2004 Australian Grand Prix

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2004 Australian Grand Prix
Race 1 of 18 in the 2004 Formula One World Championship
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Race details
Date7 March 2004
Official name 2004 Foster's Australian Grand Prix
Location Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia
Course Temporary street circuit
Course length 5.303 km (3.295 miles)
Distance 58 laps, 307.574 km (191.118 miles)
Weather Dry and cloudy
Air temperature 20 °C (68 °F)
Attendance 121,500 [1]
Pole position
Driver
 Ferrari
Time 1:24.408
Fastest lap
Driver Flag of Germany.svg Michael Schumacher Ferrari
Time 1:24.125 on lap 29 (lap record)
Podium
First
 Ferrari
Second
 Ferrari
Third
 Renault
Lap leaders
  • 2004 Australian Grand Prix

The 2004 Australian Grand Prix (officially the 2004 Foster's Australian Grand Prix) [2] was a Formula One motor race held on 7 March 2004 at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit. It was Race 1 of 18 in the 2004 FIA Formula One World Championship. Michael Schumacher won the race for Ferrari from pole position in dominant fashion, [lower-alpha 1] with his teammate Rubens Barrichello finishing behind him in second. This 1–2 finish gave Ferrari a strong 9-point lead in the constructors' standings after just one race. Williams and Renault each had both cars finish in the points while McLaren, a team that had enjoyed success in years preceding this, only managed one point, with David Coulthard finishing a lapped 8th. [5] The 1-2 finish for Schumacher and Barrichello was the first one-two finish for their Ferrari team since the 2002 Japanese Grand Prix. [6]

Contents

This race marked the first time since the 2001 San Marino Grand Prix that cars competed without using fully-automatic gearboxes and launch control, [7] [8] [9] which were both banned by the FIA after the 2003 season. [10] [11] [12] The use of traction control was still permitted by the FIA, and would continue to be used over the next three seasons, until being banned for the 2008 season. [13]

This race also marked the 150th Grand Prix race for the McLaren and Mercedes engine partnership since 1995.

Report

Friday drivers

The bottom six teams in the 2003 Constructors' Championship were entitled to run a third car in free practice on Friday. These drivers drove on Friday but did not compete in qualifying or the race.

Leinders was entered as Third Driver but was refused a superlicence until he completed the required mileage in an F1 car. He satisfied this requirement before the next race.

ConstructorNatDriver
BAR-Honda Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Anthony Davidson
Sauber-Petronas -
Jaguar-Cosworth Flag of Sweden.svg Björn Wirdheim
Toyota Flag of Brazil.svg Ricardo Zonta
Jordan-Ford Flag of Germany.svg Timo Glock
Minardi-Cosworth Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Bas Leinders

Qualifying

Qualifying resulted in a Ferrari one-two, with Juan Pablo Montoya third on the grid for Williams. Gianmaria Bruni, Christian Klien and Olivier Panis all failed to set a qualifying time. [14]

Race

At the start, Alonso was up and away and ahead of Button and looking for a way to deal with Montoya while Jarno Trulli went from ninth on the grid to be fifth out of the first corner. He was aided in his task by Montoya, who went howling down to Turn 1, braked just a hint too late and Montoya was jumped by the Renault of Fernando Alonso as he tried to stay ahead of the surging Alonso. He went off and Alonso had to put some wheels on the grass to avoid a disaster. Montoya went back to seventh. That condemned the Colombian to an afternoon stuck in traffic and put paid to any challenge there might have been for Alonso. Behind all this there were a few wheels off the grass as others sorted themselves out (notably both Saubers) while Takuma Sato bumped the rear end of Trulli's Renault, slightly (but significantly) damaging both cars.

The Ferraris were gone already and as the afternoon developed all that Fernando Alonso could do was to watch the rears of the two red cars as they disappeared from his view. It did not take long. By the fourth lap they were two seconds ahead. By the eighth lap they were five seconds clear and after that Alonso had nothing to do. No one else could keep up with him. Sauber's Giancarlo Fisichella had a long battle for position in the midfield with Jordan's Nick Heidfeld. Fisichella passed Heidfeld, who later dropped out of the race with a transmission failure. Heidfeld was involved in an incident in the pit lane where the mechanic Matt Deane and refueller Mick Gomme were hit by the car and suffered some bruising. [15] Montoya attempted to regain the place by going around the outside of the Spaniard into the first turn, but outbraked himself and ran wide. This dropped him behind his teammate Ralf Schumacher, who'd qualified 8th. Despite repassing Ralf Schumacher on-track, the Colombian ended up behind him again by the race's end in fifth place. The race proved that Ferrari once again had a dominant car, with Michael Schumacher winning from teammate Rubens Barrichello in Ferrari's first one-two since Japan 2002, while the rest of the field was over 20 seconds behind. Schumacher led every one of the 58 race laps. [16] At the start, Montoya was jumped by the Renault of Fernando Alonso.

