2001 MTV Video Music Awards, Nominations, Best Special Effects in a Video
Robbie Williams – "Rock DJ" (Special Effects: Carter White FX, Audio Motion and Clear Post Production)


2001 MTV Video Music Awards, Nominations, Best Art Direction in a Video
Fatboy Slim – "Weapon of Choice" (Art Director: Val Wilt)


2001 MTV Video Music Awards, Nominations, Best Cinematography in a Video
Fatboy Slim – "Weapon of Choice" (Director of Photography: Lance Acord)


2001 MTV Video Music Awards, Nominations, International Viewer's Choice Awards, MTV India (Hindi film category)
Asha Bhosle, Sonu Nigam and Sukhwinder Singh – "Kambakth Ishq"


2001 MTV Video Music Awards, Nominations, International Viewer's Choice Awards, MTV Latin America (South)
Catupecu Machu – "Y Lo Que Quiero Es Que Pises sin el Suelo"


2001 Macanese legislative election, Results
The results, as published in the 41st SAR Gazette following verification by the Court of Final Appeal, were:


2001 Macanese legislative election, Results
Members for indirect returned of the Legislative Assembly in the second term:


2001 Macau Grand Prix
The 2001 Macau Grand Prix (officially the 48th Macau Grand Prix) was a motor race for Formula Three (F3) cars that was held on the streets of Macau on 18 November 2001. Unlike other races, such as the Masters of Formula 3, the 2001 Macau Grand Prix was not a part of any F3 championship, but was open to entries from all F3 championships. The race was divided into two 15-lpa aggregate legs lasting held in the morning and the afternoon, with overall winner being the driver who completed all 30 laps in the shortest possible time. The 2001 edition was the 48th running of the Macau Grand Prix and the 19th for F3 cars.


2001 Macau Grand Prix
The Grand Prix was won by Carlin Motorsport driver Takuma Sato, having begun the first leg from second place. Sato overtook pole position starter Björn Wirdheim of Prema Powerteam at the start of the first leg and he pulled way to win to start the second from first. He led every lap of the second leg to claim victory in his second appearance in Macau and he was the first Japanese driver in history to win the Macau Grand Prix outright. Second place went to Mugen x Dome Project's Benoît Tréluyer and Wirdheim completed the overall podium in third place.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Background and entry list
The Macau Grand Prix is a Formula Three (F3) race considered to be a stepping stone to higher motor racing categories such as Formula One and has been termed the territory's most prestigious international sporting event. The 2001 Macau Grand Prix was the 48th edition of the event and the 19th time it was held to F3 regulations. It took place on the 6.2 km (3.9 mi) 22-turn Guia Circuit on 18 November 2001 with three preceding days of practice and qualifying.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Background and entry list
Following an accident in which driver Frans Verschuur's brakes failed, which meant he penetrated the Lisboa corner tyre wall, and ploughed into a truck, killing a mainland Chinese tourist and injuring three other people during the warm-up session for the 2000 Guia Race of Macau, race organisers installed two rows of steel barriers and enhanced safety by replacing its canvas and repaired the area's asphalt road surface.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Background and entry list
In order to compete in Macau, drivers had to compete in a Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)-regulated championship race during the calendar year, in one of the seven national F3 championships that took place during the calendar year, with the highest-placed drivers given priority in receiving an invitation to the race. Within the 30 car grid of the event, each of the major F3 series were represented by their respective champions.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Background and entry list
British champion Takuma Sato, who had been signed to drive for Jordan Grand Prix in the 2002 Formula One World Championship in October 2001 and was the first contracted Formula One driver to compete at the Macau Grand Prix since the 1985 race, was joined in Macau by German title holder Toshihiro Kaneishi, French series champion Ryō Fukuda, Japanese series winner Benoît Tréluyer and Australian champion Peter Hackett. Three Macanese drivers were issued invitations from the Macau Grand Prix Committee to participate in the event: Jo Merszei, Michael Ho and Lei Kit Meng. British series driver Gianmaria Bruni elected to withdraw from the event and the Korea Super Prix because of a lack of car familiarisation time and he opted to test an International Formula 3000 vehicle. Bruni was replaced with Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship driver Heikki Kovalainen.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Two one-hour practice sessions were held before the race on Sunday: one on Thursday morning and one on Friday morning. In the first practice session, held on a dirty track because of debris left during practice for the Guia Race of Macau and in cool but cloudy weather, Paolo Montin set the fastest time for TOM'S with a lap of 2 minutes, 14.510 seconds set in the final minute. He was nearly four-tenths of a second faster than Jonathan Cochet in second who had front braking problems and was fastest until Montin's lap. The rest of the top ten were Sato, Pierre Kaffer, Tiago Monteiro, Yuji Ide, Kaneishi, João Paulo de Oliveira, Kosuke Matsuura and Tréluyer. No major incidents were reported during the session although Mark Taylor and Kovalainen scraped the trackside barriers.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Qualifying was divided into two 45-minute sessions; the first was held on Thursday afternoon, and the second on Friday afternoon. The fastest time set by each driver from either session counted towards their final starting position for Sunday's race. The first qualifying session on Thursday afternoon was held in warm weather and in a strong sea breeze from Macau's coastline. Practice pace setter Montin contended from the beginning and took provisional pole position with a 2 minutes, 13.214 seconds lap with less than two minutes left. Sato in second led for much of the session as Cochet went third-quickest.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Monteiro had the pole position early on but he could not improve his time and took fourth. Anthony Davidson sought to find a rhythm he liked and was fifth. Sixth-placed Kaneshi took first from Monteiro until he fell back. Fukuka did not push too hard and he was provisionally seventh. Andy Priaulx was an early pace setter but he ended eighth. Tréluyer and Matsurra rounded out the top ten. De Oliviera was the fastest driver not to reach the top ten despite a strong pace early on. Kaffer was next ahead of Björn Wirdheim, Enrico Toccacelo and Derek Hayes. The rest of the order was completed by Marchy Lee, Kovalainen, Bruce Jouanny, Tristan Gommendy, Sakon Yamamoto, Peter Sundberg, Hackett, Ho, Haruki Kurosawa, Lei, Merszei, Matteo Bobbi and Taylor. Ide and Raffaele Giammaria did not set a lap time.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Ide slid on his out-lap and hit the Mandarin Oriental Bend wall. He recovered but stopped in the Melco hairpin tyre barrier, creating a traffic jam that caught out Giammaria. This stopped qualifying to allow marshals to clear the wreckage. Davidson could not avoid striking Lei's stricken car and went airborne. His suspension wishbones were broken and his nose cone removed. Davidson drove slowly to the pit lane for car repairs. Later, Kurosawa removed one of his car's wheels in an impact with a wall.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Taylor and Bobbi made contact and ended their session early as Yamamoto heavily hit the wall alongside the track. With less than a minute left, Davidson lost rear vehicle traction at Matsuya bend and hit the barrier heavily. He ricocheted sideways across the track and stopped broadside. An unsighted Montiero then rammed Davidson's car at low speed. Davidson prepared by moving his head forwards and exited his car without external assistance. He complained of a sore neck and was taken by ambulance to the local hospital for a precautionary x-ray. He was kept in hospital overnight and ruled unfit to drive the rest of the meeting because of a concussion, torn neck ligaments and a fractured C5 vertebrae.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
In the second half an hour practice session, which took place in hot and clear weather on Friday morning, Priaulx was the early pace setter and he held the top spot until Wirdheim set the first lap under 2-minute, 15 seconds. The order in the time sheets continuously changed but practice's opening minutes did not have anyone record a lap lower than two-minute and 14 seconds. Monteiro adjusted his car's set-up to go fastest with a 2 minutes, 13.241 seconds lap. He was 0.112 seconds faster than the second-placed Sato who was quick throughout due to a car set-up change. Tréluyer in third damaged his car's front in a mid-session impact with the wall, Cochet was fourth and Kaffer fifth. Fukuda, Wirdheim, de Oliviera, Toccacelo, and Priaulx were in positions six to ten.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
The second 45-minute qualifying session on Friday afternoon was held in clear, hot and breezy weather. Provisional pole sitter Montin led early with the first lap to go below 2 minutes and 13 seconds. Wirdheim prepared by inspecting and filming 20 laps of the Guia Circuit on a VHS tape in a hire car with his race engineer early on Tuesday morning. He attributed this to aiding his efforts to take pole position from Montin but Tréluyer took it soon after.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Fukuda then set a new fastest lap before the session was stopped when Hackett crashed into the wall and his car was recovered by track marshals. Wirdheim, Tréluyer and Cochet exchanged the pole position before Wirdheim secured it with a 2 minutes, 11.983 seconds lap, which the motorsport press considered surprising.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Sato was ninth in the final ten minutes and he improved to join Wirdheim on the grid's front row but did not earn the pole position because he swerved to avoid hitting Ho's car at the exit to Fisherman's Bend corner. Cochet could not respond to Wirdheim and Sato's pace and he remained third. Montin fell to fourth because he could not regain the necessary speed to return to the top three. He was marginally in front of Tréluyer in fifth. Priaulx improved to sixth in second qualifying's last minute.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Matsuura moved to seventh while Monteiro was demoted to eighth and Fukuda fell to ninth. Kaffer completed the top ten qualifiers. Behind him the rest of the field lined up as Kaneishi, Ide, Toccacelo, Hayes, Jouanny, de Oliviera, Sundberg, Taylor, Gommendy, Kurosawa, Lee, Kovalainen, Giammaria, Yamamoto, Bobbi, Ho, Hackett, Lei and Merszei.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying, Qualifying classification
Each of the driver's fastest lap times from the two qualifying sessions are denoted in bold.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Warm-up
A half an hour warm-up session was held on the morning of the race. Montin recorded the fastest time of 2 minutes, 12.836 seconds. Sato's best lap was almost four-tenths of a second slower in second. Positions three to ten were occupied by pole sitter Wirdheim, Fukuda, Priaulx, Cochet, de Oliviera, Kaffer and the Japanese pair of Kaneishi and Matsuura.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Race
Sunday's race was divided into two aggregate legs lasting a total of 30 laps. The first 15-lap leg was held in the morning and the results of that leg determined the starting order of the second with the winner starting from pole position. Afterwards, a five-hour interval was observed to allow for the intervening support races to occur. The second 15-lap leg took place later in the afternoon. The overall winner of the Grand Prix was the driver who won the second leg provided they had completed all 30 laps in the shortest possible time.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Race, Leg 1
The first leg of the race began in hot and sunny weather at 10:15 Macau Standard Time (UTC+08:00) on 18 November. Matsuura failed to get start and was instructed to begin from the pit lane. Wirdheim and Sato made equally fast start but neither driver led on the approach to Lisboa corner as Cochet glimpsed open space and executed a slingshot pass to take the lead. Further down the order, two multi-car accidents caused the leg to be red flagged to a halt.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Race, Leg 1
Hayes slipstreamed the rear of Jouanny's car on the straight going into Lisboa turn and felt a sudden spike of acceleration as he was about to be circumspect. He then locked his brakes, was launched over the top of Jouanny and landed on Kaffer's car. Some drivers made contact with each other as they scrambled for open space to try to avoid being caught up in the incident. Yamamoto was greatly unsettled and he ran off at San Francisco Bend. This caused Giammaria to drive off the track in avoidance and he hit the barrier beside the track. In all, eleven cars sustained damage in both crashes and de Oliviera, Kaneishi, Sundberg, Lee and Gommendy retired.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Race, Leg 1
The race restarted with a standing start and Sato made a better getaway to slipstream past Wirdheim on the run to Lisboa corner for the lead. Cochet, meanwhile, could not achieve a fast start and he was left to battle Montin and Tréluyer. That gave Wirdheim the freedom to concentrate on staying with Sato if possible as Cochet lost the duel and fell to sixth. Priaulx picked up a puncture and entered the pit lane for new tyres to go several laps down. Sato drew clear from the rest of the field and led Wirdheim by one second.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Race, Leg 1
In the meantime, Monteiro and Toccacelo collided, causing the latter to retire and the former to drive slowly back to the pit lane for a replacement front wing. Elsewhere, Taylor went from nineteenth to eighth by the conclusion of the third lap while Kovalainen gained 13 positions to run in tenth by the same time. Montin overtook Tréluyer for third but Tréluyer stayed close behind him. Similarly, Sato could not pull away from Wirdheim who set a new fastest lap to close up to him.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Race, Leg 1
The safety car was deployed on lap four when Cochet spun at the Reservoir bend and hit the tyre wall. Fukuda collected him and sustained heavy damage to his car's left-hand side. Although Fukuda exited his car without external aid, he sustained a concussion and was transported by ambulance to the local hospital. Four laps later, the safety car was withdrawn and the field was released back to racing speeds. However, it was immediately deployed for a second time when Taylor pushed too hard on cold tyres and lost control of his car at the Reservoir bend.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Race, Leg 1
He collided with the wall and removed a wheel which Hackett struck. Racing resumed on the ninth lap as the safety car was withdrawn. The race turned into a procession as all drivers sought to avoid an unpleasant situation. Sato was unchallenged in the final six laps to win the first leg and start the second from pole position. Wirdheim was 1.490 seconds behind in second and Montin completed the podium in third. Off the podium, Tréluyer gained on Montin but then settled for fourth. Matsuura finished fifth and Bobbi sixth. Ide finished seventh, Kovalainen eighth, Ho was the highest-placed Macanese driver in ninth and Hackett tenth. Outside the top ten, Lei finished 11th, having gained 18 positions from where he started. The trio of Merszei, Monteiro and Gommendy were the final classified finishers and Sato lapped the latter two twice.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Race, Leg 2
The second leg started later that day in hot and sunny weather at 15:40 local time. Taylor, Cochet, Fukuda, Sundberg, Giammaria and Yamamoto could not start because their cars were damaged beyond repair, reducing the field to 23 drivers. The driver's major issue in the middle of the grid was that they would be easily overtaken by faster vehicles, which prompted Lei to allow them past so he would not interfere.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Race, Leg 2
At the start, Sato made a good getaway and withstood heavy pressure from Montin to retain his lead on the run to the first corner despite a glance with the barrier lining the circuit. Wirdheim had multiple cars beside him and he was passed by Tréluyer for second. Kovalainen could not accelerate off his grid slot and fell three-quarters of a lap adrift of Sato. While Sato pushed hard to establish his lead of 1.4 seconds by the end of lap one, Wirdheim put Tréluyer under pressure in the battle for second.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Race, Leg 2
Further back in the field, Bobbi was overtaken by Ide and Ho lost several positions to all drivers behind him bar Kovalainen and Lee. On lap two, Montin removed his rear-left wheel in a collision with the wall. He drove slowly to the pit lane for a replacement wheel and the subsequent loss of time put him out of contention for a top ten overall finish.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Race, Leg 2
Sato's lead was lowered slightly as Tréluyer pulled away from Wirdheim in third. Sato responded by increasing his lead by a small margin the following lap and did the same whenever it appeared that Tréluyer would close up to him. Hayes endeavoured to make up for the first leg by eclipsing Narain Karthikeyan's race track lap record of the Guia Circuit in the 2000 edition at 2 minutes, 12.921 seconds. He caught Kurosawa and overtook him with no hindrance and then focused on catching Hackett whom he passed soon after.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Race, Leg 2
Hackett lost further positions to Kaneishi and de Oliviera by the conclusion of the seventh lap as they sought to recover lost ground from not restarting the first leg. Monteiro led a battle over fifth that included Priaulx, Kaffer and Ide, who blocked Monteiro from passing him and Priaulx overtook Monteiro. That meant Kaffer challenged Monteiro for sixth as Ide lost fifth to Priaulx on lap 12. Doing this unsettled Ide whom was overtaken by Monteiro and Kaffer and fell to eighth soon after because he delayed them for four laps. Ahead of the quartet, Matsuura was distanced by Wirdheim who began to challenge Tréluyer in slower traffic.


