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...priority." Racing's Rubber Match Was that a fat lady singing on the podium after the very first Grand Prix of the Formula One season? You might have thought so, given the stunned looks on the faces of the drivers who got blown out by Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello's one-two finish for Team Ferrari on March 7. But with 17 races left in the season, there's still hope for mere mortals, and this weekend in Sepang there'll be a major difference in the racing: the weather. Where Melbourne was cool, Malaysia will be steamy...
...cars take each other out on the first corner, no one else has a chance of catching them. Having wrapped up his fifth drivers' championship in the French Grand Prix at the end of July, Michael Schumacher had a nice relaxed Sunday afternoon following teammate Rubens Barrichello round the Hungaroring circuit three races later to give the team the constructors' championship too, with points totaling more than those of the next three teams together. Ferrari is so far ahead of nearest competitors, Williams and McLaren, that even they are getting bored with it. Interviewed after the Hungarian race, Ferrari...
...history MOTOR RACING A Fine for the Ferrari Shuffle It comes to something when the excitement in Formula One happens in an office in Paris rather than on the track. A meeting of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) fined the Ferrari team and drivers Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello $500,000 for causing the biggest rumpus in the sport's recent history. At the Austrian Grand Prix on May 12, racing fans jeered and booed their disapproval when Ferrari team bosses ordered Barrichello, who had led the race from the start, to pull over and allow teammate and World Championship...
...Villeneuve's side. He succeeded only in bouncing himself off the track and handing Villeneuve the championship. Today he maintains it was a "mistake." Says Schumacher: "We're all human. We all make mistakes." Perhaps the man with the biggest cause for complaint is Schumacher's second driver, Rubens Barrichello. Scuderia Ferrari is these days Team Schumacher. In other teams both drivers compete equally, but at Ferrari the second driver is expected to play second fiddle. Barrichello has filled the job faithfully - holding back rivals and, if possible, scoring points for the team - since 1999, when he took it over...
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