2002 Formula One World Championship

Teams and drivers

Entrant	Constructor	Chassis	Engine†	Tyre		Driver	Rounds
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro	Ferrari	F2001 F2002	Ferrari 050 Ferrari 051		1	Michael Schumacher	All
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro	Ferrari	F2001 F2002	Ferrari 050 Ferrari 051		2	Rubens Barrichello	All
West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren-Mercedes	MP4-17	Mercedes FO110M		3	David Coulthard	All
West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren-Mercedes	MP4-17	Mercedes FO110M		4	Kimi Räikkönen	All
BMW WilliamsF1 Team	Williams-BMW	FW24	BMW P82		5	Ralf Schumacher	All
BMW WilliamsF1 Team	Williams-BMW	FW24	BMW P82		6	Juan Pablo Montoya	All
Sauber Petronas	Sauber-Petronas	C21	Petronas 02A		7	Nick Heidfeld	All
Sauber Petronas	Sauber-Petronas	C21	Petronas 02A		8	Felipe Massa	1–15, 17
Sauber Petronas	Sauber-Petronas	C21	Petronas 02A		8	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	16
DHL Jordan Honda	Jordan-Honda	EJ12	Honda RA002E		9	Giancarlo Fisichella	All
DHL Jordan Honda	Jordan-Honda	EJ12	Honda RA002E		10	Takuma Sato	All
Lucky Strike BAR Honda	BAR-Honda	004	Honda RA002E		11	Jacques Villeneuve	All
Lucky Strike BAR Honda	BAR-Honda	004	Honda RA002E		12	Olivier Panis	All
Mild Seven Renault F1 Team	Renault	R202	Renault RS22		14	Jarno Trulli	All
Mild Seven Renault F1 Team	Renault	R202	Renault RS22		15	Jenson Button	All
Jaguar Racing F1 Team	Jaguar-Cosworth	R3 R3B	Cosworth CR-3 Cosworth CR-4		16	Eddie Irvine	All
Jaguar Racing F1 Team	Jaguar-Cosworth	R3 R3B	Cosworth CR-3 Cosworth CR-4		17	Pedro de la Rosa	All
Orange Arrows	Arrows-Cosworth	A23	Cosworth CR-3 Cosworth CR-4		20	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	1–12
Orange Arrows	Arrows-Cosworth	A23	Cosworth CR-3 Cosworth CR-4		21	Enrique Bernoldi	1–12
KL Minardi Asiatech	Minardi-Asiatech	PS02	Asiatech AT02		22	Alex Yoong	1–12, 15–17
KL Minardi Asiatech	Minardi-Asiatech	PS02	Asiatech AT02		22	Anthony Davidson	13–14
KL Minardi Asiatech	Minardi-Asiatech	PS02	Asiatech AT02		23	Mark Webber	All
Panasonic Toyota Racing	Toyota	TF102	Toyota RVX-02		24	Mika Salo	All
Panasonic Toyota Racing	Toyota	TF102	Toyota RVX-02		25	Allan McNish	All

Team changes

• The Prost team was placed into receivership in November 2001, and was liquidated by the receivers in January 2002. This ended the long history of the team which had competed as Ligier from to and as Prost Grand Prix from the following year. The absence of Prost meant that the car numbers 18 and 19 were left unoccupied for the season. Phoenix Finance bought the remains of Prost Grand Prix and attempted to enter Formula One starting at the Malaysian Grand Prix with former Minardi drivers Gastón Mazzacane and Tarso Marques. However, their entry was rejected by the FIA for not purchasing all of the Prost team. They still attempted to race at Malaysia, but race officials prevented them from competing in the event, even with a court appeal.
• Japanese auto maker Toyota entered the championship after much development work in 2001.
• The Benetton team had been sold to Renault in 2000, and was renamed Renault F1 for 2002. The team did not substantially change apart from the name, as Benetton had been running a car with Renault components since 1995.
• Asiatech, who had supplied engines to Arrows in 2001, switched their supply to Minardi for 2002. This replaced Minardi's Cosworth engines from the previous season. Completing what was effectively a straight swap, Arrows signed a deal with Cosworth to use their engines for 2002.
• The Arrows team suffered financial collapse after the German Grand Prix, and did not take part in any of the remaining races. An attempt to register for the 2003 season was rejected by the FIA.