Fernando Alonso gave Renault a podium with third place, while Jenson Button got BAR off the mark with sixth. Jarno Trulli finished 7th in the Renault and was the first lapped runner. McLaren seemed to be less competitive than in recent years, with Kimi Räikkönen becoming the first retirement of the year, dropping out with an engine problem, and with David Coulthard picking up just 1 point in eighth place. [5]

Classification

Qualifying

PosNoDriverConstructorQ1 TimeQ2 TimeQ2 Gap
11 Flag of Germany.svg Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:25.3011:24.408—
22 Flag of Brazil.svg Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 1:25.9921:24.482+0.074
33 Flag of Colombia.svg Juan Pablo Montoya Williams-BMW 1:25.2261:24.998+0.590
49 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jenson Button BAR-Honda 1:25.8981:24.998+0.590
58 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso Renault 1:25.9281:25.669+1.261
614 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Webber Jaguar-Cosworth 1:26.2321:25.805+1.397
710 Flag of Japan.svg Takuma Sato BAR-Honda 1:26.7371:25.851+1.443
84 Flag of Germany.svg Ralf Schumacher Williams-BMW 1:25.4451:25.925+1.517
97 Flag of Italy.svg Jarno Trulli Renault 1:27.3571:26.290+1.882
106 Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 1:25.5921:26.297+1.889
1112 Flag of Brazil.svg Felipe Massa Sauber-Petronas 1:26.8331:27.065+2.657
125 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 1:25.6521:27.294+2.886
1316 Flag of Brazil.svg Cristiano da Matta Toyota 1:28.2741:27.823+3.415
1411 Flag of Italy.svg Giancarlo Fisichella Sauber-Petronas 1:26.2861:27.845+3.437
1518 Flag of Germany.svg Nick Heidfeld Jordan-Ford 1:27.4691:28.178+3.770
1619 Flag of Italy.svg Giorgio Pantano Jordan-Ford 1:29.1561:30.140+5.732
1721 Flag of Hungary.svg Zsolt Baumgartner Minardi-Cosworth 1:32.6061:30.681+6.273
1817 Flag of France.svg Olivier Panis Toyota 1:27.253no timeno time
1915 Flag of Austria.svg Christian Klien Jaguar-Cosworth 1:27.258no timeno time
2020 Flag of Italy.svg Gianmaria Bruni Minardi-Cosworth 1:30.912no timeno time
Sources: [17] [18]

Race

PosNoDriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
11 Flag of Germany.svg Michael Schumacher Ferrari 581:24:15.757110
22 Flag of Brazil.svg Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 58+13.60528
38 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso Renault 58+34.67356
44 Flag of Germany.svg Ralf Schumacher Williams-BMW 58+1:00.42385
53 Flag of Colombia.svg Juan Pablo Montoya Williams-BMW 58+1:08.53634
69 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jenson Button BAR-Honda 58+1:10.59843
77 Flag of Italy.svg Jarno Trulli Renault 57+1 Lap92
85 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 57+1 Lap121
910 Flag of Japan.svg Takuma Sato BAR-Honda 57+1 Lap7
1011 Flag of Italy.svg Giancarlo Fisichella Sauber-Petronas 57+1 Lap14
1115 Flag of Austria.svg Christian Klien Jaguar-Cosworth 56+2 Laps19
1216 Flag of Brazil.svg Cristiano da Matta Toyota 56+2 Laps13
1317 Flag of France.svg Olivier Panis Toyota 56+2 Laps18
1419 Flag of Italy.svg Giorgio Pantano Jordan-Ford 55+3 Laps16
Ret12 Flag of Brazil.svg Felipe Massa Sauber-Petronas 44Engine11
Ret18 Flag of Germany.svg Nick Heidfeld Jordan-Ford 43Transmission15
NC20 Flag of Italy.svg Gianmaria Bruni Minardi-Cosworth 43+15 Laps20
Ret14 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Webber Jaguar-Cosworth 29Transmission6
Ret21 Flag of Hungary.svg Zsolt Baumgartner Minardi-Cosworth 13Electrical17
Ret6 Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 9Engine/Spin10
Source: [19]

Championship standings after the race

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Michael Schumacher had his fourth career grand slam and his second for Ferrari, [3] having taken pole position, the fastest lap, and won the race by leading every lap. [4]

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