Heidfeld retired from the race with a transmission problem, as Alonso moved in on Montoya and Barrichello got closer to Trulli.

The cars on the " clean " side of the track got off the grid much better, with Räikkönen taking the lead ahead of Olivier Panis and the two Schumachers ( all from the left side of the grid ) ( with the likes of Barrichello, Fernando Alonso, David Coulthard and Montoya dropping back on the right ) and managing to open up a lead of 1. 6 seconds over Panis ' Toyota and Ralf Schumacher's Williams.

The Renaults of Fernando Alonso and Jarno Trulli both got around Montoya as he avoided the spinning Barrichello, managing to continue in eighth place with no apparent damage-even setting the fastest time on Lap 8, and by Lap 15 moving up to third on a drying track.

Rubens Barrichello, Schumacher's team mate, got off to a poor start, dropping from second to fifth by the first corner.

Behind, Barrichello had got Irvine during the stops for wets and then Berger's engine failed on lap 41.

Behind the leaders, Trulli on a two-stopper dived past Irvine for fifth shortly after Barrichello got Häkkinen for second on lap 15.

Coulthard was faster and got ahead of Barrichello.

At the front, Barrichello was slowly pulling away from Coulthard and Häkkinen until lap 28 when he got informed by his team that there was a hydraulic problem with his car.

Behind them, Ralf got a good start and went round the inside of Barrichello and the outside of Coulthard to climb up to third.

Even then, Barrichello got ahead of Coulthard but that meant Ralf was still ahead of them after his stop.

That lap in which Coulthard was at full speed and Barrichello was in Ralf's wake got Coulthard ahead of both of them.

Schumacher moved to the inside but Coulthard got past him on the outside, like he did on Barrichello in Britain.

Barrichello got past both of them and soon Frentzen began to attack them.

But the action was behind them as Barrichello passed Herbert on lap 8 and behind them Frentzen got ahead of Irvine and Verstappen in 3 corners.

Furthermore Rubens Barrichello got closer to his team mate and was followed by Jos Verstappen, David Coulthard and Kimi Räikkönen causing a line of cars behind Montoya.

Montoya got the jump at the start, to lead into the first hairpin, with Barrichello slotting in ahead of Michael Schumacher for second.

It was time for the pit stops during which Hill got ahead of Barrichello.

During the second round of pit stops, Hill got by Berger and Brundle got by Barrichello.

However, the weekend got off to a bad start as Rubens Barrichello had a major crash during practice and was knocked unconscious.

At the start, Alesi got ahead of both Barrichello and Lehto with Coulthard getting ahead of Barrichello as well.

At the start, Coulthard surprised Hill and Häkkinen got ahead of Barrichello.

At the start, Schumacher showed class to slice between both Williams ' to take the lead while Barrichello got ahead of Irvine.

Barrichello took the restart in the spare Stewart, causing Magnussen to miss the race.

5 minutes to go and both Michael and Rubens go out again with Michael in the spare and appearing frustrated, Barrichello goes off on his first flying lap trying to avoid Salo but on his second flyer improves his time at the top again.

Jacques Villeneuve managed to qualify 0. 843 seconds ahead of Olivier Panis but again Panis had car problems and had to switch to the spare and Michael Schumacher managed to out-qualify Rubens Barrichello by 0. 432 seconds.

* 1972 – Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian race car driver

* May 23 – Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian race car driver

He came under pressure from a charging Rubens Barrichello, and pushed his car too hard and retired after crashing into a wall while trying to both fend off Barrichello and catch up with the cars in front.

In, his new teammate Jenson Button gave Barrichello the number for his car in goodwill.

Barrichello was initially outpaced by Button, and claimed that the car did not suit his driving style, particularly under braking.

He was on course to finish fifth with Button behind, which would have been enough for Brawn GP to clinch the constructors ' championship, but a safety car period in the closing stages of the race for Jaime Alguersuari's crash meant that Nico Rosberg and Heidfeld were able to stay out ahead and save fuel, dropping Barrichello to seventh.

In Singapore, the FW32 sported a new front wing, and Barrichello put this to good use to set the sixth fastest time in qualifying, although Williams technical director Sam Michael reckoned the car was fast enough to be a couple of positions higher.

Barrichello, with a clearly faster car, closed up on Ralf Schumacher, but was unable to pass for several laps as Michael Schumacher built up a 12 second lead at the end of 18 laps.

The race proved that Ferrari once again had a dominant car, with Michael Schumacher winning from team-mate Rubens Barrichello in Ferrari's first one-two since Japan 2002, while the rest of the field was over 20 seconds behind.

Rubens Barrichello took the third and final podium spot for Ferrari after his team-mate, Michael Schumacher retired due to collision damage during a safety car period, ending his perfect start to the season.

Barrichello instinctively pulled his damaged car into the pits, without realising that he was on the final lap.

This allowed Häkkinen to limp over the finish line before Barrichello reached it, despite his car being more severely damaged.

With a clearly faster car, Barrichello began to harry Schumacher for the final podium spot.

Behind him the Jordans, which both had the car set for rain, took second and third spots, until they were both passed by Rubens Barrichello in the Stewart, who benefited from the Bridgestone wet tyres, which were better than Goodyear's under those conditions.

After five laps, the safety car came back in and the order was Coulthard followed by Michael Schumacher, Fisichella, Jacques Villeneuve, Rubens Barrichello, and Heinz-Harald Frentzen.

It did not matter, for when the stop was completed, Barrichello had trouble restarting the car.

The Safety Car was called out and the order was: Häkkinen, Coulthard, Mika Salo, Pedro de la Rosa, Jos Verstappen ( who was without his front wing after hitting Trulli's car ), Johnny Herbert, Jenson Button, Marc Gené, Barrichello and Heinz-Harald Frentzen.

On lap 3, at the first corner, de la Rosa passed Salo and soon afterwards Barrichello ( with a damaged car ) passed Herbert to take fifth.

At the pit stops, the top three were well separated and there were no changes in the gaps as well and Barrichello had the damage on his car solved.

However, Ralf was clearly holding up Barrichello who was having a faster car but unable to pass.

Then about 20 laps into the race Montoya crashed into the wall and Barrichello also crashed trying to avoid him, his traction control wasn't working which didn't help, this brought out the safety car briefly while the wreck was cleared.

Barrichello finished second to Montoya as he was five seconds down on the Williams car.