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F1: Barrichello Makes History In China

2008-01-08来源:
  法拉利车队的巴里切罗以1小时29分12秒420的成绩夺得F1历史上首个中国大奖赛的冠军。英美车手巴顿取得本站比赛亚军,雷克南取得第三。阿隆索,蒙托亚,佐藤,费斯切拉,马萨分列四到八位。“车王”舒马赫在本站比赛中发生两次意外,最后仅获第12。

Ferrari's Rubens Barrichello made history on Sunday as the first winner of a Formula One Grand Prix in China. While the Brazilian celebrated before a sellout 160,000-strong crowd, his world champion team mate Michael Schumacher was lapped in the first race he has finished without scoring a point for five years.

Briton Jenson Button was second for BAR, 1.035 seconds behind Barrichello, with McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen third after challenging strongly in the first half. It was Barrichello's second win in a row, and ninth of a career spent largely in Schumacher's shadow, and gave China a winner in red as the gleaming $325 million Shanghai circuit made its grand prix debut. "I had a very good start and I was amazed by the grip on the first lap...I was feeling good the whole way through," said the Brazilian, second place in the championship now assured behind Schumacher who won his seventh title last month. Schumacher has 136 points, Barrichello 108 and Button 79. Spain's Fernando Alonso was fourth for Renault, ahead of Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya for Williams and Japan's Takuma Sato in sixth for BAR after starting 18th. Sauber filled the final two scoring positions with Italian Giancarlo Fisichella seventh and Brazilian Felipe Massa eighth. "It was really nice. Towards the end, because I had an eight-second gap, I didn't push that much," said Barrichello, who drenched the elegantly suited Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo with champagne on the podium before pouring the remainder over his own head. His race from pole position to chequered flag stood out in marked contrast to Schumacher's unhappy afternoon. The German finished 12th and was lapped for the first time since the Hungarian Grand Prix of August 2003. "Certainly it was not my weekend," he said. "But I have had so many good weekends this year and we have still won the grand prix with Rubens and those are the important factors." The last time Schumacher, who has retired from just one race this year, had finished a grand prix without scoring points was Australia in 1999 when he came eighth and the scoring system was different. After spinning out in the worst qualifying performance of his career on Saturday and starting from the pitlane, the winner of 12 of the season's first 13 races banged wheels with Jaguar's Christian Klien on lap 12. A spin three laps later pushed him back from 11th to 12th place and his frustration was compounded by a puncture 20 laps from the end. Button ran a two-stop strategy, compared to the other front-runners' three, which made his third place in qualifying even more impressive. His points, and Sato's fine effort, enabled BAR to pull nine points clear of Renault in the battle for overall second place with two races remaining. Ferrari, who have already won the constructors' championship, have 244 points to BAR's 105. Renault have 96.