2001 Formula One season

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2001 FIA Formula One World Championship season
2000	2002
Index: Races by country \| Races by season

The 2001 Formula One season was the 52nd FIA Formula One World Championship season. It commenced on March 4, 2001, and ended on October 14 after seventeen races.

Contents

1 Season summary
2 Drivers and constructors

2.1 Driver changes
2.2 Team changes

3 Results and standings

3.1 Grands Prix
3.2 Drivers
3.3 Constructors

Season summary

Drivers and constructors

The following teams and drivers competed in the 2001 FIA Formula One World Championship.

Team Constructor Chassis Engine Tyre No Driver Test driver(s)
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro Ferrari F2001 Ferrari 050 3.0 V10 B 1 Michael Schumacher Luca Badoer
2 Rubens Barrichello
West McLaren Mercedes McLaren MP4-16 Mercedes FO110K 3.0 V10 B 3 Mika Häkkinen Alexander Wurz
4 David Coulthard
BMW WilliamsF1 Team Williams FW23 BMW P80 3.0 V10 M 5 Ralf Schumacher Marc Gené
6 Juan Pablo Montoya
Mild Seven Benetton Renault Benetton B201 Renault RS21 3.0 V10 M 7 Giancarlo Fisichella Mark Webber
8 Jenson Button
Lucky Strike Reynard British American Racing BAR Honda BAR 003 Honda RA001E 3.0 V10 B 9 Olivier Panis Anthony Davidson
Darren Manning
Patrick Lemarie
Takuma Sato
10 Jacques Villeneuve
Benson & Hedges Jordan Honda Jordan EJ11 Honda RA001E 3.0 V10 B 11 Heinz-Harald Frentzen Ricardo Zonta
Ricardo Zonta
Jean Alesi
11/12 Jarno Trulli
Orange Arrows Asiatech Arrows A22 Asiatech 001 3.0 V10 B 14 Jos Verstappen Johnny Herbert
15 Enrique Bernoldi
Sauber Petronas Sauber C20 Petronas 01A 3.0 V10 B 16 Nick Heidfeld none
17 Kimi Räikkönen
Jaguar Racing Jaguar R2 Cosworth CR-3 3.0 V10 M 18 Eddie Irvine Tomas Scheckter
19 Luciano Burti
Pedro de la Rosa
European Minardi Minardi PS01
PS01B European 3.0 V10 M 20 Tarso Marques Alex Yoong
Alex Yoong
21 Fernando Alonso
Prost Acer Prost AP04 Acer 3.0 V10 M 22 Jean Alesi Stephane Sarrazin
Pedro de la Rosa
Heinz-Harald Frentzen
23 Gaston Mazzacane
Luciano Burti
Tomas Enge

Team	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Tyre	No	Driver	Test driver(s)
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro	Ferrari	F2001	Ferrari 050 3.0 V10	B	1	Michael Schumacher	Luca Badoer
2	Rubens Barrichello
West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren	MP4-16	Mercedes FO110K 3.0 V10	B	3	Mika Häkkinen	Alexander Wurz
4	David Coulthard
BMW WilliamsF1 Team	Williams	FW23	BMW P80 3.0 V10	M	5	Ralf Schumacher	Marc Gené
6	Juan Pablo Montoya
Mild Seven Benetton Renault	Benetton	B201	Renault RS21 3.0 V10	M	7	Giancarlo Fisichella	Mark Webber
8	Jenson Button
Lucky Strike Reynard British American Racing BAR Honda	BAR	003	Honda RA001E 3.0 V10	B	9	Olivier Panis	Anthony Davidson Darren Manning Patrick Lemarie Takuma Sato
10	Jacques Villeneuve
Benson & Hedges Jordan Honda	Jordan	EJ11	Honda RA001E 3.0 V10	B	11	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Ricardo Zonta
Ricardo Zonta
Jean Alesi
11/12	Jarno Trulli
Orange Arrows Asiatech	Arrows	A22	Asiatech 001 3.0 V10	B	14	Jos Verstappen	Johnny Herbert
15	Enrique Bernoldi
Sauber Petronas	Sauber	C20	Petronas 01A 3.0 V10	B	16	Nick Heidfeld	none
17	Kimi Räikkönen
Jaguar Racing	Jaguar	R2	Cosworth CR-3 3.0 V10	M	18	Eddie Irvine	Tomas Scheckter
19	Luciano Burti
Pedro de la Rosa
European Minardi	Minardi	PS01 PS01B	European 3.0 V10	M	20	Tarso Marques	Alex Yoong
Alex Yoong
21	Fernando Alonso
Prost Acer	Prost	AP04	Acer 3.0 V10	M	22	Jean Alesi	Stephane Sarrazin Pedro de la Rosa
Heinz-Harald Frentzen
23	Gaston Mazzacane
Luciano Burti
Tomas Enge

Driver changes

The 2001 season featured several driver lineup changes prior to the season, and more changes during the season proper.

