After Raikkonen could not enter the first corner after his pit-stop, Hill and Salo (2 stops behind Hill) got a comfortable double-lead for Ferrari. To keep in touch with the Jaguar #7, Berger and Schumacher rushed with the sixth gear into the Remus-Curve (Corner 2), only able to shift down in 4th gear. Schumacher dropped out the next turn, Berger burned down his tires to the ground and spun. He had to start in 1st gear at the beginning of the long, long straigt. He had to let pass by all drivers except Frentzen, who began lap two on fourth place and fell back without any visible reason. Raikkonen, on his hunt for the leaders, spent 6 tire-points at corner 4 and ended his dream of a pedestal-place there.

Damon Hill drove the first corner of his third lap a bit too fast, lost some of his fresh tires, used his last brake and payed his last road-handling-point on an oil-spot. Therefore he had to drive the rest of the lap a little bit softer and Salo overtook his team-mate in the Remus-corner and won his second race in a row. Hill saved the second place. Meanwhile Heidfeld came to third place but because of his low fuel he could not hold this place to the end. Frentzen, who used his repair-points after the first lap, overtook some Jaguars while they where in the pits, had to drive over a oil-spot in the first corner and dropped out - first drop-out of a Ferrari in the current season, of course on a hazard, what else.
Throug the last corners a close fight between Heidfeld, Berger and Luca Badoer took place, on the finish-straigt the Williams used all the power of his BMW-engine and it's acceleration to leave both of the Tyrells behind him. Badoer also overtook Heidfeld on the last few meters and drove on 4th place in his first grand-prix. Zanardi and Raikkonen had to slow down at the end to save the sixth place and 1 point for Villeneuve.

The result of this race brought a triple-leadership in the recent championship for Ferrari: Mika Salo in front of last years champion, Damon Hill and Heinz-Harald Frentzen.