2002 Formula One season

2002 FIA Formula One World Championship season
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The 2002 Formula One season was the 53rd FIA Formula One World Championship season. It commenced on March 3, 2002, and ended on October 13 after seventeen races. It appeared to be nothing more than a battle for second or third place in the driver's standings for those competing because Michael Schumacher finished first or second in every race except for the Malaysian Grand Prix, where he finished third. He won 11 Grands Prix, winning the title by a record-67 points, and beating the previous record set by Nigel Mansell in the 1992 Formula One season. This record would not be beaten until 2004, also by Schumacher. He would also set the record for shortest time in which the World Drivers Championship had been clinched, securing the title with a win at the French Grand Prix, with 6 races to go in the season.

Drivers and constructors

The following teams and drivers competed in the 2002 FIA Formula One World Championship.

Entrant	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Tyre	No	Driver	Test driver(s)
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro	Ferrari	F2001 F2002	Ferrari 050 3.0 V10 Ferrari 051 3.0 V10	B	1	Michael Schumacher	Luca Badoer Luciano Burti
					2	Rubens Barrichello
West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren	MP4-17	Mercedes-Benz FO110M 3.0 V10	M	3	David Coulthard	Jean Alesi Alexander Wurz
					4	Kimi Räikkönen
BMW WilliamsF1 Team	Williams	FW24	BMW P82 3.0 V10	M	5	Ralf Schumacher	Antônio Pizzonia Giorgio Pantano Marc Gené
					6	Juan Pablo Montoya
Sauber Petronas	Sauber	C21	Petronas 02A 3.0 V10	B	7	Nick Heidfeld	Neel Jani
					8	Felipe Massa
						Heinz-Harald Frentzen
DHL Jordan Honda	Jordan	EJ12	Honda RA002E 3.0 V10	B	9	Giancarlo Fisichella	none
					10	Takuma Sato
Lucky Strike BAR Honda	BAR	004	Honda RA002E 3.0 V10	B	11	Jacques Villeneuve	Darren Manning Anthony Davidson Patrick Lemarié Ryo Fukuda
					12	Olivier Panis
Mild Seven Renault F1 Team	Renault	R202	Renault RS22 3.0 V10	M	14	Jarno Trulli	Fernando Alonso
					15	Jenson Button
Jaguar Racing	Jaguar	R3 R3B	Cosworth CR-3 3.0 V10 Cosworth CR-4 3.0 V10	M	16	Eddie Irvine	André Lotterer James Courtney
					17	Pedro de la Rosa
Orange Arrows	Arrows	A23	Cosworth CR-3 3.0 V10 Cosworth CR-4 3.0 V10	B	20	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	none
					21	Enrique Bernoldi
KL Minardi Asiatech	Minardi	PS02	Asiatech AT02 3.0 V10	M	22	Alex Yoong	Tarso Marques Matteo Bobbi Sergei Zlobin Jirko Malchárek
						Anthony Davidson
					23	Mark Webber
Panasonic Toyota Racing	Toyota	TF102	Toyota RVX-02 3.0 V10	M	24	Mika Salo	Ryan Briscoe Stéphane Sarrazin
					25	Allan McNish

Driver changes

The 2002 season featured several driver line-up changes before the season and more changes during the season proper.

Before the season opener in Australia, the following lineup changed had occurred:

• The collapse of the Prost team left several drivers without a race seat in 2002 and cars 18 & 19 unoccupied.
• Jean Alesi did not seriously pursue an F1 drive for 2002 and signed up a drive with Mercedes in the German DTM.
• Luciano Burti, who had driven for both Jaguar and Prost in 2001, left the struggling Prost team before their collapse in order to join Luca Badoer in a test role at Ferrari.
• Tomáš Enge had filled in for the injured Burti at Prost in 2001. He was dropped by Prost at the end of the 2001 season for financial reasons, and returned to Formula 3000 for 2002.
• With three races left to go in the 2001 season, Mika Häkkinen announced that he was not intending to drive in F1 in 2002. Denying any claim of retirement, he stated that he needed a sabbatical and would return to McLaren at a later time. Häkkinen later officially left McLaren and retired from F1 in 2002, and as of 2007 was instead driving in the German DTM series with fellow F1 refugee Jean Alesi.
• Kimi Räikkönen was released by Sauber in order to allow him to sign on with McLaren where he took Häkkinen's seat.
• Felipe Massa was signed by Sauber to take over Räikkönen's seat.
• Antônio Pizzonia was signed to become a Williams test driver along side Marc Gené. Pizzonia had been driving a Williams sponsored car in the International F3000 series in 2001, and he continued that drive in 2002 along with his test duties at Williams.
• Midway through 2001, Giancarlo Fisichella announced his intention to leave Benetton after 2001 to drive for Jordan.
• Benetton replaced Fisichella with Jordan driver Jarno Trulli, meaning that Fisichella and Trulli had swapped seats at the two teams.
• Takuma Sato left his test driver slot at BAR to join Fisichella as the second main driver at Jordan.
• Sato's position in the large test driver pool at BAR was taken by compatriot Ryo Fukuda.
• Ricardo Zonta, realising that he had no future at Jordan, left his reserve seat there to drive in the Telefonica World Series. He would return to F1 in 2003 as a test driver for Toyota.
• Fernando Alonso left Minardi after an impressive 2001 campaign, and signed on with Renault as a test driver.
• Alonso's Minardi seat was taken over by Mark Webber.
• Andre Lotterer was employed as a test driver at Jaguar.
• Heinz-Harald Frentzen, without a drive after the collapse of Prost, joined the Arrows team for 2002. This was his third different team within two seasons.
• Frentzen displaced Jos Verstappen at Arrows, and Verstappen was unable to secure a drive at another team. Verstappen resurfaced at Minardi in 2003.
• Mika Salo (formally with Sauber in 2000) and newcomer Allan McNish arrived with the new Toyota team.

