RACE FACTS AND INCIDENTS BULLETIN

* Lap 1: The initial race start is aborted after tenth-fastest qualifier Kimi Räikkönen stalls. The Finn’s car is pushed to the pits while the remainder of the field completes an extra formation lap. Having qualified on pole position for the second time in his Formula One career, Giancarlo Fisichella makes a clean getaway to lead into the first turn. Jarno Trulli consolidates his front-row start and claims second from David Coulthard, up from row three. Williams team-mates Mark Webber and Nick Heidfeld head the chase, from Christian Klien, Juan Pablo Montoya, Rubens Barrichello, Jacques Villeneuve (a tardy start from row two), Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Ralf Schumacher, Felipe Massa, Takuma Sato, Michael Schumacher, Räikkönen (who joined in from the pit lane), Tiago Monteiro, Narain Karthikeyan, Patrick Friesacher and Christijan Albers.

* Lap 2: Alonso and Räikkönen are all over Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher respectively, but there’s no way through.

* Lap 5: Fisichella laps in 1m28.387s – his best yet – and extends his lead to 1.8 seconds.

* Lap 7: Alonso’s pressure on Villeneuve pays off – but his tenure of ninth place lasts only fleetingly before the Canadian reasserts himself.

* Lap 9: Trulli reduces the fastest lap to 1m27.682s but remains two seconds adrift. Alonso clips the grass in his pursuit of Villeneuve.

* Lap 10: Fisichella ups his pace to 1m27.692s…

* Lap 12: …and 1m27.390s.

* Lap 14: Fisichella catches the tail-end Minardis but laps them without significant delay.

* Lap 15: The order remains as it was at the end of the opening lap. Fisichella leads by 3.3s.

* Lap 16: Coulthard clips one of the Minardis during lappery. The momentum lost allows Webber almost to draw alongside, but he is teased towards the grass for his troubles. The order remains unchanged. Friesacher makes the season’s first refuelling stop.

* Lap 17: Alonso passes Villeneuve. Coulthard sets the race’s fastest lap so far – 1m26.855s.

* Lap 18: Trulli, Heidfeld and Albers pit – permanently in the latter’s case.

* Lap 19: Ralf Schumacher refuels.

* Lap 20: Webber and Klien come in. Off the leash, Alonso laps in 1m26.573s.

* Lap 21: Coulthard pits. Ralf Schumacher makes a second stop. Alonso ups the ante to 1m26.473s.

* Lap 22: Villeneuve pits.
 
* Lap 23: Fisichella and Montoya – now third on the road – come in. Barrichello temporarily inherits the led. Alonso laps in 1m26.066s.

* Lap 24: Alonso is the first driver below 1m26s – 1m25.683s.

* Lap 25: Barrichello, Alonso and Räikkönen stop. Barrichello rejoins fourth, Alonso just fails to pinch sixth from Trulli.

* Lap 26: Michael Schumacher – still only 11th – pits. He rejoins behind race-long shadow Räikkönen.

* Lap 27: Massa is the last driver to come in.

* Lap 28: With the whole field having stopped at least once, Fisichella leads by 12 seconds from Coulthard, Webber, Barrichello, Montoya, Trulli, Alonso, Klien, Heidfeld, Räikkönen, Michael Schumacher, Villeneuve, Button, Sato, Massa, Ralf Schumacher, Karthikeyan and Friesacher.

* Lap 30: Alonso passes Trulli for sixth and immediately starts closing on Montoya.

* Lap 36: Trulli makes his second scheduled stop and drops to 11th. Monteiro spins at Turn 13 and rejoins.

* Lap 39: Webber, Räikkönen and Villeneuve refuel. Webber rejoins sixth.

* Lap 40: Klien, Sato and Ralf Schumacher come in. Button passes Trulli for 11th.

* Lap 41: Webber locks up and almost cedes a place to Michael Schumacher. Button pits.

* Lap 42: Fisichella, Coulthard, Montoya and Michael Schumacher all pit. Barrichello takes the lead for a bit.

* Lap 43: Heidfeld and Schumacher clash at Turn Three. The Williams driver remains embedded in the gravel, the world champion retires to the pits.

* Lap 45: Fisichella regains the lead as Alonso pits. The Spaniard rejoins third, just behind Barrichello – who has made tremendous, stealthy progress throughout the afternoon. With all drivers having completed their scheduled stops, Coulthard lies fourth from Webber, Montoya, Klien, Räikkönen, Trulli, Massa, Button, Sato, Villeneuve, Ralf Schumacher, Karthikeyan, Monteiro and Friesacher.

* Lap 55: With Barrichello having reduced Fisichella’s lead to 6.1s, the Italian posts a 1m25.994s – his fastest lap of the afternoon – to remind his pursuers what he has in reserve.

* Lap 56: Sato pits.

* Lap 57: Fisichella scores the second victory of his F1 career, from Barrichello, Alonso, Coulthard, Webber (who equals the best result of his grand prix career – fifth for Minardi in 2002’s corresponding race), Montoya, Klien, Räikkönen, Trulli, Massa, Button (who pits on the final lap), Ralf Schumacher, Villeneuve, Sato, Karthikeyan, Monteiro and Friesacher.