2002 Malaysian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 2 of 17 in the 2002 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 17 March 2002 | ||
| Official name | IV Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix | ||
| Location |
Sepang International Circuit Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.543 km (3.444 mi) | ||
| Distance | 56 laps, 310.408 km (192.879 mi) | ||
| Weather | Partially cloudy, hot and dry | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||
| Time | 1:35.266 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Juan Pablo Montoya
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Williams-BMW | |
| Time | 1:38.049 on lap 38 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Williams-BMW | ||
| Second | Williams-BMW | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
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The 2002 Malaysian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 17 March 2002 at the Sepang International Circuit and was the second round of the 2002 Formula One season. The Grand Prix is notable for the first lap collision between Williams driver Juan Pablo Montoya and Ferrari's Michael Schumacher, which led to the Colombian being given a drive through penalty. This decision led to much criticism for the Malaysian stewards, with the victim of the incident, Schumacher, commenting that the decision was "overly harsh" on Montoya.
The Grand Prix was won by the Williams-BMW of German Ralf Schumacher, who commented that it was "almost a perfect race". Ralf was followed by his teammate, Juan Pablo Montoya and following them in third was Ralf's brother, Michael Schumacher.
The race was followed by a decision by the FIA to give stewards more powers over the punishments of drivers who are involved in incidents which are deemed "avoidable".
The Friday morning session saw the two Ferraris of Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello fastest, the closest car to the Ferraris was Sauber's Nick Heidfeld, who was over one and a half seconds slower. McLaren got the better of Ferrari for the second session with Kimi Räikkönen fastest and his teammate David Coulthard was just over half a second behind him, while the Ferrari of Schumacher was over a second slower than Räikkönen's McLaren in third.
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