F1 | GP Brazil 2003, crazy race and mystery about the winner

One of the most chaotic GPs of all time. This is how the official Formula 1 Facebook account, in a video that retraces the highlights, defines the 2003 Brazilian GP. A GP full of emotions, from start to finish, complete with uncertainty about the winner of the race.

The race is the sixth event of the season and is run under a deluge which postponed the departure by a quarter of an hour. The cars then depart Safety Car regime, with the home pilot Rubens Barrichello to lead the group. After eight laps the real race starts and Coulthard's McLaren immediately overtakes the Brazilian from Ferrari, also overtaken by Raikkonen (McLaren), Montoya (Williams), M. Schumacher (Ferrari) and Webber (Jaguar) over the course of a couple of laps .

Firman (Jordan) and Panis (Toyota) retire following an accident and the Safety Car returns to the track. At the restart, Kimi Raikkonen was in the lead but the safety car returned to the track after the retirements of Montoya, Pizzonia (Jaguar) and M. Schumacher. We start again with Coulthard in the lead but there is no peace for the Safety Car, called into question for Button's off-track exit after the retirement of Jos Verstappen (Minardi). The race resumes again until Barrichello is in the lead ahead of Coulthard and Raikkonen. But the Brazilian was forced to retire, thus leaving first position to the Scotsman. Behind him Raikkonen and Fisichella (Jordan).

And here comes the turn of the race. The two leading drivers stop in the pits on laps 52 and 54, leaving command to Fisichella. In the meantime, Webber's Jaguar crashes into the barriers near the curves preceding the straight. Alonso's Renault arrives hits one of the wheels squarely of Webber's car ended up on the track and in turn ended up against the barriers. The impact was so violent that the Spaniard was forced to undergo checks in hospital.

The management, given the weather and track conditions, decides to exhibit red flag and stop the race. Fisichella, in the lead, had just started lap 56. The regulation provides that thefinishing order must be defined according to the order of the drivers two laps before the race is stopped, that is, at the end of the 54th. For a timing error times are taken at the end of the 53rd e Kimi Raikkonen is thus proclaimed the winner, who celebrates on the podium. Second place for Fisichella and third for Alonso.

However, in the following days the FIA ​​noticed the errorOn Friday Fisichella is proclaimed the winner. On the occasion of the San Marino GP Raikkonen therefore gives the winner's trophy to the Roman driver, who can thus celebrate his first career victory in F1. A particular victory, but a victory nonetheless.