When Räikkönen reached his pit after a spin-out at the last corner, the two leaders was already in the 2nd chicane, followed by Badoer, who did not go to pits. Villeneuve, Heidfeld, Hakkinen, Irvine and Schumacher fought for the 4th place during the whole second lap, at the end of the field Berger, Hill and Räikkönen, who had a stall and a spin-out if you remember, had a quarrel for the last position. The half of the field went to the pits at the end of its second lap; only Williams kept all three cars on the track, a smart decision, as it would have been shown.

The two Williams of Schumacher and Irvine got on 3rd and 4th position, when they began their third lap, and kept this place until the finish line. Only Hakkinen catched up to them for a short time but then he collided with Irvine in the third corner and had to put down his car there. The third Williams of Berger was fighting with Badoer for the sixth place at that curve, Räikkönen were on pits again and held the last position at this time together with Hill and Heidfeld at the second corner. Then Villeneuve came to the place, where Hakkinen dropped out, drove over a piece of the wreck of Hakkinens car that was still lying around and also dropped out. While Ferrari celebrated the 4th double-victory in this season (only because of their incredible luck as mentioned above) Schumacher and Irvine got place 3 and 4 as the best result for Williams this year and a beautiful farewell gift for the team-leader Roland Stickler. A photo finish took place for the 5th place between Badoer, Räikkönen (who was at last position a half lap ago!) and Berger who failed to bring the third Williams-car into the points.