2000 Italian Grand Prix
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| Race 14 of 17 in the 2000 Formula One season | |||
Autodromo Nazionale Monza (Modified in 2000)
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| Date | 10 September 2000 | ||
| Official name | LXXI Gran Premio Campari d'Italia | ||
| Location | Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Lombardy, Italy | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.793 km (3.600 mi) | ||
| Distance | 53 laps, 306.719 km (190.586 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny with temperatures reaching up to 29 °C (84 °F) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||
| Time | 1:23.770 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Mika Häkkinen
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McLaren-Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:25.595 on lap 50 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Ferrari | ||
| Second | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Third | Williams-BMW | ||
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The 2000 Italian Grand Prix (formally the LXXI Gran Premio Campari d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held on 10 September 2000 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza near Monza, Lombardy, Italy. It was the fourteenth race of the 2000 Formula One season and the 71st Italian Grand Prix. The 53-lap race was won by Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher after starting from pole position. Mika Häkkinen finished second in a McLaren car with Ralf Schumacher third for the Williams team.
Michael Schumacher maintained his start line advantage and withstood Häkkinen's attempts to pass him going into the first corner. Further around the lap, a collision involving four cars prompted the deployment of the safety car and a fire marshal Paolo Gislimberti was struck by a flying wheel. When the safety car pulled into the pit lane on lap eleven, Michael Schumacher began to immediately pull clear from Häkkinen and kept the lead until his pit stop on the 39th lap. When Häkkinen made his own pit stop three laps later, Michael Schumacher regained the lead which he held to clinch his sixth victory of the 2000 season; Häkkinen finished almost four seconds behind.
As a consequence of the race, Schumacher reduced Häkkinen's lead in the Drivers' Championship to two points, with David Coulthard a further 17 points back. Rubens Barrichello who was caught up in the first lap accident was mathematically ruled out of clinching the title. In the Constructors' Championship, McLaren's eight point advantage going into the race was reduced to four, with three races of the season remaining. Gislimberti later died in hospital and his death caused safety measures in Formula One to be reviewed.
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