- Michael Schumacher becoming the Ferrari driver to make the most starts in the company's history, easily lead home Rubens Barichello to record Ferrari's first 1-2 finish at Imola for 20 years in a race Ferrari completely dominated

race

Rubens Barichello continued his excellent practice form by dominating the morning warm-up session.

When the lights went green Michael Schumacher made a clean getway into a lead he would no relinquish all afternoon. Ralf Schumacher got the jump on second place sitter Rubens Barichello as they headed for the first corner as the whole field made it away cleanly.

In the early stages Michael Schumacher stretched his lead with a succession of fastest laps, making a clean first stop.

Never remotely threatened all afternoon, he cruised to a comfortable win, recording his fourth ever win at San Marino and in the process becoming the Ferrari team's driver to record the most starts in the marques 50 year history. The revolutionary new F2002 continuing to show Ferrari's impressive reliability traditions.

At his first pitstop Rubens Barichello moved ahead of Ralf Schumacher into second place, quickly pulling out a gap to the Williams driver. On his second stop, a problem with his left hand rear wheel saw him lose time, but his place remained unthreatened and after being advised from the pits to preserve his engine he settled back to finish 18 seconds behind his team mate, maintaining a comfortable gap to third place Ralf Schumacher who he eventually finished two seconds ahead of.

Juan Pablo Montoya had a quiet afternoon to finish fourth, Jenson Button, the Renault showing ever better, finished 5th one place ahead of David Coulthard's McLaren-Mercedes which was off the pace all afternoon. Coulthards team mate, Kimi Raikkonen retired earlier in the race.

It is Ferrari's first 1-2 finish at the San Marino Grand Prix since Didier Pironi and Gilles Villeneuve finished 1-2 here 20 years ago in 1982.

race result:
1st Michael Schumacher ( Ferrari F2002 ) 1:29:10.789 ave speed 205.613 km/h
2nd Rubens Barichello ( Ferrari F2002 ) +17.907
11th Mark Webber ( Minardi PS02 ) +2 laps

championship positions ( after 4 races ):
drivers:
1st Michael Schumacher 34pts, 2nd Ralf Schumacher 20pts, 5th Rubens Barichello 6pts, 10th Mark Webber 2pts
constructors:
1st Ferrari 40pts, 2nd Williams-BMW 37pts

Rubens Baricello dominated most of the qualifying session until, with seconds remaining on the clock, Michael Schumacher put in a blistering lap to snatch away pole position, by 0.155 of a second. Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya lined up behind the Ferrari drivers on the second row. Mark Webber qualified in 19th position, but Alex Yoong, 2 1/2 seconds behind his team mate ended the session outside the 107% qualifying rule and failed to make the grid. A later appeal to the stewards was unsuccessfull and his weekend ended early.

qualifying:
1st Michael Schumacher ( Ferrari F2002 ) 1:21.000
2nd Rubens Barichello ( Ferrari F2002 ) 1:21.155
19th Mark Webber ( Minardi PS02 ) 1:24.790