Season 1 Race 10

==Quali==
==Race==
hell that's been a crazy race lads!
So we started with the Mars Tech front row, but the crazyness was around Ralf Schumacher who failed to start. It appeared that it was caused by an engine failure, which was revealed as the cars lined up behind the safety car. After a while, Alesi had a interesting crash, and Magnussen would be the next one out with a failure as his retirement strike continues. Hakkinen following him not long after, along with Panis and Fisichella. Around this period, Frentzen was also given a puncture, however could return to the pitlane safely and rejoin the race. Rosset, Nakano were the next one out and then Salvatierra and Vingigenhiem crashed after both running in solid points positions. Around this period Villeneuve had to pit for a tightening up of one of his wheels and irvine had to pit for a puncture - shortly after his stop. After that, we had Barichello's optimistic victory chances fade away and Hartmann's not so optimistic victory chances too as he was leading by 50 seconds to Schumacher. This put a big cheer from the grandstands as this was the Arrows GP manager's home GP, and everyone was rooting for their man. Trulli was the next on the retirement list, shortly after manager Lintner left the pitwall, probably knowing what was about to happen and packing up early. After a boring few laps, with the most exciting battle being the one with Villeneuve and Wurz for 5th place - Villeneuve got overtaken on the slow hard tyres at the start but soon after attacked Wurz while the Austrian was struggling on his worn softs, there was infact another late retirement as Tim told Coulthard to just bring it home, saying "surely it can't happen", he appeared to have jinxed himself, as Coulthard's Clutch burst into flames in spectacular fashion, the crowd again going wild. It was to be a good GP for Schumacher and Arrows, as their rivals fail to finish, and they score a cruical 10 points and build up their already sizeable championship lead. Takagi got a brilliant podium in 2nd, however, behind Schumacher this time, with a bit of cheeky revenge from the German, and 3rd went to Hill, after what looked to be a poor weekend. Villeneuve got some points after his loose wheel and ultimately won the battle with Wurz, as him and Brosseau score another set of cruical points for the bottom teams, that put them ahead of Falcon and Cider in the championship.
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