:00:00

Time

00:00:00 UTC (00:00:00 Local)

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League
Formula 1

Season
2002

Round
16

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Location
Indianapolis Motor Speedway

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Description

The 2002 United States Grand Prix (formally the 2002 SAP United States Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 29 September 2002, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, in front of about 125,000 spectators. It was the 16th and penultimate round of the 2002 Formula One World Championship and the third United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis. Ferrari driver Rubens Barrichello won the 73-lap race after starting second. His teammate Michael Schumacher finished second and McLaren's David Coulthard was third.

The 0.011-second margin of victory was the second-closest in Formula One history at the time.
Michael Schumacher, who had led most of the race, eased off the throttle on the final lap, allowing Barrichello to pull alongside and ultimately win by the narrowest margin. This act was widely interpreted as an attempt to repay Barrichello for a controversial team order earlier in the season at the Austrian Grand Prix. Ferrari and Schumacher denied it was planned, stating they were attempting a dead-heat.

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Result List

01	Rubens Barrichello	1:31:08.0
02	Michael Schumacher	+0:00.011
03	David Coulthard	+0:07.799
04	Juan Pablo Montoya	+0:09.911
05	Jarno Trulli	+0:56.847
06	Jacques Villeneuve	+0:58.211
07	Giancarlo Fisichella	+1 Lap
08	Jenson Button	+1 Lap
09	Nick Heidfeld	+1 Lap
10	Eddie Irvine	+1 Lap
11	Takuma Sato	+1 Lap
12	Olivier Panis	+1 Lap
13	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	+2 Laps
14	Mika Salo	+2 Laps
15	Allan McNish	+2 Laps
16	Ralf Schumacher	+2 Laps
17	Kimi Raikkonen	DNF
18	Alex Yoong	DNF
19	Mark Webber	DNF
20	Pedro de la Rosa	DNF