F1 Race Reports

Juan Montoya scored an unexpected win in the final race of the 2000 Formula One world championship, ending his relationship with the Williams-BMW team on a high point, but denying Kimi Raikkonen victory in Brazil for the second year running.

Typhoon 22 may have given Suzuka a wider berth than expected, but a hurricane by the name of Michael Schumacher howled through the Japanese Grand Prix venue on his way to a comprehensive lights-to-flag victory.

Rubens Barrichello sealed second place in the F1 world championship with his first ever back-to-back victory after leading the field home at the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix.

by Rob Wilkins. Ferrari team leader Michael Schumacher led home team-mate Rubens Barrichello today [Sunday] at the Hungarian Grand Prix, in the process sealing the constructors' championship in true style for the Scuderia.

It was a dominant Michael Schumacher today at Silverstone in a frantic paced British Grand Prix, taking a composed victory with a superlative drive underlying the true class of a champion at the very top of his game.

Michael Schumacher continued his record of winning every race he has finished in 2004, and took his 60th victory in Ferrari colours, with another product of pace and strategy at Magny-Cours.

Ferrari number one driver Michael Schumacher has stormed to his eighth win of the season today [Sunday], at the United States Grand Prix, an event, which witnessed a horror crash, which hospitalised his brother, Ralf.

Michael Schumacher showed that, on current form and fortune, even a third row start is no impediment to victory by taking just such a win in the Canadian Grand Prix.

Jarno Trulli put his heart and nerves on the line as he finally broke a victory duck that had last for 116 grands prix, overcoming Jenson Button in a fraught and thrilling Monaco Grand Prix by the scant margin of 0.4 seconds.

Michael Schumacher duly notched up a record-equalling fifth win of the season at the Spanish Grand Prix, as his main rivals all failed to capitalise on a rare problem in the Ferrari camp.

It was just as well there were another 18 cars in the Bahrain Grand Prix - or 17 once Kimi Raikkonen made his now customary exit - as the two Ferraris controlled the race from the front to take a second 1-2 result of the year.

Michael Schumacher said he though that the Malaysian Grand Prix would provide a truer test of the competitiveness of this year's Ferrari challenge.

Doubted by some sceptics during a winter of private testing, Ferrari showed that it had little to hide by trouncing the opposition as the Australian Grand Prix opened Formula One 2004.

Rubens Barrichello again played the perfect back-up role to Ferrari team leader Michael Schumacher at Suzuka - but did so from the front, leading almost throughout to win the Japanese Grand Prix and prevent Kimi Raikkonen from having a shot at the German's world title.

Formula One's resident rainmeister came close to pouring cold water on what had been a red-hot world championship battle at Indianapolis, romping to a sixth victory of the year and only being kept in title check by an equally bravura performance from Kimi Raikkonen.

Michael Schumacher retook the initiative in the race for the 2003 Formula One world championship crowns today after an unchallenged performance atop the pile in front of the adoring tifosi at Monza.

Fernando Alonso completed his rout of the Formula One record book by rewriting another few pages at the end of a Hungarian Grand Prix in which he proved to be the class of the field.

The temperatures at Hockenheim frequently touched Malaysian proportions but, if anything was hotter on race day, it was surely Juan Montoya, who scorched away from what remained of the field and burnt his name firmly into the championship reckoning.

Drama, excitement, overtaking, multiple leaders including Cristiano da Matta, Michael Schumacher working through the field and battles seeming at every corner for the duration of the race, what a race the British Grand Prix 2003 was. At that's before you mention a man in an orange skirt...

Ralf Schumacher marked himself out as a genuine world championship challenger with a second grand prix victory in as many weeks, leading home Williams-BMW team-mate Juan Montoya to a second successive 1-2 result in the French Grand Prix.

They say that the Nurburgring crowd is only happy if a Schumacher wins, and it left the 2003 European Grand Prix happy even if it was Ralf, rather than Michael, that took the chequered flag after an eventful race.

If the race had been wet, he would likely have dominated it but, with dry weather gracing Montreal for the Canadian GP, paddock wisdom said that the Michelin runners - and particularly the Williams-BMWs - should have the upper hand. Michael Schumacher does not listen to wisdom...

Juan Montoya followed Williams-BMW team-mate Ralf Schumacher's timely Monaco pole position with an assured victory to end, not only his own personal win drought, but break the jinx of a team that had not won in the Principality for two decades.

Michael Schumacher completed the first hat-trick of the 2003 Formula One season, taking victory in Austria with a degree of excitement rather than the controversy which dogged last year's event.