* Lap 1: Mika Hakkinen moves before the lights go out and is later given a 10-second stop-go penalty. He takes the lead with David Coulthard getting past Michael Schumacher to take third going into the first corner. Rubens Barrichello is fourth ahead of Alexander Wurz and Jacques Villeneuve. In the midfield Pedro de la Rosa, Nick Heidfeld and Pedro Diniz arrive side by side in a corner and collide. They then hit Jean Alesi's Prost. Jean rejoins but the other three all retire. Further around the lap Ralf Schumacher runs wide and drops to the tail of the field. Jarno Trulli heads for the pits for repairs and Jos Verstappen has a spin. With wreckage on the track the Safety Car is sent out for one lap.

* Lap 3: The race restarts with Hakkinen allowing Coulthard to pass him. The Finn then falls behind Schumacher and Barrichello.

* Lap 4: Coulthard tries to build up a lead while McLaren receive the news that Hakkinen must stop for a penalty. Further back Ricardo Zonta jumps up from 11th to ninth, passing Jenson Button and Johnny Herbert. Button also falls behind Mika Salo. Sixteenth placed Verstappen passes Marc Gene as he begins to recover from his spin.

* Lap 5: Hakkinen stops for his penalty and drops from fourth to 19th. Heinz-Harald Frentzen goes off and pits to have his car repaired. Verstappen overtakes Ralf Schumacher.

* Lap 7: Coulthard sets the fastest lap of the race to increase his lead to 3.6secs. Further back Villeneuve pressures Wurz for fourth place. Verstappen overtakes Giancarlo Fisichella for 11th. Frentzen retires after doing one more exploratory lap.

* Lap 8: Trulli begins to recover by passing Gastone Mazzacane.

* Lap 9: Salo passes Herbert to take eighth place. Further back Ralf Schumacher drops behind Gene and Alesi, his Williams clearly in mechanical trouble.

* Lap 10: Coulthard runs wide at one corner and bounces across the grass. He loses only a few tenths but gets debris in his left-hand radiator. Alesi passes Gene for 13th. At the tail of the field Trulli pits for more repairs.

* Lap 12: Coulthard's lead is up to 5.6secs. Further back Verstappen continues his progress, passing Button to take 10th place.

* Lap 13: Hakkinen catches and passes Ralf Schumacher at the tail of the field. Two laps later he passes Gene.

* Lap 16: Salo and Alesi pit. Mika dropping from eighth to 13th and Jean from 13th to 17th.

* Lap 17: Coulthard is called in earlier than planned to clear out his radiator. this puts Schumacher into the lead and David into sixth.

* Lap 18: Button retires with an engine failure.

* Lap 21: As the two-stop runners pit, shuffling the order at the front, Michael Schumacher sets four consecutive fastest laps.

* Lap 24: Schumacher pits and Barrichello moves into the lead. Michael is able to rejoin ahead of Coulthard.

* Lap 25: Barrichello pits, leaving Schumacher in the lead with Coulthard almost five seconds behind him. Johnny Herbert is fourth, going for a one-stop race and Verstappen is a remarkable fifth ahead of Villeneuve, who has got ahead of Wurz during the pit stops. Jacques is under pressure from the recovering Hakkinen who has opted for a one-stop race.

* Lap 28: Hakkinen goes off while trying to pass Villeneuve while Zonta also has an off, running across a sand trap. Herbert pits from fourth place but there are problems and he loses a lot of time and rejoins in 12th.

* Lap 29: Fourth-placed Verstappen stops and drops down the order to 11th.

* Lap 30: Hakkinen passes Villeneuve to take fourth.

* Lap 31: Villeneuve tried to retake the place and overshoots so Hakkinen remains ahead.

* Lap 32: Fisichella comes in for his one and only stop, dropping from eighth place to 11th.

* Lap 35: Hakkinen pits and drops to sixth behind Villeneuve and Irvine. Wurz also pits (although it is his second stop) and he slips back from sixth to ninth.

* Lap 36: Seventh placed Zonta pits for the second time.

* Lap 38: Coulthard has closed the gap to Schumacher to around two seconds when he pits from second place and is followed into the pits by fourth-placed Villeneuve. David rejoins in third and Jacques in sixth.

* Lap 39: Michael Schumacher stops and is able to get out ahead of Coulthard. This leaves Barrichello in the lead.

* Lap 41: Barrichello pits, leaving Schumacher and Coulthard first and second, separated by two seconds. Rubens rejoins third. Hakkinen is fourth with Villeneuve fifth and Irvine sixth.

* Lap 45: Coulthard has closed the gap to less than a second and is pressuring Schumacher. Further back Ralf Schumacher retires.

* Lap 47: Eighth-placed Zonta retires with an engine failure.

* Lap 49: Herbert suffers a rear suspension failure and crashes heavily. He climbs out of the cockpit but has a problem with his left knee and has to be carried from the car.

* Lap 51: At the tail of the field Mazzacane retires with an engine failure.

* Lap 56: After 10 laps running nose to tail Schumacher wins the race, beating Coulthard to the line by 0.7sec. Barrichello is third with Hakkinen fourth and Villeneuve fifth. Irvine gives Jaguar a point for sixth place. Verstappen's promising race ends with a mechanical problem on the last lap which drops him from eighth to 10th.