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= 2001 Turkish Grand Prix =

Qualifying
The two Ferrari cars were back to their usual domination, locking out the front row with Rubens Barrichello taking pole position ahead of Michael Schumacher. However, this time, the Noah's Ark formation continued behind them with the two McLarens of David Coulthard and Mika Häkkinen third and fourth, ahead of the two Williams cars of Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya. Ricardo Zonta, racing for the Jordan team while the team were looking for a permanent replacement for Heinz-Harald Frentzen was nothing short of amazing in his performance to be seventh, beating teammate Jarno Trulli down to eighth.

Race
Polesitter Rubens Barrichello defended his lead from teammate Michael Schumacher and behind, Juan Pablo Montoya went in between David Coulthard and Mika Häkkinen. Coulthard took the inside line and defended his place but Häkkinen was jumped by Montoya. Then mayhem started when Ralf Schumacher spun off and was hit head on by Jarno Trulli. Both lost their front wings, and while Trulli went on to retire, Ralf went to the pits, had a new front wing, and rejoined in 21st and last place. At the front, the order was Barrichello leading Schumacher, Coulthard, Montoya, Häkkinen, Ricardo Zonta, Giancarlo Fisichella and Jacques Villeneuve. The top three pulled away from Montoya who was visibly holding up Häkkinen. Zonta and the others quickly dropped away from this battle. There were no changes until the first round of stops when Schumacher had a problem with his fuel rig, and lost 25 seconds. He was down in sixth. Häkkinen had jumped Montoya during the stops and began to lap as quick as Barrichelo and Coulthard.

Schumacher was also driving as quick, and this allowed him to blast past Zonta on lap 27. On the next lap, there was a major change as Coulthard passed Barrichello on the outside of Turn 1. He took off, increasing his lead to 2.2 seconds in the next 5 laps but then the Ferrari began to reel him back in. Before the second round of stops, Barrichello was right back with Coulthard, but there was major action behind when Häkkinen's right rear tyre blew as he approached Turn 1, and he had to do a whole lap on the wrecked tyre. He dropped back to sixth after the round of stops but the main action was when Barrichello jumped Coulthard by staying out for an extra lap only for Coulthard to pass him on lap 42. Coulthard could not build a lead and four laps later Barrichello took the lead back and pulled away, increasing his lead to a full second on lap 48. Behind, Montoya retired when his gearbox failed. Coulthard kept the gap to Barrichello to 1.5 seconds until a mistake on lap 55, allowing it to increase to 6 seconds. Thus, Barrichello won from Coulthard, Schumacher, Zonta, Fisichella, Häkkinen, Jean Alesi and Kimi Räikkönen.

Standings after Grand Prix
Drivers
 * 1. Michael Schumacher - 73
 * 2. Rubens Barrichello - 69
 * 3. Ralf Schumacher - 64
 * 4. David Coulthard - 61
 * 5. Juan Pablo Montoya - 43
 * 6. Mika Häkkinen - 38
 * 7. Heinz-Harald Frentzen - 33
 * 8. Jarno Trulli - 23

Constructors
 * 1. Ferrari - 142
 * 2. Williams-BMW - 107
 * 3. McLaren-Mercedes - 99
 * 4. Jordan-Honda - 61