* Lap 1: Fernando Alonso makes a clean start from pole position to open up a 0.8s lead. Mark Webber repels Kimi Räikkönen’s challenge to hold second. Juan Pablo Montoya settles into fourth ahead of Rubens Barrichello, Nico Rosberg, David Coulthard, Giancarlo Fisichella (who started ninth after being stripped of his fastest three qualifying times yesterday), Jarno Trulli, Christian Klien, Nick Heidfeld (up from 15th), Ralf Schumacher, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Jacques Villeneuve, Jenson Button, Scott Speed, Christijan Albers, Michael Schumacher (originally condemned to the back of the grid after stewards found him guilty of causing a deliberate track obstruction during qualifying, the German actually started from the pit lane in the wake of an unscheduled pre-race engine change), Takuma Sato, Franck Montagny and Felipe Massa. Tiago Monteiro heads for the pits for nose repairs after start-line contact with team-mate Albers. He rejoins well behind the rest.
* Lap 2: Räikkönen passes Webber on the drag up towards Massenet. Michael Schumacher picks off Albers and Speed and now lies 16th.
* Lap 3: Räikkönen trails by 0.5s. Webber is hanging on to the top two. Fifth-placed Barrichello is dropping away and a queue is beginning to form in his wake.
*Lap 4: Massa passes both Super Aguris.
* Lap 6: The top two remain about half a second apart: Räikkönen continues to match Alonso’s lap speeds.
* Lap 10: Alonso posts the race’s fastest lap so far – 1m 15.924s – and leads by 0.6s.
* Lap 11: Alonso goes faster still: 1m 15.679s.
* Lap 17: Albers is served with a drive-through penalty for causing an avoidable collision.
* Lap 18: Albers pits but doesn’t lose a place.
* Lap 19: Räikkönen sets fastest lap: 1m 15.325s. He trails by 0.6s. Webber is 3.5s further adrift.
* Lap 20: Michael Schumacher passes Button for 15th at the chicane.
* Lap 21: Montoya makes the first scheduled stop.
* Lap 22: Räikkönen pits.
* Lap 23: Alonso pits. Webber leads. Rosberg comes in for fuel and tyres and drops from sixth to 15th.
* Lap 24: Webber pits. The top four resume their original order, with Räikkönen right on Alonso’s tail.
* Lap 25: Almost one-third distance and all 22 starters remain on track.
* Lap 27: Fisichella pits… and slips from seventh to 15th, behind Michael Schumacher and Rosberg.
* Lap 29: Coulthard refuels. He rejoins 12th, between Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher.
* Lap 30: Webber pares 0.5s off the front two and closes to within 0.7s of Räikkönen.
* Lap 32: Just 1.1s covers the top three. Montoya is 2.2s further back… then there’s a half-minute gap to Barrichello.
* Lap 33: Fisichella passes Rosberg for 14th.
* Lap 34: Massa passes Speed for 17th.
* Lap 35: Eighth-placed Heidfeld heads a queue stretching back to Rosberg, who is running 15th. Fisichella looks inside Michael Schumacher at Mirabeau but thinks better of it.
* Lap 36: Michael Schumacher pits. He rejoins 18th, a lap down.
* Lap 37: Massa pits.
* Lap 39: Half-distance. Alonso leads Räikkönen by 0.8s with Webber third, 2.0s behind the leader. Ralf Schumacher pits. Fisichella passes Coulthard at the chicane.
* Lap 40: Heidfeld pits. Fisichella passes Villeneuve at the chicane.
* Lap 41: Klien and Button pit.
* Lap 43: Alonso and Räikkönen lap Fisichella. The Spaniard gains about half a second in the process. Webber is losing time in the traffic.
* Lap 44: Michael Schumacher passes Villeneuve for 12th. Villeneuve pits at the end of the lap.
* Lap 45: Barrichello and Trulli pit from fifth and sixth but retain their positions.
* Lap 49: Webber pulls off in a haze of smoke at the exit of Ste Dévote and posts the earliest retirement. The Safety Car is deployed. The top three all pit, as do Fisichella, Liuzzi, Rosberg, Montagny, Monteiro and Sato. The latter retires.
* Lap 50: The field lines up in the order Alonso, Räikkönen, Montoya, Barrichello, Trulli, Klien and Coulthard. Michael Schumacher is a lapped eighth, ahead of Fisichella, Heidfeld, Ralf Schumacher, Massa, Liuzzi, Rosberg, Villeneuve, Button, Albers, Speed, Montagny and Monteiro.
* Lap 51: Räikkönen’s engine blows while he’s running behind the Safety Car.
* Lap 53: Race restarts. Alonso tears away. Montoya is 6.3s adrift, amid lapped traffic. Rosberg crashes at Virage Anthony Noghès.
* Lap 54: On a clear track, Alonso extends his advantage over Montoya to 12.1s. Barrichello is now third ahead of Trulli, Klien, Coulthard, the lapped Michael Schumacher and Fisichella – the latter pair running as one.
* Lap 56: Both Red Bulls are harassing Trulli.
* Lap 57: Coulthard passes Klien for fifth. Seconds later, the Austrian pulls into the pits to retire.
* Lap 58: Villeneuve is handed a drive-through penalty for overtaking behind the Safety Car. He serves it almost straight away.
* Lap 60: Barrichello, Trulli and Coulthard are covered by a couple of seconds.
* Lap 63: Barrichello is handed a penalty for speeding in the pits. Räikkönen is spotted relaxing on a boat.
* Lap 64: Trulli and Coulthard move up to third and fourth. Barrichello is fifth, 20.4s clear of Michael Schumacher and Fisichella – both of whom have unlapped themselves as Alonso eases his pace.
* Lap 67: Michael Schumacher laps in 1m 15.527s – he is now just 14.5s adrift of Barrichello. Fisichella is falling away from the German.
* Lap 70: Michael Schumacher is now just 9.8s from Barrichello with eight laps to go.
* Lap 73: Trulli crawls to a halt exiting Ste Dévote. Coulthard takes third. Michael Schumacher slices 2.6s out of Barrcihello’s advantage and closes to within 5.2s.
* Lap 74: Michael Schumacher sets fastest lap: 1m 15.143s. Barrichello is 2.6s away.
* Lap 75: Michael Schumacher is just 0.4s behind Barrichello – and 3.4s away from a potential podium finish.
* Lap 78: Alonso wins by 14.5s from Montoya and Coulthard, who secures Red Bull Racing’s first podium. Barrichello just holds off Michael Schumacher Fisichella, Heidfeld and Ralf Schumacher complete the top eight.
