Race details | ||
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Date | 19 November 2000 | |
Location | Guia Circuit, Macau | |
Course | Temporary street circuit 6.120 km (3.803 mi) | |
Distance | 30 laps, 165.27 km (102.69 mi) | |
Leg 1 | ||
Pole | ||
Driver | Narain Karthikeyan | Carlin |
Time | 2:12.887 | |
Fastest Lap | ||
Driver | Narain Karthikeyan | Carlin |
Time | 2:14.718 | |
Podium | ||
First | Pierre Kaffer | team hms |
Second | André Couto | Bertram Schafer Racing |
Third | Mathieu Zangarelli | Promatecme |
Leg 2 | ||
Driver | Pierre Kaffer | team hms |
Fastest Lap | ||
Driver | Narain Karthikeyan | Carlin |
Time | 2:13.253 | |
Podium | ||
First | André Couto | Bertram Schafer Racing |
Second | Paolo Montin | Target Racing |
Third | Ryo Fukuda | Ryo Fukuda |
The 2000 Macau Grand Prix (officially the 47th Macau Grand Prix) was a Formula Three (F3) car race held on the streets of Macau on 19 November 2000. In contrast to other races, such as the Masters of Formula 3, the 2000 Macau Grand Prix was not affiliated with any F3 championship and was open to entries from all F3 championships. The race was split into two 15-lap aggregate legs held in the morning and afternoon, with the overall winner being the driver who completed all 30 laps in the quickest time. The Macau Grand Prix was held for the 47th time in 2000, and the 18th time for F3 cars.
André Couto of Bertram Schafer Racing won the Grand Prix after starting sixth in the first leg. Couto passed first-leg winner Pierre Kaffer of team hms at the start of the second leg and withstood pressure from Paolo Montin of Target Racing to become the first Macanese driver to win the race under F3 rules. Montin finished second, while Ryō Fukuda finished third in his own car.
The Macau Grand Prix is a Formula Three (F3) race that has been described as the territory's most prestigious international sporting event and a steeping stone to higher-tier racing categories such as Formula One. [1] [2] The 2000 Macau Grand Prix was held for the 47th time in 2000, and the 18th time under F3 regulations. It was held on the 6.2 km (3.9 mi) temporary 22-turn Guia Circuit on 18 November 2000, after three days of practice and qualifying. [3] This was the first Macau Grand Prix since Macau's sovereignty was transferred to China. [4]
The Macau Grand Prix Committee invited 30 drivers from 16 different countries to compete. Japan had the most drivers, with seven; Macau, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Austria all had two or more drivers competing. 18 of them made their Macau debuts. The drivers' average age was 23.6 years. All used Dallara chassis (F399 or F300) and engines from four manufacturers (Mugen-Honda, Opel Spiess, Renault Sodemo, and Toyota TOM'S). [5] Two of the four major F3 series had champions on the grid. The winner of the Japanese series, Sébastien Philippe, was joined in Macau by French champion Jonathan Cochet. [6] British champion Antônio Pizzonia was absent due to a clashing Champ Car test with Mo Nunn Racing. He was replaced at Manor Motorsport by local driver Lei Kit Meng. [7] Outside of F3, André Couto of International Formula 3000 and Alex Yoong of Formula Nippon received invitations to compete in Macau. [6]
There were two half-hour practice sessions on Thursday morning and Friday morning that preceded the race on Sunday. [8] Rain fell shortly before the first practice session started, intensifying as it progressed, but a dry racing line appeared before the session's conclusion. [9] At one point, Narain Karthikeyan was more than seven seconds faster than any other driver in the session's opening minutes. [10] His teammate Takuma Sato was fastest overall with a time of 2 minutes, 32.044 seconds. [9] Tiago Monteiro was second when the dry line appeared near the end of the session. [10] Seiji Ara, Karthikeyan, Patrick Friesacher, [10] Toshihiro Kaneishi, Couto, Robert Lechner, Tomas Scheckter and Pierre Kaffer rounded out the session's top ten drivers. [9] Karthikeyan came to a stop at the Melco hairpin for unknown reasons after Ben Collins' rear wing loosened due to a sheared retaining bolt. [10]