2001 Macau Grand Prix, Race, Leg 2
That distracted Tréluyer long enough to allow Wirdheim to attempt an overtake, which was blocked by the former. Jouanny and Hayes passed Bobbi on the road during the final lap. Meanwhile, on his second appearance in Macau, Sato was unchallenged for the rest of the second leg to complete it ten minutes faster than the first and win outright, achieving the first victory for a Japanese driver in the race's history. Tréluyer followed 4.410 seconds later in second and Wirdheim completed the overall podium finishers in third. Off the podium, the Japanese duo of Matsuura and Ide finished fourth and fifth. Bobbi took sixth and Hackett was seventh. Kovalainen was eighth, and the Macanese pair of Ho and Lei rounded out the top ten. The final classified finishers were Montin, Merszei, Monteiro, Gommendy and Kurosawa.


2001 Maccabiah Games
For the 2001 16th Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: המכביה ה16 ישראל תשס"א), the Opening Ceremony was held in Jerusalem at Teddy Stadium, while the re-building process of the collapsed bridge and investigations into the collapse continued.


2001 Maccabiah Games
It is considered a 'smaller games' for three reasons:  attendance was significantly lower, particularly from the Australians (it sent only about 170 athletes, compared with around 400 in 1997); it was run at the height of the Second Intifada (and straight after the infamous Dolphinarium bombing—the largest of the Intifada—that killed 21 Israelis, mostly high school students); and not all wounds had been healed after the collapse of the bridge.


2001 Maccabiah Games
The 16th Maccabiah attracted more than 5,000 athletes from 46 countries.


2001 Maccabiah Games, History
The Maccabiah Games were first held in 1932. In 1961, they were declared a "Regional Sports Event" by, and under the auspices and supervision of, the International Olympic Committee.


2001 Maccabiah Games, Opening ceremony
Over 25,000 people were at the stadium for the opening ceremony. Keren Leibovitch, an Israeli  paralympic swimmer who had won three gold medals at the 2000 Paralympics, was given the honor of lighting the torch at the Games at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem.


2001 Maccabiah Games, Opening ceremony
At the opening of the Games on July 16, 2001, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared:


2001 Maccabiah Games, Opening ceremony
"Approximately 2,100 years ago, the Maccabees lit the torch in Modi'in and carried it to the gates of Jerusalem, in the Jewish people's struggle for freedom in its homeland. The same fire of freedom and faith, which was not extinguished during 2,000 years, is, today, passed on to you....   You represent the spirit of the Maccabees who fought for Jerusalem and for Jewish rights and independence 2,167 years ago."


2001 Maccabiah Games, Notable medalists
Gold medalist Lenny Krayzelburg of the United States set a new record in the 100-meter backstroke. He also won a gold medal in the 4 X 100M medley relay. Krayzekburg was chosen by the US team to carry their flag at the opening ceremony.


2001 Maccabiah Games, Notable medalists
Russian fencers Sergey Sharikov and Maria Mazina won gold medals in men's sabre and women's foil. Vadim Gutzeit of Ukraine, who nine years earlier won an Olympic gold medal in team sabre, won a silver medal in sabre, as he lost to Scharikov. Jonathan Tiomkin of the US, who later was a Pan American Games gold medalist, won silver medals in team foil and team épée.


2001 Maccabiah Games, Participating communities
The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that community contributed.


2001 Maccabiah Games medal table
The 2001 Maccabiah Games medal table, ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 2001 Maccabiah Games, the "Jewish Olympics". The 16th Maccabiah Games were held from 16 July to 23 July 2001. Approximately 5,200 athletes from 46 counties participated.


2001 Madrid bombing
On 6 November 2001, the separatist Basque organization ETA detonated a car bomb on Corazón de María street in Madrid, Spain. The blast injured about 99 people. It has been claimed the ETA targeted Juan Junquera, a government official, who survived.


2001 Madrid bombing
The attack was one of many that occurred in Madrid in 2001 in the ETA's campaign.


2001 Magherafelt District Council election
Elections to Magherafelt District Council were held on 7 June 2001 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 16 councillors.


