2004 Belgian Grand Prix

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2004 Belgian Grand Prix
Race 14 of 18 in the 2004 Formula One World Championship
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 2004-2006.png
Race details
Date29 August 2004
Official name Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix 2004
Location Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Francorchamps, Wallonia, Belgium
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 6.976 km (4.335 miles)
Distance 44 laps, 306.927 km (190.716 miles)
Weather Dry with temperatures reaching up to 15 °C (59 °F) [1]
Pole position
Driver Renault
Time 1:56.232
Fastest lap
Driver Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes
Time 1:45.108 on lap 42 (lap record)
Podium
First McLaren-Mercedes
Second Ferrari
Third Ferrari
Lap leaders
  • 2004 Belgian Grand Prix

The 2004 Belgian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix 2004) [2] was a Formula One motor race held on 29 August 2004, at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, near the village of Francorchamps, Wallonia, Belgium. It was Race 14 of 18 in the 2004 FIA Formula One World Championship.

Contents

The race was contested over 44 laps and was won by Kimi Räikkönen, taking his and McLaren's only race win of the season from tenth place on the grid. Second place for Michael Schumacher won his seventh and final world championship, after beating third-placed Rubens Barrichello.

Jarno Trulli started from pole position alongside Schumacher. The race saw many changes of the lead, but following several fortuitous safety cars, Räikkönen was leading the race for the final few laps. Mark Webber triggered a pile-up at the start, eliminating four cars and damaging several others, although he did admit to his mistake later. The race saw Christian Klien score his first championship points, and Olivier Panis and the Jaguar team their last.

Report

Background

Heading into the 14th race of the season, Michael Schumacher, driving for the Ferrari team, was leading the Drivers' Championship by 38 points from teammate Rubens Barrichello. Jenson Button, driving for BAR, was in third place, but only Schumacher and Barrichello could mathematically win the championship. Ferrari had sealed the Constructors' Championship at the previous race, [3] but the battle for second in the Championship, between Renault and BAR, was still fierce.

However, the biggest story was the controversy surrounding Button's drive for 2005. Ten days before the Hungarian Grand Prix, Button chose to leave BAR and signed a two-year contract to return to Williams. [4] This was surprising, as Button was enjoying his best season to date, while Williams had been struggling. [5] BAR, however, insisted they had the right to exercise their option to keep Button. Button's management argued that the BAR option was not valid because it contained a clause allowing him to leave if BAR risked losing their Honda engines. They felt the new contract signed in the summer for Honda to supply engines to BAR was not definitive, and thus Button was free to move. [5] [6]

With regard to the Spa circuit itself, the race did not take place in 2003 so that modifications to the Bus Stop chicane could be completed. Pundits were very critical of the changes to the chicane: namely, a sweeping right-hand bend has been introduced just before it. This left a huge piece of green-coloured tarmac, causing Martin Brundle to be very scathing of it during qualifying, stating "you could hold an entire kart meeting in there, including transporters and trucks!" [7] [8]

Friday drivers

The bottom 6 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.

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

Practice

Four practice sessions were held before qualifying – two 60-minute sessions on Friday, 27 August, and two 45-minute sessions on Saturday, 28 August. [9] All teams, with the exception of Ferrari, Williams, McLaren, and Renault, were permitted to run three drivers on Friday. [9] Anthony Davidson, the third driver for BAR, set the quickest time in the first practice session, 1:45.104. [10] Räikkönen set the fastest time in practice two. [11] Saturday practice one was cancelled due to fog, [12] and Barrichello set the quickest time in Saturday practice two, shortened from 45 to 30 minutes as a result of the fog that had cancelled practice one. [13] Saturday's second practice session saw two major excursions from Antônio Pizzonia and Gianmaria Bruni, the latter causing the session to be red-flagged. [7]

Qualifying

Jarno Trulli took pole position for the Renault team. Jarno Trulli 2004 Belgium 2.jpg
Jarno Trulli took pole position for the Renault team.

Qualifying was split into two sections. In the first session, dubbed "pre-qualifying", each driver took turns to record one lap at a time. The order the cars ran in was the reverse order to the classified results at the 2004 Hungarian Grand Prix. For example, Michael Schumacher won the race, so would be the last car to run in pre-qualifying. The second qualifying session (dubbed "qualifying") repeated this process (with the drivers running in reverse order to the pre-qualifying results), but with the caveat that the drivers would not be allowed to alter their fuel loads between then and the race. The fastest time in the second session would take pole. As in 2003, setups and fuel loads could not be altered between the end of the second qualifying session and the race. [9] In pre-qualifying, Ricardo Zonta, driving for Toyota, spun off at Pouhon corner, leading him to collide with the tyre wall. [7] The second part of qualifying started as being very wet but quickly dried out, enabling Jarno Trulli to switch to intermediate tyres, [14] enabling him to set the fastest lap time. Schumacher qualified second. The conditions did not suit Jenson Button, who had run on wet tyres when the track was ready for intermediates, and Juan Pablo Montoya, who did his qualifying lap on intermediates as it began to rain.

