| RACE DATA
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| Did not start:
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| Did not qualify:
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| Time of Race: 1h:38:26.533
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| Starting Lineup Set By: Time Trials
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| Fast Qualifier: Michael Schumacher - 86.892 sec.
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| Preliminary Feature Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/Template:(({PrelimWinnersTemplate:))|[[:Template:]]}
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| Heat Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/Template:(({HeatWinnersTemplate:))|[[:Template:]]}
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| Qualifier Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/Template:(({QualWinnersTemplate:))|[[:Template:]]}
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| Dash Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/Template:(({DashWinnersTemplate:))|[[:Template:]]}
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| Scramble Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/Template:(({ScrambleWinnersTemplate:))|[[:Template:]]}
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| Consi Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/Template:(({ConsiWinnersTemplate:))|[[:Template:]]}
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| Non-Qualifiers Race Winners: [[Special:FormEdit/Driver/Template:(({NonQualWinnersTemplate:))|[[:Template:]]}
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| Margin of Victory: 1.717 seconds
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| Average Speed: 116.485 mph
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| Cautions: 1 for 11 laps - Laps 5-15 (#5,10 accident turn 3; injury to marshall)
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| Lead Changes: 2 among 2 drivers - Michael Schumacher (1-36); David Coulthard (37-40); Michael Schumacher (41-58)
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| Fastest Lap: Michael Schumacher - 88.214 seconds (lap 34)
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| STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
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| On lap five, a two-car accident with Ralf Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve led to the safety car. On the approach to turn three at about 290 km/h, Villeneuve slipstreamed Ralf Schumacher and was caught out by him under braking. Villeneuve's right-front tire struck the Williams' left-rear wheel, launching his car airborne and rotated through 180 degrees towards a retaining catchfence and concrete barrier to his left. The resulting impact was more than 30G and cart-wheeling along the wall destroyed the rear of Villeneuve's car up to the carbon fiber monocoque. Ralf Schumacher's rear wing was removed and he spun into the gravel trap. Villeneuve's 38 cm right-rear wheel detached from the car and catapulted through a 40 cm into a access area. It struck the chest of 51-year-old track marshal Graham Beveridge at around 175 km/h causing the left ventricle of his heart to rupture as well as lung and liver lacerations. He was killed instantly. The force of the impact catapulted Beveridge backwards and clockwise, resting on his back with his eyes open. 11 spectators were also injured by flying debris.
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