Qualifying was split into two 45-minute sessions, one on Thursday afternoon and one on Friday afternoon. Each driver's fastest time from either session was used to determine their starting position in Sunday's race. [8] The first qualifying session took place in cloudy conditions. [11] Paolo Montin consistently ran in the top five and set the provisional fastest lap time of 2 minutes, 15.374 seconds with three minutes remaining. Karthikeyan was three-tenths of a second slower in provisional second; he suffered minor rear-end damage after hitting a barrier at Moorish Hill corner. Slower traffic kept Cochet in third place and cost him seven chances to complete a full-speed lap around the tight circuit. [12] Sato finished fourth after an engine breakage prevented him from improving his lap time near the end of qualifying. Gianmaria Bruni finished sixth after crashing into a barrier near the end of the session at Lisboa corner. [13] Couto, Kaffer, Ryō Fukuda, and Philippe completed the top ten. Because he was 2.002 seconds slower than Montin, Peter Sundberg was the fastest driver not to qualify in the provisional top ten. Mathieu Zangarelli followed ahead of Yoong and Scheckter. [12] Collins was 15th. [11] He was followed in three of the next four places by the Japanese trio of Ara, Haruki Kurosawa and Yuji Ide, who were separated by Enrico Toccacelo in 18th. The final ten provisional qualifiers were Miloš Pavlović, Andy Priaulx, Friesacher, Zsolt Baumgartner, Ying Kin Lee, Shinichi Takagi, Kaneishi, Lei, Michael Ho, Jo Merszei and Montiero. [12] Monteiro did not set a lap because he crashed at the R Bend corner and stopped the session after five minutes. The R Bend also caught out Japanese drivers Kaneishi and Ara with the latter's accident prematurely ending the session with five minutes left because his car was on the racing line. [13]
Sato and his teammate Karthikeyan exchanged the fastest laps throughout the second half-hour practise session, held on a dirty track and in cloudy weather, [9] [14] but it was Sato who led when practice ended with a 2 minutes, 14.087 seconds lap, [9] which he recorded in the session's final minutes after making overnight car setup changes. Despite minor contact with a trackside barrier, Karthikeyan was two-tenths of a second slower in second. Montin, the provisional pole sitter, ran smoothly and lapped third-fastest. Monteiro, Kaffer, and Cochet were ranked four through six. [14] Couto duplicated his first practice and qualifying results in seventh. Fukuda, Yoong and Zangarelli completed the top ten. [9] While the session passed without the need for a red flag stoppage, Lechner made light contact with a wall at the left-hand corner after the Melco hairpin and could not return to the pit lane. Scheckter hit a barrier at Moorish Hill turn. [14]
Priaulx set the early pace in the second qualifying session, passing Montin to claim the provisional pole position. Karthikeyan surpassed Priaulx's effort to top the time sheets one-third of the way through, a position he held until Fukuda took over. [15] Karthikeyan reclaimed first place 20 minutes into the session with a new Guia Circuit track record of 2 minutes, 12.887 seconds and held it to start the first leg from pole position. Sato, his teammate, joined him on the grid's front row and pushed hard to be nearly four-tenths of a second slower. Fukuda moved to third place after grazing the circuit's barriers three times while pushing hard to lap faster and tearing his racing gloves. [16] Kaffer advanced seven positions to start the first leg in fourth, while Zangarelli advanced seven positions to fifth, narrowly ahead of sixth-placed Couto. Friesacher qualified seventh, up fifteen places from his first session result. [17] Toccacelo in eighth was ahead of fellow Italian Montin, who dropped nine positions to ninth, and Bruni in tenth. Cochet dropped from third to eleventh place, while Monteiro gained the most positions of any driver, starting from twelfth. [16] [17] Priaulx, Scheckter, Sundberg, Collins, Yoong, Ara, Kurosawa, Phillipe, Takagi, Kaneshi, Lechner, Pavlovi, Ide, Baumgartner, Ying, Kit, Merszei, and Ho completed the grid. [16]
A driver's fastest time from the two qualifying sessions is denoted in bold.
