Race Resume:
Weather: wet track but not raining
Lap Event
0 Moreno does not start
Everyone starts OK - all on wet tyres
0 Jump starts by Alesi, Berger
Order: Schumacher, Hakkinen, Hill
4 Alesi in pits for 10s stop-and-go
6 Fastest lap - Schumacher - 1m 59.442s
7 Alesi in pits for slick tyres (7.5s)
Order: Schumacher, Hakkinen, Hill
8 Herbert in pits for slicks/fuel
Hill in pits for slicks/fuel (8.2s)
Berger in pits for slicks/fuel
9 Fastest lap - Alesi - 1m 54.416s
10 Schumacher in pits for slicks/fuel
Fastest lap - Alesi - 1m 51.404s
Order: Schumacher, Hakkinen, Irvine, Coulthard, Hill, Alesi
Coulthard in pits for slicks/fuel (8.6s)
Alesi passes Hill
Hakkinen in pits (6.5s)
Irvine in pits (8.6s)
12 Fastest lap - Alesi - 1m 49.628s
Order: Schumacher, Alesi, Hill, Hakkinen, Irvine, Coulthard
13 Fastest lap - Alesi - 1m 49.582s
Coulthard passes Irvine
15 Barrichello spins off into wall while trying to out brake Irvine
Berger into pits and retires
17 Fastest lap - Alesi - 1m 47.090s
18 Schumacher (1) -> 0.677s -> Alesi (2)
20 Fastest lap - Schumacher
Order: Schumacher, Alesi, Hill, Hakkinen, Coulthard, Irvine
Frentzen hits Irvine while trying to get past
Frentzen in pits for new nose (21.9s)
21 Schumacher (1) -> 2.057s -> Alesi (2)
Fastest lap - Coulthard - 1m 44.941s
22 Fastest lap - Alesi - 1m 44.552s
24 Fastest lap - Schumacher - 1m 43.659s
Schumacher (1) -> 2.882s -> Alesi (2)
Alesi retires with a blown engine
26 Order: Schumacher, Hill, Hakkinen, Coulthard, Irvine, Herbert
Irvine, Herbert in pits for tyres/fuel
Hill (2) -> 5.989s -> Hakkinen (3)
27 Fastest lap - Hakkinen - 1m 43.395s
Hakkinen in pits for tyres/fuel
29 Schumacher (1) -> 18.929s -> Hill (2)
Order: Schumacher, Hill, Coulthard, Hakkinen, Herbert, Irvine
30 Fastest lap - Coulthard - 1m 43.102s
Hill (2) -> 11.632s -> Coulthard (3)
31 Schumacher in pits (12.1s) - out into 2nd place
Hill (1) -> 10.49s -> Schumacher (2)
33 Fastest lap - Schumacher - 1m 42.976s
Coulthard in pits (11.5s)
34 Hill in pits (10.5s) - out into 2nd place
Order: Schumacher, Hill, Coulthard, Hakkinen, Herbert, Irvine
Schumacher (1) -> 13.603s -> Hill (2)
37 Hill goes off across the gravel on a big off road trip
- rejoins the track in 4th place
Hill in pits to change nose (22.1s)
Irvine in pits
38 Blundell does same off road trip as Hill and rejoins track
Order: Schumacher, Coulthard, Hakkinen, Herbert, Hill, Frentzen
Schumacher (1) -> 28.205s -> Coulthard (2)
Coulthard (2) -> 4.650s -> Hakkinen (3)
39 Coulthard does same off road trip as Hill
Coulthard off into tyres two corners later
(as he braked you could see the gravel come out of his
side pods and straight under his wheels)
Frentzen does same off road trip
Hill gets a 10s pit lane speeding fine
Schumacher (1) -> 34.168s -> Hakkinen (2)
40 Frentzen in pits for 3rd nose of the race
(unfortunately he has to wait as Wendlinger is in for tyres)
41 Hill off into gravel at the same place again - this time he is stuck
Irvine off at the same place but rejoins the track
[This popular place is Spoon corner and it seems to be raining in
that area]
43 Order: Schumacher, Hakkinen, Herbert, Irvine, Panis, Salo
Schumacher (1) -> 26.346s -> Hakkinen (2)
Hakkinen (2) -> 52.550s -> Herbert (3)
53 Schumacher wins and confirms the Constructors Title for Benetton