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...companies try to give their cars better grip by spending thousands of hours testing the way various rubber compounds react as they heat up during a race. Bridgestone tires - used by Ferrari - perform well in cool and wet conditions, while Michelins, which are driven by their main rivals, Williams, McLaren and Renault, really come into their own as the mercury soars. Schumacher, aiming for his seventh world championship, won't be idling in the slow lane. But his opponents are spinning furiously. Patrick Head, technical director of Williams, says: "The Michelins' exterior broke up quite a lot in Australia...
...world champion Michael Schumacher waits on the grid of the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka on Oct. 12 he'll have one thing on his mind: the old F1 adage, "In order to finish first, first you have to finish." Going into the season's last race, he leads McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen by nine points, and just needs to finish in the first eight to secure a record-breaking sixth championship. Williams' Juan Pablo Montoya, touted by many F1 pundits as the heir to Schumi's throne, must wait another year to take a crack at the title...
...Moss thinks the changes have made the difference. "What the fia did was excellent," he says; "it has given a great boost to the racing It helped, too, that the huge technical gap between Ferrari and the rest of the field in 2002 has since been narrowed by Williams, McLaren and Renault. In fact, Raikkonen and Montoya had something of an edge, the result of an unusually hot European summer: their Michelin tires are better for dry weather than Schumacher's Bridgestones. So it was poetic justice when, in the penultimate race of the season, Schumi had some freakish weather...
...Green guard Mike McLaren (21 points) inflicted the most damage, hitting five of his six threes during a back-and-forth second half that saw seven lead changes...
...elastic warming wraps on my elbows and knees; otherwise my joints are stiff in the morning. I go to bed bundled up as if I'm going ice skating. It's not an attractive sight, but it's worth it to be able to function in the mornings. MARJORIE MCLAREN Palo Alto, Calif...