Pos | No. | Driver | Team | Q1 Time | Rank | Q2 Time | Rank | Gap | Grid |
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1 | 21 | Narain Karthikeyan | Carlin | 2:15.676 | 2 | 2:12.887 | 1 | — | 1 |
2 | 22 | Takuma Sato | Carlin | 2:16.380 | 4 | 2:13.146 | 2 | +0.259 | 2 |
3 | 3 | Ryo Fukuda | Ryo Fukuda | 2:17.070 | 9 | 2:13.262 | 3 | +0.375 | 3 |
4 | 17 | Pierre Kaffer | team hms | 2:16.790 | 8 | 2:13.428 | 4 | +0.541 | 4 |
5 | 5 | Mathieu Zangarelli | Promatecme | 2:17.572 | 12 | 2:13.655 | 5 | +0.768 | 5 |
6 | 10 | André Couto | Bertram Schafer Racing | 2:16.755 | 7 | 2:13.914 | 6 | +1.027 | 6 |
7 | 9 | Patrick Friesacher | Bertram Schafer Racing | 2:19.808 | 22 | 2:14.024 | 7 | +1.137 | 7 |
8 | 27 | Enrico Toccacelo | Prema Powerteam | 2:18.577 | 18 | 2:14.056 | 8 | +1.169 | 8 |
9 | 23 | Paolo Montin | Target Racing | 2:15.374 | 1 | 2:14.057 | 9 | +1.170 | 9 |
10 | 25 | Gianmaria Bruni | Fortec Motorsport | 2:16.733 | 6 | 2:14.276 | 10 | +1.389 | 10 |
11 | 6 | Jonathan Cochet | Promatecme | 2:15.925 | 3 | 2:14.379 | 11 | +1.492 | 11 |
12 | 20 | Tiago Monteiro | ASM Formule 3 | 4:10.834 | 30 | 2:14.475 | 12 | +1.588 | 12 |
13 | 8 | Andy Priaulx | Lucozade Motorsport Team | 2:19.436 | 21 | 2:14.487 | 13 | +1.600 | 13 |
14 | 12 | Tomas Scheckter | Swiss Racing Team | 2:17.616 | 14 | 2:14.505 | 14 | +1.618 | 14 |
15 | 28 | Peter Sundberg | Prema Powerteam | 2:17.480 | 11 | 2:14.566 | 15 | +1.679 | 15 |
16 | 29 | Ben Collins | RC Motorsport | 2:17.915 | 15 | 2:14.731 | 16 | +1.844 | 16 |
17 | 11 | Alex Yoong | Swiss Racing Team | 2:17.580 | 13 | 2:14.816 | 17 | +1.929 | 17 |
18 | 16 | Seiji Ara | Toda Racing | 2:18.004 | 16 | 2:14.839 | 18 | +1.952 | 18 |
19 | 2 | Haruki Kurosawa | TOM'S | 2:18.012 | 17 | 2:14.846 | 19 | +1.959 | 19 |
20 | 19 | Sébastien Philippe | Promatecme | 2:17.376 | 10 | 2:15.172 | 20 | +2.285 | 20 |
21 | 38 | Shinichi Takagi | Inging | 2:20.011 | 25 | 2:15.212 | 21 | +2.325 | 21 |
22 | 32 | Toshihiro Kaneishi | GM Motorsport | 2:20.224 | 26 | 2:15.668 | 22 | +2.781 | 22 |
23 | 1 | Robert Lechner | TOM'S | 2:16.616 | 5 | 2:15.982 | 23 | +3.095 | 23 |
24 | 30 | Miloš Pavlović | RC Motorsport | 2:19.378 | 20 | 2:16.041 | 24 | +3.154 | 24 |
25 | 15 | Yuji Ide | Skill Speed | 2:18.941 | 19 | 2:16.098 | 25 | +3.211 | 25 |
26 | 31 | Zsolt Baumgartner | GM Motorsport | 2:19.812 | 23 | 2:16.688 | 26 | +3.801 | 26 |
27 | 26 | Ying Kin Lee | Fortec Motorsport | 2:19.934 | 24 | — | — | +7.047 | 24 |
28 | 7 | Lei Kit Meng | Lucozade Motorsport Team | 2:23.053 | 27 | 2:22.318 | 27 | +9.431 | 28 |
29 | 18 | Jo Merszei | team hms | 2:24.515 | 29 | 2:23.836 | 28 | +10.949 | 29 |
30 | 36 | Michael Ho | GM Motorsport | 2:23.891 | 28 | — | — | +11.004 | 30 |
110% qualifying time: 2:26.175 | |||||||||
Bold time indicates the faster of the two times that determined the grid order. |
A half an hour warm-up session was held on the morning of the race. [8] A brief rain shower earlier in the morning made the track wet, but it quickly dried. [19] Despite spinning, Kaffer reported no car problems and lapped quickest at 2 minutes, 18.293 seconds, almost three seconds faster than Friesacher in second place. Kaneishi finished third with a lap set late in warm-up, with Sato fourth. Collins, fifth, improved his top speed after modifying his car's setup and cutting his diffuser. Positions five to ten were filled by Scheckter, Priaulx, Monteiro, Lee, and Couto. [20]
The race on Sunday was divided into two aggregate legs totaling 30 laps. The results of the morning's first 15-lap leg determined the starting grid for the second leg, with the winner starting from pole position. Following that, a five-hour interval was held to allow for the intervening support races. Later in the afternoon, the second 15-lap leg began. The driver who completed all 30 laps in the shortest amount of time won the Grand Prix overall. [8]
