| 2002 United States Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 16 of 17 in the 2002 Formula One World Championship
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| Race details[1] | |||||
| Date | 29 September 2002 | ||||
| Official name | 2002 SAP United States Grand Prix | ||||
| Location |
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway, Indiana[2] | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 4.192 km (2.605 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 73 laps, 306.016 km (190.149 miles) | ||||
| Weather |
Sunny with temperatures reaching up to 26.7 °C (80.1 °F); Wind speeds approaching a maximum of 18.70 km/h (11.62 mph)[3] Track 34 °C (93 °F) | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||||
| Time | 1:10.790 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |
 Rubens Barrichello | Ferrari | |||
| Time | 1:12.738 on lap 27 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First |
| Ferrari | |||
| Second |
| Ferrari | |||
| Third | McLaren-Mercedes | ||||
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Lap leaders | |||||
The 2002 United States Grand Prix (formally the 2002 SAP United States Grand Prix)[4] was a Formula One motor race held on 29 September 2002, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, in front of about 125,000 spectators. It was the 16th and penultimate round of the 2002 Formula One World Championship and the third United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis. Ferrari driver Rubens Barrichello won the 73-lap race after starting second. His teammate Michael Schumacher finished second and McLaren's David Coulthard was third.
Michael Schumacher, the World Drivers' Champion, started from pole position after setting the fastest qualifying lap. Barrichello started second alongside his teammate, with Coulthard starting third. The first three drivers maintained their positions into the first corner Michael Schumacher led the race for most of the race, only ceding it to Barrichello during both pit stop cycles. On the final lap, Michael Schumacher led Barrichello by half a second before allowing his teammate to catch up to him through the final corner and draw alongside him. Barrichello won by 0.011 seconds over Michael Schumacher, his fourth victory of the season and fifth of his career.
The race result secured Barrichello second in the World Drivers' Championship, with Williams driver Juan Pablo Montoya in third position. Montoya had moved three more points clear of fourth-placed teammate Ralf Schumacher With one race left in the season, Williams secured second position from McLaren in the World Constructors' Championship, while Ferrari broke McLaren's 1988 record for the most constructors' points scored in a season.
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