out came the yellow flags, and the race proceeded under the safety car until the eighth lap, at which point alonso fought trulli for the lead, followed by button. when the race restarted, juan pablo montoya moved past rubens barrichello to take sixth position, and trulli set three consecutive fastest laps, but was only able to increase his lead to 1.2 seconds over alonso. the leaders began their first pit stops on lap 18, and by michael schumacher's stop on lap 26, trulli led from alonso, with schumacher now in third ahead of both kimi räikkönen and button.