As if Badoer had known that and the half of the pilots had changed to rain-tires, the sun came out and smelt the clouds away. Of course the Tyrrell stayed at the top of the field, still followed by two Ferraris and then Heidfeld through the last curve. The 3 Jaguars and Verstappen matched each other for 5th place on the straight between 4th and 5th corner. When the leader was on the way to leave the last corner, Salo, Schumacher and Irvine fought for the 9th place at Club-corner at the other end of the field. The team of Tyrrell told Badoer urgently to go to pits now, his car had no fuel-points, no brakes anymore and only two tire-points left but the driver went on and stayed out on the track. Again it was the right decision.

The pursuers all had to visit their pits, to change to hard and soft tires again. Hill and Frentzen blocked each other and the mechanics already did a bad job. Badoer, now leading by a comfortable margin did the right mixture of a safe (remember the shape of his car!) but quick driving and won his second race in a row. The two red racers could almost close the gap, but the attack was to late, second place for Hill and third one for Frentzen.
But the real drama of this race happened at the second corner: First, Heidfeld and Irvine dropped away their cars on one of the many oil-spots at the Maggotts-Corner. Then Räikkönen, in a crowd hard fighting for the fifth place, wanted too much and crashed with failing brakes into the back of his team-mate Villeneuve which led to a drop-out for both Jaguars. Short time after that, in front of the 4th corner, Ralf Schumacher had to put down his car. Hakkinen saved a forth place for Jaguar, 5th and 6th place was left to Salo and Verstappen.