During the season even more changes occurred:

• Heinz-Harald Frentzen decided to leave Arrows following the German GP due to the uncertain future of that team. Arrows collapsed several days later and did not take part in the rest of the season which also left Enrique Bernoldi without a drive. Frentzen had had an unhappy time in 2001 as well having been sensationally dumped by Jordan mid-season and then driving for Prost before that team's collapse. Frentzen would later drive for Sauber in 2003.

Team changes

• The Prost team was placed into receivership in November 2001, and was liquidated by the receivers in January 2002. This ended the long history of the team which had competed as Ligier since 1976. A group under the name of Phoenix then purchased the Prost cars and attempted to enter the championship with old Hart engines, Tarso Marques and Gaston Mazzacane as drivers but were refused entry to the championship.
• Toyota entered the championship after much development work in 2001.
• The Benetton team had been purchased outright by Renault in 2001 and was renamed Renault F1 for 2002. The team did not substantially change apart from the name, as Benetton had been running a car with Renault components for several seasons.
• Arrows suffered financial collapse after the German GP, and did not take part in any remaining races. An attempt to register for the 2003 season was rejected by the FIA.

Results and standings

Grands Prix

Rnd	Race	Date	Location	Pole Position	Winning Driver	Constructor	Report
1	Australian Grand Prix	March 3	Melbourne	Rubens Barrichello	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
2	Malaysian Grand Prix	March 17	Sepang	Michael Schumacher	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-BMW	Report
3	Brazilian Grand Prix	March 31	Interlagos	Juan Pablo Montoya	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
4	San Marino Grand Prix	April 14	Imola	Michael Schumacher	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
5	Spanish Grand Prix	April 28	Catalunya	Michael Schumacher	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
6	Austrian Grand Prix	May 12	A1-Ring	Rubens Barrichello	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
7	Monaco Grand Prix	May 26	Monaco	Juan Pablo Montoya	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	Report
8	Canadian Grand Prix	June 9	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	Juan Pablo Montoya	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
9	European Grand Prix	June 23	Nürburgring	Juan Pablo Montoya	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	Report
10	British Grand Prix	July 7	Silverstone	Juan Pablo Montoya	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
11	French Grand Prix	July 21	Magny-Cours	Juan Pablo Montoya	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
12	German Grand Prix	July 28	Hockenheimring	Michael Schumacher	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
13	Hungarian Grand Prix	August 18	Hungaroring	Rubens Barrichello	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	Report
14	Belgian Grand Prix	September 1	Spa-Francorchamps	Michael Schumacher	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
15	Italian Grand Prix	September 15	Monza	Juan Pablo Montoya	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	Report
16	United States Grand Prix	September 29	Indianapolis	Michael Schumacher	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	Report
17	Japanese Grand Prix	October 13	Suzuka	Michael Schumacher	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report