  Driver changes

• The 2002 season featured several driver line-up changes before the season and more changes during the season proper.
• With three races left to go in the 2001 season, Mika Häkkinen announced that he was not intending to drive in F1 in 2002. Denying any claim of retirement, he stated that he needed a sabbatical and would return to McLaren at a later time. Häkkinen later officially left McLaren and retired from F1 in 2002, eventually returning to racing in DTM in 2005, despite being linked with the Williams team for a Formula One comeback. Häkkinen's seat at McLaren was taken by his fellow Finn Kimi Räikkönen, after he was released by Sauber. Räikkönen was replaced at Sauber by the 2001 Euro Formula 3000 champion Felipe Massa.
• Midway through 2001, Giancarlo Fisichella announced his intention to leave Benetton after 2001 to drive for Jordan. Benetton, renamed as Renault, replaced Fisichella with Jordan driver Jarno Trulli, meaning that Fisichella and Trulli had swapped seats at the two teams. Jordan completed an all-new lineup for 2002 with BAR test driver Takuma Sato, whose position in the large test driver pool at BAR was taken by compatriot Ryo Fukuda. Jean Alesi, who had driven for Jordan at the end of the 2001 season, did not seriously pursue an F1 drive for 2002 and instead signed up a drive with Mercedes in the DTM series. Ricardo Zonta, realising that he had no future at Jordan, left his reserve seat there to drive in the Telefonica World Series, later returning to F1 in 2003 as a test driver for Toyota.
• Heinz-Harald Frentzen, without a drive after the collapse of Prost, joined the Arrows team for 2002. This was his third different team within two seasons, after having been dumped by Jordan mid-season in 2001 and subsequently joining Prost until that team's collapse. Despite being under contract for another season, Jos Verstappen lost his Arrows seat to Frentzen, and the Dutchman was unable to secure a drive at another team. He later resurfaced at Minardi in 2003.
• Fernando Alonso left Minardi after an impressive 2001 campaign, and signed on with Renault as a test driver. Alonso's seat was taken over by Benetton test driver, and International Formula 3000 series runner-up, Mark Webber.
• For their first season in Formula One, Toyota employed Mika Salo and debutant Allan McNish, who had previously driven a Toyota GT-One at Le Mans.
• Luciano Burti, who had driven for both Jaguar and Prost in 2001, left the struggling Prost team before their collapse in order to join Luca Badoer in a test role at Ferrari. Tomáš Enge, who had filled in for the injured Burti at Prost in 2001, was dropped by the team at the end of the 2001 season for financial reasons, and he returned to International Formula 3000 for 2002.
• Antônio Pizzonia was signed to become a Williams test driver alongside Marc Gené. Pizzonia had been driving a Williams sponsored car in the International F3000 series in 2001, and he continued that drive in 2002 along with his test duties at Williams.
• André Lotterer, who drove for the Jaguar Junior Team in the British Formula 3 series in 2001, was signed as a test driver for Jaguar's Formula One team for 2002.

• Heinz-Harald Frentzen decided to leave Arrows following the German Grand Prix due to the uncertain future of that team. Arrows collapsed several days later and did not take part in the rest of the season, which also left Enrique Bernoldi without a drive. Frentzen signed with Sauber for the 2003 season, and stood in for Felipe Massa in the United States Grand Prix, for which the Brazilian had incurred a 10-position penalty from the previous race in Monza, thereby eliminating Massa's penalty.
• BAR test driver Anthony Davidson made his Formula One debut when he replaced Alex Yoong at Minardi for the Hungarian and Belgian Grands Prix. The team suspended the Malaysian after he failed to qualify for the third occasion in 2002. Minardi had planned to replace Yoong with Justin Wilson, but Wilson was too tall to fit into the car in accordance with the safety requirements.

  Season calendar

Results and standings

Grands Prix

Scoring system

World Drivers' Championship standings

World Constructors' Championship standings

Pos	Constructor	Car no.	AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	GBR	FRA	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	Points
1	Ferrari	1	1	3	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	1	221
1	Ferrari	2	Ret	Ret	Ret	2	DNS	2	7	3	1	2	DNS	4	1	2	1	1	2	221
2	Williams-BMW	5	Ret	1	2	3	11	4	3	7	4	8	5	3	3	5	Ret	16	11	92
2	Williams-BMW	6	2	2	5	4	2	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	3	4	2	11	3	Ret	4	4	92
3	McLaren-Mercedes	3	Ret	Ret	3	6	3	6	1	2	Ret	10	3	5	5	4	7	3	Ret	65
3	McLaren-Mercedes	4	3	Ret	12	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	3	Ret	2	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	3	65
4	Renault	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	10	Ret	4	6	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	Ret	4	5	Ret	23
4	Renault	15	Ret	4	4	5	12	7	Ret	15	5	12	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	8	6	23
5	Sauber-Petronas	7	Ret	5	Ret	10	4	Ret	8	12	7	6	7	6	9	10	10	9	7	11
5	Sauber-Petronas	8	Ret	6	Ret	8	5	Ret	Ret	9	6	9	Ret	7	7	Ret	Ret	13	Ret	11
6	Jordan-Honda	9	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	5	5	Ret	7	DNQ	Ret	6	Ret	8	7	Ret	9
6	Jordan-Honda	10	Ret	9	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	16	Ret	Ret	8	10	11	12	11	5	9
7	Jaguar-Cosworth	16	4	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	3	10	9	8
7	Jaguar-Cosworth	17	8	10	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	11	11	9	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	8
8	BAR-Honda	11	Ret	8	10	7	7	10	Ret	Ret	12	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	9	6	Ret	7
8	BAR-Honda	12	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	9	5	Ret	Ret	12	12	6	12	Ret	7
9	Minardi-Asiatech	22	7	Ret	13	DNQ	DNS	Ret	Ret	14	Ret	DNQ	10	DNQ	Ret	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	2
9	Minardi-Asiatech	23	5	Ret	11	11	DNS	12	11	11	15	Ret	8	Ret	16	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	2
10	Toyota	24	6	12	6	Ret	9	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	15	7	11	14	8	2
10	Toyota	25	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	8	9	Ret	Ret	14	Ret	11	Ret	14	9	Ret	15	DNS	2
11	Arrows-Cosworth	20	DSQ	11	Ret	Ret	6	11	6	13	13	Ret	DNQ	Ret						2
11	Arrows-Cosworth	21	DSQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	12	Ret	10	Ret	DNQ	Ret						2
Pos	Constructor	Car no.	AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	GBR	FRA	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	Points