| 2000 United States Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 15 of 17 in the 2000 Formula One World Championship
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| Race details[1][2] | |||||
| Date | 24 September 2000 | ||||
| Official name | 2000 SAP United States Grand Prix | ||||
| Location | Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, Indiana[3] | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 4.192 km (2.604 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 73 laps, 306.016 km (190.238 miles) | ||||
| Weather |
Cloudy, drying, Air 12 °C (54 °F); Track 14 °C (57 °F) | ||||
| Attendance | 250,000 | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||||
| Time | 1:14.266 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |
 David Coulthard | McLaren-Mercedes | |||
| Time | 1:14.711 on lap 40 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Ferrari | ||||
| Second | Ferrari | ||||
| Third | Jordan-Mugen-Honda | ||||
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Lap leaders | |||||
The 2000 United States Grand Prix (formally the 2000 SAP United States Grand Prix)[4] was a Formula One motor race held on 24 September 2000 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana before 250,000 spectators. It was the 15th round of the 2000 Formula One World Championship and Indianapolis held its first United States Grand Prix. Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher won the 73-lap race from pole position. His teammate Rubens Barrichello finished second with Jordan's Heinz-Harald Frentzen third.
Before the race, McLaren's Mika Häkkinen led Michael Schumacher by two points in the World Drivers' Championship while McLaren led Ferrari by four points in the World Constructors' Championship. Michael Schumacher took pole position by setting the best lap in the one-hour qualifying session. McLaren's David Coulthard started second, with Michael Schumacher. However, Coulthard had to serve a ten-second stop-go penalty on lap eight because he jumped the start. Häkkinen started third, but retired on lap 26 with a blown engine due to a pneumatic valve system failure. Michael Schumacher thus had an uncontested lead after passing Coulthard on lap seven, and despite losing control of his Ferrari in the final five circuits of the race, he went on to win his seventh race of the season and 42nd overall. Barrichello finished second, 12.1 seconds behind, and Frentzen finished third, holding off British American Racing's Jacques Villeneuve in the final laps.
Michael Schumacher retook the lead in the World Drivers' Championship by eight points over Häkkinen following the race. Coulthard's fifth-place finish in the Grand Prix eliminated any mathematical chance of winning the Drivers' Championship, reducing his advantage over fourth-placed Barrichello to eight points. Ferrari retook the World Constructors' Championship lead from McLaren, establishing a ten-point lead with two races left in the season.
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