Race 10 of 17 in the 2001 Formula One World Championship
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Race details[1]
Date
1 July 2001
Official name
Mobil 1 Grand Prix de France
Location
Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours, Burgundy, France
Course
Permanent racing facility
Course length
4.251[2] km (2.641 miles)
Distance
72 laps, 305.886[2] km (190.069 miles)
Weather
Sunny
Attendance
120,717
Pole position
Driver
Ralf Schumacher
Williams-BMW
Time
1:12.989
Fastest lap
Driver
David Coulthard
McLaren-Mercedes
Time
1:16.088
Podium
First
Michael Schumacher
Ferrari
Second
Ralf Schumacher
Williams-BMW
Third
Rubens Barrichello
Ferrari
Lap leaders
Motor car race
The 2001 French Grand Prix (officially the Mobil 1 Grand Prix de France) was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours, France on 1 July 2001 before a crowd of 120,717 people. It was the tenth race of the 2001 Formula One World Championship and the 51st French Grand Prix as part of the series. Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher won the 72-lap race starting from second position. Ralf Schumacher finished second for the Williams team with Rubens Barrichello third in the other Ferrari.
Ralf Schumacher led the opening 23 laps before he made his first pit stop and Michael Schumacher assumed the lead after the first round of pit stops. His nearest championship rival David Coulthard of the McLaren outfit served a ten-second stop-and-go penalty on lap 32 for an earlier transgression of speeding at the pit lane exit. Michael Schumacher pulled away from the slower car of Ralf Schumacher who baulked his teammate Juan Pablo Montoya, until his second pit stop on the 44th lap. Montoya led laps 46 to 50 before he ceded the lead to Michael Schumacher, who maintained it to take his sixth victory of the season and the 50th of his career.
The result enabled Michael Schumacher to increase his Drivers' Championship lead over Coulthard in second to 31 points. Ralf Schumacher's second-place finish moved him past Barrichello for third. Although he retired from the event, Montoya kept fifth. Ferrari further extended their Constructors' Championship advantage to 52 points over the McLaren team in second. Williams remained in third place with 43 points while Sauber broke its tie with Jordan to move into a clear fourth with seven rounds left in the season.
^"2001 French GP: LXXXVII Mobil 1 Grand Prix de France". Chicane F1. Archived from the original on 9 April 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
^ ab"Grand Prix de France". Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. Archived from the original on 15 September 2010. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
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