Häkkinen's pit-stop fortune over Schumacher cut Ferrari's constructors' lead to seven points, tightening the 2000 championship battle.
Key Facts
- Race winner
- Mika Häkkinen (McLaren)
- Laps completed
- 65 laps
- Spectators
- approximately 79,000
- Championship round
- 5th of the 2000 season
- Häkkinen career wins
- 15th career victory
- Points gap after race
- Häkkinen 14 pts behind Schumacher
By the Numbers
Location
Cause → Event → Consequence
Michael Schumacher started from pole and led the early laps, but a pit-stop incident on lap 24 — in which Ferrari chief mechanic Nigel Stepney was injured after Schumacher was released prematurely — cost him the lead. A subsequent refuelling error at Schumacher's second stop further slowed Ferrari's response to McLaren.
The 2000 Spanish Grand Prix was held on 7 May 2000 at the Circuit de Catalunya before approximately 79,000 spectators. Mika Häkkinen took the lead following Schumacher's troubled pit stops and held it for the final 22 laps, winning ahead of teammate David Coulthard, with Rubens Barrichello third for Ferrari.
Häkkinen's victory moved him into second in the Drivers' Championship, 14 points behind Schumacher. McLaren's one-two finish closed the Constructors' gap to Ferrari to just seven points. Coulthard dropped to third in the drivers' standings while Barrichello moved one point ahead of Ralf Schumacher in fourth.