2001 Magherafelt District Council election, Districts results, Magherafelt Town
1997: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP2001: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP1997-2001 Change: No change


2001 Magherafelt District Council election, Districts results, Moyola
1997: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP2001: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP1997-2001 Change: No change


2001 Magherafelt District Council election, Districts results, Sperrin
1997: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP2001: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent1997-2001 Change: DUP gain from Independent


2001 Maine Black Bears football team
The 2001 Maine Black Bears football team represented the University of Maine during the 2001 NCAA Division I-AA football season. It was the program's 110th season and they finished in a four-way tie as Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) co-champions with Hofstra, Villanova, and William & Mary. Each team finished with identical 7–2 conference records. The Black Bears earned a berth into the 16-team Division I-AA playoffs, but lost in the quarterfinals to Northern Iowa, 28–56. Maine was led by ninth-year head coach Jack Cosgrove.


2001 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
The 2001 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 72nd playing of the midsummer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 10, 2001 at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington, home of the Seattle Mariners of the American League. The American League defeated the National League, 4–1. This was Cal Ripken Jr.'s 19th and final All-Star Game. It was also the final All-Star Game for San Diego Padres right fielder Tony Gwynn.


2001 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game, Game summary
Before the start of the first inning, Alex Rodriguez voluntarily elected to switch to third base to allow Cal Ripken, Jr. to play at the shortstop position one final time at the All-Star Game, which the crowd gave a standing ovation. The move allowed Ripken to set the record for most MLB All-Star appearances at shortstop (15). Seattle's own Ichiro Suzuki gave his hometown fans something to cheer for early, when in the first, he singled off starter (and former Mariner) Randy Johnson, and then stole second. Johnson stranded him at second to hold the AL scoreless in the first inning. Ripken followed this with a home run in the third inning, which also got a standing ovation, to put the AL up 1–0.


2001 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game, Game summary
The AL scored one more run in the fifth when Iván Rodríguez singled home Jason Giambi to make it 2–0. Ryan Klesko hit a sacrifice fly to cut the lead to one in the sixth, scoring Jeff Kent from third. In the sixth, with the score 2–1, Derek Jeter and Magglio Ordóñez hit back to back home runs off Jon Lieber to extend the AL's lead to 4–1.


2001 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game, Game summary
That ended the scoring for the night. Mariner closer Kazuhiro Sasaki retired the side in order in the ninth to secure the win for the AL. Cal Ripken was awarded the game's MVP, becoming the fourth player ever -- and first from the American League -- to win two All-Star Game MVP awards.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan
On November 6, 2001, the owners of the 30 teams in Major League Baseball voted 28–2 to eliminate two teams for the 2002 season. The two teams expected to be eliminated, the Minnesota Twins and the Montreal Expos, cast the dissenting votes. According to Commissioner Bud Selig, the decision was made due to economic reasons, as "the teams to be contracted [had] a long record of failing to generate enough revenues to operate a viable major league franchise." Also factoring into the contraction plan was the two teams' inability to fund the construction of new ballparks to replace the outdated Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome and Olympic Stadium.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan
The contraction plan fell through due to a court injunction compelling the Twins to honor their lease with the Metrodome, as well as challenges by the players' labor union, the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA). The Expos were later purchased by Major League Baseball. The Twins would eventually secure funding for a new stadium that opened in 2010, while the Expos relocated to Washington, D.C., and were re-branded the Washington Nationals, later being purchased by Ted Lerner and moving to a new stadium of their own.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan
If the plan had gone through, it would have been the first contraction by a major North American professional sports league since the National Hockey League merged the Cleveland Barons into the Minnesota North Stars in 1978, and the first contraction by Major League Baseball since 1899.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan, Background, Minnesota Twins
The Minnesota Twins began playing at the Metrodome in the 1982 season after playing for 21 seasons at Metropolitan Stadium. During their tenure at the Metrodome, the Twins won the World Series in 1987 and 1991. Nevertheless, the multipurpose stadium, which the Twins shared with the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL, had poor sightlines when the field was set for baseball, and the Twins received no revenue from signage, luxury suites, or parking. Additionally, the white, air-supported roof not only caused many fielders to have trouble tracking fly balls, but it also deflated due to heavy snow on numerous occasions.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan, Background, Minnesota Twins
By the start of the 1990s, the Metrodome was already considered obsolete. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the Twins were often rumored to be moving to such places as Sacramento, California; Orlando, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; and others in search of a more financially competitive market. In 1997, the team came close to an agreement to move to North Carolina, but the deal was not completed.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan, Background, Minnesota Twins
There was also some speculation that Selig targeted the Twins because of his family's ownership of the Milwaukee Brewers, the next closest team to the Twin Cities, and which was set to potentially gain the Twins' market should the team be dissolved.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan, Background, Montreal Expos
Olympic Stadium was originally constructed as a multipurpose venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics, which Montreal hosted. The Montreal Expos began playing full-time at the stadium in the 1977 season, one year after the stadium's opening and the team's ninth year of play. Although the new stadium was an upgrade from Jarry Park Stadium, Olympic Stadium was still fraught with problems. A retractable roof that was scheduled to be finished when the Expos moved in was not finished until 1987, and began to leak within only a few years. In 1991, support beams collapsed and a 55-ton slab of concrete crashed onto a walkway outside the stadium, forcing the Expos to play their final 13 home games that year on the road.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan, Background, Montreal Expos
The stadium's poor conditions contributed to low attendance in Montreal. Throughout the 1990s, the Expos ranked near the bottom in the NL for attendance, including ranking last in each of their final seven seasons in Montreal. Owner Jeffrey Loria was unable to reach an agreement for television and English-speaking radio coverage to increase the team's broadcasting revenue, and his proposal for a new downtown ballpark was rebuffed by the Quebec government.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan, Owners vote for contraction
On November 6, 2001, the day before the active MLB labor agreement expired, MLB franchise owners met in Chicago to vote on contraction, despite earlier reports that no such vote would take place. The owners voted 28–2 in favor of contraction. Although the Florida Marlins, Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Oakland Athletics had been discussed as candidates for elimination, the Expos and Twins were considered the likeliest teams to be folded. The owners of both teams were set to receive $250 million buyouts to let MLB take control of and fold their franchises.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan, Aftermath
Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) executive director Donald Fehr noted that the players' union had no say in the matter and called the decision "imprudent and unfortunate... We had hoped that we were in a new era, one that would see a much better relationship between players and owners. Today's announcement is a severe blow to such hopes." The MLBPA filed a grievance to block contraction the day after the vote.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan, Aftermath
On November 16, the league's contraction plans were shelved when Hennepin County Judge Harry Crump ruled that the Minnesota Twins must honor their lease and play their final season at the Metrodome, citing the team's importance to the community. Had only the Expos been contracted, there would have been an odd number of teams in the two leagues, meaning one team would have to be idle every day. This would have made it all but impossible to preserve a 162-game schedule within the normal six-month season.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan, Aftermath
By December 13, talks about contraction had ended, and on January 12, 2002, it was announced that no teams would be eliminated for the upcoming season.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan, Aftermath
On January 16, Loria sold the Expos to Major League Baseball for $120 million. MLB formed Expos Baseball L.P., a partnership of the other 29 clubs, to operate the Expos. Loria then bought the Florida Marlins from John W. Henry for $158 million, using the proceeds from the Expos sale plus a $38.5 million no-interest loan from MLB. Henry then bought the Boston Red Sox from the Yawkey Trust. It was officially announced on February 5 that plans for contraction had been abandoned. On August 30, the owners and players approved a new collective bargaining agreement that forbade contraction until 2006.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan, Aftermath
With no plans for a new ballpark in Montreal, Major League Baseball looked into relocating the Expos. Cities that expressed interest in the team included Washington, D.C.; Las Vegas, Nevada; Norfolk, Virginia; Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico; and Portland, Oregon. On September 29, 2004, Major League Baseball announced that the Expos would relocate to Washington, D.C. for the 2005 season. MLB owners voted 28–1 in favor of the move, with the Baltimore Orioles casting the lone dissenting vote. The team, rebranded as the Washington Nationals, played their first three seasons at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium before moving into the newly constructed Nationals Park in 2008.


2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan, Aftermath
On May 26, 2006, after years of failed proposals, Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty signed a bill that approved funding for a new $522 million ballpark, to which the Twins agreed to contribute $130 million. The new stadium, named Target Field, opened in April 2010.


2001 Major League Baseball draft
The 2001 First-Year Player Draft, Major League Baseball's annual amateur draft, was held on June 5 and 6.


2001 Major League Baseball draft, Background
The Minnesota Twins selected St. Paul, MN native Joe Mauer with the number one pick in the 2001 draft. The 18-year-old Mauer, a catcher from Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul, became the seventh Minnesotan to be selected in the first round and the first to be chosen number one overall. The back-stop was a member of the USA Junior National Team and won a gold medal at the world tournament in Taiwan in 1999. He was also a High School football standout as a quarterback and signed a letter of intent to play football at Florida State University before being drafted.


2001 Major League Baseball draft, Background
Right-handed pitcher Mark Prior of the University of Southern California was selected by the Chicago Cubs with the second overall pick in the draft. Prior, who was previously selected in the supplemental first round of the 1998 draft by the Yankees, was the first college player chosen in the 2001 draft. Prior won numerous National Player of the Year awards after going 15-1 with a 1.69 ERA and 202 strikeouts to lead the Trojans to a College World Series berth in his junior year.


2001 Major League Baseball season
The 2001 Major League Baseball season finished with the Arizona Diamondbacks defeating the New York Yankees in seven games for the World Series championship. The September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. pushed the end of the regular-season from September 30 to October 7. Because of the attack, the World Series was not completed until November 4. The 2001 World Series was the first World Series to end in November.


2001 Major League Baseball season
MLB used an unbalanced schedule for the first time since 1992 in the National League and 1977 in the American. In all divisions except the NL Central and AL West each team played each of the other four teams in the same division 19 times. In the NL Central division foes met 16 or 17 times per season and in the AL West there were 19 or 20 games between each division foe.


2001 Major League Baseball season
This season was memorable for the Seattle Mariners tying the Major League regular season record of 116 wins, Barry Bonds breaking Mark McGwire's single-season home run record, and baseball's patriotic return after a week's worth of games being postponed due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.