Race

Trulli's Renault had a good start from pole position, but second-placed Schumacher's Ferrari did not, and he lost positions to Fernando Alonso's Renault and David Coulthard's McLaren. At La Source, Mark Webber's Jaguar collided with Barrichello's Ferrari, causing Webber to lose his front wing and Barrichello to suffer rear wing damage. In a separate incident, Räikkönen's McLaren made contact with Felipe Massa's Sauber, which caused Massa to lose his front wing. In a third incident, Nick Heidfeld's Jordan and Olivier Panis's Toyota made contact. Going into Eau Rouge, Webber was side-by-side with Takuma Sato's BAR, and they collided in the middle of the corner whilst they were overtaken by Montoya's Williams. The contact broke Sato's left rear suspension and Webber's front right suspension. Sato consequently spun in the middle of the track. The rest of the field attempted to avoid the spinning BAR, but in doing so, Zsolt Baumgartner and Gianmaria Bruni, both driving for Minardi, made contact, putting Bruni out of the race and getting him hit by Giorgio Pantano's Jordan. Sato, Webber, Bruni, and Pantano were out of the race. A small fire on Bruni's car, caused by the contact with Pantano, forced the safety car to come out. During this time, Button, Massa, Barrichello, Heidfeld, Baumgartner, and Olivier Panis stopped for repairs caused by debris. Massa and Barrichello stopped twice.

The safety car came in at the end of lap four and Trulli led Alonso and Coulthard. Räikkönen overtook Schumacher for fifth position and Button overtook Ricardo Zonta's Toyota. Schumacher continued to be slow, losing 1.1 seconds to Räikkönen in the middle sector on lap five, enabling Montoya to overtake him around the outside of the Bus Stop chicane on lap five. On lap six, Räikkönen overtook his teammate, Coulthard, for third, going up the inside at the Les Combes chicane. On lap eight, Barrichello overtook Baumgartner and Heidfeld, putting him into 14th place. Christian Klien, in the sole remaining Jaguar, was the first driver to make a scheduled pit stop, on lap nine, and race leader Trulli made a pit stop on lap 10, rejoining in ninth place. Alonso now led the race, but on lap 12 he had an oil leak and spun twice at Les Combes, losing the lead to Räikkönen. He managed to rejoin, but he then had a further spin at Rivage for the same reason and could not rejoin. On the same lap Coulthard had a rear tyre de-lamination, but he made it back to pit lane. Räikkönen stopped at the end of lap 13. Montoya now led the race from Schumacher, until Montoya pitted on lap 15. Montoya left the pit lane behind Massa, losing time while overtaking him. Schumacher pitted one lap later and leapfrogged Montoya. New leader Pizzonia came into the pits on lap 17. Räikkönen now led from Button in second, Trulli in third, and Schumacher in fourth, but Schumacher was able to overcome Trulli on lap 19.

Giancarlo Fisichella's Sauber ran wide on lap 20 and lost parts of his front wing. On the same lap, Montoya attempted to repeat his earlier overtake on Trulli, but the pair collided, putting Trulli into a spin. Trulli lost several places, and Montoya lost fourth place to his teammate, Pizzonia. Button pitted on lap 21, rejoining in seventh, behind the battling Fischella and Barrichello. Barrichello then took fifth place on lap 22, as Trulli made a second pit stop, having been passed by Panis. Button was also able to pass Fisichella for sixth position on lap 23, as Barrichello pitted. Räikkönen pitted on lap 29, rejoining in second position, while Schumacher still had to stop. Montoya pitted on the same lap as Räikkönen. On lap 31, Button suffered a right rear tyre de-lamination similar to Coulthard's, at approximately 205 mph (330 km/h), [15] pitching him into a spin. As a result, he crashed into the Minardi of Baumgartner, who was being lapped, putting both drivers out of the race and bringing out a safety car. Schumacher, Pizzonia, and Heidfeld took the opportunity to pit behind the safety car.

Still behind the safety car, on lap 32, Pizzonia retired due to a gearbox problem. Räikkönen led the race from Schumacher, Montoya, Barrichello, and Zonta, who started last. At the restart on lap 34, Klien overtook Panis for eighth place and one point, as Coulthard overtook Trulli for tenth place. One lap later, Coulthard overtook Panis for ninth. On lap 36, Montoya's rear right tyre de-laminated, forcing him to retire.

