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, making the podium in every race. He won a record 11 Grands Prix, surpassing the previous record of 9 wins, jointly held by himself (1995, 2000 and 2001) and Nigel Mansell (1992). 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. Schumacher took the Drivers' Title by a record 67 point margin over teammate Rubens Barrichello, beating his own previous record for the 2001 season. Schumacher and Barrichello helped Ferrari amass the same number of points as the rest of the constructors put together. For next season, the FIA would change the points system.

Drivers and constructors

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

Entrant	Constructor	Chassis	Engine †	Tyre	No	Driver	Rounds	Test driver(s)
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro	Ferrari	F2001 F2002	Ferrari 050 Ferrari 051	B	1	Michael Schumacher	All	Luca Badoer Luciano Burti
					2	Rubens Barrichello	All
West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren	MP4-17	Mercedes FO110M	M	3	David Coulthard	All	Jean Alesi Alexander Wurz
					4	Kimi Räikkönen	All
BMW.WilliamsF1 Team	Williams	FW24	BMW P82	M	5	Ralf Schumacher	All	Antônio Pizzonia Giorgio Pantano Marc Gené
					6	Juan Pablo Montoya	All
Sauber Petronas	Sauber	C21	Petronas 02A	B	7	Nick Heidfeld	All	Neel Jani Jos Verstappen
					8	Felipe Massa	1-15, 17
						Heinz-Harald Frentzen	16
DHL Jordan Honda	Jordan	EJ12	Honda RA002E	B	9	Giancarlo Fisichella	All	Ricardo Zonta
					10	Takuma Sato	All
Lucky Strike Reynard British American Racing Honda Lucky Strike British American Racing Honda	BAR	004	Honda RA002E	B	11	Jacques Villeneuve	All	Darren Manning Anthony Davidson Patrick Lemarié Ryo Fukuda
					12	Olivier Panis	All
Mild Seven Renault F1 Team	Renault	R202	Renault RS22	M	14	Jarno Trulli	All	Fernando Alonso
					15	Jenson Button	All
Jaguar Racing	Jaguar	R3 R3B	Cosworth CR-3 Cosworth CR-4	M	16	Eddie Irvine	All	André Lotterer James Courtney
					17	Pedro de la Rosa	All
Orange Arrows	Arrows	A23	Cosworth CR-3 Cosworth CR-4	B	20	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	1-12	none
					21	Enrique Bernoldi	1-12
Go KL Minardi Asiatech	Minardi	PS02	Asiatech AT02	M	22	Alex Yoong	1-12, 15-17	Tarso Marques Matteo Bobbi Sergei Zlobin Jirko Malchárek
						Anthony Davidson	13-14
					23	Mark Webber	All
Panasonic Toyota Racing	Toyota	TF102	Toyota RVX-02	M	24	Mika Salo	All	Ryan Briscoe Stéphane Sarrazin
					25	Allan McNish	All

^† All engines were 3.0 litre, V10 configuration.

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 changes 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 2008

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 alongside 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, in 2001 he had been dumped by Jordan mid-season and then driving for Prost before that team's collapse.
• Jos Verstappen lost his Arrows seat to Frentzen despite being under contract for another season, and Verstappen was unable to secure a drive at another team. Verstappen resurfaced at Minardi in 2003.
• Mika Salo (formerly with Sauber in 2000) and debutant Allan McNish, who previously drove a Toyota GT-One at Le Mans, arrived with the new Toyota team.

There was also a midseason change:

• 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 signed with Sauber for the 2003 season and stood in for Felipe Massa in the United States who had incurred a 10-position penalty at the previous race in Monza thereby eliminating that penalty.

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.
• 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 since 1995.
• 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.
• Phoenix Finance bought the remains of Prost Grand Prix and attempted to enter Formula One starting at the 2002 Malaysian Grand Prix with former Minardi drivers Gastón Mazzacane and Tarso Marques. But their entry was reject by the FIA for not purchasing all of the Prost Grand Prix team. They still attempted to race at Malaysia, but race officials prevented them from competing in the event, even with a court appeal.

