With temperatures much lower than on Saturday, the big question is whether the Michelin tyres will perform as well as they did in qualifying. There are no dramas in the build-up to the race.
* Lap 1: At the start Button makes a good getaway and leads into the first corner. Michael Schumacher is second. Juan Pablo Montoya is slower away but Ralf Schumacher cannot pass him. The bunching in the midfield results in David Coulthard running into the back of Fernando Alonso and going off. He rejoins at the back and heads for the pits. At Tosa Montoya tries to drive around the outside of Michael Schumacher. The Williams is squeezed off the track and loses momentum. Ralf Schumacher tries to pass Montoya on the run up the hill towards Piratella but ran out of road and ended up on the grass and lost fourth place to Takuma Sato. All this leaves Button with a big lead from Michael Schumacher, Montoya, Sato, Ralf Schumacher, Rubens Barrichello, Jarno Trulli, Mark Webber, Fernando Alonso and Cristiano da Matta. Coulthard pits and rejoins a long way behind.
* Lap 2: Schumacher begins to claw back the gap to Button and reduces the gap from 2.7 secs to 2.1s. Montoya cannot keep up and is already 1.7s down on Schumacher. Further back Felipe Massa passes Olivier Panis for 11th place.
* Lap 3: Schumacher takes another seven-tenths off Button’s lead.
* Lap 4: Michael Schumacher is right behind Button but obviously cannot overtake unless Button makes a mistake. At the back of the field, Coulthard goes for a ride over the chicane.
* Lap 7: The pit stops begin with da Matta and Massa stopping. This drops the pair from 10th and 11th to 15th and 14th, Massa having made a faster stop. While this is going on, Giorgio Pantano goes off and retires. Giancarlo Fisichella has a couple of minor offs.
* Lap 8: Montoya is the first frontrunner to stop. He is followed into the pits by Mark Webber
* Lap 9: Button stops and Schumacher immediately speeds up. Ralf Schumacher also stops. Panis and Christian Klien also pit.
* Lap 10: The shuffling continues with Schumacher setting a very quick lap while behind him Sato and Barrichello both pit.
* Lap 11: Schumacher pits but he has made up enough ground to emerge ahead of Button. Alonso also stops, leaving Trulli in second place for a lap.
* Lap 12: Trulli is the last man to stop and so the new order emerges with Michael Schumacher ahead of Button, Montoya, Trulli, Ralf Schumacher, Barrichello, Alonso and Sato.
* Lap 14: Heidfeld stops for the first stop.
* Lap 16: The order is the same but Michael Schumacher’s lead is up to 10secs. Down at the back David Coulthard passes Klien for 16th position.
* Lap 17: Heidfeld has a big spin but stays in 15th place.
* Lap 19: Massa passes Webber for 11th place. It is clear that the Jaguar has some kind of a misfire. Coulthard stops having switched to a two-stop strategy.
* Lap 20: Fisichella is ninth having gone without a stop. He drops to 14th place.
* Lap 21: Raikkonen is also on a two-stop strategy and is up to ninth when he stops. He rejoins 14th.
* Lap 23: Da Matta has his second pit stop and falls from 11th to 14th.
* Lap 24: Massa and Webber have their second pit stops.
* Lap 25: Montoya is the first frontrunner to stop. He falls back from third to seventh. Trulli moves up to third.
* Lap 26: Button stops but he holds on to second place.
* Lap 27: Michael Schumacher stops but he is able to rejoin his lead now around 18secs.
* Lap 28: Ralf Schumacher and Barrichello stop again and that puts Alonso up to fourth place. Sato also stops but holds on to eighth place.
* Lap 30: Alonso stops and so Montoya and Ralf Schumacher move up to fourth and fifth.
* Lap 31: Trulli stops and so Montoya is back to third place with Ralf fourth, Trulli fifth, Barrichello sixth, Alonso seventh and Sato eighth.
* Lap 32: Da Matta heads to the pits for a drive-through penalty, for ignoring blue flags. He rejoins the track but goes off almost immediately.
* Lap 38: Little has changed. In the midfield the two Saubers both pit: Fisichella for the second time and Massa for the third time.
* Lap 40: Coulthard, another two-stopper, pits but he is too far back to move up the order. He is 14th.
* Lap 43: The third round of stops has changed little in the midfield. On lap 43 Montoya is the first frontrunner to stop for the last time. This puts Ralf third for a lap.
* Lap 44: Button and Ralf Schumacher both stop. Button is still second but Trulli moves to third place. Alonso is fourth and Montoya fifth but it is clear that the Renaults must stop again.
* Lap 46: Michael Schumacher and Trulli both stop. Schumacher stays ahead but Trulli falls behind Alonso, Montoya and Ralf. But he is ahead of Barrichello.
* Lap 48: Alonso stops and so Montoya is back to third with Ralf fourth. Alonso is ahead of Trulli and challenging the Williams-BMW.
* Lap 49: Nick Heidfeld goes out with a mechanical failure.
* Lap 50: Alonso tries to pass Ralf Schumacher on the inside and has the inside line. Ralf then tried to close the gap, leaving Alonso nowhere to go. The two cars collide and Ralf spins. He drops to seventh place.
* Lap 57: Eighth-placed Sato goes out with a big engine blow-up. This puts Raikkonen up to eighth but he is under pressure from Fisichella.
* Lap 62: Michael Schumacher wins the race with Button second. Montoya holds off a challenge from Alonso to take third. Behind them Trulli holds off an attack from Barrichello for fifth and Raikkonen is able to stay ahead of Fisichella. Even further back Panis and Coulthard fight for 11th all the way to the flag.