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  2000 Monaco Grand Prix

Race details
Race 7 of 17 in the 2000 Formula One season.
Date	June 4 2000
Official name	LXV Grand Prix de Monaco
Location	Circuit de Monaco
Course	Street circuit 3.34 km (2.08 mi)
Distance	78 laps, 260.52 km (162.24 mi)
Weather	Dry
Pole position
Driver	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
Time	1:19.475
Fastest lap
Driver	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
Time	1:21.571 on lap 57
Podium
First	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes
Second	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari
Third	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton-Playlife

Ron Dennis during Thursday's practice session.

The 2000 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on June 4, 2000 at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo, Monaco. It was the seventh race of the 2000 Formula One season.

Report

There were some surprises in qualifying as Michael Schumacher was on pole position ahead of Jarno Trulli who was a surprising second, David Coulthard in third, Heinz-Harald Frentzen in fourth, Mika Häkkinen in fifth and Rubens Barrichello down in sixth.

At the start, Schumacher got away well and stayed ahead of Trulli. Coulthard was third ahead of Frentzen, Häkkinen and Barrichello. At the Loews hairpin Häkkinen made a superb move on Frentzen but behind them in the middle of the pack, Pedro de la Rosa went around the outside of Jenson Button. There was not enough space and Button tipped de la Rosa into a spin and the Arrows curled across in front of Button and the cars behind them were all forced to come into a stop. The race was red-flagged.

In the restart, Schumacher again took the lead and Trulli kept second under pressure from Coulthard. Frentzen kept fourth ahead of Häkkinen but behind them Barrichello had a poor start allowing Ralf Schumacher to push Jean Alesi out of the way to take sixth. Frentzen resisted an attack by Häkkinen at Loews and the field went by without trouble. The order was: Schumacher, Trulli, Coulthard, Frentzen, Häkkinen, Ralf, Alesi, Barrichello, Giancarlo Fisichella and Johnny Herbert.

The Jordan team did not have the pace that they had in qualifying and Trulli was holding up Coulthard as well as allowing Schumacher to get away at a second a lap. Overtaking was almost impossible and so we had Frentzen holding up Häkkinen, Ralf on his own and Alesi blocking Barrichello and Fisichella. Many laps passed in this way with Schumacher disappearing off into the distance and faster cars being held up by slower ones until many started disappearing one by one. The first to go was Alesi who had a broken transmission on lap 30, releasing a hard charging Barrichello and Fisichella. At the front, Schumacher was pulling away at over a second a lap now and Barrichello now free, was lapping at a near similar pace, the two Ferraris being the fastest on the track.

The race took a big twist within three laps. On lap 36, behind Frentzen, Häkkinen suddenly slowed down and was forced to pit. The team opened an inspection hatch and moved some radio cables which were blocking the brake pedal and sent him back out but he was a long way behind. On lap 37, Trulli slowed down with a gearbox problem, retired on the spot and released Coulthard but he was 36 seconds behind Schumacher. Still Schumacher was slowly pulling away from Coulthard. Behind them, on the next lap, Ralf crashed into a wall and ended up with a deep gash on his leg. The order was: Schumacher, Coulthard, Frentzen, Barrichello, Fisichella, Eddie Irvine, Mika Salo, Jacques Villeneuve, Häkkinen and Ricardo Zonta. The race now angain settled after the previous retirements with Barrichello closing on Frentzen but 15 seconds behind and Häkkinen closing in on Villeneuve.

There was no change in the top 7 after the stops and only Häkkinen got past Villeneuve and began closing in on Salo. On lap 55, still pulling away and having a 39 second lead, Schumacher's car slowed down massively. He went to the pits, still ahead but the team discovered that he had a cracked exhaust. Schumacher was out and Coulthard was in the lead. His McLaren teammate Häkkinen was by now only 5 seconds behind Salo. By lap 61, he was right behind but unable to overtake. Barrichello was closing in on Frentzen and Frentzen crashed on lap 71 and was unable to continue. On lap 75, still behind Salo, Häkkinen lost sixth and seventh gears and could not prevent Salo from getting away. The race ended with Coulthard winning from Barrichello, Fisichella, Irvine, Salo and Häkkinen who was able to crawl to the line to get a point.

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Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	2	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	78	1:49:28.213	3	10
2	4	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	78	+15.889	6	6
3	11	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton-Playlife	78	+18.522	8	4
4	7	Eddie Irvine	Jaguar-Cosworth	78	+1:05.924	10	3
5	17	Mika Salo	Sauber-Petronas	78	+1:20.775	13	2
6	1	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	77	+1 Lap	5	1
7	22	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR-Honda	77	+1 Lap	17
8	15	Nick Heidfeld	Prost-Peugeot	77	+1 Lap	18
9	8	Johnny Herbert	Jaguar-Cosworth	76	+2 Laps	11
10	5	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	70	Spun off	4
Ret	19	Jos Verstappen	Arrows-Supertec	60	Spun off	15
Ret	3	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	55	Suspension	1
Ret	23	Ricardo Zonta	BAR-Honda	48	Spun off	20
Ret	9	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-BMW	37	Spun off	9
Ret	6	Jarno Trulli	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	36	Gearbox	2
Ret	16	Pedro Diniz	Sauber-Petronas	30	Spun off	19
Ret	14	Jean Alesi	Prost-Peugeot	29	Transmission	7
Ret	21	Gaston Mazzacane	Minardi-Fondmetal	22	Spun off	22
Ret	20	Marc Gené	Minardi-Fondmetal	21	Gearbox	21
Ret	12	Alexander Wurz	Benetton-Playlife	18	Spun off	12
Ret	10	Jenson Button	Williams-BMW	16	Engine	14
Ret	18	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows-Supertec	0	Not restarted	16

Notes

• Fastest lap: Mika Häkkinen, McLaren-Mercedes, 1:21.571.

References

Classification
"2000 Monaco Grand Prix". The Official Formula 1 Website. Retrieved on 2007-08-03.
"2000 Monaco GP: Classification". ChicaneF1.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-03.

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