2002 Canadian Grand Prix

(pictured in 2018), where the Grand Prix was held The 2002 Canadian Grand Prix was the eighth of seventeen rounds in the 2002 Formula One World Championship and took place at the temporary road course Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on 9 June 2002. It was the 34th Canadian Grand Prix on the Formula One calendar and one of two races in North America. The Ferrari Challenge, Formula Ford 1600 and the Victory Lane Historic Can-Am held support races during the weekend. Following the 2001 Canadian Grand Prix, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA; Formula One's regulatory body) requested that the circuit be shortened, increasing the race length from 69 to 70 laps. For safety reasons, the pit lane was extended parallel to the start/finish straight and straightened. The exit was now located outside the right-hand Virage Senna corner rather than the left-hand turn before it. The L'Epingle hairpin to the east was shortened by , and gravel trap run-off sections between the first two corners and the hairpin were replaced with pavement to give drivers better car control if they ran off the circuit. The barrier at turn 13's exit was moved rearward and replaced with a tyre barrier. To improve grip, the renovated areas received new asphalt. Heading into the Grand Prix, Ferrari's Michael Schumacher led the World Drivers' Championship with 60 championship points, followed by the Williams duo of Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya in joint second with 27 championship points each. McLaren's David Coulthard was fourth (20) and Michael Schumacher's teammate Rubens Barrichello was fifth (12). Ferrari led the World Constructors' Championship with 72 championship points, ahead of Williams on 54 and McLaren on 24. Renault were fourth on 11 and Sauber were fifth on eight. Giancarlo Fisichella (Jordan) lapped fastest on the first day, Luca Badoer, Ferrari's test driver, tested car components on the Ferrari F2002 at the Fiorano Circuit in Italy on 3 June. British American Racing (BAR) spent four days testing the 004 car's aerodynamic package and an intermediate specification of gearbox components at France's Circuit Paul Ricard. Prior to the event, Ferrari and its top driver, Michael Schumacher, had won five of seven races, with the exception of the and the preceding Monaco Grand Prix. Despite his dominance, Michael Schumacher dismissed Coulthard's victory at Monaco as a one-off due to the track's tight and bumpy nature, but expressed confidence in the race in Canada due to Ferrari's increased race pace. Mercedes-Benz vice-president Norbert Haug warned the audience not to expect a repetition of Coulthard's Monaco win since the Montreal track was unlikely to favour the McLaren MP4-17. Barrichello said he had achieved something in every race in 2002 to make him "feel good about my performance, whether it was taking pole in the first race in Australia or setting the fastest race lap in the last one in Monaco", adding, "I feel as though I am knocking on the big door and I am coming to Canada in a very motivated mood." There were eleven teams (each representing a different constructor) with two drivers each for the Grand Prix, with no changes from the season entry list. Most teams focused substantially on their cars' braking systems because the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve put a lot of strain on them, and several teams tested brakes from various manufacturers, including Brembo, Carbon Industrie and Hitco. BMW and Mercedes introduced more powerful engines; McLaren ran theirs in qualifying and Williams during the race. Jaguar received a new V10 engine from Cosworth for practice and qualifying and Toyota gave driver Mika Salo a new TF102 chassis. == Practice ==

Preceding the race were two one-hour practice sessions on Friday and two 45-minute sessions on Saturday. Conditions were warm and sunny for the first practice session; teams tested fuel loads and tyre compounds with their drivers. Barrichello led with a 1:16.930 lap set in the session's last moments. Michael Schumacher, Fisichella, the McLaren pair of Coulthard and Kimi Räikkönen, Arrows's Heinz-Harald Frentzen, BAR's Olivier Panis, Sauber's Felipe Massa, Montoya and Jaguar's Pedro de la Rosa followed in the top ten. Following his final fast lap, Michael Schumacher run slightly wide at the final turn and hit with the exit outside barrier, breaking his right-rear wheel rim. When his car began tilting sideways on the start/finish straight, he carefully drove to the pit lane. Coulthard set the day's fastest time of 1:15.407, almost four-tenths of a second faster than Michael Schumacher's pole lap in 2001. Montoya, Michael Schumacher, Räikkönen, Ralf Schumacher, Salo, Panis, Barrichello, BAR's Jacques Villeneuve and Frentzen rounded out the top ten. Michael Schumacher posted the quickest lap time of 1:14.509 shortly before the session ended, with the fastest four racers all lapping in under 1:15. The Williams duo of Montoya and Ralf Schumacher, Barrichello, Räikkönen, Frentzen, Panis, Massa, Coulthard and Villeneuve completed the top ten. After 15 minutes, Michael Schumacher set the session's fastest lap time of 1:13.395 after 17 minutes, 0.251 seconds faster than Montoya. Barrichello, Räikkönen, Ralf Schumacher, Coulthard, Massa, his Sauber teammate Nick Heidfeld, Villeneuve and Fisichella were in positions three to ten. His Ferrari was repaired in less than two hours so he could compete in qualifying. Eddie Irvine's Jaguar stopped at the hairpin at the end of practice due to a fuel pump failure. ==Qualifying==

