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The Formula One season moved on with the ninth round of the 2001 season scheduled to be held at the Nurburgring, in Germany, called as the European Grand Prix. The place, Nurburg, is situated just 50 kms from the birthplace of the Schumachers, Ralf and Michael. Both were expected to battle it out for home domination after Ralf had pipped Michael for the First place at Montreal, Canada, two weeks ago. The spirits in both the camps, Ferrari and Williams, were quite high, and both went in full swing for saturday's qualifying session.
The start of the sunday race was quite dramatic. Michael Schumacher, on his formation lap, experienced some problem in his Ferrari. So he jumped out of his car, took the keys of a BMW bike from a race marshall and drove it into the pits. There he quickly managed to get into the formation lap in time. He had no problems whatsoever thereafter. The race started and it was a pretty good start for all. Ralf got a better thrust in the start and was threatening Michael's position at the very first corner. In response to this, Michael squeezed Ralf to the pit wall and secured his position for the first corner. Montoya was in third place, while the two Mclarens managed to get ahead of Rubens Barrichello into 4th and 5th positions. The pace of the race was controlled by the Schumacher brothers, both pulling away from the rest. Both were on a two stop strategy for the race. Go To Page: 1
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