2001 Major League Baseball season, Postseason, Bracket
Note: Two teams in the same division could not meet in the division series.


2001 Major League Lacrosse season
The 2001 Major League Lacrosse season was the inaugural season of the new semi-professional men's field lacrosse league. The league began play with six founding teams: Baltimore Bayhawks, Boston Cannons, Bridgeport Barrage, Long Island Lizards, New Jersey Pride and Rochester Rattlers. Each team played a 14-game regular season schedule that ended with a championship game on September 3, 2001.


2001 Major League Lacrosse season
Major League Lacrosse (MLL) played its first game on June 7 when Baltimore defeated Long Island 16–13 score at Homewood Field in Baltimore. Baltimore's Chris Turner scored the first goal in MLL regular season history. Those same two teams met in the Steinfeld Cup, the championship trophy named for co-founder Jake Steinfeld, with the Lizards turning the tables and beating the Bayhawks 15–11.


2001 Major League Lacrosse season, Regular season
Boston beat Bridgeport in 3 of 4 regular season games, Rochester beat New Jersey in 3 of 4 regular season games.


2001 Major League Lacrosse season, All Star Game
The inaugural Major League Lacrosse All-Star Game was hosted by the Bridgeport Barrage at The Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Connecticut on August 2, 2001. The National division team beat the American division 24–18. Mark Millon was the game's MVP.


2001 Major League Lacrosse season, Playoffs
The top two teams from each division qualified for the playoffs. The 1st place team from one division would play the 2nd place team from the other division in the semifinals. All games were played at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Bridgeport, Connecticut.


2001 Major League Lacrosse season, Playoffs
The format resulted in Boston (3–11) making the playoffs while New Jersey (8–6) did not. The format was changed the following season, so the two division winners and the next two best teams regardless of division made the playoffs.


2001 Major League Soccer season
The 2001 Major League Soccer season was shortened due to the September 11 attacks, with the final weeks' regular season matches canceled. The playoffs, however, were played, and the San Jose Earthquakes won their first MLS Cup.


2001 Major League Soccer season, MLS Cup Playoffs, Quarterfinals
Los Angeles Galaxy advance 1-0 in series overtime (SDET) after 4-4 tie on points.


2001 Major League Soccer season, Player statistics, Top goal scorers
Played for more than one team - Most Recent Team Listed*


2001 Majorca Open
The 2001 Majorca Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Majorca in Spain and was part of the International Series of the 2001 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from April 30 through May 6, 2001.


2001 Majorca Open, Finals, Doubles
Donald Johnson /  Jared Palmer defeated  Feliciano López /  Francisco Roig 7–5, 6–3


2001 Majorca Open – Doubles
Michaël Llodra and Diego Nargiso were the defending champions but only Llodra competed that year with Eyal Ran.


2001 Majorca Open – Doubles
Llodra and Ran lost in the quarterfinals to Feliciano López and Francisco Roig.


2001 Majorca Open – Doubles
Donald Johnson and Jared Palmer won in the final 7–5, 6–3 against López and Roig.


2001 Majorca Open – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2001 Majorca Open – Singles
Marat Safin was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


2001 Majorca Open – Singles
Alberto Martín won in the final 6–3, 3–6, 6–2 against Guillermo Coria.


2001 Majorca Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2001 Malagasy presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Madagascar on 16 December 2001. Initial results suggested a second round was necessary, as neither incumbent President Didier Ratsiraka nor Marc Ravalomanana, the two main candidates, had won a majority. However, Ravalomanana rejected the results and declared himself President in February 2002, resulting in violence breaking out between supporters of the two candidates. A recount was held, after which Ravalomanana was awarded 51.46% of the votes, and in April the High Constitutional Court declared him the winner. Although Ratsiraka rejected the verdict, the United States recognised Ravalomanana as President in June, and the following month Ratsiraka fled to France.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix
The 2001 Malaysian Grand Prix (officially the III Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at the Sepang International Circuit in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia in front of a crowd of 75,000 spectators on 18 March 2001. It was the second round of the 2001 Formula One World Championship and the third Malaysian Grand Prix to be part of the series. The race was won from pole position by Michael Schumacher, driving for Ferrari. His teammate Rubens Barrichello finished second and McLaren's David Coulthard was third.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix
The race was delayed and shortened from 56 to 55 laps because Giancarlo Fisichella of the Benetton team was out of position on the starting grid. When it did start, Michael Schumacher led the first two laps until he and Barrichello skidded on oil left by Olivier Panis' British American Racing (BAR) car, as a tropical monsoon begin to fall. They ran into a gravel trap and Jordan driver Jarno Trulli took the lead for one lap until he and several drivers aquaplaned in the deteriorating weather. Coulthard led for 11 laps after a phase of pit stops for wet-weather tyres before Michael Schumacher passed him on lap 16. Schumacher led for the remainder of the race to take his second victory of the season and in Malaysia and the 46th of his career.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix
Michael Schumacher's victory was his sixth in a row from pole position, bettering a record jointly held by former world champions Nigel Mansell and Alberto Ascari. The result left him ten points clear of Barrichello and Coulthard, who were tied in second, in the Drivers' Championship. Heinz-Harald Frentzen of Jordan moved past Sauber's Nick Heidfeld for fourth. In the Constructors' Championship, Ferrari further extended its advantage over second-place McLaren while Sauber fell to fourth behind Jordan with fifteen races left in the season.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Background
The 2001 Malaysian Grand Prix was the 2nd of the 17 races in the 2001 Formula One World Championship and the 3rd edition of the event as part of the series. It was held at the 15-turn 5.543 km (3.444 mi) Sepang International Circuit in Sepang, Selangor on 18 March. A race sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's governing body, had been held in Malaysia since the 1960s, with the first editions being run in Singapore, then part of the Malaysian Federation, before moving to the Shah Alam Circuit. With the arrival of the Formula One Grand Prix in 1999, the race was moved to the purpose-built Sepang International Circuit, where all editions were held until 2017.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Background
After winning the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher led the Drivers' Championship with ten points, ahead of McLaren's David Coulthard with six and Rubens Barrichello in the second Ferrari with four. Nick Heidfeld of the Sauber team was fourth with three points and Jordan driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen was fifth on two points. In the Constructors' Championship, Ferrari led with 14 points; McLaren were in second on six points. Sauber was in third place with four points and Jordan in fourth had two points.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Background
The press and bookmakers considered Michael Schumacher the favourite to win the Malaysian Grand Prix, his team Ferrari had won every single running of the race up to that point: Eddie Irvine in 1999 and Schumacher in 2000. Some of the media attention focussed on the possibility of Michael Schumacher taking his sixth consecutive victory, which would have made him the first driver since the two-time world champion Alberto Ascari in 1952 to achieve the feat.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Background
He said he would not over relax after his victory in Melbourne: "Every year we say here at Ferrari that it is our best car ever and this time, like Rubens, I feel it is true. But we have experience and we know things can go up and down very quickly so we are not going to be complacent or over-confident. That is not our style."


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Background
Following the death of track marshal Graham Beveridge, who was struck in the chest by a wheel from the car of British American Racing (BAR) driver Jacques Villeneuve at the Australian Grand Prix, the organisers of the Malaysian race worked to better protect trackside personnel and drivers; they did not request assistance from Formula One officials. Circuit officials moved back the kerbs at turns five and six, and moved guard rails at turns two and 15 back by 2 m (6.6 ft). FIA race director and safety delegate Charlie Whiting approved both modifications.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Background
Safety marshals were urged by clerk of the course to be extra attentive while observing vehicles and to maintain care for fellow marshals. This came as executive director of the Malaysian Grand Prix and former driver Philippe Gurdjian presented a six-point advisory plan to all 700 circuit personnel including track marshals, firefighters and paramedics to improve safety.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Background
There were 11 teams (each represented by a different constructor) fielded two race drivers for the event with no changes from the season entry list. All cars ran with the same rear wings as in Melbourne since the revised downforce regulations caused aerodynamicists to reclassify the Sepang International Circuit as a "high-downforce track".


