* Lap 1: At the start Ralf Schumacher is slightly faster off the line than his brother Michael and the Ferrari star moves across, edging Ralf towards the pitwall. In the first corner there are no major dramas except that Marques runs wide and bounces across the sandtrap. Michael Schumacher leads Ralf with Juan-Pablo Montoya third ahead of David Coulthard and Mika Hakkinen. Jarno Trulli is sixth ahead of a slow-starting Rubens Barrichello. Eighth place belongs to Nick Heidfeld with his Sauber team mate Kimi Raikkonen behind him.

* Lap 7: Michael Schumacher has managed to build a small lead but the order is unchanged. At the tail of the field Marques retires.

* Lap 10: In the midfield Luciano Burti has a small off but is still able to hold on to 20th place.

* Lap 12: Ralf Schumacher begins to close the gap. At the tail of the field Burti pits and drops to the back of the field.

* Lap 17: The gap comes down to under a second.

* Lap 18: Michael makes a mistake in Turn 5 and slides wide. Ralf challenges for the lead but Michael manages to stay ahead.

* Lap 21: The battle for the lead remains as before while thirteenth-placed Giancarlo Fisichella pits and drops to 20th place.

* Lap 23: As Montoya closes slightly on the duelling Schumacher brothers. The order remains the same behind them although 15th placed Enrique Bernoldi pits and has a long stop in his Arrows. Jenson Button also stops.

* Lap 24: Oliver Panis, running 17th, spins out of the race.

* Lap 25: Sixteenth placed runner Fernando Alonso comes in for his first stop. He drops to 19th.

* Lap 26: Jos Verstappen, running 13th in his Arrows, pits and has a slow pit stop. He rejoins 17th.

* Lap 28: The two leaders both pit. Montoya takes the lead while Michael Schumacher emerges ahead of Ralf once again. As he exits the pits Ralf moves across too soon and crosses the white line. He finds himself behind David Coulthard's McLaren. Further back Eddie Irvine overtakes Heinz-Harald Frentzen for 10th place.

* Lap 29: Montoya pits and so Michael Schumacher goes back into the lead. Juan Pablo rejoins fourth. Frentzen pits and drops from 11th to 14th.

* Lap 30: Trulli pits from sixth place and drops back to 11th. Further back Irvine overtakes Raikkonen and moves up to ninth place. At the tail of the field Bernoldi pulls off and retires.

* Lap 31: Ralf Schumacher overtakes Coulthard to take second place.

* Lap 32: Barrichello overtakes Hakkinen to move to fifth. Ninth-placed Kimi Raikkonen pits and drops back to 14th.

* Lap 33: Montoya has a moment and goes off but manages to rejoin without losing any places. Hakkinen stops and drops from sixth to 10th. Also stopping is eighth-placed Nick Heidfeld, who drops back to 14th.

* Lap 37: Ralf Schumacher is given a 10-second stop-go penalty for crossing the white line. Sixth-placed Eddie Irvine stops and drops to 11th position.

* Lap 38: Coulthard pits and drops from fourth to fifth.

* Lap 39: Ralf Schumacher pits for his penalty and drops from second place to fourth.

* Lap 42: Jean Alesi stops, dropping from 10th to 14th. Also stopping is Fisichella (for a second time). He drops from 15th to 17th.

* Lap 43: Jacques Villeneuve, who has risen to sixth place, pits and drops back to 11th. Button stops for a second time and falls to the back of the field.

* Lap 44: The last of the one-stop runners come into the pits: Barrichello drops from third to fifth and Pedro de la Rosa from seventh to ninth. Further back Jarno Trulli pulls off with a mechanical problem.

* Lap 46: Verstappen stops for the second time and rejoins in 16th. Alonso also stops again and drops to the back of the field.

* Lap 47: Alesi overtakes Heidfeld to move to 12th place.

* Lap 49: Frentzen spins off. Burti stops for his second pit stop.

* Lap 50: Schumacher and Montoya, separated by eight seconds, both pit and rejoin without losing their positions.

* Lap 52: Ralf Schumacher comes in for his second stop and drops behind Coulthard.

* Lap 54: Heidfeld pits and retires.

* Lap 56: Burti overtakes Button to take 14th place.

* Lap 59: Verstappen pulls off with a mechanical problem. Barrichello has a half spin but rejoins without losing fifth.

* Lap 65: Alesi spins out of 11th position.

MS: We had a problem in the warm-up. Precaution-wise, we changed some parts and we just wanted to do an installation lap. During the installation lap, something failed, I don't know what it was, and I had to stop. And it was at the worst point, obviously, because it was very far away from the pits, so I was wondering how to get back. I didn't see a scooter, just this scooter without a key, so I was lucky, suddenly a man appeared and gave me the key so I got going. Obviously, at this moment I thought that I should have enough time but you never know. You don't have time to watch on your watch. It's a strange feeling, stopping down there, and seeing your chances slipping away.

MS: No, it's not more tough. No, we drive very close to the edge as you have to do. I would do this to anyone, honestly, and he doesn't give presents to me either, because we both work for different teams. If you look back to past races, we made it very difficult for each other. That's the way it is. We always leave room to survive for the other one. So I always look forward to some degree to fight against my brother because then, to be honest, it doesn't matter who wins in the end, to some degree. It was obviously a hard decision for Ralf to get this stop and go penalty, for, as I heard, just half the car passing the white line. It's quite a strong decision, which destroyed his race. Honestly, we struggled with the first set of tyres, we were a bit slow but then when we got the second set of tyres, things were sorted, we changed the balance of the car and I was much faster. So I think under normal circumstances, we should have been able to do it, but it would have been a very close battle.

