2000 Spanish Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 5 of 17 in the 2000 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 7 May 2000 | ||
| Official name | XLII Gran Premio Marlboro de España | ||
| Location | Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.730 km (2.939 mi) | ||
| Distance | 65 laps, 307.323 km (190.962 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny, Mild, Dry | ||
| Attendance | 79,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||
| Time | 1:20.974 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Mika Häkkinen
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McLaren-Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:24.470 on lap 28 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Second | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
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The 2000 Spanish Grand Prix (formally the XLII Gran Premio Marlboro de España) was a Formula One motor race held on 7 May 2000 at the Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was the fifth round of the 2000 Formula One season and the 42nd Spanish Grand Prix. The 65-lap race was won by McLaren driver Mika Häkkinen who started from the second position. His team-mate David Coulthard finished second and Rubens Barrichello finished third in a Ferrari.
Michael Schumacher started from the pole position and held off a challenge from Häkkinen on the first lap. He maintained the lead until his first pit stop on lap 24 when a refuller was struck by his rear tyre, allowing Häkkinen to take over the lead until his pit stop two laps later. Michael Schumacher kept the lead for a further twenty-one laps as he and Häkkinen made their second pit stops together, with Häkkinen emerging in front because Schumacher experienced a slow pit stop. Häkkinen kept the lead for the remaining twenty-three laps to win the race.
The victory was Häkkinen's first of the season, and put him into second place in the World Drivers' Championship, fourteen points behind Michael Schumacher. Coulthard's second-place finish meant that he dropped to third, and Barrichello third place moved him ahead of Ralf Schumacher. In the World Constructors' Championship, McLaren's one-two finish allowed them to move within seven points from leaders Ferrari. Williams remained in third on 15 points, with twelve races remaining in the season.
The Grand Prix was contested by eleven teams with two drivers each. The teams (also known as constructors) were McLaren, Ferrari, Jordan, Jaguar, Williams, Benetton, Prost, Sauber, Arrows, Minardi and British American Racing (BAR).Tyre supplier Bridgestone brought two different tyre types to the race; two dry compounds (soft and medium).
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