Race 14 of 17 in the 2001 Formula One World Championship
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Race details[1][2]
Date
2 September 2001
Official name
2001 Foster's Belgian Grand Prix
Location
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Francorchamps, Wallonia, Belgium
Course
Permanent racing facility
Course length
6.968 km (4.330 miles)
Distance
36 laps, 250.848 km (155.870 miles)
Scheduled distance
44 laps, 306.592 km (190.507[3] miles)
Weather
Overcast, mild, dry, Air Temp: 12 to 16 °C (54 to 61 °F)
Pole position
Driver
Juan Pablo Montoya
Williams-BMW
Time
1:52.072
Fastest lap
Driver
Michael Schumacher
Ferrari
Time
1:49.758 on lap 3
Podium
First
Michael Schumacher
Ferrari
Second
David Coulthard
McLaren-Mercedes
Third
Giancarlo Fisichella
Benetton-Renault
Lap leaders
[4]
Motor car race
The 2001 Belgian Grand Prix (officially the 2001 Foster's Belgian Grand Prix)[5] was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Francorchamps, Wallonia, Belgium on 2 September 2001. It was the 14th round of the 2001 Formula One World Championship and the 48th Belgian Grand Prix counting as part of the series. Ferrari driver and World Drivers' Champion Michael Schumacher won the 36-lap race starting from third. David Coulthard finished in second for McLaren with Benetton's Giancarlo Fisichella third, scoring the final podium of the Benetton team.
Juan Pablo Montoya of the Williams team won the pole position by recording the fastest lap in qualifying; he stalled on the grid and forfeited pole. His teammate Ralf Schumacher lost the lead to Michael Schumacher into Les Combes turn. Michael Schumacher led the next four laps before the race was stopped for an accident involving Jaguar's Eddie Irvine and Luciano Burti of Prost on lap five. The race was declared null and void and recommenced with a revised distance of 36 laps. Michael Schumacher led every lap of the restarted race to take his eighth victory of the season. Schumacher overtook the four-time world champion Alain Prost's all-time career wins total with his 52nd, a record he held until Lewis Hamilton surpassed it at the 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix.
Burti was kept in hospital with facial bruising and a concussion until 10 September; his accident helped enhance helmet safety. The race result allowed Coulthard to further his Drivers' Championship advantage over the second Ferrari driver of Rubens Barrichello by four points in second position. Barrichello in turn moved another two points clear of fourth-placed Ralf Schumacher. In the World Constructors' Championship, McLaren in second moved further ahead of Williams in third by nine points as Jordan passed British American Racing (BAR) for fifth with three races left in the season.
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^"2001 Round 14 Belgium: Spa Map". Formula1.com. Archived from the original on 5 December 2001. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
^"Belgium Grand Prix – Race positions lap by lap". Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. Archived from the original on 3 October 2001. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
^"Belgian". Formula1.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
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