2001

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Michael SchumacherMSC	German	Ferrari	123	9
2	David CoulthardCOU	British	McLaren	65	2
3	Rubens BarrichelloBAR	Brazilian	Ferrari	56	0
4	Ralf SchumacherSCH	German	Williams	49	3
5	Mika Häkkinen	Finnish	McLaren	37	2
6	Juan Pablo MontoyaMON	Colombian	Williams	31	1
7	Jacques VilleneuveVIL	Canadian	BAR	12	0
8	Nick HeidfeldHEI	German	Sauber	12	0
9	Jarno TrulliTRU	Italian	Jordan	12	0
10	Kimi RäikkönenRAI	Finnish	Sauber	9	0
11	Giancarlo FisichellaFIS	Italian	Benetton	8	0
12	Eddie Irvine	British	Jaguar	6	0
13	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	German	Jordan / Prost	6	0
14	Olivier Panis	French	BAR	5	0
15	Jean Alesi	French	Jordan / Prost	5	0
16	Pedro de la RosaDLR	Spanish	Jaguar	3	0
17	Jenson ButtonBUT	British	Benetton	2	0
18	Jos Verstappen	Dutch	Arrows	1	0
—	Fernando AlonsoALO	Spanish	Minardi	0	0
—	Enrique Bernoldi	Brazilian	Arrows	0	0
—	Luciano Burti	Brazilian	Jaguar / Prost	0	0
—	Tomáš Enge	Czech	Prost	0	0
—	Tarso Marques	Brazilian	Minardi	0	0
—	Gastón Mazzacane	Argentine	Prost	0	0
—	Alex Yoong	Malaysian	Minardi	0	0
—	Ricardo ZontaZON	Brazilian	Jordan	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 8 of 26 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 17, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 2001, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 2001, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 2001 is complete: all 17 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.