Formation lap underway, start behind the safety car

Lap 1 - Safety car pits at the start of the first lap, everyone goes through the first corner

Order after Lap 2 - Hakkinen, Trulli, Button, M Schumacher, Coulthard and R Schumacher 

Lap 3 - Button attempts to overtake Trulli but fails

Lap 4 - Button touches Trulli, Trulli retires, Button loses several places. Hakkinen leads ahead of M Schumacher and Coulthard.

Lap 5 - Hakkinen leads M Schumacher by over 10 seconds. Track drying quickly with some drivers switching to dry tyres

Lap 6 - Michael Schumacher pits and changes to dry tyres, Hakkinen still on wet tyres

Lap 6 - Jean Alesi sets the fastest lap on dry tyres

Lap 7 - Mika Hakkinen pits for dry tyres

Lap 9 - Order following switch to dry tyres: Hakkinen ahead of Michael Schumacher and Ralf Schumacher. Jean Alesi, Jenson Button and Jacques Villeneuve make the top 6. Barrichello in 7th, Coulthard in 9th

Lap 11 - Order Hakkinen ahead of Michael Schumacher by 5 seconds. Ralf Schumacher, Jean Alesi, Jenson Button and Jacques Villeneuve make the top 6. Barrichello in 7th, Coulthard in 9th

Lap 11 - Retirements: Trulli and Fisichella 

Lap 12 - Hakkinen spins giving the lead to Michael Schumacher. Hakkinen manages to continue in 2nd place

Lap 14 - Michael Schumacher ahead of Mika Hakkinen by 6 seconds. Ralf Schumacher, Jean Alesi, Jenson Button and Jacques Villeneuve make the top 6. Nick Heidfeld retires

Lap 16 - Michael Schumacher ahead of Mika Hakkinen by 7 seconds. Ralf Schumacher, Jean Alesi, Jenson Button and Jacques Villeneuve make the top 6. Barrichello in 7th, Coulthard in 9th

Lap 18 - Michael Schumacher ahead of Mika Hakkinen by 10 seconds. Ralf Schumacher, Jenson Button, Jacques Villeneuve and Rubens Barrichello makes the top 6. Alesi pits

Lap 20 - Michael Schumacher ahead of Mika Hakkinen by 10 seconds. Ralf Schumacher, Jenson Button, Jacques Villeneuve and Heinz Harald Frentzen makes the top 6. Barrichello pits

Lap 22 - Michael Schumacher goes for his second pit stop. Hakkinen leads ahead of Ralf Schumacher and Michael Schumacher. Jenson Button, Jacques Villeneuve and Heinz Harald Frentzen makes the top 6. 

Lap 24 - Jacques Villeneuve goes for his second pit stop. Hakkinen leads ahead of Ralf Schumacher and Michael Schumacher. Jenson Button, Heinz Harald Frentzen and David Coulthard makes the top 6. 

Lap 25 - Ralf Schumacher goes for his second pit stop. Hakkinen leads ahead of Michael Schumacher. Jenson Button. Ralf Schumacher, Heinz Harald Frentzen and David Coulthard makes the top 6. 

Lap 27 - Mika Hakkinen goes for his second pit stop. Michael Schumacher leads Mika Hakkinen and Ralf Schumacher, Heinz Harald Frentzen, David Coulthard and Jean Alesi makes the top 6. 

Lap 29 - Coulthard and Frentzen pit together, Coulthard gets ahead of Frentzen 

Lap 30 - Michael Schumacher leads Mika Hakkinen by 5 seconds. Ralf Schumacher, Rubens Barrichello, Jean Alesi and Jenson Button make the top 6. Coulthard in 7th

Lap 31 - Hakkinen closing in on Michael Schumacher, gap drops to 3 seconds

Lap 32 - Michael Schumacher leads Mika Hakkinen by 2.4 seconds. Ralf Schumacher, Rubens Barrichello, Jean Alesi and Jenson Button make the top 6. Coulthard in 7th

Lap 33 - Barrichello slows, goes into the pits and is pushed by the mechanics outside the pit lane. Jean Alesi retires

Lap 35 - Michael Schumacher leads Mika Hakkinen by 1.5 seconds. Ralf Schumacher, Jenson Button, Coulthard and Frentzen make the top 6

Lap 37 - Michael Schumacher leads Mika Hakkinen by 1 second. Coulthard passes Button.

Lap 39 - Michael Schumacher leads Mika Hakkinen by 0.5 seconds. Ralf Schumacher, David Coulthard, Jenson Button, and Frentzen make the top 6

Lap 40 - Mika Hakkinen chases Michael Schumacher, attempts to pass unsucessfully

Lap 41 - Mika Hakkinen passes Michael Schumacher when both overtook Zonta 

Lap 42 - Mika Hakkinen ahead of Michael Schumacher. Ralf Schumacher, David Coulthard, Jenson Button and Heinz Harald Frentzen make the top 6

Lap 43 - Mika Hakkinen leads Michael Schumacher by 1.7 seconds. Ralf Schumacher, David Coulthard, Jenson Button and Heinz Harald Frentzen make the top 6

Final Order - Mika Hakkinen wins the Belgian GP 1.1 seconds ahead of Michael Schumacher. Ralf Schumacher is 3rd ahead of David Coulthard, Jenson Button and Heinz Harald Frentzen. Full results soon