During the whole second lap Mika Hakkinen held the third place and Jos Verstappen closed up. Behind Salo a close fight between Jaguar, Williams and the Tyrell of Nick Heidfeld took place. All corners always was fully occupied, so Damon Hill never had a chance to find a free lane to pass one of these cars until some of them drove to the pits at the end of lap two. Also Irvine speeded up at the end of this lap, he jumped in sixth gear from the Bit-Corner to the last corner and could give away his last place at the first corner of the third lap.

On the way out of the Dunlop-Corner, the engine of Badoer shortly misfired and he had to shift down before the next corner, because also the tires where at the end of their life. Frentzen took the chance and overtook him on the straight to the 6th corner. Badoer could not fight back anymore and so Frentzen drove away to an unendangered victory - again a winner from the second starting place. On the way to the Dunlop corner, Verstappen finaly broke away from Hakkinen, made it up to Badoer, who had to let him pass in front of the finish line to save more points for Verstappen. Hakkinen used up his last fuel-point in front of the sixth corner. Salo and Villeneuve reached him at the next curve. The Canadian driver then tried to repeat the manouvre of Irvine from the last lap (in 6th gear into the last corner) but failed. Therefore Mika Salo, who already contented himself with the fifth place, took the last reserves out of his car and reached the finish on 4th place. The Jaguars came in on places 5 to 7, only 8th place for Damon Hill and the rest was left to the three cars of Williams, who all had a disappointing last lap. Nick Heidfeld, the championship-leader before this race, who lost place by place during the whole race, overstressed his tires at the last corner and was the only driver, who did not finish the race.