Drivers

Pos Driver AUS MAL BRA SMR ESP AUT MON CAN EUR GBR FRA GER HUN BEL ITA USA JPN Points 1 M.Schumacher 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 144 2 Barrichello Ret Ret Ret 2 DNS 2 7 3 1 2 DNS 4 1 2 1 1 2 77 3 Montoya 2 2 5 4 2 3 Ret Ret Ret 3 4 2 11 3 Ret 4 4 50 4 R.Schumacher Ret 1 2 3 11 4 3 7 4 8 5 3 3 5 Ret 16 11 42 5 Coulthard Ret Ret 3 6 3 6 1 2 Ret 10 3 5 5 4 7 3 Ret 41 6 Räikkönen 3 Ret 12 Ret Ret Ret Ret 4 3 Ret 2 Ret 4 Ret Ret Ret 3 24 7 Button Ret 4 4 5 12 7 Ret 15 5 12 6 Ret Ret Ret 5 8 6 14 8 Trulli Ret Ret Ret 9 10 Ret 4 6 8 Ret Ret Ret 8 Ret 4 5 Ret 9 9 Irvine 4 Ret 7 Ret Ret Ret 9 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 6 3 10 9 8 10 Heidfeld Ret 5 Ret 10 4 Ret 8 12 7 6 7 6 9 10 10 9 7 7 11 Fisichella Ret 13 Ret Ret Ret 5 5 5 Ret 7 Ret 6 Ret 8 7 Ret 7 12 Villeneuve Ret 8 10 7 7 10 Ret Ret 12 4 Ret Ret Ret 8 9 6 Ret 4 13 Massa Ret 6 Ret 8 5 Ret Ret 9 6 9 Ret 7 7 Ret Ret Ret 4 14 Panis Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 8 9 5 Ret Ret 12 12 6 12 Ret 3 15 Sato Ret 9 9 Ret Ret Ret Ret 10 16 Ret Ret 8 10 11 12 11 5 2 16 Webber 5 Ret 11 11 DNS 12 11 11 15 Ret 8 Ret 16 Ret Ret Ret 10 2 17 Salo 6 12 6 Ret 9 8 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 9 15 7 11 14 8 2 18 Frentzen DSQ 11 Ret Ret 6 11 6 13 13 Ret DNQ Ret 13 2 19 McNish Ret 7 Ret Ret 8 9 Ret Ret 14 Ret 11 Ret 14 9 Ret 15 DNS 0 20 Yoong 7 Ret 13 DNQ DNS Ret Ret 14 Ret DNQ 10 DNQ 13 Ret Ret 0 21 de la Rosa 8 10 8 Ret Ret Ret 10 Ret 10 11 9 Ret 13 Ret Ret Ret Ret 0 22 Bernoldi DSQ Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 12 Ret 11 Ret DNQ Ret 0 — Davidson Ret Ret 0 Pos Driver AUS MAL BRA SMR ESP AUT MON CAN EUR GBR FRA GER HUN BEL ITA USA JPN Points

Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Finished, in points Blue Finished, no points Purple Did not finish (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Blank Did not participate Blank Injured (INJ) Blank Excluded (EX)

Constructors

Pos	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Tyre	Points	Wins	Podiums	Poles
1	Ferrari	F2001 F2002	Ferrari 050 V10 Ferrari 051 V10	B	221	15	27	10
2	Williams-BMW	FW24	BMW P82 V10	M	92	1	13	7
3	McLaren-Mercedes	MP4-17	Mercedes-Benz F0110M V10	M	65	1	10
4	Renault	R202	RS22 V10	M	23
5	Sauber-Petronas	C21	Petronas 02A V10	B	11
6	Jordan-Honda	EJ12	Honda RA002E V10	B	9
7	Jaguar-Cosworth	R3 R3B	Cosworth CR-3 V10	M	8		1
8	BAR-Honda	004	Honda RA002E V10	B	7
9	Arrows-Cosworth	A23	Cosworth CR-3 V10	B	2
10	Minardi-Asiatech	PS02	Asiatech AT02 V10	M	2
11	Toyota	TF102	RVX-02 V10	M	2

Qualifying results

Car No Driver AUS MAL BRA SAN ESP AUT MON CAN EUR GBR FRA GER HUN BEL ITA USA JPN 1 Michael Schumacher 2 1 2 1 1 3 3 2 3 3 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 Rubens Barrichello 1 3 8 2 2 1 5 3 4 2 3 3 1 3 4 2 2 3 David Coulthard 4 6 4 6 7 8 2 8 5 6 6 9 10 6 7 3 3 4 Kimi Raikkonen 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 5 6 5 4 5 11 2 6 6 4 5 Ralf Schumacher 3 4 3 3 3 2 4 4 2 4 5 2 3 4 3 5 5 6 Juan Pablo Montoya 6 2 1 4 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 4 4 5 1 4 6 7 Nick Heidfeld 10 7 9 7 8 5 17 7 9 10 10 10 8 18 15 10 12 8 Felipe Massa 9 14 12 11 11 7 13 12 11 11 12 14 7 17 14 15 Heinz-Harald Frentzen 11 9 Giancarlo Fisichella 8 9 14 15 12 15 11 6 18 17 wd 6 5 14 12 9 8 10 Takuma Sato 22 15 19 14 18 18 16 15 14 14 14 12 14 16 18 15 7 11 Jacques Villeneuve 13 13 15 10 15 17 14 9 19 9 13 11 13 12 9 7 9 12 Olivier Panis 12 18 17 12 13 9 18 11 12 13 11 7 12 9 16 12 16 14 Jarno Trulli 7 12 6 8 9 16 7 10 7 7 8 6 7 11 8 11 Car No Driver AUS MAL BRA SAN ESP AUT MON CAN EUR GBR FRA GER HUN BEL ITA USA JPN