Hakkinen began his second lap with his car left in a very good shape, the two following Ferraris decided to go on with only a few tire-points left over, and Luca Badoer came up to third place at Eau Rouge. The Jaguar drove safely at the first place, behind him Frentzen, Badoer and Hill fought close together for the 2nd place almost of the second lap, Frentzen and Badoer always preventing a collision and Hill searching a line avoiding the dangerous fields. From 5th to 6th curve Hakkinen again added one stop advantage to the following cars and looked optimistically forward to win the race because he has spent only one tire point the whole race until now. Salo at the other end of the field was lucky enough to overtake Irvine and Heidfeld (both visited their pit) and give away his last position for a short time.

The leader started his last turn, again without driving to pits and driving home his victory - he will have had spent only 4 tires and some fuel the whole race at the end - the following 5 cars, Badoer, Hill, Frentzen, Villeneuve and Räikkönen all had to go to their mechanics to refresh tires and to get repaired some things at their cars. Badoer lost his little advantage to Hill and Frentzen again and tried all he could to stay in front of the 2 red ones to save the last theoretic chance to win the constructors-championship for Tyrrell. (Ferrari needed to make only 2 points more than Tyrrell in this race to fix the championship 3 races before the end of the season). At the 6th corner he risked too much, overstressed his tires and dropped out. Hill and Frentzen then drove very safely to come in on second and third place, Hill had to let pass by Frentzen in front of the finish line to earn more points for Frentzen. Irvine could stay in front of Villeneuve and Räikkönen and made it to 4th place, Salo could already overtake Räikkönen and Irvine at the last corner, spending his last tires, and brought home one point for the 6th place.

The constructors-championship was now definitely gone to Ferrari, in the driver's championship Frentzen was leading in front of Salo and Hill. The only "not-Ferrari-driver", still having a chance for the title after this race is Nick Heidfeld, 14 points behind Frenzten by three races left in the season.