Before the season opener in Australia, the following lineup changed had occurred:

Olivier Panis left his test position with McLaren to take up a full time drive with BAR.
Ricardo Zonta lost his BAR drive to Panis, and took up the position of test driver with Jordan.
Although still on contract to Williams, Jenson Button was "loaned" to Benetton for the 2001 season.
Button displaced the under-performing Alexander Wurz at Benetton. Wurz moved on to become test driver at McLaren.
Button's place in the Williams was taken over by Juan Pablo Montoya. (Montoya had been in a relationship with Williams since 1998, and had been "farmed out" to the CART series in 2000 which he won in his only attempt, including victory in the Indianapolis 500.)
Bruno Junquiera left the Williams test driver position to take up a drive in the Champ Car series in the US. As of 2005 he has not returned to F1.
Marc Gené lost his seat at Minardi due to sponsorship problems. (Telefonica had been backing Gené financially and therefore helped fund the struggling Minardi team.) Gené signed a contract to become test driver at Williams where he remained until the end of 2004.
Gaston Mazzacane also moved away from Minardi for 2001, and started the season with the Prost team where he took over for the Sauber-bound Nick Heidfeld.
Minardi's first signing of the new season was Fernando Alonso, who took over from Marc Gené.
Tarso Marques returned to Minardi to fill the second seat there after several seasons racing in America. (Marques had driven for Minardi in 1996 and 1997.)
Nick Heidfeld left Prost to join the Sauber team for 2001. He replaced Mika Salo who signed up with the Toyota team to perform development work.
Pedro Diniz did not return as a driver for Sauber, but instead purchased 40% of the Prost team and served in a management role there in 2001. (Diniz and Alain Prost had a major falling out during the season. Diniz then sold his share of Prost and returned to South America where he became a motorsport promoter.)
Kimi Räikkönen was signed to Sauber for a full drive from near obscurity. He had performed some testing for Sauber in late 2000 after dominating the British Formula Renault series, and so impressed Peter Sauber that he was given the full time drive next to Nick Heidfeld. (There were concerns that Räikkönen was too inexperienced for F1, and his superlicence granting was somewhat controversial during the off season.)
Johnny Herbert decided to leave the Jaguar team in an attempt to secure a drive in American Champ Cars. The deal did not work out, and he was forced to sign on with Arrows as a test driver for 2001.
Luciano Burti stepped up from test driver to fill Herbert's slot at Jaguar.
Pedro de la Rosa lost his drive at Arrows to Enrique Bernoldi and signed on as a reserve drive with Prost.

During the season even more changes occurred:

Management at Prost quickly reached the conclusion that Gaston Mazzacane was not right for their team and he was released.
Luciano Burti left Jaguar to take over Mazzacane's seat at Prost.
Pedro de la Rosa then left his reserve seat at Prost for a full drive at Jaguar.
Prost management later decided to also release Jean Alesi from his drive. This left Prost with none of their starting drivers from the season opener.
Heinz-Harald Frentzen suffered injuries after a crash and was replaced for the Canadian GP by reserve driver Ricardo Zonta.
After returning from his injuries, Frentzen's contract was terminated by Jordan after the French GP. The split was not a happy one, and the matter ended in court before the season's end. Zonta took over Frentzen's drive for the German GP.
Frentzen was then signed to Prost to take over from Alesi.
Alesi was also signed by Jordan to take over from Frentzen. This meant the Prost and Jordan had simply swapped drivers mid-season.
Alex Yoong was granted his FIA super-licence during the 2001 season, and replaced Tarso Marques in the Minardi starting lineup. Marques moved into a reserve/test role for the rest of the season.
Luciano Burti suffered serious injuries during a crash in the Belgian GP. He was forced to sit out the rest of the 2001 season and was replaced by Czech driver Tomas Enge for the remaining races. This left Prost in the incredible position of having five starting drivers during 2001.
Tomas Scheckter was sensationally fired from his testing position at Jaguar after being convicted on charges of "kerb crawling"[link]. This left Jaguar with no test drivers for 2001 after Burti's earlier departure.

Team changes

There were no team changes from 2000.

