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Warm-up
A half-hour warm-up session took place on Sunday morning, Barrichello had the fastest lap of 1 minute and 10.876 seconds and his teammate Michael Schumacher was second. Massa, Frentzen, Heidfeld, Bernoldi, Coulthard, Villeneuve, Räikkönen, and Irvine completed the top ten. While the session saw no major incidents, Ralf Schumacher entered the gravel traps at two of the track's corners.
After the warm-up session, Montoya predicted several drivers would run wide on a rumble strip located to the outside of the circuit, which extended from turn one to the first portion of the straight driving towards turn two, to increase the top speed of their cars. This would improve Michael Schumacher's position in the World Drivers' Championship, with a win earning him ten points. In a 2012 interview, Barrichello stated that, whilst he was not allowed to say exactly what was Ferrari's threat, "it was a form of threat that made [him] think about re-thinking [his] life, because the great joy for [him] was driving". Barrichello radioed Todt of a promise he made (after the same race in 2001) not to relinquish a victory to a driver. This prompted Todt to reply to Barrichello he was required to obey his instruction in order to preserve Ferrari's "best interests". Personnel on the Ferrari pit gantry observed the television screens and noticed Michael Schumacher could not get close enough to pass Barrichello in the final seven laps. Schumacher passed Barrichello for his fourth win in a row in 2002, and the 58th of his career in a time of 1 hour, 33 minutes and 51.562 seconds at an average speed of . Later in the press conference, where loud boos were heard despite Barrichello's pleas for no booing, Michael Schumacher said he understood Ferrari's decision as "the team is investing a lot of money for one sort of target and imagine in the end it wouldn't be enough by this amount of points, how stupid would we look?" Sid Watkins told Eddie Jordan, the owner of the Jordan team, that Sato had "a miraculous escape", leading Jordan to remark, "Somebody up there likes him." Ferrari's use of team orders to determine the finishing order overshadowed the race. This and other team orders during the season, such as the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix, in both cases, Coulthard and Barrichello decided to slowdown only at the last moments of the final lap, which made it even more controversial, some members of the Formula One community, the world press, and Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso.