Season 1 Race 18

==Quali==
==Race==
At the start, Coulthard took the lead, while the 2 Arrows' followed behind. Alesi was having a watch from 4th place. Coulthard could hold up the Arrows duo for 2 laps until his trnasmission gave way. Arrows were now leading 1-2 again, Alesi 3rd and Magnussen 4th very close to Hakkinen. Mika couldnt resist under pressure and made a mistake, dropping him behind both. This left Alesi an open gap to Schumacher. He hunted down the German, and had a 15 lap long battle with him. Eventually, it was Schumacher's engine failure on ~lap 20 that ruined it. Arrows however told Schumacher to keep pushing. Meanwhile Hakkinen got up to 2nd after overtaking Magnussen. Both Ciders had yet another crash, this time brought both cars down. Another collision was between Hartmann and Herbert, while Hartmann got a penalty too, however, both guys got away with it lightly, seeing the scheduled pitstops were 1 lap away. Then it was mostly different tyres and DNFs, but for most of the race, the gap between Alesi and Hakkinen was around 10-15 seconds, until the closing stages where Hakkinen started closing up, but not enough. Alesi takes first win for Merc since Melbourne, and Frentzen finally gets on the podium again, while Nakano finishes a race. Schumacher's pushing with a misfiring engine nearly paid off, but in the end Hartmann stole the final point. 
==FL==
==Standings==
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