On lap 38, Coulthard attempted to overtake Klien for seventh place, but contact between the two drivers meant Coulthard needed a new front wing after it broke loose and became stuck over his own rear wing.[ clarification needed ] The resulting debris caused the safety car to come out again. The safety car came in at the end of lap 41, but just four corners later, fourth-placed Zonta's engine blew up spectacularly, putting him out of the race. On the penultimate lap, Coulthard overtook Panis for seventh.

Räikkönen won the race, his first and only victory of 2004. Schumacher finished second, with teammate Barrichello third. The result gave Schumacher his seventh and last World Drivers' Championship.

Post-race

At the 2005 British Grand Prix, Daily Express editor Bob McKenzie honoured a pledge that he would run naked around Silverstone if McLaren won a race in 2004. [16]

Classification

Qualifying

PosNoDriverConstructorQ1 TimeQ2 TimeGapGrid
17 Flag of Italy.svg Jarno Trulli Renault 1:58.6061:56.2321
21 Flag of Germany.svg Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:53.7551:56.304+0.0722
38 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso Renault 1:58.2421:56.686+0.4543
45 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 1:56.9941:57.990+1.7584
511 Flag of Italy.svg Giancarlo Fisichella Sauber-Petronas 1:56.0681:58.040+1.8085
62 Flag of Brazil.svg Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 1:54.9131:58.175+1.9436
714 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Webber Jaguar-Cosworth 1:59.4371:58.729+2.4977
812 Flag of Brazil.svg Felipe Massa Sauber-Petronas 1:56.0571:59.008+2.7768
917 Flag of France.svg Olivier Panis Toyota 2:01.4721:59.552+3.3209
106 Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 1:55.3711:59.635+3.40310
113 Flag of Colombia.svg Juan Pablo Montoya Williams-BMW 1:56.8421:59.681+3.44911
129 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jenson Button BAR-Honda 1:58.8372:00.237+4.00512
1315 Flag of Austria.svg Christian Klien Jaguar-Cosworth 1:59.9972:01.246+5.01413
144 Flag of Brazil.svg Antônio Pizzonia Williams-BMW 1:59.1002:01.447+5.21514
1510 Flag of Japan.svg Takuma Sato BAR-Honda 1:58.9292:01.813+5.58115
1618 Flag of Germany.svg Nick Heidfeld Jordan-Ford 2:00.1662:02.645+6.41316
1720 Flag of Italy.svg Gianmaria Bruni Minardi-Cosworth 2:03.2262:02.651+6.41917
1821 Flag of Hungary.svg Zsolt Baumgartner Minardi-Cosworth 2:01.1952:03.303+7.07118
1919 Flag of Italy.svg Giorgio Pantano Jordan-Ford 1:59.4422:03.833+7.60119
2016 Flag of Brazil.svg Ricardo Zonta Toyota No time2:03.895+7.66320
Source: [17]

Race

PosNoDriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
16 Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 441:32:35.2741010
21 Flag of Germany.svg Michael Schumacher Ferrari 44+3.13228
32 Flag of Brazil.svg Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 44+4.37166
412 Flag of Brazil.svg Felipe Massa Sauber-Petronas 44+12.50485
511 Flag of Italy.svg Giancarlo Fisichella Sauber-Petronas 44+14.10454
615 Flag of Austria.svg Christian Klien Jaguar-Cosworth 44+14.614133
75 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 44+17.97042
817 Flag of France.svg Olivier Panis Toyota 44+18.69391
97 Flag of Italy.svg Jarno Trulli Renault 44+22.1151 
1016 Flag of Brazil.svg Ricardo Zonta Toyota 41Engine20 
1118 Flag of Germany.svg Nick Heidfeld Jordan-Ford 40+4 Laps16 
Ret3 Flag of Colombia.svg Juan Pablo Montoya Williams-BMW 37Tyre11 
Ret4 Flag of Brazil.svg Antônio Pizzonia Williams-BMW 31Gearbox14 
Ret9 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jenson Button BAR-Honda 29Tyre/Collision12 
Ret21 Flag of Hungary.svg Zsolt Baumgartner Minardi-Cosworth 28Collision18 
Ret8 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso Renault 11Engine/Spin3 
Ret14 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Webber Jaguar-Cosworth 0Collision damage7 
Ret10 Flag of Japan.svg Takuma Sato BAR-Honda 0Collision15 
Ret20 Flag of Italy.svg Gianmaria Bruni Minardi-Cosworth 0Collision/Fire17 
Ret19 Flag of Italy.svg Giorgio Pantano Jordan-Ford 0Collision19 
Source: [18]

Championship standings after the race

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