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Not even the effort of Juan Pablo Montoya obtaining pole position the day Saturday, amedentró to the ultrasonic Ferrari equipment during the Great Prize of Italy version 2002.
Escudería Italian obtained historical one-two in its own earth, seventh of the season, of the hand of its pilot second Rubens Barrichello and of pentacampeón Michael Schumacher.
“He has been something fantastic to be able to gain this victory in house, before all our fans and with the presence of our personnel and until of our two probadores pilots. It is a form to compensate the concerted effort to them that has done throughout all the season. I do not believe that we pruned to return to feel what today we have experimented and seen from podio of Monza. He has been something unique”, confessed a happy Barrichello.
After pole secured by Montoya and the third position obtained by its Ralf companion, everything towards supposition that Ferrari would not have the so simple things. Nevertheless the Williams has failed fully, resisting much less of the awaited thing. Nor that to speak of the rest of the equipment that is to a galaxy of distance in relation to the house of Maranello.
“This it has been a great triumph. We knew that it would be a very complicated race, but the combination of the Bridgestone tires with our car has returned to demonstrate that he is insurmountable. We have chosen to leave with different strategies for each from our pilots to prevent possible maneuvers with our opponents”, said Jean Todt.
During the starting incidents were not registered, although several pilots chose to cut the baffle plate of ruthless way. Among them Ralf Schumacher, that after to have made a good starting, matched to Montoya by the outer side it surpassed and cutting it the baffle plate.
“The exit has been very strange, I have noticed that Juan had some problem I have advanced and it in the first baffle plate. But the equipment has communicated to me by radio ENTRUSTS that it imposed that it interchanged my position with Juan”, explained Ralf. “Sam has commented it to me by radio and I have raised the foot of the accelerator, but just then the failure of the motor arrived.”
The maneuver of Ralf cleared the unsportsmanlike one and it was considered that the German would undergo a sanction. Montoya also went in the first curve, although it amended the maneuver trying at least to copy the turn.
Other two pilots who gained positions in the starting were the men of Toyota, Allan McNish and the Finn Mika Salo. Both pilots realized a remarkable effort to maintain to the weak TF102 in competitive positions. Meanwhile in paddock they are several what they follow without understanding the decision of Toyota to leave to both outside the equipment…
After the spectacular starting of Ralf Schumacher, the German began to remove difference to his favor. On the other hand Montoya tried by all means to conserve its position but it could not with the end speed of the F2002 de Barrichello, surpassed that it at the end of the straight line, in the fourth return.
When five minutes of race had passed only, the BMW motor of the Williams de Ralf said is enough adding the first deception for the English equipment. Later Schumacher surpassed to Montoya, after which this it lost rate after going in one of the Mexican American.
With Barrichello in first position and Schumacher in second, the race already was finished. Both pilots voluntarily dominated the rest of test playing one with another one until getting to reduce a return to him to the third and quarter. Later both conductors raised the foot leaving to surpass themselves by several pilots not to cause supposed problems among them.
The certain thing is that the filing cabinet was not going to shine nothing with the third party to a return well… more considering the hundreds of localities less than they were sold for this edition of the Great Prize, attributable to the gigantic supremacy of Ferrari.
Returning to the sport scope, behind the Ferrari's history was another one. Montoya stayed third party until turn 36. Lamentably his Williams underwent suspension problems and the Colombian retired of the test.
“It has been a pain that appeared these problems with the chassis, since fast third party was rolling and much more that Kimi. I believe that he could have raised podio. But thus it is the competition and now no longer nothing can be made to remedy it. It has been clear that in race distance we continued being below Ferrari”, said Montoya.
Without both Williams in track and with the McLaren in frank agony (Raikkonen left in the middle of race and Coulthard was delayed), Eddie Irvine, Jarno Trulli, Jenson Button and Olivier Panis were written down in the dispute by the last step of podio.
The certain thing is that of these four, the best yield obtained the R3 to it de Irvine. By the sight, the work of the equipment has borne its fruits and the new Cosworth motor surprised in the long straight lines of Monza. Unlike Irvine, the Rose a difficult race did not take advantage of the improvement of the R3 realizing after to be struck by Massa.
Other that could today have shone was the Scot Allan McNish. The pilot of Toyota came developing an excellent race until mechanical problems in to their left it outside machine. With the course of the McNish competition hábele could snatched the third position to Eddie Irvine.
In the front everything followed equal. Barrichello advanced very distanced of Schumacher. The Brazilian I decide on two haltings, whereas the German preferred a single. In fact Schumacher could have surpassed to Barrichello after the second halting of this last one, but it preferred not to do it.
After 1h16'19 " 982 Rubens Barrichello crossed the line of impact adjudging itself the fourth victory of its file. It preceded it to Schumacher, whereas Irvine closed podio after a shining action.
They completed the zone of points Jarno Trulli, Jenson Button and Olivier Panis.

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