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Background
After competing the season's first round without a spare vehicle, half of the personnel working for the Minardi team returned to its bases in Italy and the United Kingdom to assemble, test and transport a spare car to Malaysia so that its drivers Fernando Alonso and Tarso Marques had a back-up plan if either one had a problem. Ferrari, McLaren and Benetton ran some aerodynamic modifications on their vehicles while Williams, Sauber, Prost, Arrows and Minardi all ran to the same specification as in Australia. McLaren installed larger brake cooling ducts to their MP4/16s and Jaguar on their R2s.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Practice
Four practice sessions were held before the Sunday race—two on Friday, and two on Saturday. The Friday morning and afternoon sessions each lasted an hour. The third and final practice sessions on Saturday morning ran for 45 minutes. Conditions for the two Friday practice sessions were clear, hot and humid with several cars struggling for grip. Barrichello led the first session with a 1-minute 39.502 seconds lap, 0.621 seconds faster than his teammate Michael Schumacher in second.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Practice
Jordan driver Jarno Trulli, Coulthard, Irvine, Heinz Frentzen, McLaren's Mika Häkkinen, Olivier Panis for BAR, Jaguar's Luciano Burti and Heidfeld in positions three to ten. Williams driver Juan Pablo Montoya did not complete a lap because of a fuel pump failure and the Arrows car of Jos Verstappen stopped at turn three with an engine sensor fault. His teammate Enrique Bernoldi stopped at turn four with a clutch hydraulics problem about half a minute later.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Practice
In the second practice session, Trulli recorded the day's fastest lap at 1 minute 38.846 seconds. He was 0.083 seconds ahead of Michael Schumacher in second. Barrichello, Coulthard, Irvine, Häkkinen, Frentzen, Burti, Panis and Ralf Schumacher of the Williams team rounded out the session's top ten drivers. Early in the session, Frentzen confronted the Sauber team principal Peter Sauber, who was angered at comments made by the former regarding the fast acceleration of his team's vehicles exiting the corners in the Australian Grand Prix.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Practice
Both engaged in a verbal argument, which was ended when Jordan team owner Eddie Jordan pulled Frentzen away from Peter Sauber. Battery problems sidelined Montoya and two fuel pump failures limited Alonso's running to the final 20 minutes. His teammate Marques had an engine problem and Benetton's Jenson Button set his first lap times after missing the first session due to an overheating gearbox.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Practice
It continued to be clear, hot and humid for the two Saturday morning practice sessions. With a time of 1 minute 36.814 seconds, Coulthard was fastest in the third session, followed by Barrichello in second and his Ferrari teammate Michael Schumacher in third. Häkkinen, Ralf Schumacher, Heidfeld,. Frentzen, Montoya, Panis and Irvine were in positions four through ten. In the final session, Barrichello led with a lap of 1 minute 36.188 seconds. Second was Ralf Schumacher and Häkkinen third. Fourth was Michael Schumacher, Coulthard fifth and Frentzen improved to sixth. Trulli, Irvine, Panis and Sauber's Kimi Räikkönen occupied seventh to tenth places. Benetton's Giancarlo Fisichella ran into a gravel trap beside the circuit and Alonso stopped with smoke billowing from the rear of his car because of debris accumulation overheating his engine.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Saturday afternoon's one-hour qualifying session saw each driver limited to twelve laps, with the grid order decided by each's fastest lap. During this session, the 107% rule was in effect, which necessitated each driver to set a time within 107 per cent of the quickest lap to qualify for the race. Weather conditions were hot and sunny. Michael Schumacher completed two timed laps with new tyres and another two on used front wheels; he lost two-tenths of a second on his first attempt.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Qualifying
He took his sixth consecutive pole position—becoming the first driver since Häkkinen in 1999 to achieve the feat—his third in Malaysia and the 34th of his career with a time of 1 minute 35.220 seconds. He was joined on the grid's front row by his teammate Barrichello who had lost time in the first two turns due to a strengthening wind. Ralf Schumacher initially led and traded pole position with both Ferrari drivers before falling to third. Häkkinen had a car balance problem that left him in fourth.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Trulli in fifth had a lack of acclimatisation due to an electrical fault and could not fine-tune his car's setup. Montoya, sixth, spun during the session, as Villeneuve, who said later he thought he drove too aggressively, took seventh. Coulthard, eighth, admitted to over-driving in the middle sector during his final attempt, losing him time. Excess understeer put Frentzen, who took ninth, off the track. Panis in tenth lost four-tenths of a second on his last timed lap.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Heidfeld was the fastest driver not to qualify in the top ten after driving on worn tyres on his first two timed laps and new front tyres on his third. He was followed by Irvine in 12th, who had understeer going into the second corner and Villenueve slowed him into the final corner. Jean Alesi was the faster of the two Prost cars in 13th and spoke of his belief that the team had made progress from its pre-season testing form.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Qualifying
After a change of left-rear suspension wishbone, Räikkönen took 14th; he ran wide due to an understeer and was prevented from doing a fourth lap because he was called to the weighbridge. A light fuel road and a changed car balance put Burti 15th. Fisichella switched to the spare B201 car setup for his teammate Button due to a minor chassis technical issue on his race car and he took 16th. An oversteer in the fast-speed corners before a setup alteration to improve his car's balance put Button 17th. A lack of engine power and understeer left Verstappen in 18th.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Qualifying
His teammate Bernoldi was blocked by Räikkönen on his final timed lap and was 19th. Gastón Mazzacane in the slower Prost car had his setup changed and improved his best time to go 20th-fastest. Understeer on Marques' first two attempts and setup improvements to correct it put him 21st. His teammate Alonso could not drive his race car because its gearbox and engine was replaced. He took the spare Minardi and was 22nd.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Qualifying, Penalties
31 minutes into qualifying, the stewards deleted all of Bernoldi's lap times because the FIA technical delegate discovered the dimension of the Arrows A22's front wing and parts of its bodywork lying on the step plane were less than a respective 100 mm (10 cm) and 50 mm (5.0 cm) above the plane of reference. The penalty promoted Mazzacane to 19th, Marques to 20th, Alonso to 21st and dropped Bernoldi to 22nd.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Warm-up
A 30-minute warm-up session was held on Sunday morning, in hot and humid weather and on a saturated track created by a tropical thunderstorm, prompting most teams run the intermediate tyres on their cars. A dry line appeared towards the session's end and the top three runners set their fastest times this way. Barrichello was fastest with a lap of 1 minute 49.763 seconds. He was followed by Coulthard, Trulli, Räikkonen, Verstappen, Frentzen, Michael Schumacher, Heidfeld, Panis and Villeneuve.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Warm-up
Alonso stopped on the start/finish straight with a fuel pump failure and he took the spare car originally setup for his teammate Marques. Irvine's engine cut out, causing him to drive the spare Jaguar. Fisichella spun twice and his teammate Button was observed driving on the dry compound tyres for three laps towards the end of warm-up.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
The race took place in the afternoon from 14:00 MST and in front of a crowd of 75,000 spectators. The weather at the start was overcast but hot and humid. The air temperature ranged from 32 to 33 °C (90 to 91 °F) and the track temperature 41 to 44 °C (106 to 111 °F); forecasts four days earlier predicted conditions to be consistent with sunny skies. Every driver, except for Burti, began on the soft compound tyres. Five minutes before the pit lane was officially closed, Michael Schumacher's race car had an oil leak, prompting him to drive the spare Ferrari that was setup for his teammate Barrichello. He avoided a pit lane start because he exited the area one minute before it closed.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
On the formation lap, Frentzen's engine misfired due to a computer-hardware error that limited his rev limiter to 4,000 rpm as he drove away from his starting slot. Just before the race was due to start, Fisichella was out of position because he missed his starting slot and was stranded in the middle of the grid. He drove to his original starting position and was perpendicular across the track with not enough steering lock and rolled between the two cars ahead and behind him. Because series regulations barred drivers from reversing, this resulted in an aborted start. A new start time of 14:10 MST was planned and the race was shortened from 56 to 55 laps since drivers were required to do a second formation lap. During this lap Montoya ran to his garage to take the spare vehicle because his race car had an engine problem.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
Michael Schumacher, from the pole position, made a brisk getaway to maintain his startline advantage going into the first corner. His teammate Barrichello made a slow start and fell from second to fourth as Trulli was to the left of him and Ralf Schumacher to his right. Ralf Schumacher slid before turn one and he defended his position at the corner. That caused the left-front corner of Barrichello's Ferrari and the rear of Ralf Schumacher's Williams car to connect; Schumacher spun 180 degrees in front of the pack, sending him to the rear of the field.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
In doing so, Irvine was sent into a half-spin by Verstappen as Räikkönen drove near the pit lane wall with a broken transmission. Elsewhere, Häkkinen slowed to avoid piling into Ralf Schumacher. He fell from fourth to eighth as his teammate Coulthard moved from eighth to fourth after going into the grass to avoid the incidents. Verstappen moved from 18th to sixth by the end of the first lap by driving on the inside, as Ralf Schumacher fell from third to 20th over the same distance. At the end of the first lap, Michael Schumacher led his teammate Barrichello in second by 1.3 seconds, with Trulli a further 1.8 seconds behind in third.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
As the two Ferraris pulled away from the rest of the field on lap two, Panis' engine failed, pitching his car backwards into the gravel trap. Leaking oil pooled on the track and dripped onto his hot exhaust, where it ignited. Fisichella overtook his teammate Button for 11th as Ralf Schumacher moved from 20th to 14th. An unexpected monsoon shower began to fall on lap three. The two Ferraris continued to pull further away from the rest of the field, although they were unaware of Panis' deposited oil.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
Both drivers slid on the oil and into the gravel trap, and navigated back onto the track in third and seventh. Trulli took the lead with Coulthard in second. None of the leaders made pit stops to switch to wet-weather compound tyres immediately because half of the track was dry while the final hairpin was flooded. On lap four, Montoya, Bernoldi, Heidfeld and Villeneuve aquaplaned into a gravel trap and retired. Race officials deployed the safety car on the lap though several cars, including Trulli, Coulthard and Barrichello, aquaplaned into the turn 15 hairpin.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
During the safety car period, several drivers made pit stops for rain tyres. Although he had no radio communication with his team, Coulthard exited the pit lane leading while Ferrari had a fraught stop. After Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn called both Michael Schumacher and his teammate Barrichello for their first pit stops, Schumacher sat behind Barrichello for 1 minute and 12 seconds because the team was missing Barrichello's front-right wheel and debris had to be removed from his sidepods. The duo emerged in 10th and 11th.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
Rain stopped falling by lap seven although there was a large amount of standing water as the safety car remained on track for the next three laps. Coulthard led from Frentzen and Verstappen at the lap-11 restart. He began to pull away from the rest of the field as Verstappen slipstreamed Frentzen on the back straight and out-braked him for second at the turn 15 hairpin. On lap 12, Frenzten fell to fifth when Häkkinen and Ralf Schumacher passed him. Barrichello radioed Brawn about dirt on the track and that his teammate Michael Schumacher should take care. During the lap, Schumacher, on a light fuel load, went onto the dirt to pass Barrichello, who went to the left of Trulli at turn five and was blocked by him.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
Michael Schumacher overtook Frentzen, Ralf Schumacher and Häkkinen off the racing line on the 13th lap. He approached Verstappen in second on the next lap though Verstappen twice blocked his path. Further back, his teammate Barrichello passed Ralf Schumacher and Häkkinen took fourth. On the 15th lap, Michael Schumacher overtook Verstappen on the inside for second and began to draw closer to Coulthard, who drove with an understeer. He passed Coulthard on the right for the lead on the start/finish straight linking the final and first corners on lap 16.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
That lap, Barrichello overtook Verstappen and Coulthard to advance to second as Michael Schumacher began to pull away by five seconds. It appeared at this point that Ferrari would win the race comfortably barring a mechanical issue. Häkkinen and Ralf Schumacher were the first two drivers to enter the pit lane and switch from the full wet compound tyres to the dry compound tyres on lap 17. Barrichello made his second stop four laps later, emerging in fourth. Coulthard fell to 40 seconds behind the Ferraris by the time of his second stop on lap 25. He rejoined the race in third, more than 20 seconds behind Barrichello.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
In the meantime, Ralf Schumacher overtook Frentzen for fifth on lap 24 and Häkkinen for fourth four laps later. On lap 27 Mazzacane delayed Häkkinen, who was in the act of lapping him. When Häkkinen got past, Button followed through for 14th. Light rain began to fall again on lap 28 though it was not heavy enough to affect the race. Michael Schumacher led by 67 seconds when he made his second pit stop on lap 30 for fuel to complete the race and a front wing adjustment. He rejoined 28 seconds ahead of his teammate Barrichello in second.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
Further back, Verstappen lost fourth to Ralf Schumacher on lap 31. Fisichella in ninth became the race's final retiree with no fuel pressure at the pit lane entrance the lap after. Around this time, Häkkinen duelled Verstappen for fifth though he could not pass and allowed Frentzen to gain on the pair. Verstappen defended fifth by out-braking Häkkinen at the turn 15 hairpin on lap 38; the manoeuvre put Häkkinen wide and allowed Frentzen to overtake him for sixth. Barrichello made his final pit stop three laps later and he remained in second. Verstappen entered the pit lane for the third time on the 43rd lap to take on enough fuel to complete the race.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
The track was entirely dry by lap 47 as Coulthard lowered the deficit behind Barrichello to 4.5 seconds. One lap later, Häkkinen set the race's overall fastest lap, at 1 minute 40.962 seconds, as he pursued Ralf Schumacher in fifth. However, he did not have enough traction exiting the corners to pass Ralf Schumacher, whose more powerful engine gave him a straight-line speed advantage on the main straights, but emitted a large amount of carbon brake dust each time he braked into the heavy braking zones.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race
Michael Schumacher maintained the lead to take his second victory of 2001 and in Malaysia in a time of 1 hour, 47 minutes, 34.801 seconds, averaging 170.030 km/h (105.652 mph). It was also the 46th of his career, and he broke Nigel Mansell's and Ascari's joint record of five victories in a row from pole position with his sixth. Barrichello was 23.660 seconds behind in second and Coulthard came third. Frentzen's two-stop strategy put him fourth despite locking rear wheels. Ralf Schumacher in fifth held off Häkkinen in sixth. Outside of the points-scoring positions, Verstappen, Trulli, Alesi, Burti, Button and Mazzacane followed in positions seven to twelve. The Minardi cars were the final two finishers, Alonso ahead of Marques; the latter was delayed by a right-rear puncture.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
The top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference. Michael Schumacher called the race "exciting" and said it reminded him of his victory at the 1996 Spanish Grand Prix, "It was probably the same story, but honestly it's great being somehow dominant, but we know that won't be the case for every coming race now. It was special conditions, special circumstances, and we used them well for us."