Results and standings

Grands Prix

Rnd	Race	Date	Location	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Report
1	Australian Grand Prix	March 4	Melbourne	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
2	Malaysian Grand Prix	March 18	Sepang	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
3	Brazilian Grand Prix	April 1	Interlagos	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	Report
4	San Marino Grand Prix	April 15	Imola	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-BMW	Report
5	Spanish Grand Prix	April 29	Catalunya	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
6	Austrian Grand Prix	May 13	A1-Ring	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	Report
7	Monaco Grand Prix	May 27	Monaco	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
8	Canadian Grand Prix	June 10	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-BMW	Report
9	European Grand Prix	June 24	Nürburgring	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
10	French Grand Prix	July 1	Magny-Cours	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
11	British Grand Prix	July 15	Silverstone	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	Report
12	German Grand Prix	July 29	Hockenheimring	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-BMW	Report
13	Hungarian Grand Prix	August 19	Hungaroring	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
14	Belgian Grand Prix	September 2	Spa-Francorchamps	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
15	Italian Grand Prix	September 16	Monza	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams-BMW	Report
16	United States Grand Prix	September 30	Indianapolis	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	Report
17	Japanese Grand Prix	October 14	Suzuka	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report

Drivers

Pos	Driver	AUS	MYS	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	DEU	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	Points
1	M.Schumacher	1	1	2	Ret	1	2	1	2	1	1	2	Ret	1	1	4	2	1	123
2	Coulthard	2	3	1	2	5	1	5	Ret	3	4	Ret	Ret	3	2	Ret	3	3	65
3	Barrichello	3	2	Ret	3	Ret	3	2	Ret	5	3	3	2	2	5	2	15	5	56
4	R.Schumacher	Ret	5	Ret	1	Ret	Ret	Ret	1	4	2	Ret	1	4	7	3	Ret	6	49
5	Häkkinen	Ret	6	Ret	4	9	Ret	Ret	3	6	DNS	1	Ret	5	4	Ret	1	4	37
6	Montoya	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	2	Ret	Ret	Ret	2	Ret	4	Ret	8	Ret	1	Ret	2	31
7	Villeneuve	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	3	8	4	Ret	9	Ret	8	3	9	8	6	Ret	10	12
8	Heidfeld	4	Ret	3	7	6	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	6	Ret	6	Ret	11	6	9	12
9	Trulli	Ret	8	5	5	4		Ret	11	Ret	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	8	12
10	Räikkönen	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	4	10	4	10	7	5	Ret	7	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	9
11	Fisichella	13	Ret	6	Ret	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	11	11	13	4	Ret	3	10	8	Ret	8
12	Irvine	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	7	3	Ret	7	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	6
13	Frentzen	5	4	11	6	Ret	Ret	Ret		Ret	8	7		Ret	9	Ret	10	12	6
14	Panis	7	Ret	4	8	7	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	7	Ret	11	9	11	13	5
15	Alesi	9	9	7	9	10	10	6	5	15	12	11	6	10	6	8	7	Ret	5
16	de la Rosa					Ret	Ret	Ret	6	8	14	12	Ret	11	Ret	5	12	Ret	3
17	Button	14	11	10	12	15	Ret	7	Ret	13	16	15	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	7	2
18	Verstappen	11	7	Ret	Ret	12	6	8	10	Ret	13	10	9	12	10	Ret	Ret	14	1
19	Zonta								7				Ret						0
20	Burti	8	10	Ret	11	11	11	Ret	8	12	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret				0
21	Bernoldi	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	14	8	Ret	12	Ret	13	15	0
22	Marques	Ret	14	9	Ret	16	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	15	DNQ	Ret	Ret	13				0
23	Alonso	12	13	Ret	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	Ret	14	17	16	10	Ret	Ret	13	Ret	11	0
24	Enge															12	14	Ret	0
25	Mazzacane	Ret	12	Ret	Ret														0
26	Yoong															Ret	Ret	16	0
Pos	Driver	AUS	MYS	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	DEU	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	Points

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Finished, in points
Blue	Finished, no points
Purple	Did not finish (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
blank	Did not participate / excluded (Ex)

Constructors

Pos	Team	Chassis	Engine	Tyre	Points	Wins	Podiums	Poles
1	Ferrari	F2001	Ferrari 050 V10	B	179	9	24	11
2	McLaren-Mercedes	MP4-16	Mercedes Benz FO110K V10	B	102	4	13	2
3	Williams-BMW	FW23	BMW P80 V10	M	80	4	9	4
4	Sauber-Petronas	C20	Petronas 01A V10	B	21		1
5	Jordan-Honda	EJ11	Honda RA001E V10	B	19
6	BAR-Honda	BAR03	Honda RA001E V10	B	17		2
7	Benetton-Renault	B201	Renault RS21 V10	M	10		1
8	Jaguar-Cosworth	R2	Ford Cosworth CR-3 V10	M	9		1
9	Prost-Acer	AP04	Acer V10	M	4
10	Arrows-Asiatech	A22	Asiatech 001 V10	B	1
11	Minardi-European	PS01 PS01B	European V10	M

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