Formula One 2002 race schedule

Rnd	Race	Date	Location
1	Australian Grand Prix	3 March	Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne
2	Malaysian Grand Prix	17 March	Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur
3	Brazilian Grand Prix	31 March	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo
4	San Marino Grand Prix	14 April	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola
5	Spanish Grand Prix	28 April	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona
6	Austrian Grand Prix	12 May	A1-Ring, Spielberg
7	Monaco Grand Prix	26 May	Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo
8	Canadian Grand Prix	9 June	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal
9	European Grand Prix	23 June	Nürburgring
10	British Grand Prix	7 July	Silverstone Circuit
11	French Grand Prix	21 July	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours
12	German Grand Prix	28 July	Hockenheimring
13	Hungarian Grand Prix	18 August	Hungaroring, Budapest
14	Belgian Grand Prix	1 September	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa
15	Italian Grand Prix	15 September	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
16	United States Grand Prix	29 September	Indianapolis Motor Speedway
17	Japanese Grand Prix	13 October	Suzuka Circuit

Results and standings

Grands Prix

Rd.	Grand Prix	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Constructor	Report
1	Australian Grand Prix	Rubens Barrichello	Kimi Räikkönen	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
2	Malaysian Grand Prix	Michael Schumacher	Juan Pablo Montoya	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-BMW	Report
3	Brazilian Grand Prix	Juan Pablo Montoya	Juan Pablo Montoya	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
4	San Marino Grand Prix	Michael Schumacher	Rubens Barrichello	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
5	Spanish Grand Prix	Michael Schumacher	Michael Schumacher	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
6	Austrian Grand Prix	Rubens Barrichello	Michael Schumacher	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
7	Monaco Grand Prix	Juan Pablo Montoya	Rubens Barrichello	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	Report
8	Canadian Grand Prix	Juan Pablo Montoya	Juan Pablo Montoya	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
9	European Grand Prix	Juan Pablo Montoya	Michael Schumacher	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	Report
10	British Grand Prix	Juan Pablo Montoya	Rubens Barrichello	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
11	French Grand Prix	Juan Pablo Montoya	David Coulthard	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
12	German Grand Prix	Michael Schumacher	Michael Schumacher	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
13	Hungarian Grand Prix	Rubens Barrichello	Michael Schumacher	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	Report
14	Belgian Grand Prix	Michael Schumacher	Michael Schumacher	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Report
15	Italian Grand Prix	Juan Pablo Montoya	Rubens Barrichello	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	Report
16	United States Grand Prix	Michael Schumacher	Rubens Barrichello	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	Report
17	Japanese Grand Prix	Michael Schumacher	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 Michael Schumacher 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 144 2 Rubens Barrichello Ret Ret Ret 2 DNS 2 7 3 1 2 DNS 4 1 2 1 1 2 77 3 Juan Pablo Montoya 2 2 5 4 2 3 Ret Ret Ret 3 4 2 11 3 Ret 4 4 50 4 Ralf Schumacher Ret 1 2 3 11† 4 3 7 4 8 5 3 3 5 Ret 16 11† 42 5 David Coulthard Ret Ret 3 6 3 6 1 2 Ret 10 3 5 5 4 7 3 Ret 41 6 Kimi Räikkönen 3 Ret 12† Ret Ret Ret Ret 4 3 Ret 2 Ret 4 Ret Ret Ret 3 24 7 Jenson Button Ret 4 4 5 12† 7 Ret 15† 5 12† 6 Ret Ret Ret 5 8 6 14 8 Jarno Trulli Ret Ret Ret 9 10† Ret 4 6 8 Ret Ret Ret 8 Ret 4 5 Ret 9 9 Eddie Irvine 4 Ret 7 Ret Ret Ret 9 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 6 3 10 9 8 10 Nick Heidfeld Ret 5 Ret 10 4 Ret 8 12 7 6 7 6 9 10 10 9 7 7 11 Giancarlo Fisichella Ret 13 Ret Ret Ret 5 5 5 Ret 7 WD Ret 6 Ret 8 7 Ret 7 12 Jacques Villeneuve Ret 8 10† 7 7 10† Ret Ret 12 4 Ret Ret Ret 8 9 6 Ret 4 13 Felipe Massa Ret 6 Ret 8 5 Ret Ret 9 6 9 Ret 7 7 Ret Ret Ret 4 14 Olivier Panis Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 8 9 5 Ret Ret 12 12† 6 12 Ret 3 15 Takuma Sato Ret 9 9 Ret Ret Ret Ret 10 16 Ret Ret 8 10 11 12 11 5 2 16 Mark Webber 5 Ret 11 11 DNS 12 11 11 15 Ret 8 Ret 16 Ret Ret Ret 10 2 17 Mika Salo 6 12 6 Ret 9 8 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 9 15 7 11 14 8 2 18 Heinz-Harald Frentzen DSQ 11 Ret Ret 6 11 6 13 13 Ret DNQ Ret 13 2 19 Allan McNish Ret 7 Ret Ret 8 9 Ret Ret 14 Ret 11† Ret 14 9 Ret 15 DNS 0 20 Alex Yoong 7 Ret 13 DNQ DNS Ret Ret 14 Ret DNQ 10 DNQ 13 Ret Ret 0 21 Pedro de la Rosa 8 10 8 Ret Ret Ret 10 Ret 10 11 9 Ret 13 Ret Ret Ret Ret 0 22 Enrique Bernoldi DSQ Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 12 Ret 11 Ret DNQ Ret 0 — Anthony Davidson Ret Ret 0 Pos Driver AUS MAL BRA SMR ESP AUT MON CAN EUR GBR FRA GER HUN BEL ITA USA JPN Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish, inc. non-classified finish Purple Did not finish (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Light blue Practiced only (PO) Friday test driver (TD) - 2003-2007 only Blank Did not practice (DNP) Injured or ill (Inj) Excluded (EX) Did not arrive (DNA) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest lap