The first leg began in cloudy and dry weather at 10:15 Macau Standard Time (UTC+08:00) on 19 November. [8] [21] Karthikeyan made a quick getaway from his grid position to maintain his lead into the Reservoir Bend corner, but he lost it to teammate Sato on the straight heading towards Lisboa turn. [22] However, Sato missed the braking point for the corner and crashed into a tyre barrier, forcing him to retire. This returned the lead to his teammate Karthikeyan, who established a small but comfortable lead over the rest of the field. [23] Ho retired after an accident leaving Mandarin Oriental Bend on the same lap. Positions changed behind him as Couto passed Fukuda for third on lap two, and he overtook Kaffer for second on the following lap. [22] Karthikeyan had a five-second lead over Couto by the end of the fifth lap. [23] On the following lap, however, Karthikeyan lost control of his vehicle at Paiol corner and collided with the wall, becoming the race's third retirement. The safety car was deployed for two laps to allow his car to be removed from the track. Meanwhile, Cochet drove over debris from Karthikeyan's car, costing him an opportunity to win the race. [22]
At the lap nine restart, Kaffer began battling Couto for the lead. On the next lap, he went to the outside line to try to pass Couto into Lisboa corner, but Couto maintained the lead on the inside line. Bruni retired on that lap after colliding with the wall at the Lisboa turn. On the 12th lap, Kaffer passed Couto entering Lisboa turn, but he braked too late and ran wide into the turn. He came close to hitting the wall as Couto retook the lead. Friesacher collided with a wall at R Bend on lap 12, but he continued without major damage. Couto braked too late for the Lisboa turn on lap 14, and Kaffer took the lead. [22] He led the rest of the leg to win by 3.4 seconds over Couto and began the second leg from pole position. Zangarelli and Montin were third and fourth and Fukuda took fifth. [23] Friesacher was sixth, [22] Scheckter finished seventh after being delayed by a slower driver, [24] Toccacelo took eighth, Priaulx ninth and Monteiro tenth. [21] Kurosawa finished eleventh, up eight places from his starting position of 19th. Collins, Sundberg, Yoong, the Japanese duo of Ara and Kaneishi, Lechner, Takagi, Lee, Cochet, Pavlovi, Baumgartner, Lei, and Merszei were the final finishers. [23]
The second leg commenced later that day at 15:35 local time under cloudy and dry weather. [8] [25] Couto outran pole sitter Kaffer off the line and passed him entering Lisboa corner. Kaffer pressed Couto until Montin began to challenge him for second. Montin entered Kaffer's slipstream as the two drove towards the Lisboa turn on the fifth lap, and then turned right to make a pass under braking. Couto's lead was reduced after that, as Montin closed in on him and was close behind him at the start of the seventh lap. On laps seven and eight, Montin unsuccessfully attempted to pass Couto under braking at Lisboa corner. [26] Kaffer was passed by the faster Fukuda for third position on the eighth lap. [27] Montin was unable to overtake Couto because the safety car was deployed on lap thirteen after Lechner crashed into a wall beside the circuit at the R Bend, and no overtaking was permitted under these conditions. [26]
The second leg was run behind the safety car for the final two laps in a single line, giving Couto the victory, making him the first Macanese to win the Macau Grand Prix since it adopted F3 regulations in 1983. [28] [29] [30] Montin finished second, with Fukuda rounding out the podium in third place. Kaffer finished fourth, and Tocacello finished fifth, having advanced three positions from his first leg result. [31] An engine cut out at the Melco hairpin and the main straight left Scheckter in sixth. [24] Collins finished seventh, and Priaulx, the second British driver in Macau, finished eighth overall. Monteiro and Friesacher finished in the top ten. Cochet, Sundberg, Lee, Baumgartner, Takagi, Lei, Ara, Merszei, Zangarelli, and Kaneishi were the final classified finishers outside the top ten. [31]
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