celebrating qualifying on pole position for the third time in the season and the sixth time in his career. Each driver was allowed twelve laps during Saturday's one-hour qualifying session, with starting positions determined by the drivers' quickest laps. During this session, the 107% rule was in effect, requiring each driver to remain within 107% of the quickest lap time in order to qualify for the race. resulting in lower ambient temperatures throughout qualifying. With four minutes remaining, rain began to fail on the circuit, stopping drivers from lapping quicker. Montoya's lap time of 1:12.836 earned him his third pole position of the season and sixth of his career, three seconds faster than the 2001 pole lap time and it was the only sub-1:13 qualifying lap. Michael Schumacher qualified second, 0.182 seconds slower, after briefly holding pole position in qualifying until Montoya's second run. He aborted his final run because the rain had made the track damp. Ralf Schumacher, fourth, drove the spare Williams car setup for Montoya because his car developed a pneumatic engine valve gear leak. Trulli, tenth, damaged his Renault's right-rear suspension in an accident with a concrete wall at the turn nine exit. He drove cautiously to the pit lane and got into the spare car. Panis qualified 11th. At the end of his first lap, his car experienced a shifting fault, claiming his car was uncomfortable to brake heavily. Massa was 12th with an oil radiator leak, wrong differential settings, and no traction control system on his first run. Sato's oil affected Massa's second run before adjusting his downforce, which degraded his car on his third lap. Renault's Jenson Button took 13th, failing to run in the slipstream of another car on all four runs. Irvine set six laps in the spare Jaguar because he missed the most of qualifying due to a gearbox hydraulic pump issue, finishing 14th. On his second run, Sato's engine failed midway through qualifying, leaving oil on the circuit between turns three and four. Smoke and fire billowed from his engine, creating fog that reduced visibility. Sato abandoned his car on the circuit and returned to the pit lane to drive his teammate Fisichella's spare Jordan car setup, qualifying 15th. De la Rosa was 16th but could not lap faster because of the rain. Bernoldi improved on each of his runs, finishing 17th and being the fastest Arrows driver for the first time in 2002. Salo was the best Toyota driver in 18th, but had to abandon two runs because of yellow flags and Sato's oil. Frentzen's car was leaking water after his first run due to a leaking water radiator, and by the time the radiator was rebuilt, oil and rain had appeared, leaving him 19th. Toyota's Allan McNish, 20th, had grip issues and could not locate a good handling balance. The two Minardi drivers of Mark Webber and Alex Yoong qualified at the back of the grid in 21st and 22nd; Yoong stopped on track at the start of his final run due to a gearbox issue. In total, 21 of the 22 qualifiers lapped quicker than Michael Schumacher's 2001 pole lap record. Qualifying classification == Warm-up ==

On race morning, a half-hour warm-up session was held for teams to shake down their race and spare cars in partially cloudy and warm conditions. The track was slippery following heavy rain the day before. Michael Schumacher set the pace with a lap time of 1:16.780, ahead of teammate Barrichello, Ralf Schumacher, Coulthard, Bernoldi, Trulli, De la Rosa, Panis, Montoya and Massa. With eight minutes left. Michael Schumacher's engine failed in the spare Ferrari, causing it to stop at the entry to turn 15 with smoke billowing from it. ==Race==

The race commenced before a record 117,000 spectators in fine and sunny conditions at 14:00 local time. The air temperature ranged between and the track temperature was between . When the race began, Montoya cut over the circuit in front of Michael Schumacher, retaining the lead into the first turn. Michael Schumacher allowed Barrichello to pass him for second position as part of a planned strategy due to Barrichello's lighter fuel load and Schumacher's heavy fuel load. Räikkönen went from fifth to fourth, Ralf Schumacher dropped to fifth, and Coulthard passed Heidfeld and Fisichella to take sixth. Unlike prior years, no driver crashed in the first two turns. Button overtook Villeneuve for tenth. De la Rosa slowly entered the pit lane for car repairs after his wheel rims were damaged, rejoining the race a lap down. Sato overtook Massa for 14th on lap three and Bernoldi passed Irvine for 16th the following lap. Lap ten saw the Grand Prix's first retirement. Bernoldi cut the chicane and passed Panis on lap 11 for 14th. It persuaded Williams to bring Montoya into the pit lane for his first pit stop on lap 14. His 11-second stop for fuel and to clear the radiator inlets of leaves blown across the track by the wind dropped him to fifth, Bernoldi entered his pit garage to retire with a right-rear wheel suspension problem on lap 17. so he entered the pit lane for the first of two pit stops at the conclusion of lap 26. However, it elevated Barrichello's teammate Michael Schumacher to the race lead, and he began pushing hard to extend his lead over the heavier-fuelled Montoya before his pit stop. Irvine retired at the side of the track on lap 43 due to rising gearbox temperatures. However, he retained the lead for the remainder of the race, winning his sixth of eight races this season and 59th of his career. Räikkönen finished fourth, despite a fuel rig system issue that caused insufficient fuel to enter his McLaren, forcing the team to slow him to conserve fuel. Coulthard said he did not believe that he would be on a podium "in a straight fight" but was confident of securing a points-scoring finish despite starting from eighth. Coulthard said he took a gamble and would have allowed Barrichello past had he not cut the chicane. Fisichella said scoring two extra championship points had ensured "another good day in Montreal", while Jordan team owner Eddie Jordan heralded the fifth-place finish as "well-earned". Montoya was irate after retiring due to an engine issue and left the track without speaking to the media. Williams technical director Patrick Head opined Montoya would have won the race without retiring, adding, "It's obviously disappointing. But that's the way in sport – sometimes it works your way and sometimes it doesn't." BMW's Gerhard Berger said two engine failures cost Williams championship points and the brand's motorsport director Mario Theissen said they would analyse the reason for the two engine failures at their headquarters in Munich. Michael Schumacher's victory increased his World Drivers' Championship lead to 43 championship points over Ralf Schumacher and Montoya in joint second. Coulthard's second-place finish moved him to one championship point of the Williams duo while Barrichello kept fifth on 16 championship points. Ferrari extended their lead over Williams in the World Constructors' Championship to 32 championship points. McLaren maintained third with 33 championship points while Renault and Sauber stayed fourth and fifth with nine rounds remaining in the season. Race classification Drivers who scored championship points are denoted in bold. == Championship standings after the race ==

;Drivers' Championship standings ;Constructors' Championship standings • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. ==References==