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Barrichello said that he made an extra pit stop to have debris removed from his car, adding, "I think we have a good car, a fantastic car actually, the best car I have ever driven, like I have said. Once I came on the radio to say that I saw some bits of the car flying, and that's basically was some of the barge boards and maybe the brake duct or something."


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Coulthard stated he was unsurprised at Ferrari's faster speed, "They clearly have a car advantage at this time, very similar to the sort of advantage we probably had in '98, and that allows you, if you make the right calls, to really drive at the pace you want to relative to others. So it's quite clear to everyone that they're the class of the field at the moment and we have a lot of work to do to catch up."


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Ralf Schumacher said he felt the first lap collision with Barrichello prevented him from finishing on the podium and noted it was the second collision the latter had with a German driver in the past two races, "He should learn the rules. It is a racing accident but it difficult to understand how it happened because the car in front usually has the priority in the corner." Barrichello argued that Ralf Schumacher had not provided him with enough space to negotiate through, "If he comes around the outside, he leaves some room for a line.


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
But I had no room or line and I had to let the car roll. He was in front and suddenly he shut the door and that was where we touched." Ron Dennis, the McLaren team principal, said he was certain the decision to run his cars on the wet tyres was correct, "Are we disappointed? Not really, but we are more frustrated. Today was one of those days when you have to make a decision and we made ours to go on wets and they (Ferrari) took a risk and went on intermediates."


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Brawn stated Ferrari had information from testing at the Fiorano Circuit that the intermediate tyres operated efficiently in deep standing water, "We knew there were dry parts of the track and we knew there were wet parts of the track and we knew the tyres were very good in the morning [warm-up] as well. That was what we ran this morning. We knew it was very good and we knew it would go into the dry."


2001 Malaysian Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Fisichella apologised to the Benetton team over the radio for missing his starting position that led to the start being aborted. He said that he was focused on ensuring his car was setup to his liking and only saw the vehicle ahead of him. The Benetton team principal Flavio Briatore did not reprimand Fisichella, but praised him for moving to seventh place before retiring. The result extended Michael Schumacher's lead in the Drivers' Championship to 10 points over Barrichello and Coulthard, tied for second place. Frentzen moved past his compatriot Heidfeld for fourth. In the Constructors' Championship, Ferrari further increased their advantage over McLaren to 19 points while Jordan passed Sauber for third and Williams in fifth registered their first points of the season with Ralf Schumacher's fifth-place finish with fifteen races left in the season.


2001 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2001 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 19–21 October 2001 at the Sepang International Circuit.


2001 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (500cc)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fifteen has concluded.


2001 Malmö FF season
Malmö FF competed in Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen for the 2001 season. The club was back in Allsvenskan after one season in Superettan. Zlatan Ibrahimović was sold to AFC Ajax in the summer of 2001 after heavy discussions which raised the price tag to approximately €9 million, the largest transfer sum ever recorded in Swedish football history.


2001 Malmö FF season, Club, Other information
Updated to match played 19 OctoberSource: Malmö FF and Malmö Stadion


2001 Malta Grand Prix
The 2001 Malta Grand Prix (officially the 2001 Rothmans Malta Grand Prix) was a professional snooker tournament held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta, Malta, from 21 to 25 February 2001. It was the seventh and last Malta Grand Prix, and the fourth of the five World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association invitational competitions in the 2000–01 snooker season. It preceded the season's antepenultimate invitational event, the 2001 Masters. The event featured 12 players and was played as a round-robin format until the semi-finals.


2001 Malta Grand Prix
Ken Doherty was the defending champion of the tournament having defeated Mark Williams nine frames to three (9–3) in the final of the 2000 event but was eliminated from the group stages after finishing second in his group. Stephen Hendry won the competition, beating Williams 7–1 in the final. It was the 69th tournament that Hendry had won and he earned £10,000 from a prize pool of £36,000. In the semi-finals, Hendry defeated fellow Scot John Higgins 6–4 and Williams also beat Fergal O'Brien 6–4. Hendry made a maximum break in the third frame of the final, the highest of the tournament and the 42nd maximum in professional play.


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Background
The Malta Grand Prix was created by Snooker Promotions (Malta) founders Richard Balani, Wilfred Sultana and Joe Zammit in 1994 as a 12-player competition. It was Malta's first major professional snooker event. The event was non-ranking for most of its history except for the 2000 tournament. The 2001 tournament was the fourth of the five World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association invitational events in the 2000–01 snooker season, and was the seventh Malta Grand Prix, It was held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, between 21 and 25 February 2001, and preceded the 2001 Masters. Sponsored by the cigarette manufacturer Rothmans, it had a total prize fund of £36,000, with £10,000 going to the winner.


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Background
A total of 12 players including 3 from Malta were invited to enter the competition. Maltese players Alex Borg, Tony Drago and Joe Grech as well as Ken Doherty, Stephen Hendry, John Higgins, Paul Hunter, Stephen Lee, Fergal O'Brien, Matthew Stevens, Joe Swail and Mark Williams participated in the tournament. Ronnie O'Sullivan, a three-time ranking winner in the 2000–01 season, withdrew due to a reoccurring back injury while Marco Fu also withdrew for family reasons, leading O'Brien and Hunter to replace them. Players were put into four groups of three, with each group winner qualifying for the semi-finals. The maximum number of frames in a match increased from 9 in the group stages to 11 in the semi-final, leading up to the final, which was best-of-13 frames.


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Group stages, Groups A and B
The twelve best-of-nine frame group stage matches took place from 21 to 23 February. Group A was composed of Borg, Doherty and Higgins. In his first match since losing to O'Brien in the quarter-finals of the 2001 Masters, world number seven and the tournament's defending champion Doherty made breaks of 115, 73, 131, 77 and 79 to defeat Borg 5–1. Higgins outscored Borg 449 to 111 as he whitewashed Borg 5–0 with breaks of 83, 81, 77 and 73. The final match of the group saw Higgins play Doherty. Higgins won three of the first five frames with Doherty securing frames three and five for a 3–2 score. Higgins won frames six and seven to progress to the semi-finals with a 5–2 win.


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Group stages, Groups A and B
Grech, Hendry and Stevens played in Group B. Grech led 3–0 in the match against Stevens but the latter made breaks of 80, 62, 54, 46 and 43 to win 5–3. During the eighth frame, the electrical cables attached to the television lighting rig some 50 ft (15 m) above the players snapped and swung across the table, causing Stevens, who was about to strike the pink ball, to seek cover. While the cables did not cause any damage, play was suspended because they needed to be reattached to their couplings. Hendry produced his 19th century break of the season and the 524th of his career in the fifth frame of his 5–1 victory over Grech. The following day, Hendry made breaks of 118 and 67 to defeat Stevens 5–3 and qualify for the semi-finals.


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Group stages, Groups C and D
Group C was made up of O'Brien, Lee and Swail. O'Brien won the match's first group 5–3 over Swail. Lee, the world number five, won 5–3 over Swail and needed to beat O'Brien to go through to the semi-finals. The final match of Group C saw O'Brien win the first frame on a 112 break before Lee took the next two. The next four frames were shared between both players. O'Brien took the eighth to force a final frame decider that he won with a break of 59 for a 5–4 victory and entry to the semi-finals.


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Group stages, Groups C and D
Drago, Hunter and Williams were drawn in Group D. Hunter was defeated 5–3 by Drago following breaks of 65, 47 and 40 from the latter after he lost the first frame on the black ball. Drago said post-match: "It wasn't a full house out there but the expectations for me these days are not good because I have fallen down the rankings and I haven't done all that well for a few years". Williams won 5–2 over Hunter and commented that he could not score heavily due to bouncing on the cushions and had difficulty controlling the cue ball. Williams claimed the final frames of his match against Drago with breaks of 54, 65, 45, 43 and 36 to win the last semi-final spot 5–2.