Juan Pablo MONTOYA: You know the critics don't matter me to be honest. We have been trying very hard. The car was very competitive. Yesterday I was good in qualifying, I got a third, and today things started to turn my way. I had pretty good luck. The first few laps of the race I took it really steady. I knew Ralf and Michael were going to go, and I said 'take a couple of laps, get into it and just build up the pace slowly' and the car was really quick.

JPM: Just pushing you know. There was room in the car to go quick. The car was very positive, but I got it to handle so that I could drive it really smoothly and started to make up time. It was amazing.

David COULTHARD: Yes, I think so. I think under normal race pace circumstances we would have been fourth if Ralf hadn't have got his penalty, so to gain an extra place through that is obviously fortunate for me.

DC: From where I was on the grid I think it was the right thing to do. Hindsight is a wonderful thing when you can look back on a race and say 'oh well, I didn't get traffic or this happened'. But we have to make our decisions based on experience from before, and from that grid position, it was the right thing.

DC: Well, I think the performance in the last two races is an answer to that question. We haven't just sat back because we couldn't be bothered. We haven't been as competitive as we would have liked in the last two races. Clearly in Canada, we don't know how fast I could have run because I had the problem with the suspension right from the green flag lap. We weren't very quick here in qualifying and clearly in the race we weren't a match for them either, so it was really recovery position this weekend and try and understand how we can improve for Magny Cours.

MS: Yes, it looks like it. Especially at Magny Cours, because that's quite a special circuit concerning tyres. I know Bridgestone is working very hard, and so it Michelin, so it's something which is on the edge, and whoever gets it just right is up front. That's the situation at the moment. This time we seemed to have the better end. Maybe next time we will be the other way around. But David just mentioned that somewhere they are losing out a bit and we don't know when they're going to fix it, but until then it is probably a white/blue/red battle.

Michael SCHUMACHER: Except for one moment, yes. I ran wide in turn five because I locked up rears and then fronts. I couldn't see where he was at this moment, so I tried to leave a little bit of space, although not making it too easy for him to overtake. But other than that, I was pretty much in charge. I was in trouble in general in that first stint, the car handling wasn't so good, a lot of oversteer, so we made some corrections and after that I got going very well and when I needed to push, I was able to do quite good lap times.

MS: No, corrections on the car, physically. During the pit stop.

MS: No. We knew we were going in, and then I was told on the radio that Ralf was coming in the same lap so I was aware of that.

MS: Yeah. The start wasn't as perfect as it was supposed to be. Again I had a little dip where I lost out a couple of meters and then I saw Ralf on the inside and obviously I knew the strategy I was on, not knowing what strategy they were on, thinking they may be only on, so I had to make sure I would be first in the first corner, otherwise I would be in trouble. So I used the maximum that the rules allow you, to move over once, and tighten up the line. I think that's the way you have to work unfortunately.

JPM: Yeah, the last two races I made pretty silly mistakes and gave away quite a lot of points and we had quite a lot of reliability problems in the beginning of the year but things are getting much better now. I lost quite a bit at the beginning of the race, the car was very positive and I was getting a lot of hassle with it so I thought 'just take it easy and get to the end'.

JPM: I was trying to pass David and got really close behind but when I hit the brake I just locked the front tyres and didn't even try to turn. Just go straight and it's safer. That was the only moment.

DC: From a balance point of view we were using up the rear tyres quite quickly so we had a lot of oversteer early in the race which is a little bit different to what we were struggling with in qualifying so there are two separate issues. Friday we were working to understand how to improve the car in qualifying so that's probably why there was such a big gap between ourselves and the others but obviously the reality is what happened at the end of qualifying. As you could see we were quite bit adrift and in the race probably a half second a lap off as well.

DC: We hope to be only four tenths off the pace at Magny Cours... I don't know! Let's wait and see but it's a track that with the nature of the corners can be quite hard on the tyres so in qualifying, again, unless the tyre that we have available to us works well on our car there I don't think we have something in the setup that we can change. So it's probably something a bit more fundamental.

DC: As I said before I wasn't looking at points and there's no point looking now because the championship isn't decided until it's decided. I'll keep doing the best that I can and sometimes you can be driving well but not quite have the machinery and other times you have the machinery and don't drive so well so I've got to make sure I get both the elements together at the right time.

DC: Well they clearly have reasonable acceleration - whether it's low drag on the car or maybe their rubber's not quite so sticky out of the corners. It can't possibly be the engine because we have the best engine!

JPM: I think we're a bit ahead of the McLaren a little bit at the moment, it's a bit surprising to be honest. With the Ferraris very similar I would think, we're slightly quicker them but we've still got to do a little bit more work because it's a little bit and a little bit but we're getting consistently up at the front so it's definitely getting better.

MS: To some degree yes because it would have meant David would be another place behind! Anyway it's natural that I would rather see my brother there than anyone else, it's normal.

MS: No. We had a doubt over a little part so we changed it and I was supposed to do one lap.

MS: I don't think he touched the wall. It's tight and maybe for the person who has to lift off it seems unfair but on the other side that's the way the rules are written. You're allowed to do this and you have to make sure that you stay up front so we had this discussion at length some time ago and I think it's clear what is allowed and what isn't allowed.

MS: Beautiful. It's always something special being at home. It always is a big pleasure, especially if you win the race, to go slow and absorb everything the people give to you and to some degree celebrate with them and have a bit of contact.