^† Drivers did not finish the Grand Prix, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Constructors

Pos	Constructor	Car no.	AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	GBR	FRA	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	Points
1	Ferrari	1	1	3	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	1	221
		2	Ret	Ret	Ret	2	DNS	2	7	3	1	2	DNS	4	1	2	1	1	2
2	Williams-BMW	5	Ret	1	2	3	11	4	3	7	4	8	5	3	3	5	Ret	16	11	92
		6	2	2	5	4	2	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	3	4	2	11	3	Ret	4	4
3	McLaren-Mercedes	3	Ret	Ret	3	6	3	6	1	2	Ret	10	3	5	5	4	7	3	Ret	65
		4	3	Ret	12	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	3	Ret	2	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	3
4	Renault	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	10	Ret	4	6	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	Ret	4	5	Ret	23
		15	Ret	4	4	5	12	7	Ret	15	5	12	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	8	6
5	Sauber-Petronas	7	Ret	5	Ret	10	4	Ret	8	12	7	6	7	6	9	10	10	9	7	11
		8	Ret	6	Ret	8	5	Ret	Ret	9	6	9	Ret	7	7	Ret	Ret	13	Ret
6	Jordan-Honda	9	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	5	5	Ret	7	DNQ	Ret	6	Ret	8	7	Ret	9
		10	Ret	9	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	16	Ret	Ret	8	10	11	12	11	5
7	Jaguar-Cosworth	16	4	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	3	10	9	8
		17	8	10	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	10	11	9	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret
8	BAR-Honda	11	Ret	8	10	7	7	10	Ret	Ret	12	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	9	6	Ret	7
		12	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	9	5	Ret	Ret	12	12	6	12	Ret
9	Minardi-Asiatech	22	7	Ret	13	DNQ	DNS	Ret	Ret	14	Ret	DNQ	10	DNQ	Ret	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	2
		23	5	Ret	11	11	DNS	12	11	11	15	Ret	8	Ret	16	Ret	Ret	Ret	10
10	Toyota	24	6	12	6	Ret	9	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	15	7	11	14	8	2
		25	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	8	9	Ret	Ret	14	Ret	11	Ret	14	9	Ret	15	DNS
11	Arrows-Cosworth	20	DSQ	11	Ret	Ret	6	11	6	13	13	Ret	DNQ	Ret						2
		21	DSQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	12	Ret	11	Ret	DNQ	Ret
Pos	Constructor	Car no.	AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	GBR	FRA	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	Points

External links

• formula1.com – 2002 official driver standings
• formula1.com – 2002 official team standings

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