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Knockout rounds, Semi-finals
The two semi-finals were played on 23 and 24 February. Hendry and Higgins played in the first semi-final. The lead was 2–0 to Hendry, which he made 4–2 and later 5–3. Higgins was unable to force a final frame decider when he missed the brown ball to win the tenth frame and tie the score at 5–5. Hendry took the tenth frame 63–62 to win the match 6–4 and the final's first berth.


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Knockout rounds, Semi-finals
Hendry, who had qualified for his 90th career final, said: "I played OK in patches then missed an easy one, something you can't afford to do at this level. But a win is a win and while capturing ranking event titles is what I'm after, I'll be happy to lift this trophy as it's been a long time since I won anything."


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Knockout rounds, Semi-finals
The other semi-final was between O'Brien and Williams. The first frame was won by Williams and O'Brien took the next four to lead 4–1. Williams changed his playing style midway through the match as he was unsteady as a result of him jabbing and snatching. Errors from O'Brien stopped him winning frames eight and nine, before missing the final red ball to lead 5–4, allowing Williams to win the tenth frame with a clearance of 31 to the black ball to win 6–4 and the second spot in the final. Williams reached his second final of the season and commented on his playing style: "To do that is ludicrous but that shows how my head went. I was disgusted with myself but jabbing and snatching at everything seemed to work so I'll be sticking with that against Stephen."


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Knockout rounds, Final
The best-of-13 frames final between Hendry and Williams was held on the evening of 25 February. Williams won the first frame on a break of 42, and finished with a score of 75–20. Hendry took the next six frames with breaks of 57, 70, 56, 41 and 87 and potted the black in the eighth to win the match 7–1. He also achieved a maximum break in the third frame for the highest break. Hendry made his eighth maximum, and his third in a major tournament final. It was the third overseas maximum, the first in a European competition away from Great Britain and Ireland, and professional snooker's 42nd maximum.


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Knockout rounds, Final
Hendry earned £10,000 prize money for winning the tournament and £1,000 for making a maximum break. It was the 69th tournament win of his career, and his first since the 2000 Premier League. Hendry commented on the win: "People will say this is only a small tournament but just to be in the winner's circle again is a good feeling."


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Knockout rounds, Final
He went on to talk about his maximum break: "As for the maximum, I fancied it from the word go, the balls were perfectly placed by the time the break reached eight and it was then a great opportunity to go all the way. I was never in any trouble at all." Willams, who won £5,000 as runner-up, said of his loss: "I was never in the match. I tried to win but there was nothing there and Stephen deserved to beat me." He conceded that "I'm getting used to a good pummelling" after losing the finals of the UK Championship to Higgins and the China Open to O'Sullivan earlier in the season.


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Results
The players highlighted in bold text in the table indicate who progressed to the semi-finals. Players in bold to the right of the tables denote match winners.


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Results, Final
The bold text in the table indicates all of the winning frame scores and the winning player. Breaks over 50 are displayed in brackets.


2001 Malta Grand Prix, Century breaks
The 2001 Malta Grand Prix featured a total of seven century breaks between three players. The highest break was a maximum recorded by Hendry in the third frame of the final with Williams.


2001 Malta Open darts
2001 Malta Open was a darts tournament, which took place in Malta in 2001.


2001 Malé League
The 2001 Malé League is the first season of the Malé League.


2001 Mana Motuhake leadership election
The Mana Motuhake leadership election, 2001 was held in New Zealand on 2 June 2001 to determine the future leadership of the Mana Motuhake political movement. The election was won by List MP Willie Jackson.


2001 Mana Motuhake leadership election, Background
Members of Mana Motuhake were having growing concerns about the Labour-Alliance coalition government's Maori policies and were seriously considering leaving the Alliance (an umbrella party of 5 smaller parties including Mana Motuhake) as a result. Party members were also concerned that Mana Motuhake's identity was becoming subsumed by the Alliance. This led to internal debate around the direction the party was being led, eventually leading Willie Jackson to challenge Sandra Lee for the leadership of the party.


2001 Mana Motuhake leadership election, Background
A vote was the first item of business at the party's 2001 annual meeting held in Mangere, South Auckland. After initiating the challenge, Jackson had invited Lee to withdraw her name from the ballot, but she decided against it forcing a ballot from party delegates.


2001 Mana Motuhake leadership election, Candidates, Sandra Lee
Lee had been an MP since 1993 and became Deputy Leader of the Alliance that same year. In 1994 she became leader of Mana Motuhake upon the retirement of party founder Matiu Rata. Questions were also raised over revelations of her personal life which led senior party members to approach her and voice concern that her affair with Te Puni Kokiri adviser Anaru Vercoe was distracting her from the leadership of the party.


2001 Mana Motuhake leadership election, Candidates, Willie Jackson
Jackson, a List MP since 1999, offered a platform of re-energizing the party, which drew support from many newer party members. Jackson was also highly critical of his party's failure to persuade the Government to do more for Māori and said that Mana Motuhake had become "virtually invisible" under the current leadership. Media also suspected that Jackson was looking for revenge against Lee, who effectively blocked his first attempt to get into Parliament in 1996 when she insisted that Alamein Kopu be ranked ahead of him on the Alliance Party list.


2001 Mana Motuhake leadership election, Result
Supporters of Lee later raised questions about the validity of the vote citing concerns over two busloads of "strangers" that were brought in. The claims were refuted by Jackson who labeled the suggestion as "nonsense".


2001 Mana Motuhake leadership election, Aftermath
After his victory was announced, Jackson promised to expel life member Nellie Rata (widow of Matiu Rata) for defecting to ACT and pledged to ask Labour to stand aside for Mana Motuhake in at least one Maori seat at the next election in 2002, a scenario that Labour leader Helen Clark refused to do stating that Labour dealt with the Alliance, not Mana Motuhake. Jackson also affirmed to the media that he had no intention of leading Mana Motuhake away from either the Alliance or the coalition Government.


2001 Mana Motuhake leadership election, Aftermath
Lee said that her duties as Alliance Deputy Leader and as a cabinet minister allowed her less time to devote to Mana Motuhake's activities and organisational matters which counted against her in the ballot. She stated "Unfortunately, I didn't have the numbers on the day and that's politics in a democracy" and also pledged to continue ensuring Mana Motuhake's committal to continuing an active role within the coalition government.


2001 Mana Motuhake leadership election, Aftermath
Alliance leader Jim Anderton publicly voiced his support for Lee, saying "it was Ms Lee's patience and long-term view which had got Mana Motuhake into government".


2001 Maniacs
2001 Maniacs is a 2005 American comedy horror film directed by Tim Sullivan and starring Robert Englund, Lin Shaye, Jay Gillespie, Dylan Edrington, and Matthew Carey. It is a remake of the 1964 film Two Thousand Maniacs! written and directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. The film is distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment. It was filmed in Westville, Georgia.


2001 Maniacs, Plot
Six prep college students and a biker couple travel south towards Daytona Beach for Spring Break, but a detour leads them into the seemingly idyllic Georgia town of Pleasant Valley, which is holding its annual "Guts and Glory Jubilee" in honor of the American Civil War.


2001 Maniacs, Plot
While they stay in the town, completely isolated from the outside world, they are systematically separated and killed in gory fashion by the town's residents. Two students manage to escape, but upon alerting the authorities they learn that "Pleasant Valley" is nothing but a cemetery - a memorial for 2001 Confederate villagers who were massacred 140 years earlier by renegade Union troops during the Civil War. A plaque reveals that the town's residents will not rest until the crime has been paid back: 2001 villagers were killed, 2001 Northerners must be killed - an eye for an eye.


2001 Maniacs, Plot
As the two students drive away on their motorcycle, they are decapitated by barbed wire. The heads are picked up by Hucklebilly who walks down the road and fades away.


2001 Maniacs, Production
Filming took place on November 3, 2003 in Westville, Georgia and ended on December 1, 2003. Eli Roth, who produced the film, reprised his role of Justin from his own film, Cabin Fever.


2001 Maniacs, Release
The film was released May 12, 2005. The film was released on DVD in 2007.


2001 Maniacs, Sequel
On the official Facebook page for the film, the sequel 2001 Maniacs: The Beverly Hellbillys was announced (later renamed to 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams). Mayor Buckman and Harper Alexander are now portrayed by Bill Moseley and Nivek Ogre respectively.


2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams is a 2010 comedy horror film written and directed by Tim Sullivan. It is a sequel to his earlier film 2001 Maniacs. The story and characters are based on Herschell Gordon Lewis' original film Two Thousand Maniacs. The film stars Bill Moseley, Lin Shaye, Christa Campbell, Andrea Leon, and Nivek Ogre.


2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, Plot
When this year's round of unsuspecting Northerners fail to show up for their annual Guts N’ Glory Jubilee because the Feds are investigating the disappearances of Northerners over the years, the residents of Pleasant Valley take their twisted carnival on the road and head to Iowa, where they encounter spoiled heiresses, Rome and Tina Sheraton, and the cast and crew of their Road Rascals reality show. They begin killing the cast and crew.


2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, Plot
At the end, the residents of Pleasant Valley get an idea to use a TV commercial to lure in their victims.


2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, Production
Unlike the first film Raw Nerve was not involved with the production.


2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, Production
On October 21, 2009 2001 Maniacs: The Beverly Hellbillys was retitled to 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams announced Tim Sullivan in Santa Monica, California a short time before to movie start on American Film Market.


2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, Release
The finished film was unveiled at 2010's FRIGHT FEST in Glasgow, Scotland on February 26 and three other film festivals in the UK. The DVD release in the United Kingdom is set with the July 5, 2010. The domestic Blu-ray release, with the unrated version is set for the July 20, 2010. The film had his US premiere on April 29, 2010 as part of the Texas Frightmare Weekend and is acquired by First Look Studios. The West Coast release is set for the July 17, 2010. The New Jersey release on July 17, 2010 was hosted by Tim Sullivan.


