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Short they would be the adjectives that could be thought to assign to the action of pentacampeón Michael Schumacher with respect to the overwhelming dominion with which it prevailed today in the Great Prize of Belgium to break another record, the one of more victories in one season, with 10 in this 2002.
The German thus obtains also 63ª victory of his impressive race within Formula 1, winning of end to end after releasing in pole in the traditional circuit of Spa-Francorchamps.
“This result has been better del than we waited for, since we did not know absolutely clearly what conditions of race we would be as far as the climatology. Our car is very good in as fast circuits as this one. The car has responded very well and our rate of race, as much of the one of Rubens as mine, has been very good”, commented Michael. “We have not had any mechanical problem, but after seeing the amount of motors that are broken today in race, we have raised a little the foot of the accelerator in the end, since our advantage with Montoya was very comfortable. It has been a very pretty race for me.”
In case outside little, his coequiper Rubens Barrichello 2º finished, doing another 1-2 for escudería Italian, and so the Brazilian also affirms in 2º put of the championship of pilots, removing to him now 7 points to Juan Pablo Montoya, who when finishing 3º in Belgium and sharing podio with the pilots of Maranello obtains the best points available, behind the Ferraris, that certainly seems to be in another category.
“My result has been an exceptional end for a quite complicated weekend. Third position has surprised to me to be able enough to have maintained my before Kimi, that has gone very fast in the first part of the race. It really did not hope to obtain so good result today. I believe that if I have been able to put in front of Kimi there and to maintain to me to me it has been thanks to the work of the equipment”, assured Juan.
4ª position was for the Scot of McLaren, David Coulthard, that even though it pressed to the Colombian of Williams during the last part of the competition, could not threaten it objectively, having to be satisfied to the 3 points that to him the obtained final position grants.
“A pain has been not to have secured a result better. I happened to Ralf Schumacher in the straight line that takes Them Open space and I was placed fifth in the first return. My car did not go very well by the average sector of the circuit, and for that reason it could not happen to Montoya”, commented David. “The adhesion improved after my second shutdown in boxes, when there was more rubber in the track and had the almost empty deposit, and was there where I made my return fast. The express second re-fuelling allowed me to approach to me Montoya, but this was not sufficient.”
Ralf Schumacher, in the second Williams finished 5º, after having lost positions in the same uprooted, and undergoing later a confusion relegated that it in the contingent.
The last point in dispute was for happy the Irish of Jaguar, Eddie Irvine, that returns to score in the year after it to have done in the first round of the season in Melbourne. Note that new evolution R3B of Jaguar begins to give to its fruits for tranquility of Niki Lauda, maximum person in charge of the English equipment.
“My exit has been reasonably good, without losing no position when arriving at the first curve. As of that moment the objective era for defending my position and for preserving the possible maximum the tires. I have always had to the reach to Trulli in the seventh position, although Sato also supposed a threat behind. But this weekend has become everything very well, beginning by the qualification and following with the preparation and the strategy of the race”, it assured Eddie.
Like in the past GP of Hungary, although in this case to a lesser extent, the competition was boring and without alternative majors in the end positions. However, excluded from the zone of points several pilots they very fought battles entertained by position. Most exciting the advance was from the Canadian Jacques Villeneuve on the unstable BAR Honda.
The list of deceptions was quite long in this race. Kimmi Raikkonen could not remove benefit from its second put obtained in classification, leaving to very little of the end when it marched in the zone of points.
Another enormous deception carried out the pilots of the Renault equipment. Trulli realized a dangerous game and when finally it was placed in the zone of points technical problems they left it without chances. His also coequiper Button retirement with similar problems.
“Once again, I have sallied good, but I pushed the neutral button in the first curve, losing the positions that had won in the exit. Then I began to go more express and I approached Ralf, until this one did I spin a top. After my second shutdown in boxes, I wanted to maintain to Ralf behind I believe that it had been difficult to advance to him, since I was faster when coming out of the curves of low speed. He has been very dissapointing, mainly because the equipment had done a good work throughout the weekend, mainly because we had added points”, commented Trulli.
Surprising five pilots left in last the five returns. All of them with mechanical problems. Evidently the exigency of drawn up the Belgian felt in the end, particularly in the motors.
The fight by the subchampionship follows open, although Rubens Barrichello already begins to be outlined like the main candidate. The yield of the Williams BMW follows in loss and hardly Juan Pablo Montoya can with the Brazilian of Ferrari.

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