Spanish GP

Trojan

Q: Michael explain how you felt passing Mika on the last lap?
MS: Simply sorry. We both had a good race. Very entertaining, until the last stop when he nipped past me. He did a better last section in his second pit stop, and I was a bit in traffic having some little trouble on top. But anyway he, we, have done a great race, it reminds me of the old days last year and seeing him retiring, just in the last lap five corners or whatever to go to the end, it's shocking. I mean he really has done everything right, and then I'm sorry for him. I went to see him, its not the way you like to win a race, honestly, but then sometimes it happens. I mean it has happened to me and now it has happened to Mika, so that's the way it goes sometimes.

Q: Now you mentioned you had some problems after the second stop, you were losing about three seconds a lap, what were the problems?
MS: I had a huge vibration, most likely in the tyres and I was thinking the tyre was delaminating. I was obviously very careful, especially down the straight I was going very slow, I didn't want to risk anything - maybe a tyre explosion, whatever. We had enough of a gap and we were thinking of coming in for another pit stop for changing tyres, but then it stopped and I thought just for the last couple of laps it is safe to continue, but still it was a worry until the end.

Place	No.	Driver      Team	    Time	    Speed

1	    1	Schumacher	Ferrari	    1:31:03.305	202.507	
2	    6	Montoya	    Williams	+40.738	    201.009	
3	    10	Villeneuve	BAR	        +49.626	    200.685	
4	    12	Trulli	    Jordan	    +51.253	    200.625	
5	    4	Coulthard	McLaren	    +51.616	    200.612	
6	    16	Heidfeld	Sauber	    +1:01.893	200.239	
7	    9	Panis	    BAR	        +1:04.977	200.127	
8	    17	Raikkonen	Sauber	    +1:19.808	199.592	
r	    3	Hakkinen	McLaren	    +1	lap	    204.203	
10	    22	Alesi	    Prost	    +1	lap	    198.030	
11	    23	Burti	    Prost	    +1	lap	    196.531	
12	    14	Verstappen	Arrows	    +2	laps	195.880	
13	    7	Fisichella	Benetton	+2	laps	193.483	
14	    21	Alonso	    Minardi	    +2	laps	195.864	
15	    8	Button	    Benetton	+3	laps	192.008	
16	    20	Marques	    Minardi	    +3	laps	190.927	
r	    2	Barrichello	Ferrari	    +16	laps	198.727	
r	    18	Irvine	    Jaguar	    +17	laps	199.522	
r	    5	Schumacher  Williams	+45	laps	203.686	
r	    15	Bernoldi	Arrows	    +57	laps	187.155	
r	    11	Frentzen	Jordan	    +60	laps	189.945	
r	    19	de la Rosa	Jaguar	    +60	laps	190.063	

Ronan|Raven

As biGa schumi fan I felt very sorry for mika as did everyone i think.5 corbers to go and the engine to give up must be sickening