2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, Soundtrack
"Mayor Buckman" actor Bill Moseley had a duet with Rani Sharone as Spider Mountain on the soundtrack.


2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, Reception
Scott Weinberg of Fearnet called it "a merciless chore to get through." R. L. Shaffer of IGN rated it 3/10 stars and called it derivative and dull. David Harley of Bloody Disgusting rated it 0.5/5 stars and described it as "a film which makes absolutely no sense, has no real plot, and is peppered with jokes that seem to be going for being merely crude and offensive rather than funny."


2001 Manx general election
A general election was held on the Isle of Man on 22 November 2001 to elect members to the island's lower house: the House of Keys. The election was dominated by Independents, who won 22 of the 24 seats.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland
The 2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland was a Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) motor race held on July 1, 2001 at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was the 9th round of the 2001 CART FedEx Championship Series season. Team Green driver Dario Franchitti won the race after narrowly escaping a first-turn pile-up and then by gambling on a fuel-saving strategy that saw his car run out of fuel just after crossing the finish line ahead of a hard-charging Memo Gidley and Bryan Herta.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland
Franchitti had won his first race since 1999 and the first for Team Green since Vancouver in 2000, vaulting the driver to 3rd in the points standings. Gidley took his first career podium in only his second start for Chip Ganassi Racing after replacing Nicolas Minassian at the previous race in Portland. Herta gave Forsythe Racing its first podium of the season after a dismal start to 2001.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland
The race was a battle of multiple strategies after a rained-out qualifying session the day before produced an unusual starting grid; fuel mileage, the number of pit stops, and a chaotic first-lap incident ultimately determined the final outcome of the race.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Background
Just a week prior, Max Papis had won his second career race in rain-soaked Portland for Team Rahal while his teammate Kenny Bräck was still in control of the drivers' championship. The team was on a hot streak, winning three of the last four events, and the next race was in team owner Bobby Rahal's home state of Ohio.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Background
Much to the concern of race engineers, the weather forecast going into the weekend at Cleveland also seemed to predict rain on raceday, which would affect handling and grip on an already bumpy track surface. Nevertheless, the teams and drivers were looking forward to the annual race at Cleveland, which was popular with the fans and unique on the calendar for its speed and unusual amount of room to pass other cars.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Background
In the lead-up to the race weekend, it was announced that CART would not return to race at Michigan International Speedway for the 2002 season; the speedway had hosted the series every year since 1970 and it would never host CART again.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Background
It's not a question of us not wanting to be at Michigan, the fact is that Michigan has an alternative plan that doesn't include us ... The fact that we're not going to be racing at Michigan anymore is disappointing, but we still have a marquee event at Fontana through 2004.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Background
Rival series Indy Racing League would pick up where CART left off and run its own race at the speedway from 2002 to 2007. Michigan would join Texas, Nazareth, Detroit, Lausitz, and Houston as race events that would not appear on the 2002 CART calendar.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Practice and Qualifying
The sun shined on Friday morning practice as drivers took to the track for the first time. Several drivers had difficulties coming to grips with the track surface; in the morning session alone, Alex Zanardi, Shinji Nakano, Roberto Moreno, and Alex Tagliani would all make contact with the barriers in different corners. At the end of the 1 hour, 45 minute session, Cristiano da Matta led the rest of the field as the only car to break into the 58-second range with a 58.905.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Practice and Qualifying
By the time the second Friday practice began, clouds had rolled in and covered the area in overcast conditions. Once again da Matta topped the session with a 57.905, and the top twelve cars were all separated by less than a second.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Practice and Qualifying
The weather going into Saturday was foreboding, as forecasts called for thunderstorms later in the afternoon during qualifying. For Saturday morning practice, however, the rains stayed away. Only Bryan Herta could beat da Matta's previous best lap, clocking in a 57.902. da Matta, meanwhile, could only muster 4th place in the practice session.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Practice and Qualifying
The dark clouds looming over the track on Saturday afternoon threatened to pour rain at any time during qualifying. The rules governing qualifying, which meant that the field would be split into two groups and run one after the other, meant that one group could be at a huge disadvantage if the rain started to fall. At 1:45 PM, the first group, containing the bottom thirteen drivers in the points standings, went out on tracking for qualifying. The rain stayed away for the thirty-minute session, and the dry track allowed Maurício Gugelmin to top the time sheets with a 57.356 on his final lap. He was followed by Adrián Fernández and rookie Max Wilson.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Practice and Qualifying
With the second group about to qualify at 2:30 PM, the long-awaited rain finally began to lightly drizzle on the track. Drivers continued on without rain tires, and Bräck, Scott Dixon, and Paul Tracy would each spin on the slippery track just minutes after the beginning of the session. The light rain meant that the track would quickly dry up, and the lap times subsequently began to rise with each passing minute. However, at 2:47 PM, CART suspended the qualifying session when lightning was spotted close to the track, bringing with it high winds and more spots of rain.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Practice and Qualifying
According to CART rules, both qualifying groups were guaranteed at least twenty minutes of green-flag running, and so when the session resumed the drivers would be given five-and-a-half minutes to finish qualifying. At the time the session was stopped, Dario Franchitti was leading the group with a 59.803, which put him 14th behind all of the other first group runners. When the green flag finally came back out almost thirty minutes later, the track had multiple areas of standing water, meaning that none of the drivers in the second group would be able to put in a better time, much less compete with the drivers in the first group.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Practice and Qualifying
The bizarre events in qualifying had allowed Gugelmin to take his first pole position since the 1997 Marlboro 500 and the fourth of his career. In post-qualifying comments, Gugelmin remarked that his lap time would have held up even if the second group hadn't experienced rain, but he also lamented that the current system of two-session qualifying was prone to scenarios like what happened earlier in the day.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Practice and Qualifying
2nd place Fernández and 3rd place Wilson, however, acknowledged that luck had finally been in their respective favors:


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Practice and Qualifying
I don't feel bad about the guys in the back to be honest. I've had good cars before and had to be in the back. I'm sure it's frustrating for them because of the circumstances. But I'm happy that this happened because maybe the system will change for the better to make it more fair for everyone.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Practice and Qualifying
We got lucky that it rained on the second group, but the car was good. Maybe we would have been in the Top 10 or 12. That's the first time we had better track conditions than them [the second group]; we're still at a disadvantage.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Practice and Qualifying
It's a giant pain in the butt because when it started to sprinkle, we didn't go right out. We didn't know what to do. Wets? Dry tires? You go around in circles biting your own tail. It was our mistake not to get out there when the track was faster.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Race
Morning warmup saw similar overcast conditions like the day before, threatening to rain on the track with storms expected by the time race began in the afternoon. Hélio Castroneves led the pack in the session with a 59.907.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Race
As race time approached, the storm system that brought about a tornado watch 50 miles west of Cleveland and had been forecast to the hit the track had moved southward, although the skies were still overcast and winds of 25 mph continued to blow across the circuit.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Race
A little after 1:00 PM, the race began with Gugelmin leading the field the field into the hazardous Turn 1. Gugelmin locked up the brakes and went wide at the corner as the cars bunched up behind him, allowing Wilson to take the lead. History repeated itself as multiple incidents forced several cars off the track and onto the grass. Patrick Carpentier and Michel Jourdain Jr., starting in the midfield, both spun after being hit by Tony Kanaan and defending race winner Moreno. Only Jourdain was able to be restarted, but he limped back to the pits and officially retired the car.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Race
The caution flag came out as a result of the first-turn accident as rookie Wilson led his first-ever laps in CART, followed by Tagliani and Memo Gidley; the first row of Gugelmin and Fernández had fallen back to 5th and 4th, respectively. Bräck had made an astounding leap from 17th to 6th in just a few corners, hugging the inside of the first corner to avoid the fracas and accelerating past several more cars before the caution came out. Multiple cars near the back of the field used the caution period to top off on fuel, hoping to move up the field through alternate strategies.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Race
On Lap 4 the green flag waved as Wilson led the field single-file into Turn 1. Bräck had managed to get past Gugelmin for 5th place, and began to work on Fernández. Herta, who had fallen from 4th to 10th after the first corner incident, was also beginning to make his way back up the order. On Lap 7, Tracy pulled into the pits and retired with an engine problem.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Race
The top five drivers were running within two seconds and beginning to pull away from 6th place Zanardi, who was bottling up the field behind him. On Lap 13, Gidley was able to pass Tagliani for 2nd place; two laps later, Fernández and Bräck were also able to get around him for 3rd and 4th place. Tagliani began to fall back from the top four drivers as the pace quickened. Gidley continued to stalk Wilson for several laps, making unsuccessful moves for the lead going into Turn 1. Finally, on Lap 21, Gidley was able to pass for the lead going through Turn 4 and take off into the distance.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Race
With little on-track action occurring in the meantime, on Lap 31 the leaders began to make their first pit stops. Gidley handed the lead back to Wilson, who continued on-track for a few more laps. Fernández and Bräck followed in behind. Both cars exited the pits side by side and continued to battle for position for several corners before Bräck could finally get by.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Race
As the rest of the field came into the pits, Bruno Junqueira ran into the back of Christian Fittipaldi, damaging the front suspension and breaking the front left tire off. Fittipaldi continued on, but Junqueira's car came to a stop at the entrance to the pitlane. This was the second race in a row where Junqueira was forced to retire as a result of a collision in the pitlane. The position of his car meant that Wilson, who was about to enter the pits himself, would be unable to pull into his pit box for service. Unaware of the situation, he pulled into pitlane and was forced to drive through without being serviced, losing valuable time and forcing him to come back on the next lap.


2001 Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Report, Race
Several cars, including Moreno, Jimmy Vasser, Kanaan, and Papis, stayed out a lap longer than the rest of the field before finally pitting and handing the lead back to Gidley. In the round of pitstops, Franchitti was able to gain positions, putting him 5th behind Zanardi and ahead of Herta. By Lap 41, Gidley was beginning to lap the rest of the field. At the same time, Nakano's turbocharger let go on-course, forcing him to limp to the pits and retire the car.