Before the start of the final parade lap, Mika Hakkinen's engine is smoking.

* Lap 1: At the start Michael Schumacher is slower away than Hakkinen. The Ferrari moves across the road to try to block Hakkinen but the Finn gets ahead. Behind them David Coulthard and a fast-starting Ralf Schumacher almost collide and Rubens Barrichello is forced to back off and loses places to Ralf and Eddie Irvine. Hakkinen leads Schumacher, Coulthard, R Schumacher, Irvine and Barrichello. Jenson Button makes a poor start to drop from fifth to seventh. Further back Johnny Herbert jumps from 10th on the grid to eighth, while Heinz-Harald Frentzen drops from eighth to 11th. Jos Verstappen goes from 14th to 10th while Mika Salo moves from 19th to 15th. The big loser is Giancarlo Fisichella who drops from 12th on the grid to 20th. At the end of the first lap Hakkinen is ahead by 0.8sec.

* Lap 2: Hakkinen sets fastest lap as he increases his lead to one second. Behind the leaders Coulthard drops away quickly in third place. The frontrunners quickly spread out with Barrichello holding up Button, Herbert and Jacques Villeneuve.

* Lap 7: Hakkinen and Schumacher have run close in the early laps and the Finn has been unable to increase his lead to more than 1.4secs. Villeneuve challenges Herbert and slips through into eighth place. Further back the two Jordans swap places, Jarno Trulli passing Frentzen for 11th.

* Lap 9: Verstappen disappears with a gearbox electronic problem.

* Lap 13: Hakkinen has increased his lead to two seconds while the gap between Schumacher and Coulthard is out to nearly 10secs. At the back of the field Pedro Diniz pits.

* Lap 15: Trulli pits and drops from 10th to 18th.

* Lap 16: Irvine pits from fifth and drops to 10th.

* Lap 18: The first major pit stops begin with Herbert, Alexander Wurz, Salo and Nick Heidfeld all stopping. Further back Trulli goes off and loses ground.

* Lap 19: Ralf Schumacher, Villeneuve, Frentzen, Pedro de la Rosa and Fisichella all pit. Jean Alesi suffers a blown engine and spins out.

* Lap 20: Barrichello and Button both stop. The stops enable both to get ahead of Irvine.

* Lap 22: Hakkinen pits, leaving Schumacher in the lead with Coulthard second.

* Lap 23: Schumacher pits but emerges behind Hakkinen.

* Lap 24: Coulthard pits and Hakkinen goes back into the lead with Schumacher 2.6secs behind him. Further back Villeneuve passes Irvine for seventh place at the chicane.

* Lap 28: Trulli pits for the second time and drops from 11th place to 15th.

* Lap 29: There are spots of rain out on the track.

* Lap 30: Ralf Schumacher has an incident and drops to sixth behind Button. Frentzen pulls off and retires.

* Lap 31: Michael Schumacher closes right up on to Hakkinen's tail in the tricky conditions.

* Lap 33: As Schumacher laps Zonta the two cars touch but the Ferrari continues without a problem.

* Lap 34: The second round of pit stops begin with eighth-placed Irvine going into the pits. At the back of the field Heidfeld manages to overtake Trulli for 13th place.

* Lap 37: Hakkinen stops and drops to second behind Schumacher.

* Lap 38: Barrichello and Button both pit but remain in fourth and fifth places.

* Lap 39: Coulthard stops but stays in third.

* Lap 40: Schumacher comes into the pits, dodging a spinning Wurz as he goes into the pitlane. He emerges ahead by four seconds.

* Lap 42: Ralf Schumacher disappears from sixth place, promoting Villeneuve to sixth.

* Lap 43: De la Rosa passes Fisichella for 13th.

* Lap 48: The order at the front has remained stable with Schumacher able to keep his four second lead over Hakkinen. Further back all is stable apart from de la Rosa taking 12th from Trulli.

* Lap 49: Marc Gene's Minardi blows an engine.

* Lap 53: Michael Schumacher wins the race with Mika Hakkinen just behind him. Coulthard is third. The victory means that Schumacher is the 2000 World Champion. Barrichello takes fourth place ahead of Button and a lapped Villeneuve.