[6] During Friday practice Fernando Alonso was given a two-second qualifying penalty by the stewards for dangerous driving and overtaking under a yellow flag condition.

Schumacher fell right back in the clutches of Giancarlo Fisichella and lost his front wing battling for 5th place, hitting the Italian mid-corner fighting off snap-oversteer.

Alonso led, but after a pitstop for dry tyres his right-rear wheel nut detached, causing the Spaniard to lose control and crash.

Schumacher made his way up to 2nd by staying on intermediate tyres as others around him pitted for dry weather ones, but this gamble backfired as the cars on drys caught him in the final laps.

Schumacher defended his position, including controversially cutting a chicane on consecutive laps without penalty,[11] but Pedro de la Rosa and Nick Heidfeld both ultimately passed him.

Whilst he was being overtaken Schumacher banged wheels with Heidfeld, damaging his Ferrari's suspension and forcing him out of the race three laps short of the finish.

[12] Debutant driver Robert Kubica finished in seventh place and would have scored two points, but was later disqualified as his car was found to be underweight due to excessive tyre wear.

[13] In a 2020 watch along of the race on Sky Sports F1 with Jenson Button, Anthony Davidson and Andrew Shovlin then BBC Radio 5 Live Formula One commentator David Croft said "In the BBC 5 live commentary box in my first season in Formula One after starting the day doing a piece on our breakfast show where they said has Jenson Button got any chance of winning and I said no, no chance what so ever.

At this stage (15 laps to go) I'm getting irked because they keep asking me to get a score flash for the football or the rugby or the cricket as used to do on 5 Live and I'm like no we got to stick with this Jenson Button can win this race and they finally came over into the talkback, my producer saying no more interruptions Crofty, take it to the chequered flag, bring him home.